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Thom Hartmann: The Most Disingenuous Attack Against Bernie Yet (Original Post) leftcoastmountains Feb 2016 OP
I find hartmann unwatchable gwheezie Feb 2016 #1
+1 bravenak Feb 2016 #2
+1 stonecutter357 Feb 2016 #4
And the nerve to ask why I don't trust her bjobotts Feb 2016 #106
Who's your favorite media talking head for reference? nt cleopotrick Feb 2016 #5
My Palin answer-none of them gwheezie Feb 2016 #39
I find Hillary's dishonesty to be unacceptable virtualobserver Feb 2016 #6
+1 CentralMass Feb 2016 #11
+2 n/t farleftlib Feb 2016 #20
Most honest people do. merrily Feb 2016 #51
+1,000! Duval Feb 2016 #66
+ infinity senz Feb 2016 #91
How could anyone see it as acceptable? Enthusiast Feb 2016 #96
They are forced to shield their eyes.... virtualobserver Feb 2016 #100
+1 stopbush Feb 2016 #7
Just another Obama hater with a mic CorkySt.Clair Feb 2016 #8
Nope rufus dog Feb 2016 #23
I've been listening to him for years. You're right, he defends Obama. Duval Feb 2016 #68
You just made that shit up. JRLeft Feb 2016 #45
It sure looks like it doesn't it... think Feb 2016 #46
Hartmann is an Obama hater? LOL! merrily Feb 2016 #54
I often feel that Thom is far too easy on Obama. Enthusiast Feb 2016 #97
Definitely Far Too Easy On Obama scottie55 Feb 2016 #113
Not even close. I suspect you think anyone who makes one little criticism is a "hater" though. cui bono Feb 2016 #57
You've never once listened to Hartmann, but you're here insulting him just because other posters Chakab Feb 2016 #63
+1 uponit7771 Feb 2016 #107
+1. nt LexVegas Feb 2016 #10
Why? Because he's a Bernie supporter? Nedsdag Feb 2016 #14
Since I fund him unwatchable gwheezie Feb 2016 #35
How can you find him unwatchable? You dont know who he supports? sorry, your post are now total litlbilly Feb 2016 #62
Oh dear. I tried for the 2012 election and I found him boring gwheezie Feb 2016 #92
I get him on podcast. He's extremely listenable. senz Feb 2016 #93
that's too bad b/c he's leveling a major charge against HRC that will no doubt nashville_brook Feb 2016 #16
why? Roy Ellefson Feb 2016 #50
If it's not a right wing source, then it's an unwatchable one. Anything to dismiss. Yawn. merrily Feb 2016 #53
He was on Bill Maher - who is supporting Sanders - a few weeks ago. Everyone ignored him. Hoyt Feb 2016 #55
You can just listen. He's very fair and very knowledgable. n/t cui bono Feb 2016 #56
I guess youll just have to watch yourself instead. Have fun litlbilly Feb 2016 #58
then don't watch. magical thyme Feb 2016 #60
Huge +1! Enthusiast Feb 2016 #98
I have a hard time watching too, but if I just listen without watching, it japple Feb 2016 #70
That may make it easier, lol gwheezie Feb 2016 #95
Fascinating. senz Feb 2016 #104
Well said. Puglover Feb 2016 #117
I think it's because I don't watch TV. I get most of my news from the radio, online japple Feb 2016 #116
Well yu are definitely in a minority 'Cause He's #1 lib.talk show host bjobotts Feb 2016 #105
No accounting for taste then gwheezie Feb 2016 #109
Interesting. We got a similar response from someone as the first response to JDPriestly Feb 2016 #110
I find you unreadable. phleshdef Feb 2016 #118
Spot On Critique By Thom cantbeserious Feb 2016 #3
I watched the video in its entirety. Hartmann took a while to develop his argument, but . . . Petrushka Feb 2016 #9
Awesome how he laid out Clinton's 'artful smear' ! ebayfool Feb 2016 #18
+! Thank you nt Jarqui Feb 2016 #31
Yes, we did get "snookered". Great research by Thom Hartmann. Kudos to Bernie. madfloridian Feb 2016 #12
Thanks for posting this. MuseRider Feb 2016 #13
Perfectly stated. senz Feb 2016 #99
How can Hillary be trusted with the economy or even generally trusted..... virtualobserver Feb 2016 #15
Lower than a snake in the grass. Enthusiast Feb 2016 #75
Hillary's always been a cog in the machine Jezza Feb 2016 #94
Please watch this .. it is really about Hillary's financial head in her campaign.and what he did.k&r Stuart G Feb 2016 #17
Thom Hartmann, the most disingenuous pundit on Russia Times. MohRokTah Feb 2016 #19
