The American oligarch-funded right-wing media propaganda system has declared an information civil war with outright lies as their weapons- how does author Peter Daou say we can we fight back?- plus Thom reads from the Mueller report- and the latest report on declining teacher pay.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 30 April 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The far right are utilizing the internet to start a digital civil war. Peter Daou lets us know how we can confront the right wing menace, brought on by Donald Trump. Can progressives stop the far right cyber warfare before they achieve their goal of erasing liberal America? ---- Thom reads from the executive summary of the Mueller Report, on the Russian social media campaign to influence the 2016 election. ---- Thom continues the discussion on countering the right-wing propaganda system, from Democratic messaging, to the attempted Willie Hortonization of Bernie's democratic socialism --- Thom reads from 'Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right.' --- Bob Ney of Talk Media News on stories including the internal battle between La Pierre and Ollie North inside the NRA. ---- Teachers don't make enough money, especially for the huge role they play. And the reason for this low pay is shocking. Lily Eskelsen Garcia joins the Thom Hartmann program to discuss how the average teacher salary is partly the result of economic discrimination against women. ---- Thom continues the discussion. Will the day we inaugurate our next president be almost a holiday?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Creehings by friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:22.0 | I want to bring in Peter Dow. |
| 0:23.6 | He's the Democratic Digital Media Strategist, |
| 0:26.5 | author of the new book Digital Civil War |
| 0:28.4 | confronting the far right menaces. |
| 0:30.3 | website Peter Dow, DAA-O-U |
| 0:33.4 | and you can tweet him of course at Peter Dow-D-A-O-U. |
| 0:37.1 | Peter, welcome to the program. |
| 0:38.9 | Nice to be on, thanks Tom. |
| 0:40.3 | You and I were on opposite sides of the Bernie Hillary Wars during the last primary and you were basically calling for peace and I've been doing the same. I'm not endorsing anybody specifically going into the primary. I think we've got |
| 0:53.4 | a lot of really great candidates. Occasionally I get people calling into the program who try to |
| 0:58.0 | revive the Bernie Hillary Wars on this show and I basically hang up on them. I think all of us need to be working together on this. |
| 1:05.0 | I'd like you to riff about that real briefly and then we'll get to your book. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah, no, absolutely. |
| 1:10.0 | Look, I've been doing this for a long time and I remember all the great work you've done over the years as well. |
| 1:14.4 | So 2016 really I see it as essentially one of those family disputes that just goes wrong. |
| 1:21.1 | The temperature gets so heated. |
| 1:22.4 | We were not prepared for what happened in 2016, |
| 1:25.0 | and I don't want to dismiss a lot of the pain and frustration and hurt that took place. People can't erase that and I don't want to erase that. |
| 1:32.0 | What I'm saying is let's hit the |
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