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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Tim Walz is Everybody's Dad & Grandpa - a Welcome Dose of Sanity

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Thom Hartmann

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4.38 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Tim Walz is the antidote to the Fox “News” poison that is now so widely imitated across the rightwing ecosystem, embracing the hearts and minds of millions...

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Tim Walls is everybody's dad and grandpa a welcome dose of sanity.

0:07.0

All across America families are in mourning their parents and grandparents, particularly the men in their lives,

0:12.0

have been stolen from them by the right-wing

0:14.0

hate and rage machine.

0:16.3

Jen Senko produced a movie, The Brainwashing of My Dad, about losing her own father

0:20.4

to Fox, so-called news.

0:22.4

It was also made into a book of the same title. She's

0:24.9

been a guest on my show a few times and her stories one replicated across

0:28.2

America millions of times. Her father, a totally normal Midwestern guy, began watching Fox so-called news when he retired,

0:36.2

and within a year he had become withdrawn, bitter, angry, and filled with hate.

0:41.6

Jen and her family staged an intervention and locked Fox out of death. filled with

0:45.0

a hate.

0:48.0

a and locked Fox out of dad's TV with the child lock option

0:49.0

built into her cable system. Within a few months back to watching normal TV news like CNN,

0:52.0

MSMBC and BBC, Dad had made a full

0:57.2

recovery from the temporary mental illness Murdoch's infamous hate machine had thrown him into.

1:07.0

Minnesota Governor Tim Walls is America's intervention against the mind poison

1:11.5

Trump, Fox so-called news and right-wing hate radio have

1:14.4

infected our nation with. He's a normal guy who joined the Army National Guard

1:18.9

right out of high school at 17 rising to the rank of Commander Sergeant Major and becoming a top advocate for America's

1:25.1

vets during his decade in Congress.

1:28.0

He used the GI Bill to go to college, getting his master's degree and going on to teach high school

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