you must be confusing him with Hillary virtualobserver Feb 2016 #26
Hillary Clinton is the most honest candidate for president MohRokTah Feb 2016 #29
There is a reason that 91% of the people in NH who gave honesty as the reason voted for Bernie virtualobserver Feb 2016 #30
Yep, there is definitely a reason MohRokTah Feb 2016 #32
Hillary is trying to bamboozle America.... virtualobserver Feb 2016 #34
Yep, it's sad someone can't see who really is the architect of dishonesty which is absolutely PROVEN cascadiance Feb 2016 #38
You're mistaken. The bamboozler is Sanders. eom MohRokTah Feb 2016 #41
Do you care to discuss what Gary Gensler did that is the actual focal point of this discussion? think Feb 2016 #42
Nope, nothing you will ever say or do will convince me Hillary is dishonest and Sanders is honest. MohRokTah Feb 2016 #43
You won't discuss issues regarding Hillary's top financial adviser? Are you afraid you might learn think Feb 2016 #44
Don't even try to argue with closed minds, think. It's a waste of time. nt Duval Feb 2016 #72
hillary supporters never want to discuss redruddyred Feb 2016 #80
When We Talk About Real Issues scottie55 Feb 2016 #114
Nope. They don't like liars and crooks. 840high Feb 2016 #84
You've got to be kidding Jarqui Feb 2016 #48
So glad she survived that 840high Feb 2016 #82
And the 1% bought corporate media are so much better? Pretty sad comment on American media today! cascadiance Feb 2016 #37
another meaningless slur from a hillary supporter redruddyred Feb 2016 #81
. Autumn Feb 2016 #21
Kicked, rec'd and bookmarked! ebayfool Feb 2016 #22
they have a win at all cost mentality virtualobserver Feb 2016 #27
Wow farleftlib Feb 2016 #24
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Feb 2016 #25
k&r kristopher Feb 2016 #28
An excellent example of Hillary beedle Feb 2016 #33
Gary Gensler wrote the legislation deregulating commodities that Phil Graham slipped into omnibus think Feb 2016 #36
Link to Truth Out story on this: think Feb 2016 #40
Thom Hartmann is wrong, OTC derivatives were deregulated before Bill Clinton took office, BlueStateLib Feb 2016 #47
Your quotes do not originate from the page you are sourcing. Where are your quotes from? think Feb 2016 #49
The CFMA of 2000 ensured the deregulation of OTC derivatives including Credit Default Swaps: think Feb 2016 #64
Thanks for pointing this out. Enthusiast Feb 2016 #76
more like redstaterepub to me litlbilly Feb 2016 #61
It authorized the CFTC to exempt any individual agreement, contract, or individual transaction, not virtualobserver Feb 2016 #65
Thom is exactly and precisely right on. Enthusiast Feb 2016 #77
Very interesting. LWolf Feb 2016 #52
Smartest guy on radio. No wonder HRC supporters can't abide him or his message Arazi Feb 2016 #59
Excellent!!! JDPriestly Feb 2016 #67
Wow. Just fucking wow. What a dishonest person she is. GoneFishin Feb 2016 #69
K & R!!! Thespian2 Feb 2016 #71
The farce is strong among Thom's detractors around here. eom Festivito Feb 2016 #73
That's just mind blowing in its diabolical irony! Dustlawyer Feb 2016 #74
Get Everyone to VOTE Jezza Feb 2016 #78
..+1 840high Feb 2016 #88
the most disingenous? that would be the "bernie wants to kill obamacare" line redruddyred Feb 2016 #79
Hillary is become a Corporatist Jezza Feb 2016 #83
strange that republicans and democrats should unilaterally agree redruddyred Feb 2016 #85
..indeed Jezza Feb 2016 #120
He explained it very well and he's exactly right. Waiting For Everyman Feb 2016 #86
K&R! Duval Feb 2016 #87
K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Feb 2016 #89
K&R Love Hartmann and appreciate him for introducing Bernie to so many of us. bt Live and Learn Feb 2016 #90
Kicketykick azmom Feb 2016 #101
Thom Hartmann also said we should vote for whoever the dems nominated.. LW1977 Feb 2016 #102
Thank you OP Boldine Feb 2016 #103
Sigh, Cornell West uponit7771 Feb 2016 #108
All I can do is shake my head... WiffenPoof Feb 2016 #111
The Truth Sucks scottie55 Feb 2016 #112
Reminds me me b zola Feb 2016 #115
Kick'n'rec (nt) pat_k Feb 2016 #119
Wow! Great one! longship Feb 2016 #121
kick n/t PonyUp Feb 2016 #122

