Meet Thom Hartmann
In the three years that we’ve been writing MOOREWATCH we’ve received a number of interview requests. Some we have accepted, some we have not. So it was with great interest that we today received an invite to come on the Thom Hartmann Show. Clicking the link you are presented with a professional website, with a picture of an elegant looking gentleman, holding his eyeglasses in a scholarly manner, beaming a pleasant smile to the world. Here’s how he’s described on the site: “Thom Hartmann is a Project Censored-award-winning, best-selling author, and the host of a nationally syndicated progressive daily radio talk show, heard across America via the Sirius Satellite Radio system, on radio stations coast to coast, in 29 states on CRN, and worldwide on RadioPower.org, weekdays from Noon to 3 PM Eastern Time.” Okay, so he’s a leftie. I’ve never heard his show, but Jim (who is primarily the public face of MOOREWATCH) has gone on adversarial radio shows before, so it’s not like we run and hide from this stuff. Based on his website, knowing absolutely nothing about Thom Hartmann otherwise, I’d say he seemed like an intelligent guy who could probably engage in some good discussion on the issues of the day. Now, compare that public persona with the email we received.
To: Lee, Jim, and Para
From: Mungo Hector []
Subject: Moorewatch is welcome on the Hartmann show to be debated ANYTIMEYou want airtime you say? Show your voice on the hartmann show. He will give you an hr or whatever to talk about Cindy and the Iraq war and your fanaticism bordering on homoeroticism toward Moore. And you better come prepared none of this wrapping around in your flag bullshit. You will get checked severely.
Sidenote:
Malkin bailed
Hannity bailed
Medved Bailed
Liddy/Limbaugh Brothers/Ann Coulter/None of them will come on the show and he has national radio markets. You name the pundit you love and they bailed to appear.
No tricks/no mutes/no scripts/no net/
Now it’s time to see what you are made of. A true intelligent debate not some “soapbox anger/hate” you type on the net with liberal posters who you go postal over with a different view/perception than yours. Kind of easy and pathetic you even engage in that.
reach these emails for next week to appear on the show:
Your time of waiting to be heard on Liberal Progressive radio is over.
Your Move,101st keyboarders division
Talking and taunting/whining points leave them at the door or get your ass served. Just a healthy debate.
You should thank me for giving you this opportunity to make you aware to Thom since I hear you bitching and moaning about Liberals not letting you hear your voice day after day and media bias. This whining from your site is echoing everywhere. It’s almost a joke with right pundits. Like this is what’s wrong with America- radical liberals voicing their views. How out of touch is Moorewatch?
We may not agree but I am opening the door for you to be on a national show when you really don’t deserve it. But since you want to attack Cindy Sheehan and powerless others. If you flake and bail you will be known on the entire net as flakes.
Now it’s time to light this shit up.
Let’s go Chickenhawks You are all cordially invited in the immediate future. Welcome to Checksville: Population: Paratrooper,JimK,Lee
know your history about this war and our country and if you agree to go on you better be on the phone. No Flag wrapping on this or parroting what you love about America. Cheerleading filler gets shut down Taunting points only get you so far,Gentlemen Now you have to stand on your own two feet.
As Don King says “It’s going to be a glorrrrrrious day”
Topics that could be discussed:
Foreign Policy
The real meaning of Terror
What the Radical Left really means
Why Michael Moore is a threat
Cindy Sheehan/Casey Sheehan and the other Veterans who are speaking out on this warWelcome to the big leagues. Leave your cockiness/arrogance/ at the door. and be prepared for the callers.
Not quite exactly the “college professor” attitude you’d expect from looking at his website, is it? Allow me to make a few points.
We’re not sitting here, starved for attention, begging to get on some left-wing radio show. Frankly, none of us could care less. However, we’re more than prepared to do interviews with people who are adversarial to our position. I’ve done interviews with a number of newspapers, and Jim as gone on national radio shows before. Some of these interviews were friendly, some were not. But not once, ever, have we received anything along these lines. This is, quite possibly, the most pathetic thing I’ve ever read. Do they seriously expect anyone to go on their show after reading this? Not only are the spelling and punctuation atrocious (I had to significantly reformat the email to even make it legible), but why on Earth would any of us subject ourselves to a radio show that is incapable of inviting on guests without denigrating them?
I find it absolutely hilarious that the reason Hannity and Limbaugh and Medved “bailed” on appearing on this show is because they were somehow intimidated and/or scared. These are three of the most successful broadcasters in talk radio today; like they have the time or the inclination to go on some piss-ant left-wing radio show. More people would tune in to hear them than the actual host: Cui Bono? I’ve sent emails to Michael Moore’s offices before asking him to comment on various things, but he never replied. Is he “scared” to respond to MOOREWATCH or, in the grand scheme of things, are we totally insignificant to him? We don’t overstate our importance here. We do our thing and leave it up to the internet public to decide whether we’re any good or not. Conversely, Thom Hartmann (and this is one of the things I detest about Bill O’Reilly) assumes that his show is the be-all, end-all of public debate, and that anyone who declines to appear is operating out of a sense of fear. I also find it hysterical that he mentions Medved, one of the most polite people I have ever heard in talk radio, a man who is exceptionally gracious to his left-wing guests (Ingrid Newkirk of PeTA being an excellent example), in a profanity-laden email designed to goad us into nothing more than a fight behind the bike shed.
I also love the immediate left-wing assumption that we’re “chickenhawks,” implying that we’re people who support war but would never fight in it ourselves. Out of the three regular contributors to MOOREWATCH, two of us—Paratrooper and myself—are military veterans. I would be willing to bet every penny I make next year that 2/3 of the staff of the Thom Hartmann show have not have not worn their nation’s uniform. If Para and I are chickenhawks, I guess that makes the staff of the Thom Hartmann Show “chickenshits.”
Thom Hartmann and/or his staff have threatened to portray us to the world as being afraid to come on his show if we “bail,” especially after we have “attacked” Casey Sheehan’s mother. Obviously they have refrained from reading the multitude of posts recently where we have specifically stated that personally attacking Casey Sheehan’s mother is a tasteless thing to do, including Para’s post from earlier today requesting a refrain from commentary on Casey Sheehan’s mother while she deals with her own mother’s unfortunate stroke. But of course, facts don’t count when your ideology permits you to brand your opponents as chickenhawks without actually knowing a damn thing about them.
Thom, there isn’t a single subject you wish to discuss with us that hasn’t been fully explained on this site a million times. Judging by the quality of the email you send out, your staff isn’t all that intelligent to begin with, so it’s no wonder that you don’t know this already. I’m assuming by virtue of the fact that you’re a published author with a radio program that you are intelligent and can make a cogent argument on your own. Therefore, I am more than willing to give you the benefit of the doubt that you don’t know the quality of email that your booker is sending out to prospective guests. If this level of unprofessional conduct is okay by you, then you’re not worth our time.
Please, by all means, go all over the internet and portray us as cowards who were afraid to tangle with the Thom Hartmann the Great and Terrible. Until I received this email this morning I had never heard of Thom or his show, so his opinion of me, my co-bloggers, or this blog means exactly jack shit. This is so typical of the left. They put on the air of elegance and sophistication, then write an email not worthy of my fifteen year old son. They don’t have the integrity to show you what goes on behind the scenes, but we do. When Thom goes on the air and tells everyone that we are afraid of him for not accepting his invitation, now you’ll know why.
This is left-wing sausage being made. Sickening, isn’t it?
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