Full Show - 12/27/10 Media Love Affair, GOP Financial Reform Block, Top 5 Political Idiots

A new study by the Pew Research Center reveals that the media is actually leaning to the right by giving conservative candidates more airtime over progressives. Thom talks with Joshua Holland and Harvey Kaye about the media's love affair with the GOP. Speaking of the GOP, it seems they're also helping their Republican friends in Congress ensure that the new financial reform law is never implemented. Thom talks with ThinkProgress reporter Lee Fang about why the U.S. Chamber of Commerce may be pulling strings as well. Also, is slavery still alive and well in America? Thom discusses with Jonathan Strong about how U.S. prisoners are being used as modern day slaves. Finally, Thom looks at the Top 5 Political idiots of 2010

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News & Politics

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• mainstream media
• GOP
• Republicans
• Pew Research
• Joshua Holland
• Harvey Kaye
• financial reform
• Wall Street
• Lee Fang
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• slavery
• prisoners
• Jonathan Strong
• 2010 Political Idiots
• Thom Hartmann
• Big Picture
• theBigPictureRT

[jimlaregina]

@jimlaregina

P.S. - About Obama and the fish he served at the White House, I meant to ask if he fed it to his daughters!

[jimlaregina]

Did President Obama feed that fish to children?

Mark Steyn must have the same cleaning lady as Rush Limbaugh.

[rickbar123]

@InfiniteDangers Big talk, can you back it up with fact ?? I am no expert, however, I do recall reading someplace that the Pew group leans toward the Right since it began. You compare the media on the left to Germany's propaganda machine ??? How so ???

[deracinated1]

@rickbar123 yup the neocons high jack that party almost @ it's inception

[deracinated1]

hey thommy you may want to check that 500 million barrel comment ... I'm under the understanding it was 600 million tons. Thommy tweaks his info intentionally and unintentionally. love most of what ya do/he does. it's like brain exercise ...well he's not telling that part of the story, or thats strictly his opinion jammed in ya like the truth. it's funny there is that arrogance,that if you don't agree w/ thommy he agrees to disagree and that means you are just flat out wrong.... good show.

[InfiniteDangers]

Pew Research is arm of DNC as is Media Matters. Your show was first class propaganda. Congratulations! Goebbels couldn't have done it any better!

[MadXMax187]

America has no democracy, it was designed as a democratic republic but is currently ran more like a kleptocracy.

[rickbar123]

Hey Tea Baggers !!! How about that Lee Fang report !!!!!! I say- Tea Bagger

You say- Sold Out