Unfit to Lead
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Smith muses on what the threat of a second coming on Donald Trump would truly mean for America. Did the New York Times nail it this time?
Plus- Thom reads from 'The Trivialization of Politics: How Rush Limbaugh's Race-Baiting Rhetoric on the Obama Presidency Paved the Way for Trump' by Ian Reifowitz.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Turning and turning and the widening gear, |
| 0:22.0 | the Falconer. |
| 0:26.6 | Things fall apart, the center cannot hold. |
| 0:29.6 | Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. |
| 0:32.2 | The blood-dim tide is loosed and everywhere the ceremony of innocence has drowned. |
| 0:38.0 | The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity. |
| 0:44.0 | Surely some revelation is at hand. |
| 0:46.7 | Surely the second coming is at hand. |
| 0:50.0 | The second coming, hardly are these words out, when a vast image of Spiritus Mundi troubles |
| 0:57.4 | my sight. |
| 0:59.2 | Somewhere in the sands of the desert, a shape with lion body in the head of a man, a gaze blank and pitiless as the |
| 1:07.0 | sun, is moving its slow thighs, while all about it, real shadows of the indignant desert birds. |
| 1:17.0 | The darkness drops again, but now I know. |
| 1:20.7 | The 20 centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle. |
| 1:27.0 | And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born. |
| 1:35.7 | That is the second coming by William Butler Yates. |
| 1:40.9 | This is the top Hartman show. |
| 1:42.0 | I am Jeff Smith, you're you. I cook for a federal judge who had been a journalist. |
| 1:47.0 | He had said that, well, you want to reserve the second coming type. |
| 1:55.0 | And by the second coming type he meant, |
| 1:57.0 | imagine a newspaper that was deciding its type set, deciding its type set, |
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