2004 Archives

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Dec. 19, 2004

The Myth of National Victimhood All Wrapped and Delivered for Christmas

It's Christmas week - Adolf Hitler's favorite season after he declared an official merger of church and state - and, ironically, conservatives are using the occasion to mount a new and bizarre attack.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Dec. 6, 2004

Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power

What if there really was no need for much - or even most - of the Cold War? What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades based on phony WMD threats? What if, similarly, the War On Terror was largely a scam, and the administration was hyping it to seem larger-than-life?

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Dec. 1, 2004

Scalia To Synagogue - Jews Are Safer With Christians In Charge

Antonin Scalia, the man most likely to be our next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, turned history on its head recently when he attended an Orthodox synagogue in New York and claimed that the Founders intended for their Christianity to play a part in government.

Posted at Buzzflash on Nov. 30, 2004

"Wealth and Our Commonwealth" by William H. Gates Sr. and Chuck Collins

This marvelous book is ostensibly presented as an argument for keeping the Estate Tax (aka the Inheritance Tax and now renamed by wealthy conservatives as the Death Tax). And if that's all it were about and all it had in it, I'd put it on a list of "good to know about" books and leave it at that.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Nov. 28, 2004

How To Take Back A Stolen Election

"Never again!" says the slogan in an email I received from an activist friend. "Never again will we allow a stolen election in the USA!" But how are we going to stop it?

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Nov. 17, 2004

'Stinking Evidence' of Possible Election Fraud Found in Florida

There was something odd about the poll tapes. (And it always seemed to favor George W. Bush...)

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Nov. 14, 2004

Restoring Trust in the Vote

Mea culpa.On November 6th, I submitted an article to Common Dreams that - based on interviews I'd done with a Florida Democratic candidate for Congress and information and people he'd pointed me to analyzing Florida's vote - suggested that small Florida counties may have been digitally "flipped" to benefit George W. Bush. The editors of Common Dreams published my article.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Nov. 7, 2004

This is a Game Where Principles are the Stake

Take heart. Democracy has come under assault in America before, we've survived, and the nation actually became stronger for the struggle.

Posted at Thom Hartmann on Nov. 5, 2004

Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked

When I spoke with Jeff Fisher this morning (Saturday, November 06, 2004), the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 16th District said he was waiting for the FBI to show up.

Posted at Buzzflash on Nov. 4, 2004

"Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate" (book) and "How Democrats and Progressives Can Win" (DVD) by George Lakoff. Review by Thom Hartmann

During the 1988 presidential campaign, Republican partisans began employing an unusually skillful use of language and advertising technique. The Willie Horton ads, for example, used an old NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) technique of "Anchoring via Submodalities," linking Dukakis, at an unconscious level in the viewer's mind, to Willie Horton by the use of color versus black-and-white footage, and background sound. After a few exposures to these psy-ops ads, people would "feel" Willie Horton when they "saw" Dukakis.