Thom Hartmann: Fox News should move their crazy theories to the libertarian paradise of Somalia

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 06:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqQ8VV13uQs   Posted on YouTube: May 05, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 72   Posted on DU: May 05, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 992

 
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[Larry Ogg]

1. He said we should trust government and then gives a bunch of reasons why we can no longer trust it.

I don't trust Republicans 100%

And because of a very small minority of honest liberals my trust for Democrats is only 1% to 2%

And as far as I know, which I don't, thanks to a government that has almost zero credibility, except for when it comes to destroying evidence and sweeping it under the rug...

Osama BinLaden could be vacationing with a family friend in Crawford Texas.

[ut oh]

2. he does point out many negatives to be wary of

but he's also trying to make the point that we the people need to be more involved and not just let ourselves be spoonfed this crap that FAUX news/Rwing radio/et al. attempt to foist on us.

[Larry Ogg]

3. M$M faux news is nothing more than a corporate propaganda apparatus

that works in concert with corporate owners and both political parties in order to keep facts from the population. Fortunately, we have the internet.

It is also the medium that ensures the likelihood of the bought and paid for corporately owned politicians winning elections; in affect, Americans vote for union stewards and not political leaders. The exception being a small group of liberal democrats that are marginalized to little or no affect. But you have to love how the conservatives blame liberals for all the problems.

The M$M has also eliminated the checks and balances a free press that was supposed to keep the population informed about such things. And putting all their political rhetoric, BS, and lies aside, their invaluable task is to keep us divided and the illusion of a two party Democracy alive. But you wont hear the them talk about how the corporations own both political parties.

And yes, we the people need to be more involved, that should have started happening after two world wars, unfortunately, the confusions spawned by the faux news and faux leaders has had the affect of making people not only clueless, but uninvolved - until it’s to late. Then, like the tea baggers, they try to fix things they don’t understand, and like Hartman says, they open the door for the corporations. That's been the plan all along...

This is all hindsight, and the corporate takeover of our government is well advanced. But if we the people don’t understand the psychology of how we got here, we will be repeating the mistakes that have given rise to authoritarian extremist governments all throughout history. And most people wont even see it coming.

But I do agree, we should be able to trust our government, but first we need to create a government that can be trusted. And that's not going to happen until we stop electing union stewards as political leaders.