Thom Hartmann on The News - October 4, 2012

tolerant here on the news you need to know this what's the point of presidential debates if one candidate can live for a half-hour and then be declared the winner as a question we should all ask ourselves one day after the first presidential debate in denver colorado the consensus among pundits is that they're ronnie won the debate and strictly in terms of style he did win pressing the fight all-night against authority president obama as a setter for american progress points out this morning ronnie told twenty-seven lies are half truths and that are just thirty-eight minutes on stage last night brought me a lot about his own tax plans and it's not a five trillion dollar tax cut despite independent alice's as planned senate bids he lied about obama k repeating the same debunked *** president cut over seven hundred billion for medicare he lied about the president's wall street reform loss in a designates five banks is too big to fail undeserving a blank check bailouts there is no such provisioning law an even flirted with the idea of death panels an obama care rather acted like sportscasters this morning in clarion mit romney the winner the media needs to be doing its job and fact checking ultimately president obama did fail last night you fail to calling out there romney as an agent of the oligarchy sc president didn't mention romney's forty seven percent comments he didn't mention romney's tax dodging an offshore tax havens he didn't mention ronnie's career harvesting businesses a bank president can't make the argument the ronnie's only looking out for the one percent and still lose and screwed news average hard-working residents of montana are about to be silenced in state elections on wednesday a federal judge in that state struck down a lot limiting political contributions to state candidates it previously individuals in political action committees could only donate at most six hundred thirty dollars for gubernatorial candidates and three hundred and ten dollars for statewide office campus the u_s_ district judge charles laval ruled that those limits are too low any trash them meaning individuals impacts can now use unlimited amounts of money to buy the politicians of their choice combined this ruling that the supreme court ruling earlier this year the struck down a hundred year old montana state law banning corporate contributions to candidates and it all adds up to the people that state having lost their voice in their own elections so to americans all across the nation whose voices will be drowned out by millionaire billionaire and corporate cash we must amanda our constitution to bring back democracy and four we the people to do so go to move to amend dot org in the best the rest of it is the florida part of law enforcement has launched an official criminal probe into the political firm strategic allied consulting which was hired by the republican national committee register voters in swing states across the nation story first reported brad blog dot com a firm is headed up by mitt romney's paid political consultant nathan spa wall and is accused of filling out fraudulent voter registration forms including sabotaging democratic voter registration forms exchanging the addresses on them it's fraudulent forms have been found in a peaceful levin counties in florida and law enforcement officials say they've found enough evidence to warrant a full-blown investigation this is widespread and blatant election fraud committed by the republican national committee and some people may be thrown in jail european union could be the site of the next fukushima like nuclear disaster elite report by european commissioner revealed that virtually all of the one hundred thirty four nuclear power plants in europe are in need of repair is in france for eighty percent nations electricity is generated by nuclear power out one single power plant the entire country meets the security standard set by the international atomic energy agency report calls for as much as twenty five billion euros in repairs on europe's nuclear power plants rather parents though world should be investing clean energy and decommissioning nuclear power plants world's most expensive and dangerous form of energy new nukes last friday louisiana death row inmate damon demagogue was exonerated after d_n_a_ evidence proves he did not *** his step cousin nearly two decades ago into those spent sixteen years in prison and was nearly executed for crime he didn't commit shockingly he is the three hundred inmate to be exonerated by d_n_a_ evidence any eighteenth death row inmate like three thanks to d_n_a_ evidence this proves that there have been major mistakes made in our criminal justice system stanley gave all inmates a chance to prove their innocence through new d_n_a_ evidence and it's time to put and the death penalty before another innocent americans execute and finally all the world should look at the nation's of hoopla or boot camp nations prime minister announced plans to make his nation one hundred percent organic phasing out all artificial chemicals in farming over the next ten years as per chance agricultural minister said the tennis decided to go for a green economy in light of the tremendous pressure we are deserting on the planet began has already proved out the rest of the nation it is that's crap economic indicators as a measure of national success and replace them with something that they invented they're called gross national happiness pajama top priority is happy stuff well this approach has been endorsed by the united nations and several other countries around the world we here in the united states could learn a lot and that's the way it is today thursday reports twenty twelve i'm tom hartman