Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/24/19 - Today, how Progressives can deliver their message more effectively. Roger Wolfson says Democrats try to win with facts and logic, but often fail to communicate because they forget about the heart. Thom follows that up with deep background from his book on subject- 'Cracking the Code'. Differing world views come to the surface in a spirited discussion of the question of racism in America.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thom welcomes Roger Wolfson, Democratic speechwriter, Hollywood scriptwriter, and consulting expert on effective communication. Roger offers Thom and his callers specific advice on how to really get across to people. Thom has thought deeply about effective political communication, and he lays out the fundamental differences that give rise to the conservative and Progressive world views that have their roots in the philosophy and history of the 1600s. Ex-marine Jim in Seattle asks why should black people fight for America, if America won't fight for black people? Phone listener Dee comments on Trumps' influence on youths and compares rise of the fascist brown-shirts. Callers consider with Thom media reshuffle of coverage on Kentucky teens harassment of Indian veteran. Caller Kim challenges Thom and defends MAGA hat symbolism. Spirited callers respond to Kim.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:18.7 | Hey, have you ever thought about running for office? |
| 0:20.4 | Have you ever just engaged in political debates, tried to change people's minds, |
| 0:25.3 | tried to influence people? |
| 0:27.4 | If you would like to know or learn how to become a better communicator, how to be more convincing in your |
| 0:34.6 | presentations, how to influence people's political opinions, particularly if you |
| 0:40.0 | want to run for office because that's specifically what Roger Wolfson does. |
| 0:43.7 | He's the formal counsel to Senators Lieberman, Carey, Wellstone, and Ted Kennedy. |
| 0:50.4 | He then left that work and became a TV and screen writer. He's written for Law and Order, |
| 0:54.3 | as VU, Saving Grace, Closer, and many other television programs. He's a founder of this new |
| 1:00.8 | group called the Writers Action Group which teaches storytelling |
| 1:04.7 | skills to basically every level of the Democratic Party. |
| 1:08.8 | Roger Wolfson is with us his website is writers action |
| 1:13.0 | his twitter handle is roger underscore wolfson w o l f s o n roger |
| 1:18.4 | welcome back to the program |
| 1:20.2 | so i'm going to be back now |
| 1:21.5 | so uh... you know i'm inviting people to call if they have questions about how to be a more effective |
| 1:26.4 | communicator. I want to get into this with you for a while here. Give us the main premise |
| 1:31.1 | and tell us what you're up to. The main premise is that we |
| 1:36.0 | have noticed and I'm sure you've noticed that Democrats sometimes have a |
| 1:40.1 | hard time speaking from the heart. To me it's because Republicans during the era of Reagan and from then on have |
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