DEMOCRATS HAVE TO GET SMART ABOUT MEDIA AND MESSAGING
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 4 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
If Democrats don’t get their media and intellectual infrastructure act together, the hard-right narrative being promoted by America’s most toxic media will continue to swing elections across the country.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Harbin Program. |
| 0:18.3 | And greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers, |
| 0:22.8 | and peace, freedom in the American way. |
| 0:25.6 | So we are moving toward a Joe Biden Kamala Harris presidency, vice presidency, fairly steadily, |
| 0:32.7 | which is, you know, I suppose, the good news. |
| 0:36.2 | I think along with a lot of other people shocked that as many mostly white people went out |
| 0:42.3 | and voted for Donald Trump as did, and other Republicans around the country who are still |
| 0:47.4 | Trump humbers. |
| 0:48.4 | I mean, it's all, you know, way very, very surprising. |
| 0:52.3 | On the other hand, you know, we're not really sure in some places exactly what's going |
| 0:57.1 | on with the ballots, and I'll get to that in a minute, but, you know, just relax. |
| 1:03.4 | A lot of people are freaking out. |
| 1:04.6 | The media plays this game, right? |
| 1:06.6 | Their business is holding you watching them, right? |
| 1:11.2 | Their entire business model depends on you're not leaving that TV screen so that they can |
| 1:15.8 | deliver commercials to you. |
| 1:17.8 | And so the election is always decided in the United States by between a half a dozen |
| 1:25.4 | and a dozen states. |
| 1:26.6 | This year, it's going to be around 12 states. |
| 1:29.7 | It shouldn't be that way. |
| 1:30.9 | I mean, already Joe Biden has several million more votes than Donald Trump. |
| 1:34.4 | In fact, already Joe Biden has more votes, has received more votes than any candidate for |
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