Radio show transcripts
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Jeffrey Lord if continually talking about race is an effective electoral strategy for the Fall. 29 July '10.
Aug. 3, 2010 4:12 amBy SueNThere’s a lot in the news today. The Obama administration is saying that if the FBI just says some magic words they ought to be able to look at anything on your computer or pretty much anything. I’ve got a problem with that. I think the tea party would too. Maybe we should join forces.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Dr. Judith Reisman, What do Jeffrey Dahmer and gay cannibals have to do with second graders in Montana? 29 July '10.
Aug. 3, 2010 4:09 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Well, Bill O’Reilly says that if the Montana sex ed program is passed, that 2nd graders in Montana are not going to be able to discuss, nor anybody for that matter, going to be able to discuss Jeffrey Dahmer because he was a gay cannibal. Oh my god we can’t have that!
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Curtis Dubay, who are the real "tomb raiders" and why should you care? 27 July '10.
Aug. 3, 2010 4:05 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Well the class war is on full bore as Warren Buffet points out and his class is winning. Should the Paris Hilton Tax, the Rich Brat Tax be brought back? It’s dead this year. Right now if any wealthy person dies their heirs receive all of the cash free of taxes.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann riffs on psychological variations, 26 July '10.
Aug. 3, 2010 4:02 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: You know, when I was, just to very quickly get back to this topic of psychological variations, let’s call them that. And ADHD, I started writing my books on ADHD in part because my son was going through this crisis and then I saw in it myself, and in part because 15 years before that I had been the executive director of the New England Salem Children’s Village and I’d seen it in all of our kids, most of the parents of the kids that we had and in fact I wrote in 19, what was the year, 1979?
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Madeleine Pickens & Jerry Reynoldson, is BP slaughtering the West's wild horses? 26 July '10.
Aug. 3, 2010 3:58 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Well it’s been alleged that BP is behind letting the Lockerbie bomber out of jail and sending him back to Libya. We know that they basically have nuked the Gulf of Mexico. What else are they up to? There’s a report from a TV station, KLAS TV 8 in Las Vegas that, the last wild horse round up, BLM's last wild horse round up, was the bloodiest operation in history and that the BLM proceeded with this round up in violation of advice from a federal judge. Why?
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Curtis Coleman, does he wish to apologize to Arkansas's holocaust survivors? 11 Feb '10.
Aug. 3, 2010 3:47 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom and the American Way. Thom Hartmann here with you. In our program today in the 2nd hour of our program William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute is gonna come on, we’re gonna be talking about all that global warming that’s falling in Washington DC. He’ll be followed by Bill McKibben with 350.org on the same topic. In our third hour, Carrie Lukas is dropping by with the Independent Women's Forum.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann talks to Art Caplan about the ethics of keeping every baby's DNA. 10 Feb '10.
Aug. 3, 2010 3:41 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: So given how the Supreme Court has turned our government over to corporations, should progressives, and we’re seeing apparently some evidence of that in the way that the Obama administration is rapidly backtracking on things like raising taxes on wealthy individuals and on the banksters, should progressives perhaps even join the far right militia movement in pushing back against any sort of government intrusion into our lives because it will simply become corporate intrusion at some point which may be even more destructive.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann disagrees with Yaron Brook about what should happen to Fannie and Freddie. 10 Feb '10.
Aug. 3, 2010 3:34 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom and the American Way. Thom Hartmann here with you. Our quote for the day from justice William J. Brennan: “If the right to privacy means anything it’s the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted government intrusion.” Our first hour guest Dr. Yaron Brook will certainly agree with that. We’ll have him on in just a moment.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann riffs on stories, 21 July '10.
Aug. 1, 2010 4:33 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: Welcome back to our program. Alan Grayson, congressman Alan Grayson will be here shortly, he got called off to a vote. But first I want to talk about stories. The importance of stories. We just, you know, we were just talking to Dan Gainor in the last hour. You get a sense of the stories that he tells himself about the world. I think many of you are familiar with the stories that I tell myself about the world.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann talks to Jean-Michel Cousteau about the oil disaster and his new book on his father Jacques Cousteau. 08 Jun '10.
Jun. 21, 2010 6:52 amBy SueNThom Hartmann: Well, the oil spill continues as I mentioned earlier. There’s at least one scientist who is a member of the president’s panel that is trying to determine the flow rate, the Flow Rate Commission, who says that based on what they’re seeing in satellite photos, the current flow rate, since they cut the pipe, could be 100 thousand barrels a day, of which about 10 thousand are being vacuumed up, whatever, by BP right now. Nobody knows, really. Maybe BP knows and they’re not telling.