Jefferson Smith wants to know what we can do to have real democracy in an America confused by billionaire-bought propaganda. From Oregon through the heartland, brilliant callers answer Jeff's philosophical and practical musings.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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How is the media doing in covering Trump corruption? Is the conservative machine getting good at forcing Progressives to make the wrong moves? - Rick in Kentucky asks Jefferson to explain how Trump can have so much support given what a terrible person he has shown himself to be. And how can we work together to counter the conservative efforts to fix elections? - Thom Hartmann reads from 'State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind'. - An interesting interview with Thomas Wolf from the Brennan center on the state of play of the fight against Gerrymandering across the country, from Democratic Maryland to conservative. - What are the practical solution we can do for real democracy? Jeff kicks it back and forth with his callers on voter suppression, Supreme Court corruption, and the possibility of publicly funding elections. Plus- the Progressive Dr. Laura on putting together voting integrity groups. - Congressman Adam Schiff confronts critics calling for his resignation. - Talk Media News correspondent Bob Ney reports on Boeing airline changes and how the Trump Administration beginning process to remove mortgage guarantors from the government oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. - Listener Tom phones in from Portland with a fresh idea for expanding Medicare, that the baby-loving conservatives just can't say no to.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:19.0 | How is the media doing when it comes to Trump corruption. And I want to paint the media in one obvious simple |
| 0:27.0 | monotheistic, monochromatic brush. But I do want to evaluate, I want us to evaluate how it's doing. I have the |
| 0:39.8 | concern. I think there is a concern that in the shorthand of describing the bar letter |
| 0:50.1 | there is words like ah he's, which then seems to jibe with the president saying |
| 0:56.3 | full exoneration, which then seems to jibe with their move to try to punish anybody who thought |
| 1:00.8 | otherwise. |
| 1:01.8 | I brought up something yesterday |
| 1:04.5 | that I want to give a somewhat related word to today. |
| 1:08.6 | And it's not entirely up. |
| 1:10.0 | It's not the perfect word, but it's a very useful word to know. |
| 1:13.8 | And shout out to TV show Billions. |
| 1:16.8 | The word is Zugswang. |
| 1:19.1 | Zugswang is in chess. |
| 1:21.9 | When you force your opponent to make a move that your opponent would really |
| 1:27.5 | not like to make. |
| 1:31.3 | And I think there is a rhetorical version of Zugswing that's been going on. |
| 1:35.0 | And the only reason the primary reason, well that it's only it's not chess, |
| 1:40.0 | but the word is not perfect, is it's not actually forcing. |
| 1:43.8 | But it's pretty close, it's pretty close to forcing. |
| 1:47.8 | The zugzwang that's going on is when the now president then candidate Trump says the election is rigged |
| 1:56.3 | and everybody responds who doesn't like the president saying no no it's not rigged |
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