HAPPY FESTIVUS FROM NEW YORK - with Firesign Theater too!
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Thom chats with other progressives while visiting New York, John Fugelsang, Michelangelo Signorile, Philip Proctor, Sam Joseph and Jonathan Alter.
Michelangelo Signorile, Editor-at-large of Huffington Post Gay Voices, joins Thom to analyze the recent debates and the threat of Trump.
Authors Samuel Joseph, and Firesign Theater's Phil Proctor, join Thom to chat about their new book "What to Say to Your Crazy Right-Wing Uncle: Talking Points for Liberals" and how to handle holiday family gatherings.
Book Club reading from "United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It)" by Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon.
Thom is joined by journalist Jonathan Alter speaking about his new show Alter Family Politics, and a serious warning for Progressives to band together behind the Democratic nominee for the 2020 election.
Book Club reading from "State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind" by Bryant Welch.
Comedian John Fugelsang shares the insights of political humor and lessons we can learn from religiously motivated shame.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | And welcome back to our program. |
| 0:19.0 | Michael Angelo Signorelli is on the line with us. |
| 0:21.0 | He's a journalist commentator and the host on Sirius XM of the Michael Angelo Signore show on Serious XM progress, the same channel |
| 0:28.8 | where you can hear me, 127. |
| 0:31.2 | His show follows mine, it's 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. |
| 0:34.0 | His website M Signorelli, S I G N O R I L E. |
| 0:38.0 | and that's also his Twitter handle. |
| 0:40.0 | Michelangelo, welcome to the program. |
| 0:42.0 | Thanks for having me, Tom. Great to be his Twitter handle, Michael Angelo, welcome to the program. |
| 0:42.8 | Thanks for having me, Tom. |
| 0:44.2 | Great to be on it. |
| 0:45.4 | I am so glad to have you with us. |
| 0:46.8 | By the way, I'm doing this remote, so there's just a very slight delay |
| 0:49.8 | if I step on you. |
| 0:50.7 | My apologies in advance. |
| 0:52.4 | So first of all tell our listeners |
| 0:54.8 | for people who may not have subscribed to a serious accent about you and about |
| 0:59.0 | your program. Well I'm on every afternoon at 3 p.m. Eastern time. We go all over the country on Serious |
| 1:05.7 | XM and I've been doing this show on Serious XM since about 2003 when I was on the first LGBT channel here on SeriousXM, moved over to |
| 1:21.2 | progress, the larger Progressive Channel, a few years ago. |
| 1:25.0 | When we first started, we had like 30,000 subscribers. |
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