Thom Hartmann confronts Jerry Doyle on economic fascism

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 09:48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW9EqrM1pWg   Posted on YouTube: January 07, 2010 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 07, 2010 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 1210

 
The Thom Hartmann Program can be heard daily M-F 12-3pm ET. Visit www.thomhartmann.com to listen live, join the community or purchase a podcast.

[mmonk]

1. Thanks Thom.

[bulloney]

2. Doyle throws out his catchy rhetoric, Thom repeatedly calls him out on it, and Doyle backs down.

Doyle reminds me of a lot of the teabaggers. He's mad, but he doesn't really know what he's mad at. His base Republican instinct tells him to blame Obama and Clinton. He just says he left the Republican party a few years ago to try to deflect any argument, but Thom didn't bite on it.

Good job.

[zbdent]

4. what gets me is the old "understanding" that good actors make their characters great

when the characters reflect a lot of what the actors believe ... like Mike Farrel on M*A*S*H, on an episode where he and Hawkeye were scripted to perform an unnecessary appendectomy on a general, to take him out of the picture for a while. Farrel said that he thought his character wouldn't ethically support that type of action (and he certainly wouldn't, either), so the script was rewritten so his character got that point across.

Now ... Doyle's character on Babylon 5 was a security chief who was suspicious of a lot of things ... and was very effective at that. And when "EarthGov" got taken over by the Shadows, he was more than willing to join up with the resistance ... it was after he was brainwashed by the Shadows that he went against the leader of the resistance.

Of course, this was during the Clinton years, so maybe he was projecting his beliefs on the administration at the time, since B-5 kicked off in 1993.

But couldn't he see what was going on with Bush? It sounds like something Doyle's character, Michael Garibaldi, would have been fighting against ... but he gets a radio show, and is attacking the people who were, in a way, the resistance against the takeover. (Ran as a Repug in 2000, but now is one of these neo-indies ...)

but then, aren't we supposed to be ignoring the politics of "entertainers"?

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Doyle imagines himself a "hip" Glenn Beck.

[Overseas]

5. K&R. //nt

[zeemike]

6. As smart as they are these right wingers can get one over on Hartman.

And that is because he is well informed and sharp as a tack.

[theFrankFactor]

7. Republicans and Democrats Have Delivered a Bill Written by Industry-No One is Asleep at the Wheel

except for most Americans, both Democrat and Republican.

This guy is a clueless show boater. More rightist toilet paper tigers. I deal with this fucking idiocy frequently from these "rugged individualists". This is always sweet; watching Thom knock the dicks out of these dinks mouths.

[Daydreamer.1961]

8. great thomm

i didn't like him at first