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
39. My Palin answer-none of them
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:16 PM
Feb 2016

I can't remember the last time I purposely went out of my way to listen/watch a pundit. I thought ko was very watchable.
I try to find the original source and read the references in its entirety in order to gather information.
There are writing styles I enjoy but listening to opinion is my least favorite way to form an opinion.

 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
100. They are forced to shield their eyes....
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:23 PM
Feb 2016

or tell you that the messenger is too difficult to listen to.

 

rufus dog

(8,419 posts)
23. Nope
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:35 PM
Feb 2016

I listen almost daily, he almost always defends Obama. He is very non confrontational, you should give him a listen.

 

Duval

(4,280 posts)
68. I've been listening to him for years. You're right, he defends Obama.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:28 PM
Feb 2016

His program is not beholden to Corporations who tell pundits what they can and cannot say. I have never heard him say something that was untrue. And if he ever mischaracterizes anyone or anything, he will apologize and correct his remarks. I sometimes worry about his safety.

 

scottie55

(1,400 posts)
113. Definitely Far Too Easy On Obama
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 12:23 AM
Feb 2016

But other than TPP PBO needs all the support he can get.

TPP Not So Much

It will hurt millions like every sucky trade deal.

 

Chakab

(1,727 posts)
63. You've never once listened to Hartmann, but you're here insulting him just because other posters
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:13 PM
Feb 2016

with similar viewpoints are.

Pathetic.

 

litlbilly

(2,227 posts)
62. How can you find him unwatchable? You dont know who he supports? sorry, your post are now total
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:11 PM
Feb 2016

bullshit. you are now on total ignore.

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
92. Oh dear. I tried for the 2012 election and I found him boring
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:06 PM
Feb 2016

I admit to only briefly attempting to watch him since but could never get through an entire program.

nashville_brook

(20,958 posts)
16. that's too bad b/c he's leveling a major charge against HRC that will no doubt
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:21 PM
Feb 2016

be picked up by others.

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
60. then don't watch.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:09 PM
Feb 2016

I found W unwatchable, so I didn't watch. It make me sick to my stomach to even try.

I find Hillary unwatchable. I tried in debate #1. Haven't watched a debate since. Only watch small snippets of her now, as necessary to show her track record. Once the primaries are over, I will never, ever watch her again. She makes me as sick to my stomach as W did.

japple

(9,838 posts)
70. I have a hard time watching too, but if I just listen without watching, it
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:30 PM
Feb 2016

is much easier. Try it. Put up a cute kitten pic while you listen to him. Same thing with TYT. I have a hard time watching it, but I can listen.

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
95. That may make it easier, lol
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:09 PM
Feb 2016

I really can't watch a segment until the end, I feel bored and distracted so looking at baby goats might make it easier.

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
104. Fascinating.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:50 PM
Feb 2016

I doubt anyone could seriously object to your hijacking this thread since your personal response to Mr. Hartmann is so riveting.

It doesn't really matter that Hartmann dissects an intricately dishonest accusation leveled against Bernie Sanders by Hillary Clinton. Surely her complete lack of principle is of no importance in this presidential race. After all, character is but a trivial concern when choosing the leader of the free world.

