The Great Debate: Thom Hartmann vs Michael Medved (2/10)

The Great Debate was a political debate between progressive radio talk show host Thom Hartmann against conservative radio talk show host Michael Medved on a verity of topics.

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[blankportraits]

I hear one side lobbing fact bomb after fact bomb, eloquently stating his case. I hear the other side going for applause lines with snark and strawman arguments. Michael Medved, please just go away and take the rest of the poisonous, misinforming right-wing radio clowns with you.

[blaisetheman]

wow, just wow... the conservative party has officially turned into a religion, and they are on a jihad

[17cheejay]

To each their own, but I don't want to spend my tax dollars on laziness.

[17cheejay]

It's funny to me that Hartmann assumes that because someone wants to just sit in the street and do nothing, that they are mentally ill. Maybe he hasn't been out on a walk around some of these people. There are a lot of people here in San Diego that are perfectly able to support themselves, but choose to hang at the beach and enjoy life by playing music, asking for change, hanging out with their acquaintances etc.. Our drive to work, to earn things tangible and intangible, seems to be dwindling.

[genYprogressive83]

Medved asks "When has govermetn ever lowered the cost of something"

Ever heard of the Veterand Administration Mike?

[professorgentzel]

How can Hartmann say that social security is fine? What a fatuous thing to say. That should be a conversation stopper right there.

[th3gr8juan]

@TarnCharles1968 Most actually oppose the government forcing that on people. Funny how most liberals piss and moan about separation of church and state, then say Jesus would have the government take your money to give to someone else.

Not to mention Thom is wrong. Madison actually said in his veto for someone to show him where the government had the power to give money to charity. So, yes, Madison did object to giving money to the poor if it came by force of the government.

[branhoff]

the comments are truly shocking! Obviously these people have never heard Medved's radio show or read any of his books! There is no one I have ever heard who uses logic as eloquently as Medved. And to imply that Hartmann is using "fact bombs" is preposterous

[dinkydkmg]

@melodia155 yeah wikipedia, they're never wrong about anything...

[m1ndfr34k117]

@bigollameo ...the governments place to tell someone that they must help another financially. Of course, there are some exceptions.

[m1ndfr34k117]

@bigollameo Agreed; I'm not saying the our system is perfect or even necessarily the best, but I would personally like to have the relative freedom the system allows. I think most people would agree that a communist and/or socialist arrangement, while certainly appealing and theoretically ideal, simply either do not work well or deny people certain freedoms with their money. Socialism, for example, is great in theory. But someone, somewhere, is losing their money for someone else. It's not...