THE BRAINWASHING OF AMERICA
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Have you had the experience of a family member have their politics and even their personality change from watching Fox News? Jen Senko joins Thom to talk about what she learned making the movie 'The Brainwashing of my Dad'. What are the principal techniques that Fox uses to draw people into their cult?
And Thom goes into details as to how the Trump administration is using the carona virus crisis to fundamentally change America. Can we change the direction of our country in November before it is too late?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | So have you had the experience of having a member of your family or a friend or somebody that you work with or somebody |
| 0:26.1 | that you're in some other way acquainted with, begin watching Fox so-called news and watching their personality change, |
| 0:37.3 | watching their politics change, watching them become a kind of zombie-like cult member who is spewing hate and anger and racism |
| 0:47.6 | constantly and doesn't trust anybody. It just becomes a different person. |
| 0:53.4 | Jen Senko did, she saw this with her father and she turned it into a documentary. |
| 0:58.6 | It's called the brainwashing of my dad, the website The Brainwashing of my dad, the brain washing of my dad.com, as you might imagine. Her |
| 1:07.8 | Twitter handle is Jen underscore Senco, just like I'm a Tom |
| 1:11.4 | underscore Hartman. J-E-N-man J-E-N-S-E-N-K-O. Jen welcome back to the program it's been a while. |
| 1:17.8 | Hi Tom how are you? I am great and I'm so glad to have you on the program with us. I loved your |
| 1:24.8 | documentary when it first came out. I think I've watched it twice. I might have |
| 1:29.9 | watched it three times over the years because it's just so well done and so brilliant. You guys are |
| 1:34.8 | reprising it, right? It's going to be out again, you want to tell us about this? |
| 1:39.2 | It came out in 2016, but it's been kind of gaining more momentum and more popularity because it's |
| 1:47.3 | more and more relevant so I'm having more people reach out to me that want to show it. So actually next Saturday, May 23rd at 7 PM, |
| 1:59.0 | the Democracy Reform Project is sponsoring a zoom screening. If people want to see it, they want to |
| 2:07.7 | sign up for it, they can go to the Democracy Survey. Survey.org. |
| 2:13.3 | Click on News to sign up. |
| 2:16.0 | So yeah, and then I'm actually also writing a book. |
| 2:21.9 | I started writing a book about two years before and then last year I had a publishing company come |
| 2:29.8 | out and just email me out of nowhere and said, |
| 2:33.0 | did you ever think of possibly turning your movie into a book? |
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