WE MUST HAVE ACCOUNTABILITY- FOR THE BIG FISH TOO
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Who is truly responsible for causing seditious rioters to hunt for Congressional leaders in the capitol building? Are right wing propaganda outlets like Fox to blame? Was all this a failed attempt to give Trump an excuse to revoke habeas corpus and declare a state of emergency? We must have accountability not only for the little fish who attacked our government, but also for the big fish who have been lying to them.
Veteran talk show host Joe Madison joins Thom to dissect the deeper meaning of these events.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Harbin program. |
| 0:17.0 | But I want to start off with a rant that kind of follows a piece that I published over |
| 0:21.2 | at tomharbin.medium.com this morning, where I'm posting most of my writing now. |
| 0:26.6 | It's about how basically everybody's talking about the FBI is trying to track down the people |
| 0:31.8 | who were in the capital and, you know, we, hey, we just busted this guy and here, where's |
| 0:35.6 | this guy and all that. |
| 0:36.8 | And that's all well and good. |
| 0:37.8 | I think it's actually very, very important. |
| 0:40.2 | If people are not held accountable for what they did, they'll do it again. |
| 0:42.8 | I mean, this is why we have laws. |
| 0:44.7 | It's why you put bank robbers in jail because you don't want them to rob more banks. |
| 0:47.9 | I mean, this is not rocket science. |
| 0:50.1 | But the principal media narrative that I'm getting and that I caught it on the weekend |
| 0:54.8 | shows and things like that was that this is a bunch of quote, right wing crazies, |
| 0:58.6 | end quote. |
| 1:00.1 | And I want to get into this a little bit. |
| 1:02.8 | I think that what they're missing, what we're all missing, frankly. |
| 1:07.4 | And the biggest story here that the media is completely ignoring because they have some |
| 1:11.6 | complicity in this is, why did these people show up in Washington, DC? |
| 1:16.6 | No, I'm not talking about Jenny Thomas, Claire Thomas's wife, whose organization apparently |
| 1:22.0 | paid for like 80 busloads of Charlie Kirk, the young right wing guy who helped fund these |
| 1:26.8 | buses to bring people into the cap. |
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