As we stand on the cusp of generational turning, with a well-trained reality TV star leading the pack- are we likely to repeat the mistakes of the past?- We already have concentration camps, trade wars, and rising fascism... is another world war on the horizon?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thom reminds us of Trump's reality TV skills, which Trump is using to dramatize and sell his aggressive posture towards Iran. And a consideration of the theory of the four-turnings... Is this a part of 'The Unraveling'? Jamal Abdi, President | NIAC - National Iranian American Council joins Thom for a deep look at our behavior towards Iran. And Doug Christian with Talk Media News deepens our understanding further with a look behind the headlines.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:25.0 | Donald Trump, this is a guy who was trained as a reality TV star. |
| 0:32.0 | NBC brought in some of the best people they've got to train him and you can train anybody, well anybody with a modicum of certainly understanding in the media which if there's nothing else |
| 0:44.1 | Donald Trump understands he understands the media I mean he got himself two billion |
| 0:48.9 | dollars worth of free media leading up to the 2016 election. He wiped out the entire |
| 0:55.4 | Republican field and ended up in the White House because NBC taught him how to do |
| 1:01.7 | media. They taught him how to make a reality show happen. |
| 1:05.4 | You have the set up, you have conflict, you have tragedy and hope, you swing people |
| 1:12.0 | from one emotion to the other as far and fast as you can. |
| 1:15.4 | You have to have a hero, you have to have a goat. |
| 1:18.0 | There have to be good guys and bad guys, or drama doesn't work. |
| 1:21.4 | In fact, the quality, the goodness of the good guy is always |
| 1:24.6 | defined by how evil the bad guy is which is something I didn't understand |
| 1:29.1 | until I was in my 30s and I took a class on screen writing and I wanted to write novels I've |
| 1:34.8 | written a bunch of them only two have ever been published and I'm not a |
| 1:37.4 | particularly good novelist so don't even bother trying to read them but the |
| 1:40.9 | point is that I delved into this whole thing and I remember |
| 1:44.8 | taking Robert McKees a course on screenwriting which is amazing by the way |
| 1:49.1 | if you have any interest in fiction or writing and and he said people think it's all about the hero. |
| 1:56.6 | This is my own words. |
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