On the Program Today plus Thom is filling in for Randi Rhodes April 7th 2008
Hour One: Topic: Should we boycott the Olympic Games as a show of solidarity for the people of Tibet and Darfur…is it wrong to support the Chinese by attending the Olympics? Or, is it wrong to punish the athletes who have spent their careers preparing for these games in order to make a political point?
Hour Two: Guest: Dr. Patrick Michaels www.Cato.org Topic: Thom challenges Patrick on - What came out of the recent "2008 International Conference on Climate Change? (aka the skeptics' convention)
Guest: Paul Hannam www.brightgreentalent.com Topic: Green collar jobs
Hour Three: Guest: Paul Waldman www.paulwaldman.blogspot.com Topic: New book "Free Ride: John McCain and the Media.
Guest: Tim Newman www.ilrf.org Topic: Forced labor and child labor in the agricultural sector
Thom substitutes for Randi Rhodes...
Hour One: Guest: David Sirota www.davidsirota.com Topic: The Clinton Firewall
Hour Two: Guest: Carrie Lukas www.iwf.org Topic: Thom and Carrie debate on what is causing the "middle Class Squeeze."
Hour Three:Guest: Larisa Alexandrovna www.rawstory.com Topic: It's official, Alabama is the Soviet Union
April 02 2008 show notes
- Guest: CNS Editor-in-Chief Terence Jeffrey. McCain's Plan - Privatizing social security and Medicare.
- Guest: Sam Harris. Author, "The End of Faith", "Letter to A Christian Nation". Radical atheism...is it just as dangerous as the radical right wing evangelical movement?
- Guest: Jesse Ventura. Will he be on the ballot this fall? And his new book "Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!"
- Guest: Bob Babik, GM Director of Vehicle Emissions Issues. Call for more hydrogen pumps for fuel cell vehicles.
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
On the Program - April 4 2008
Hour One - "Brunch w/Bernie" U.S. Senator (I-VT) Bernie Sanders
Hour Two - Anything Goes! Friday
Hour Three - Guest: Lamar Waldron co-author of Ultimate Sacrifice w/Thom, now writing "Legacy of Secrecy" about the murder of MLK, Jr.www.ultimatesacrificethebook.com Topic: new information about the murder of MLK, Jr. 40 years ago today
On the Program - April 3 2008
Hour One - Guest: Marc Morano www.epw.senate.gov Topic: Thom is challenging Marc Morano on his statement - Global warming...why is the media ignoring record growth of Antartic ice?
Hour Two - Guest: Dr. Ravi Batra www.ravibatra.com Topic: What's going on in the economy?
Hour Three - Topic - An 8th grader being strip search for having Ibuphofen? The terror watch list that ended up at credit agencies? Domestic surveillance? Are we becoming a police state?
Guest (11:30) Christy Harvey http://miccheckradio.org/ Topic: News under the radar
April 01 2008 show notes
- Today is the day that if you want to hire cheap foreign labor, you need to apply for H1-B visas.
- Why do we have to import educated foreign workers instead of educating Americans?
- Investment in education.
- Economics.
- Guest: Byron Myres, ING Direct. Subprime Mess - Why are we bailing out the big guys instead of the little guys?
- Guest: Corey Powell, Executive Editor, Discover Magazine. "20 Things You Didn't Know About Mating".
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
March 31 2008 show notes
- It's the fourth anniversary of Air America Radio. Next month it is the 6th anniversary of Thom's show.
- Welcome to new affiliates 940 WINZ in Miami, Fla., 1460 WZNZ in Jacksonville, Fla., 1120 WNWF in Destin, Fla. and 930 KBAI-AM in Bellingham, Washington.
- Guest: Yaron Brook, Ayn Rand Institute. Is John McCain's modern version of Reaganomics destroying not only the middle class but America itself?
- New pictures from Darfur are up on Thom's web site.
- Guest: Professor Bradley R. Schiller, American University. "The Inequality Myth".
- Guest: Howard Simon, Executive Director, ACLU-Florida. Are we losing our privacy with spy drones, wiretapping, fingerprinting, etc...or are we becoming more secure?
- At what point do we say George Orwell was right?
