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The Hartmann Report

IS FOX NEWS THE GREATEST CANCER ON AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT IT?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

News, Debate, The Hartmann Report, Economics, Thom Hartmann, Democracy, Climate Change, Congress, America

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Why Fox News is systematically trying to ruin this country and why Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous immigrant ever to travel to our shores. If Democracy itself depended on it, could you convince a science denier? Lee McIntyre weighs in on his new book, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason.  CRAZY ALERT: Steve Bannon's lunacy over mind chips.

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This is the Tom Harbin program.

0:47.1

Welcome back, Tom Harbin here with you and a couple of stories here that I just want to put

0:52.0

on your radar and then I'll pick up your phone calls, a couple of things to flag for you.

0:55.6

First of all, the question, is Fox News the greatest cancer on American democracy?

1:00.8

And I'd add, if so, what do we do about it?

1:04.6

I mean, are you using parental controls to lock Fox News out on your, on your grandparents

1:11.1

TV set?

1:13.8

Why? Number two, we've got a crazy alert to end all crazy alerts.

1:18.8

Steve Bannon has just, remember earlier I was talking about grifters, the Republican party,

1:22.8

the GOP has basically been on giant grift ever since 1981, you know, when Reagan came to power

1:29.5

and just really began the grift that, you know, we see today so visibly all around us,

1:35.9

it's not just in politics that you see these grifters, you also see them in the media.

1:43.2

And Alex Jones has been running this grift for a long time, you know, finding things to get

1:47.2

hysterical about and saying, well, nine years ago, Sandy Hook happened and Alex Jones was out

1:51.6

there going, oh, no, it's, it's, they're, they're crisis actors. It's just fake.

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