Wacky Thom Hartmann: Networks Were Forbidden Since Reagan to Talk of Poverty, Inequality
Listening to liberal talk radio is sometimes like just listening to the world being turned upside down. Liberal hosts make claims that are demonstrably ridiculous, and expect listeners to lap it up.
Case in point: Thom Hartmann praised the Occupy Wall Street protesters for changing the media conversation. He claimed that ever since Reagan was elected, the media has forbidden any discussion of the maldistribution of wealth, as if the words "Decade of Greed" weren't a media favorite, as if the "three million homeless" weren't routinely on the lips of liberal media personalities:
All of a sudden, for the first time, frankly, in my recollection, since the Jimmy Carter presidency...there was a discussion on the television networks and the corporate media about inequality in the United States, about homelessness...about poverty increasing...about the ratio of wealth inequality... These are things that were verboten [in the media]...Now, because of the Occupy movement, they have become topics of discussion, and because [of that], politicians are starting to talk about them.
Rebuttal? Try network anchors with questions like this:
"Let me ask you to be an analyst for us. You've been working on behalf of children now for years and years. What happened in our country where we can watch children going hungry, pregnant women not getting the proper care. And we don't seem to care as a society. How did we get here?" -- CBS reporter Lesley Stahl interviewing Marian Wright Edelman of the Children's Defense Fund, September 30, 1990 Face the Nation.
Over on the Ed Schultz radio show, Big Ed was claiming (for the umpteenth time) that the Tea Party was a spent force in politics, that the latest elections meant you could stick a fork in the Tea Party and their garbage and lies:
SCHULTZ: Don't let anyone lie to you. America is not a center-right country. The Tea Party is not the driving force in American politics -- that was proven last night -- and the middle class is not the problem for our budgets in America. Last night, common-sense liberal ideas won out over right-wing lies and the garbage that has been shoved down America's throat....The Tea Party took a whippin' last night. Big time.
Schultz added "You can't trust these Republican governors...They may be talkin' the good game after the loss, but they're gonna get right back to work and they're gonna go right back after the middle class again."
And over on the Rachel Maddow show on TV, not only is an unborn baby not a human until feminists decide it's a wanted human, but abortions save lives. The loss of the Mississippi personhood initiative was a victory for "saving lives." Can you believe they keep that up? Talk about "lies and garbage."
MADDOW: Do you have an opinion about why Mitt Romney cannot make up his mind about personhood?
TERRY O`NEILL, NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN: You know, I don`t understand it. And I`m really disturbed by his suggestion that this should be thrown out to the states and allow the states to make a decision. The last time I checked, a woman`s life is a life worth saving. And you are just as much worth saving if you live in the state of Mississippi if you live in the state of New York or New Jersey. So, I don`t know where he`s coming from with let`s let the state decide when a woman can actually take steps to protect her own health and when she can`t.
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These guys realize that in order to get noticed by...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 2:23am.
anyone, they have to say the most outrageous things that comes to their liberal and feeble minds.
Thus, we have loons like this guy popping up all over the place. I would never have heard of his name except for NewsBusters exposing his idiocy to the world at large.
So now we're supposed to
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 8:11am.
So now we're supposed to believe that all abortions are performed to save a woman's life and protect her health?
Well then, why don't you suggest that women just get sterilized, and they won't ever have to worry about the threat to life and health that pregnancy imposes?
And Ed Schultz is so full of hate that it just oozes out of his pores.
How can someone be reasonable with all that hate churning around inside?
For anybody who pays a lick
Submitted by PeskyDane on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 6:22pm.
For anybody who pays a lick of attention it is only when there is a democrat in the whitehouse that we stop talking about the homeless. The OWS crowd obviously didn't get the memo. Don't worry. Their masters will bring them to heel soon enough.
Liberalism is expensive
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 10:02am.
I thought LBJ eliminated poverty in America with his Great Society war on poverty (with no exit strategy).
By the way, poverty hasn't dropped even 1 percent even though we have spent trillions on LBJ's endless war.
In fact, wasn't there just a
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 10:39am.
In fact, wasn't there just a story about poverty increasing?
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, I have a definition of liberal insanity (or maybe just liberalism):
The belief that if a "solution" doesn't have the intended effect, it needs to be done on a bigger scale. And repeat as needed.
Fixate much??
Submitted by In Excess on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 10:18am.
Hartmann is obsessed with Reagan. For him, all of the worlds evil began with Reagan. He can't host a show without bringing up Reagan's name at least every 20 minutes.
Gee, someone must have missed
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 12:07pm.
Gee, someone must have missed the 2004 Presidential campaign, "worst economy since Herbert Hoover", or the 1992 campaign, "It's the economy stupid". The left is lazy sclerotic and idiotic mentally and physically.
Huh? Thom Hartmen is severely
Submitted by BD on Sat, 11/12/2011 - 12:31pm.
Huh?
Thom Hartmen is severely misguided.
During the Reagan Administration the press was hardly forbidden to talk about the issues regarding poverty and other social issues. It was damn near ALL they did.
Do a count of stories referencing Homelessness during the Bush and Reagan administrations and you will see an overwhelming number of these stories in comparison to the number presented during the Obama and Clinton Administrations. It was as if electing a democrat suddenly makes the subject disappear.
If Thom Hartmen were to accurately state what the OWS protestors have actually done regarding focusing the discussion it would be more fair to say they have illuminated the need for better economic education on the left as well as a critical need to airdrop soap and copies of "Dressing for Success" for the protestors.
And you can blame Earbama for all of it, Thommie.....
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 11/13/2011 - 3:05am.
...your POTUS is an economic disaster worse than Jimmuh. The only record that your incompetent POTUS has yet to shatter is 18% interest rates on deposit accounts that did nothing to control inflation. The obligatory liberal military failures will occur once we leave Iraq and Afghanistan so O'blameless can satisfy his left-of-Marxist base.