Hartmann should try to be more entertaining.

japple

(9,838 posts)
116. I think it's because I don't watch TV. I get most of my news from the radio, online
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 10:28 AM
Feb 2016

or in print. I find it very distracting to watch most news programs. I can watch clips of things like Colbert or John Oliver, for example.

 

bjobotts

(9,141 posts)
105. Well yu are definitely in a minority 'Cause He's #1 lib.talk show host
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:03 PM
Feb 2016

We call him Professor or Doctor because he's so knowledgeable yet speaks in the tongue of the modern man. Always truthful.

gwheezie

(3,580 posts)
109. No accounting for taste then
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:54 PM
Feb 2016

I rarely watch TV for information and never listen to talk radio. I do enjoy when fstv or link has a documentary or lecture on but opinion talk shows are boring to me.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
110. Interesting. We got a similar response from someone as the first response to
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 11:20 PM
Feb 2016

a post showing Amy Goodman this morning.

Both Amy and Thom are effective, wonderful voices for the liberal view.

But then, my mother could not watch Rachel Maddow, and I really like her or at least I used to. I haven't watched her in a long time.

What do you not like about Thom Hartmann's show? You must be liberal because you like Eleanor Roosevelt. Interesting.

Petrushka

(3,709 posts)
9. I watched the video in its entirety. Hartmann took a while to develop his argument, but . . .
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:09 PM
Feb 2016
. . . beginning at about the 4-mnute mark in that video, he had my full attention, for sure!

Thank you for posting something WORTH taking time to watch and listen to before I decided to comment and give it a thumbs-uo or a thumbs-down.









ebayfool

(3,411 posts)
18. Awesome how he laid out Clinton's 'artful smear' !
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:29 PM
Feb 2016

People that take the time to listen will get it. Those with closed minds will refuse to give the video a look.
The fact she has this guy on the payroll shows just how corrupt Clinton really is!

madfloridian

(88,117 posts)
12. Yes, we did get "snookered". Great research by Thom Hartmann. Kudos to Bernie.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:16 PM
Feb 2016

And when that guy tells Hillary to attack Bernie for voting for that bill...well...that takes super guts.

MuseRider

(34,115 posts)
13. Thanks for posting this.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:17 PM
Feb 2016

It is certainly true what Thom says. What a circuitous lie this was from her. Factually correct but without merit as an attack if all the information was made available at the time she was saying this. Interesting, the people on her team. I would not want to be in a mile of any of them.

I don't know how they do this.

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
99. Perfectly stated.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:19 PM
Feb 2016

It is the epitome of an "artful smear," but so too was her expression, "artful smear" when she hurled it at Bernie.

It's kind of you to blame it on her team. I hold her directly responsible for what she says and does.

I would not want to be within a mile of her, her team, and those of her followers who understand what she does and still follow her.

I don't know how they do this, either.

 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
15. How can Hillary be trusted with the economy or even generally trusted.....
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:20 PM
Feb 2016

when she talks about a subject this important in such a dishonest fashion.

Bernie has our back and Hillary behaves like a snake in the grass.

She has the gall to attack Bernie on this when one of the engineers of the great recession, who slyly inserted this time bomb personally.....is her chief economic adviser? That alone should disqualify her....no wonder she doesn't know that the banks are already too big to fail.

Jezza

(30 posts)
94. Hillary's always been a cog in the machine
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:09 PM
Feb 2016

Hillary doesn't seem to see the people that make up our great dem constituency, she's influenced by her biggest contributors (= Law Firms, Citicorp, Goldmansachs, DLA Piper, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Monsanto.)

I find it hard to believe she'll fight wallstreet... let alone care about social equalities & institutional racism, i fear she'll be another puppet president taking +$150M in campaign funding from Law Firms, Citicorp, Goldmansachs, DLA Piper, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Monsanto.