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
On the Program - April 2 2008
Hour One - Guest: Terry Jeffrey www.cnsnews.com Topic: Thom and Terry will be debating McCain's Plan -Privatizing social security and medicare
Hour Two - Guest: Sam Harris http://www.samharris.org/ Topic: Thom is challenging Sam - Radical atheism...is it just as dangerous as the radical right wing evangelical movement?
Hour Three - Guest: Jesse Ventura http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Ventura Topic: Will he be on the ballot this fall? And his new book "Don't Start the Revolution Without Me"
March 28 2008 show notes
- Thom was broadcasting the show live from KMPT Missoula, where he gave a talk afterwards.
- Guest: Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer. water, oil, the Middle East.
- Guest: Montana Senator Jon Tester. 21st century GI bill of rights. Energy. Issues.
- "Brunch with Bernie" with Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont.
- Guest: Congressman Jim McDermott, Washington District 7 (Seattle). Iraq trip. India trip. Energy.
- Guest: Senator Max Baucus, Montana. Economy. Farm Bill.
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
On the Program - April 1, 2008
Hour One - Topic: Why do we have to import educated foreign workers instead of educating Americans?
Hour Two - Guest: Byron Myres www.ingdirect.com Topic: Subprime Mess - Why are we bailing out the big guys instead of the little guys?
Hour Three - Guest: Corey Powell http://discovermagazine.com Topic: "20 Things You Didn't Know About Mating"
On the Program - April 1, 2008
Hour One - Topic: Why do we have to import educated foreign workers instead of educating Americans?
Hour Two - Guest: Byron Myres www.ingdirect.com Topic: Subprime Mess - Why are we bailing out the big guys instead of the little guys?
Hour Three - Guest: Corey Powell http://discovermagazine.com Topic: "20 Things You Didn't Know About Mating"
On the Program Today - March 31 2008
Hour One - Guest: Yaron Brooks www.aynrand.org Topic : Is John McCain's modern version of Reaganomics destroying not only the middle class but America itself?
Hour Two - Guest: Professor Bradley Schiller http://spa.american.edu/listings.php?ID=103 Topic: His recent Opinion piece in the WSJ "The Inequality Myth" Is America's middle class being wiped out?
Hour Three - Guest: Howard Simon, Executive Director, ACLU-Florida www.aclufl.org Topic : Are we losing our privacy with spy drones, wiretapping, fingerprinting, etc...or are we becoming more secure?
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Air America is proud to announce that the Thom Hartmann Show has been picked up by four new affiliates -- 940 WINZ in Miami, Fla.; 1460 WZNZ in Jacksonville, Fla.; 1120 WNWF in Destin, Fla.; 930 KBAI-AM in Bellingham, Washington-- while 1600 WWRL in NYC (AccessOne) has bought the Ed Schultz Show outright and put it on in Thom's place in New York.
While Thom is still available on XM and Sirius and can be streamed at AirAmerica.com, we look forward to finding a new home for him in New York City even as we continue to place his program on more major affiliates like WINZ in Miami.
-- Mark Green, President, Air America Radio
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March 27 2008 show notes
- Melt down in Iraq. McCain's perspective in his speech, some of which really concerned Thom.
- Guest: Larry Adelman. "Unnatural Causes" Documentary. Why Americans get so sick.
- Guest: Carrie Lukas, Independent Women's Forum. Climate Security Act.
- Progressive advertising feature: Guest: Huma Gruaz, the Shark Steam Mop.
- Guest: Former Comptroller General of the United States David Walker.
- Guest: Christy Harvey, Center for American Progress. "News Under the Radar".
Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.
On the Program March 28th 2008
Hour One - Guest: Gov. Brian Schweitzer http://governor.mt.gov/default.asp & Senator Jon Tester http://tester.senate.gov/
Hour Two - Guest: "Brunch with Bernie" Senator Bernie Sanders http://sanders.senate.gov/ Hour Three - Guest: Rep. Jim McDermott http://www.house.gov/mcdermott Topic: Iraq visit funded by Saddam, Iraq 5 years later, and his trip to India about energy (just returned Wednesday Minneapolis talk show host Jack Rice (along with Rusty Humphries and Joe Madison) accompanied Ellen Ratner, Dan Patterson, and me in South Sudan and on the Darfur border. Here's one of his interviews with John Eibner, the director of CSI (to donate, here's the link: http://www.csi-int.org/sudan_donation_sac.php : {youtube}kP-LtdfA_c0{/youtube}