THE MEDIA CEILING MAY FALL ON DEMOCRATS
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The right wing attack on mainstream media continues, as a rapidly expanding Spanish-language radio network aims to be the Fox News of Latino radio. Will it be enough to win Republican majorities in future elections?
Plus- Ken and Daryl Weber are telling Democrats to stop whining and start winning! They join Thom to talk about their new book "Branding Democrats".
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| 0:46.8 | Down in Florida, Manatee County teachers have been told to cover up all the books in their classroom |
| 0:53.8 | libraries or risk felony prosecution because Ron DeSantis is running for president. |
| 1:01.6 | It's seriously. My heart is broken for Florida students today as I am forced to pack up my |
| 1:06.9 | classroom library wrote one Manatee teacher on Facebook. Another called it a travesty to education. |
| 1:15.6 | Upcoming Manatee County school board meeting, they prepared materials for that including a |
| 1:19.5 | 21 point list of procedures to ensure the classroom libraries comply with the new rules. |
| 1:25.6 | DeSantis is threatening felony prosecution for any teacher who is found with a book in their |
| 1:31.9 | classroom library that doesn't comport with his standards, which are vague and confusing. |
| 1:40.6 | As a result, one Manatee teacher reported being forced to take sneezey the snowman and dragons |
| 1:46.0 | love tacos off the shelves pending review. Other teachers fearing criminal liability, |
| 1:51.5 | this is from popular dot info, are telling students not to bring in unveted books from home. |
| 1:57.2 | Manatee County has 64 public schools, 3,000 teachers, many of whom maintain these libraries |
| 2:02.0 | in their classrooms. Meanwhile, a new television network is rolling out. It is called Americano |
| 2:10.1 | media so far. It's they claim that they intend to become the Fox News of Spanish speaking America. |
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