Now there's this term Democratic Socialist, a platform built with planks of Single-Payer Medicare, Taxing Super-Rich to pay for education, increased minumum wage, and reform-everything-that-the-corporatists have phuct over these past couple decades.
----
...ok, i wanna learn more... Bernie Sanders is building a platform that ain't the Hillary:Kerry:Gore//Bush politics... He is finally someone pushing a Liberal Revolt!

i love it! lemme go dig out the old BlueDog

Stuart G

(38,439 posts)
17. Please watch this .. it is really about Hillary's financial head in her campaign.and what he did.k&r
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:29 PM
Feb 2016

that lead to the economy falling apart in in 2008, and then an ugly piece of advise he gave to Hillary to discredit Bernie. this one is very nasty. But..Hartmann takes some time to make the background very clear, so please watch the whole thing..It is mean in a very special way...thanks for reading this..and..
thank you if you take the time to watch the entire 8 minutes and 58 seconds.

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
29. Hillary Clinton is the most honest candidate for president
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:50 PM
Feb 2016

How can YOU support somebody as dishonest as Sanders?

 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
30. There is a reason that 91% of the people in NH who gave honesty as the reason voted for Bernie
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:53 PM
Feb 2016

because people can see the difference.
 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
34. Hillary is trying to bamboozle America....
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:04 PM
Feb 2016

Hillary's chief financial consultant is one of the engineers of the great recession.....and she blamed it on Bernie.

 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
38. Yep, it's sad someone can't see who really is the architect of dishonesty which is absolutely PROVEN
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:12 PM
Feb 2016

... in what Hartmann is showing here!

 

think

(11,641 posts)
42. Do you care to discuss what Gary Gensler did that is the actual focal point of this discussion?
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:24 PM
Feb 2016
 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
43. Nope, nothing you will ever say or do will convince me Hillary is dishonest and Sanders is honest.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:27 PM
Feb 2016

I calls 'em as I sees 'em and as I see it, Sanders is the most dishonest candidate seeking the nomination during my 53 years of life.

 

think

(11,641 posts)
44. You won't discuss issues regarding Hillary's top financial adviser? Are you afraid you might learn
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:29 PM
Feb 2016

the awful truth and not be able to defend Hillary and Gensler for what they did?

 

redruddyred

(1,615 posts)
80. hillary supporters never want to discuss
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:50 PM
Feb 2016

they know they don't have a foot to stand on

it's a pattern which is becoming very clear to me this primary season.

Jarqui

(10,130 posts)
48. You've got to be kidding
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:47 PM
Feb 2016

watch that video

then got to youtube and put in "Hillary lying"

If that's too inconvenient:


That's a fairly new one

There's about 340 videos on Hillary lying and almost nothing on Bernie.

Hillary or her campaign has done something deceptive, blatantly misrepresented, smeared or flat out lied nearly every day of the last number of weeks. It's well documented right here on this site.

Go to google and put in "Hillary Clinton trustworthy"

New Hampshire exit poll doesn't agree with you
Honest and trustworthy (34% of voters)
91% Sanders
5% Clinton

How do you explain that?

In this poll only 27% think Hillary is trustworthy
https://today.yougov.com/news/2016/02/17/nh-win-boosts-sanders-image-clinton-still-holds-la/

In a Quinnipiac poll later last year, 60% found Hillary untrustworthy. A recent one had it at 57%.

A whole bunch of polls, spanning from the summer to this month, showing about 60% of the country thinks Hillary is untrustworthy or dishonest. And they consistently identify her as the worst in that category among all the candidates - including the GOP.
 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
37. And the 1% bought corporate media are so much better? Pretty sad comment on American media today!
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:11 PM
Feb 2016

What is really sad is that Thom Hartmann doesn't let RT tell him what to do, and you know, RT knows that THEY DON'T HAVE TO!

They are best served by letting Thom go on and speak the truth of what is and has been so wrong with our country that the corporate media has also been compelled to not talk about, and their goal of having America look bad will be met.

Now if we get president Bernie Sanders in charge, and we have some more reform of our media by breaking them up, etc. so that we have some real *accessible* alternative voices on our media that aren't just providing us corporatist propaganda, then it might be possible for Americans to hear American companies compete with the RT's, Al-Jazeera Americas, BBC's, France 24, Deutsche Welle News, etc. that function in this country as an alternative to the oligopoly of corporate media we have here, that have functioned like Voice of America used to function in earlier times when we were more the voice of democracy in those countries that didn't have a free media then.

