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Trumps New Clothes - Podcast Tease

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Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Here's my favorite rant for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at

0:04.0

Tom Harbin.com.

0:06.0

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy truth and justice,

0:10.4

believers in peace, freedom, and the American American way boy do we have a

0:15.7

Fact-filled fun wild ride show today

0:20.8

Heaven Greer is gonna be with us about the fight for net neutrality.

0:23.8

Dr Richard Wolf will be with us in our second hour and our third hour.

0:26.7

Matt Staller is going to drop by.

0:28.2

We're going to be talking about some of these giant internet companies and what does it mean for democracy in America.

0:37.0

But to begin, the president has no clothes.

0:41.0

Now remember when that, know the the the it wasn't an

0:45.8

Aesop's fable I guess it's just a you know a standard you know middle ages fairy tale

0:51.8

that came out of out of Europe and and the story was that

0:55.8

the king wanted some really fancy clothes a couple of con men came to the king and

1:01.2

said oh we'll make you, just extraordinary clothes.

1:04.6

But they're so special that only brilliant people, only true geniuses, really smart people

1:11.3

can see them.

1:12.3

Or maybe it was that stupid people can't see

1:14.4

them whatever it was something like that and so you could tell it's been 35

1:20.0

years since I read this story to my kids. So these guys like, they're making these clothes out of nothing, right?

1:28.6

They're just, you know, they're pretending they've got a loom and they're pretending they've got clothing and the king gets naked and he puts

1:35.2

these clothes on that aren't clothes, right? They they pay him and he marches down the street totally

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