Countdown: Thom Hartmann on Oversight of theBailouts

[twisted45]

real cost of the bailout 28 trillion

[leesagrrl]

egrimnes:

You said above: "Thom Hartmann may have made numerous errors in the past..." I'm not trying to gotcha... I tend to agree with him mostly. I'm just curious what you've heard of Thom being incorrect(?)

[egrimnes]

Thom Hartmann is a brilliant man that knows the economy and the power of the working class. As for specific past errors, I was using someone else's words back at them meaning, regardless of what errors someone else had seen previously - he is right on mark on this one. I agree with about 95% of what he says. I think he needs to do a better job of convincing the conservative bible-belt that it is not the Dems that created this mess, its the conservatives. The rich only look out for themselves.

[leesagrrl]

egrimnes:

Cool... and I agree wholeheartedly.

[Idi0cracy]

I tried to reply to this a couple of days ago. Youtube deleted the comment.

Go to triple double u sigzone b l o g s p o t dawt com. I have kept track of his errors.

[Idi0cracy]

I forgot to add a "dawt" after "sigzone"

[leesagrrl]

Idi0cracy :

I went to your blob but only found a few articles on Thom. It would seem that since Thom has been on the air for years, that you would have more than just a few supposed factual errors to dispute.

What I saw what seemed to me to be a few facts (that I couldn't check on) but still more opinion that facts.

[Idi0cracy]

They aren't "supposed" errors.

Here are 3 things that I remember from my blog:

Hartmann: "The first that Reagan did when he took office was tear down the solar panels on the White House to send a message that he wasn't going to use alternatives to oil." Utter, provable, objective nonsense. A maintenance crew did it during 1986 probably without his knowledge.

"Hamilton put this system in place. There it stood until Reagan came along and dismantled it." There is nothing "opinionated" about

[Idi0cracy]

the manner in which I disproved this lie/misinterpretation. Any historian who is worth his salt will tell you that this an outrageous, objective distortion of history.

Hartmann's claims about the '70s utopia were disproven by the laundry list of problems that I enumerated on the blog. Stagflation began years before Reagan took office. Nixon's removal of the U.S. from the gold standard occured years before Reagan took office.

None of it is opinonated- all of it is backed with citations.

[OfficialDarkKnight]

What good is a 'gold standard' when has traditionally functioned under a banking system that did not have its reserves audited and could engage in a system of fractional reserve lending that is no different than the system we have under the fiat system? The gold standard is a facade and unnecessary. What we need is a sound transparent banking system that is held accountable by the people through their elected representatives.

[Idi0cracy]

This is why I hesitated to even respond to this comment. Human nature is what it is - I can present 500 things that are wrong with a person's claims, but people who admire him/her will always rationalize it. I rarely argue with people about factual inconsistencies. It's either right or wrong. He is dead wrong... and an utter moron.

[leesagrrl]

Idi0cracy:

I have a good friend (very moderate) who teaches American History and he is pretty sharp in the Politics Arena. He also had a few problems with Thom, but when I confronted him on them, they turned out to be semantic minutia.

Emotions seem to hide reality sometimes.

Why don't you call in to Thom. He says he takes Conservative callers first. If you have a problem with him, take it to the source.

[leesagrrl]

Idi0cracy:

I listen to almost all of the Political pundits I can stand... And I'll take what Thom says as closer to fact than any of his idiot competitors like Hannity, O'Reilly, Rush etc..

I also like Franken,... certainly more than Coleman, the extremist conservative criminal he ran against.

[FlintfromOhio]

GO RAIDERS !!

[vivwritten]

Frankly i think every American is a moron...and most of the world agrees

[egrimnes]

Thom Hartmann may have made numerous errors in the past but this story has been covered by every news agency and what he is stating is correct. This is why you need oversite instead of blindly trusting corporations and banks to do the right thing. The wonk and thank the Republican party for it and thank ALL in congress who didn't ask questions first.

[Idi0cracy]

Well, I agree with you. I didn't detect errors in this clip. However, I believe that we have all reached a consensus that such things are necessary-- even the cons. It's a rather simple, cut-and-dry issue, which Hartmann can apparently handle.

[rohr808]

Why do you think it is in the interest of America that the majority should bail out all the Jewish bankers on Wall Street? Just one more propaganda-crap spewed out by Jewish controlled media. When will you Americans ever wake up????

[leesagrrl]

egrimnes:

Like I said above, i don't always agree with Thom... But I have yet to see him make any Historical Errors(?)

Can you please clue me in.

[egrimnes]

Not sure what you are asking me here.... Those are not my words.

[notaflagwaver]

IDI0CRACY is the True Moron.

He hurls insults hoping that nobody notices his profound ignorance.

Oh Yea, And on top of that

He Lost !

[Idi0cracy]

I didn't "lose" anything. I am a Democrat. I'm also objective, and have written about Thom Hartmann's numerous errors. He is a moron. Sorry.

[leesagrrl]

Idi0cracy:

Don't be "sorry." I assume you have something to back up your comments?

I don't always agree with Thom, ideologically speaking, but he always seems a wealth of real information, rather than the misinformation and lies the Right-Wing purveys.

[Idi0cracy]

Thom Hartmann is a moron. He makes historical errors constantly.

[dutchhaze1]

Shut up