This is the Tom Hartman program.

And Tom Hartman here with you.

I want to start out with Chuck Todd. Chuck Todd has come right out and said, you know,

we're being used for propaganda. And that's a pretty amazing statement. What's most amazing to me is that it

took him all these years to figure it out. That the Republicans when they come on

his program aren't just there to say oh well you know we believe in small government

you know it would be a good thing if government just got out of the way you know the old

Reagan rhetoric right which at the time there were those of us saying,

you know, what he's saying really is deregulate these big companies

and let them throw more poison into the air

so they can make more profit even though we die of cancer.

And the media didn't get that.

But at least back that it was like, oh and we think lowering taxes will actually increase

revenues and you know the rest of us were going it's never

happened in history but you know Chuck Todd's predecessors David Gregory and

before him mr. russert, you know, how it goes.

They were all like, okay, you know, next question.

So Chuck Todd appears to have gotten it,

had an epiphany, which raises an interesting question. If Chuck Todd's realization

that the Republicans come on his show on Meet the press on Sundays and not just his show you know obviously

all the Sunday shows because they come on and they all say essentially the same thing and

more often than not they are either flat out lies or distortions of the truth that are

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