ON AFGHANISTAN, THE BIG MEDIA'S MAIN QUESTIONS ARE WRONG AND DANGEROUS
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Bush & Cheney have gotten away with lying us into two wars & wildly enriching their friends; meanwhile, more people are dead & the media won't even ask the right questions. Will we ever learn? Has the Press Been Too Critical of Biden's Afghan Pull-out or and was the Press negligent is not talking more of the Trump sabotage? The Taliban aren't the only ones trying to impose their will on women's bodies and choices. Radio host Dean Obeidallah joins Thom to discuss. Plus Geeky Science Fact - Does Overpopulation Create More Violence?
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| 0:55.1 | I want to get into the press and the way that the press has been treating the pullout from Afghanistan. |
| 1:02.4 | My buddy Dean Obadala, who is on SiriusXM on the progress channel here where I am |
| 1:08.0 | three hours after I get off the year, I believe his show starts at 6 p.m. Eastern time. |
| 1:14.5 | We also have a geeky science, does overpopulation create more violence? |
| 1:18.3 | Or is there something that can actually kind of act as a flywheel on that? |
| 1:22.6 | This morning when Louise and I got up at 5.30, I turned down the TV and twice. |
| 1:28.8 | While I was listening to TV, I heard people say commentators on TV say, |
| 1:35.0 | do we have to worry that Afghanistan is going to become another hotbed of terrorism that will be |
| 1:39.2 | used to attack America? And I'm like, that's the wrong question. |
| 1:47.2 | Afghanistan had little or nothing to do with 9.11. |
| 1:52.7 | 9.11 was, yeah, it was the bin Laden apparently wrote the check. |
| 1:58.4 | Where to get the money? Got the money from Ronald Reagan and Saudi Arabia. |
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