Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/23/19 - Kids are growing up in an America where hateful white supremacy seems to be endorsed from on-high. America responds to a video of teenagers mocking a native American peacemaker in the nation's capitol. Super-progressive congressman Mark Pocan has the latest of the actions being taken in congress to point us towards a fairer world. Also: railroad barons!
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 23 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thom's thoughtful take on the MAGA hatted youths caught on video in Washington D.C, and America's response to it. Will the Covington Catholic kids get away with bigoted taunts while the racist in chief invites them to the White House and right wing media portrays them as victims? - Co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, man-of-action Mark Pocan takes the citizen's concerns and plans out the actions that will be taken to move towards a fairer world. - Ellen Rattner of Talk Media News has seen more than her share of State of the Union speeches, but will the mayor of L.A. save the day? Can we get a continuing resolution? And what to do about peace in the middle east?- among other stories. - Thom reads from 'The Edge of Anarchy: The railroad barons, the guilded age, and the greatest labor uprising in America' by Jack Kelly. - Patreon ask - Thom takes fascinating and thoughtful calls from listeners across the country.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you and the awesome Matt Boers tune. |
| 0:22.0 | Okay, Pete's post over at D.U. |
| 0:25.0 | Matt Bors is a cartoonist. |
| 0:26.0 | And he's got a news reporter who he's got a picture of the |
| 0:30.0 | Covington Catholic kid saying, |
| 0:32.0 | Outrage Online is a group of white kids in |
| 0:34.8 | magahats across a Native American protester just shameful and then this white |
| 0:40.0 | guy with a you know news reporter jumps in and says, |
| 0:43.0 | hold on! |
| 0:44.1 | A new two hour video has emerged showing the kids are wholesome. |
| 0:47.1 | We're yelled at by black Israelites and did not, I repeat, did not do a racism. And then this commentator says, well that's weird because |
| 0:55.2 | they did mock the guy and then he says he came at them with a drum also crazy |
| 1:00.0 | blacks and then the commentator comes back on and goes, |
| 1:03.5 | phew, there was an initial rush to judgment there, |
| 1:06.0 | but I think we got it white this time. |
| 1:08.0 | I mean, this is pretty amazing. |
| 1:10.0 | You've got this anti-abortion march, you've got the MAGA Hat Kids. You've got a woman on |
| 1:15.2 | Twitter. It's probably on YouTube as well. You can easily find it who has posted a video. She and a |
| 1:20.5 | girlfriend of hers were walking down the street. |
| 1:22.7 | They walked past these Maga Covington Catholic kids who were all standing by the side of |
| 1:28.8 | the road or sitting on a platform of some kind and they all started yelling, |
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