If we get that environment, where we can get back media companies like Current TV or something new that can provide adequate competition to the corporatized media here, that might be the time for someone like Hartmann to move to those newer media entities then where he could continue to maintain his independence from corporate mantra BS that he'd have to be involved with today if he were to align with any other of the existing American media companies. Ed Schultz also learned his lesson the hard way when he was pushed out of MSNBC for trying to have us more informed on topics like the TPP, and now is also at RT.

For now though, I welcome having the opportunity to hear voices contend with the corporatized oligarch media's propaganda. Too bad so many here can't see where the real propaganda is these days!

ebayfool

(3,411 posts)
22. Kicked, rec'd and bookmarked!
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:33 PM
Feb 2016

I see a lotta people dismissing this without looking at it.

Blinders make 'em .... well, blind. Pity that they refuse input over fanaticism.

 

beedle

(1,235 posts)
33. An excellent example of Hillary
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 06:57 PM
Feb 2016

"Trying to be honest" with the American people.

She should actually be honest and tell them "these person has the skill sets needed to sneak through harmful legislation in omnibuses bills, so I hired him to advise me on my financial policies."

 

think

(11,641 posts)
36. Gary Gensler wrote the legislation deregulating commodities that Phil Graham slipped into omnibus
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:10 PM
Feb 2016

bill that Bill Clinton signed into law.

And then as Hillary's adviser tells her to attack Bernie Sanders for voting for the omnibus bill that included the legislation he helped write and sneak through.

Gary Gensler proves himself to be a loyal Goldman Sachs alumnus time and time again.

In fact Gary Gensler also wrote the loophole in Dodd Frank that Goldman Sachs and the other big banks are now using to offshore derivatives so they can't fall under US regulation:




Gensler and his staff tucked a 17-word insert into a 228-page amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill. The addition seemed to assure banks that the new derivatives rules wouldn’t apply to their overseas trading operations. Bachus backed off. But the insert was craftily worded to leave wiggle room. If those activities “have a direct and significant connection with activities in, or effect on, commerce of the United States,” then the rules would apply, Gensler’s addition read.

One year later, at a late 2010 meeting of the CFTC’s board, one of Gensler’s legal aides declared that the passage in fact gave the regulator worldwide reach over U.S. banks’ trading operations.

A coalition of 13 global banks banded together to fight the clause. They hired Edward J. Rosen, a derivatives lawyer with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, to lead the effort.

?v=562619050116
CLAUSE OF CONSEQUENCE: This 17-word insert was initially used to persuade Republicans that Dodd-Frank derivatives rules didn’t affect U.S. banks overseas. It was later invoked by the CFTC in an attempt to assert control over those very operations. REUTERS/Photo illustration by Troy Dunkley

Source:
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-swaps/


BlueStateLib

(937 posts)
47. Thom Hartmann is wrong, OTC derivatives were deregulated before Bill Clinton took office,
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:41 PM
Feb 2016

Rep Bernie Sanders voted for H.R. 707 (102nd): Futures Trading Practices Act of 1992
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/102-1991/h27

In 1992, H.R.707, the Futures Trading Practices Act of 1992 was signed into law. This bill "granted the Commission the authority to exempt over-the-counter (OTC) derivative and other transactions for CFTC regulation."

In January 1993— just days before President Clinton took office—departing CFTC Wendy Gramm’s last day as chair, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) exempted "certain swap agreements and hybrid instruments from regulation under the Commodity Exchange Act."

