This is the Tom Hartman program.

Welcome back.

Let's talk about what happened in the debates.

There's just a whole lot of fascinating information out there and it was you know quite a three

hours first of all the media story today is that Elizabeth Warren dodged the tax issue

this was the you know the the entire last hour or morning well I only watched about half of but what I saw

on Joe Scarborough's show what I saw over and over again everybody you know

Elizabeth Warren won't say she's going to raise taxes.

She didn't dodge anything.

She said I'm going to lower costs on middle-class families. This whole oh you're going to raise taxes without saying, oh and you're going

to lower costs is a pure Republican and health insurance industry talking point and these idiots from the

corporate media that call themselves news people and they're actually TV stars

making tens of millions of dollars a year as stars and know that

their multi-million dollar salary depends on their having conflict and

getting ratings. These people are obsessed with trying to get this little sound bite out of

Elizabeth Warren that the Republicans can turn into an ad. And I mean this is what

happened back in the day, Walter Mondale said in the opening of the debate

actually with him and Reagan he said I'm going to raise your taxes and so is Ronald

Reagan the difference is he won't tell you the truth and I just did.

And that's what he said that's what Mondale said. And the Republicans turned that into an ad

and they destroyed Mondale with it.

And in fact Reagan won every state except Mondale's home state of

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