Radio show transcripts
Transcript: Thom Hartmann gets Governor Howard Dean's reactions to the health care bill. 16 December 2009
Apr. 2, 2010 5:20 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: At this moment apparently, the AFL-CIO and SIEU are meeting to debate whether or not they should actively oppose, passively support, or actively support - that seems the least likely option - this new health care bill that has been put forward. And I’m suggesting that the bill should be killed altogether. This bill, which is going to require, now wrap your head around this for a minute, and just think about this, I was going to say as if you were Karl Rove. I realized putting yourself into the mind of a sociopath can be a very painful thing.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann talks to Matt Taibbi about "Obama’s Big Sellout". 15 December 2009
Apr. 2, 2010 5:17 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: Similarly, just as the President ran on health care reform, he ran on economic reform. The country was melting down. The banksters had screwed us. They didn’t just screw us, they screwed the entire planet. These gangsters running our banks, and they, you know, the doors were just kicked wide open over a thirty-year period.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann riffs on the question, where does demand come from? 09 Dec '09.
Apr. 2, 2010 5:14 pmBy SueNLet me just lay this out, just in as simple and straightforward terms as I can and I’ll give you, you know, my twelve point solution for all things.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann says to Dan Gainor, demand creates jobs...how to we create demand? 09 Dec '09.
Apr. 2, 2010 5:10 pmBy SueNTranscript: Thom Hartmann says to Dan Gainor, demand creates jobs...how to we create demand? 09 Dec '09.
Thom Hartmann: In the two years since the second Republican Great Depression began, over 7 million American jobs have vanished. Gone.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Bay Buchanan, until Americans are working again, should there be a moratorium on legal immigration? 09 Dec '09.
Apr. 2, 2010 5:01 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: Bay Buchanan is on the line with us. Bay is the, as a commentator for CNN she’s President of the non profit conservative foundation, The American Cause, and chairperson of the Immigration Control Political Action Committee, Team America. TheAmericanCause.org is the website. Bloomberg.com is reporting almost 1 in 6 people in the US workforce in 2007 was foreign born, the highest portion in 80 years.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Herb Boyd about Haiti. 08 Dec '09.
Feb. 22, 2010 4:57 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: Professor Herb Boyd is with us, he’s with FreeSpeechTv, he’s a special correspondent for Free Speech TV, an activist, a journalist, a teacher, managing editor at Blackworld today, author of 19 books. His most recent is "Pound for Pound, the life and times of Sugar Ray Robinson." Website, FSTV, actually it’s FreeSpeech.org, and professor Herb Boyd, welcome to our program.
Herb Boyd: How are you Thom?
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Marc Morano, is climate change just a big "left wing conspiracy" or will it end all life as we know it? 08 Dec '09.
Feb. 22, 2010 4:51 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: Copenhagen is ongoing, global warming is ongoing, global climate deterioration. Senator James Inhofe coming out today with a pretty bad distortion of this. This is pretty amazing. This morning on CNN's American Morning, to discuss the Copenhagen climate change conference, James Inhofe says, “And just this morning the meteorologists, one of the groups, has said that they’re changing their position.” Right.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann talks to Congressman Peter DeFazio about Glass-Steagall and the banksters. 08 Dec '09.
Feb. 22, 2010 4:46 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: On the line with us, one of my favorite legislators, I think one of the genuinely honest men in Washington DC, congressman Peter DeFazio of my state of Oregon, representing the 4th district here. Congressman DeFazio, welcome to the program.
Peter DeFazio: Thanks Thom.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Carrie Lukas, are our legislators actually now working on Medicare Part E - Everybody? 08 Dec '09.
Feb. 22, 2010 4:38 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: With me is Carrie Lukas, the Vice President of the Independent Women's Forum and Vice President of Policy and Economics at the Independent Women’s Forum. And Carrie welcome back to our show.
Carrie Lukas: Hey, thank you so much for having me on.
Transcript: Thom Hartmann asks Dale Robertson, founder of teaparty.org, what is going on in the tea party movement. 08 Feb '10.
Feb. 14, 2010 7:06 pmBy SueNThom Hartmann: You know, in 1935 Sinclair Lewis wrote a book called “It Can't Happen Here.” He said “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag carrying a cross.” What’s going on in American politics right now? Are we seeing a rise, a populist uprising, a revolt? A genuine grassroots revolt on the right, and frankly on the left as well? In different forms, in various ways.