Thom Hartmann: My Role at RT America

[thomhartmann]

The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann on RT TV & FSTV "live" 9pm and 11pm check www.thomhartmann.com/tv for local listings

[Purveyor]

1. Thank you so much for posting this Thom. You have a very good program on

RT and I try to watch it regularly.

RT gets slammed around quite a bit on this forum by some but it seems many of those slamming also support NSA spying and war with Russia.

Go figure...

Keep up the good work!

[uhnope]

2. your support of Putin and the invasion is intolerable

Russian apologists have no place in progressive movements. You look like a real sell-out, Thom.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/10/1283668/-Thom-Hartmann-Sticking-with-RT-despite-Resignations-over-Putin-s-Actions-in-Ukraine#comments

[newthinking]

4. I have no doubt that Liz Wahl's timing was meant to enhance her career

She said she was ready to quit 6 months earlier but waited. Don't worry, she will get a nice high paying position out of this.

[rdharma]

6. "She (Wahl) will get a nice high paying position out of this."

A contract with FOX news? We'll see.

[newthinking]

3. Don't worry Thom, not everyone is consumed by cold war hysteria

[KoKo]

5. Good Grief...I've said this is the Joe McCarthy Era Re-Visited... That Thom

even has to APOLOGIZE for where he reports his show from shows how far we in the USA have FALLEN.

What is GOING ON HERE! WE HAVE A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT and
the "LEFT MEDIA" is now being hunted down and having to EXPLAIN THEMSELVES!



Hey THOM ...I'm going to watch you wherever you are but to try to shut down RT or Tar you with some antiquated "Cold War" brush from the 20th Century is TRULY DISGUSTING!

Those who want to stifle "FREE PRESS in AMERICA" are not "Putin's RUSSIA" but Neo-Con/NeoLiberal American "THINK TANKS" and the Wall Street "GLOBILIZATION FREAKS!'

[rhett o rick]

7. The Third Way'ers here will do anything to disparage progressives. They are the

ones that try all kinds of things to censure posts. I think calling Thom Hartmann a Russian apologist is very telling.

[uhnope]

10. Hartmann IS a Putin apologist. I've listened. And it's a real shame

that any dictator can be defended by any supposed "progressive"

[elzenmahn]

12. Oh, Really? Quotes? Sources?

I've listened to Thom for many years, and I don't see what the *(?#%$ you're talking about.

Since when is is required for everyone in this country, especially the pundits (of which Hartmann is one), to march lock-step with whoever in order to condemn Putin? I've always considered Hartmann to be more nuanced than that, and expect him to be.

I await more examples from you - and your Daily Kos post is insufficient to call him a sell-out.

[uhnope]

13. it's perfectly sufficient. Hartmann is repeating Putin talking points

while refusing to go anywhere near condemning the invasion of a sovereign country. Hartmann is accepting as fact the conspiracy theory about the snipers. Hartmann is repeating that conspiracy theory without mentioning that it was from a (Russian) phone tap--and he will complain about NSA spying everyday on his show.

When someone brings up gay rights in Russia, he starts talking about Saudi Arabia and the women's right to vote in 1920s USA!

Either Hartmann is of the "US bad so Russia must be no so bad" simplistic school, the same school that once had liberals tolerating the USSR, or he's got financial reasons for going easy on Putin, or both.

The hard left of Europe are under no illusions about what a Russian dictator is all about:

While for the leftists and anarchists of the West it’s high time to cut ties with the so-called “anti-imperialism” which comes down to the support of the Putin’s regime against the US.

http://www.libcom.org/news/autonomous-workers-union-statement-russian-intervention-02032014

[zeemike]

15. What a load of horse shit.

And I know horse shit when I see it.

And who is this "Ukrainian revolutionary syndicalists" that you quote from?

[rhett o rick]

14. I think you are on the wrong message board. nm

[uhnope]

16. Democracy, Human Rights over Partisan Politics, Dogma

These are my premises. Maybe you are on the wrong message board.

[uhnope]

11. re-visited indeed, with certain blind liberals supporting the USSR and now Putin. n/t

[rhett o rick]

8. I support you Thom. I believe in evaluating the article and not the source.

The closed-minded among us wish to lock or hide threads of anyone that doesnt march to their tune. And instead of debating the merits of an article they go for the censor and use "source" as their justification in lieu of what's in the article.

[HatTrick]

9. Well said, thank you.

I agree. It's much better to evaluate a story on it's own, rather than assume a story is good/bad/biased just based on the source.

[KoKo]

17. Well Said!

[Grasswire2]

19. well said

gotta wonder what their game is.

[BelgianMadCow]

18. ...just for the record

silent *boom*

[Grasswire2]

20. I don't know what that means. nt