Tucker Carlson and right wing propaganda are tearing apart our nation of 'out of many, one', while Trump uses the same hate and fear to manipulate his base. How will this all play out?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
How Has the Right Wing Takeover of the GOP and the Media Changed America? On Tucker Carlson’s show, David Horowitz said, “The creation of America was probably the greatest gift given to Black people in 3,000 years…” He added that “the people who hate America on the left, and this embraces so much of the Democratic Party these days, have conducted a 50-year, 60-year attack on Christianity in this country.” - Talk Media News correspondent Douglas Christian reports on Trump's rant and Nancy Pelosi's relationship with "The Squad" - Is America the first liberal democracy to move backwards back towards oligarchy? And is Fox News propaganda to blame? How are the right-wingers using racial fear to brainwash and control their viewers? - For the Book Club Thom reads from "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts" by David E. McCraw. - Thom's caller thinks that an antidote to right wing propaganda would be giving free college education to every citizen to bring our people up. But Kenneth in Seattle sees plenty of educated idiots who support Trump.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, good morning everybody. |
| 0:18.0 | It's a beautiful day here in Portland and there is so much going on that we're going to be getting to as we continue |
| 0:25.8 | through the program. I want to get into this whole issue of how is the |
| 0:30.0 | right-wing takeover of the Republican Party and Kevin McCarthy came right out and |
| 0:36.2 | said this and he said the Republican Party is now the party of Trump. |
| 0:40.5 | So here you've got a guy who is probably the stupidest man who has ever been in the White House and I don't say that as a slur |
| 0:46.9 | I mean that as a genuine statement of fact the least intelligent least curious, |
| 0:54.0 | competent, |
| 0:55.0 | most, well, not most bigoted, |
| 0:58.0 | we've had some real bigots as presidents, |
| 1:00.0 | but, you know, just the dumbest guy |
| 1:02.0 | to ever be president of the United States. |
| 1:03.8 | I mean he thought when Lindsay Graham said aim high that he meant |
| 1:07.3 | criticize a senator instead of a member of the house. |
| 1:10.1 | This is what he said. |
| 1:11.1 | I mean he doesn't understand basic stuff. This is why most of his |
| 1:15.0 | businesses have failed. The vast majority of the businesses that Donald Trump has |
| 1:19.6 | started have failed including a casino. How do you lose money out of a casino? So it's not just the |
| 1:25.1 | right-wing takeover. It's not just the Koch brothers takeover of the |
| 1:28.1 | Republican Party. That started with the Tea Party back, you know, two decades |
| 1:31.5 | ago. |
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