 

think

(11,641 posts)
64. The CFMA of 2000 ensured the deregulation of OTC derivatives including Credit Default Swaps:
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:15 PM
Feb 2016

that Gensler helped get into the omnibus spending bill of 2000:

The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (CFMA) is United States federal legislation that officially ensured modernized regulation[1] of financial products known as over-the-counter derivatives. It was signed into law on December 21, 2000 by President Bill Clinton. It clarified the law so that most over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives transactions between "sophisticated parties" would not be regulated as "futures" under the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 (CEA) or as "securities" under the federal securities laws. Instead, the major dealers of those products (banks and securities firms) would continue to have their dealings in OTC derivatives supervised by their federal regulators under general "safety and soundness" standards. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) desire to have "Functional regulation" of the market was also rejected. Instead, the CFTC would continue to do "entity-based supervision of OTC derivatives dealers."[2] These derivatives, including the credit default swap, are a few of the many causes of the financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent 2008–2012 global recession.[3]

Full Wikipedia entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization_Act_of_2000


Link to full text of the CFMA:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/house-bill/5660/text
 

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)
65. It authorized the CFTC to exempt any individual agreement, contract, or individual transaction, not
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:17 PM
Feb 2016

broad deregulation.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
52. Very interesting.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 07:55 PM
Feb 2016

I note that none of the Clinton supporters can answer the question asked. Probably because they "just can't watch him."

Or because they're too busy frantically deflecting/attacking Hartman.

I, too, would like an answer to the question, but I won't be holding my breath.

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)
71. K & R!!!
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:33 PM
Feb 2016

Phil Gramm tried to destroy the American economy...because the laws he helped pass made him and his greedy bastard friends loads of money...

Thom is well aware that for the 1%er, money is the only important thing...

Listening to her speak makes me nauseous...

Dustlawyer

(10,497 posts)
74. That's just mind blowing in its diabolical irony!
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:40 PM
Feb 2016

We should "Trust" her! (Sarcasm)

Keep it up and feel the Bern!

Jezza

(30 posts)
78. Get Everyone to VOTE
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:47 PM
Feb 2016

Best way to shutup the nincompoops, is to Vote!

interesting how history parallels from the 1938 fights between FDR and the same dogmas in past weeks' positions by HClinton/TKruz/Rubio... All three candidates push apparent differences to each Democrapublican (Dem/GOP) political party's influence by super PACs and big corporatist base (Monsanto & JPMorgan & DuPont and GoldyLocks...) ** no need to mention Trump, as he's just an honest Billionaire not even trying to hide his intent; unlike the politicians of Hillary/Cruz/Rubio who flat lie, and we know it.
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is time to go another direction. Bernie Sanders seems to be good at the time. ...as i do hope Elizabeth Warren (a great progressive mind) get's into this evolutionary battle too. She'd be a fantastic President/VP...
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we are ruled by "big meanies" giants like Robert Mercer, Steven A Cohen, Paul Singer, Stephen Schwarzman, Richard String, Corbin Robertson Jr., J. Larry Nichols, Harold Hamm, Sheldon Adelson, Oliver Grace Jr., Richard Farmer, Stephen Bechtel Jr., Thomas Stewart, John Cornyn, Jim DeMint, either Koch Brother, JP Morgan, Citicorp, UBS, Monsanto & DuPont and Goldman Sachs...
---- be ever aware of spindocters; creating a place for corporatists, like Hillary, to appear sane.

 

redruddyred

(1,615 posts)
79. the most disingenous? that would be the "bernie wants to kill obamacare" line
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:49 PM
Feb 2016

but the last two debate have been nothing but stupid bs like this, i didn't catch all of them but the ones i did -- oh man

what a number that hillary clinton is. i am slowly beginning to understand why the right hates her so. why independents hate her! she can't win on policy obvi so has to make up on misleading statements and downright lies. enough!

Jezza

(30 posts)
83. Hillary is become a Corporatist
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:56 PM
Feb 2016

corporations do not hesitate to exploit and profit from programs uniformly identified with liberal politics, such as the war on poverty, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and foreign aid. All these programs have proved to be extremely lucrative for corporations that contract with government agencies.

these are the groups now funding Hillary; Monsanto & JPMorgan & DuPont and "GoldyLocks"... not to mention several corporate law firms.

Like you, i feel tricked. time to vote!

 

redruddyred

(1,615 posts)
85. strange that republicans and democrats should unilaterally agree
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:58 PM
Feb 2016

that obamacare is at best a compromise.

the trouble with team R is that they want to regress to the status quo. no one from that side has suggested a viable alternative.

Jezza

(30 posts)
120. ..indeed
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 08:28 PM
Feb 2016

obamacare, or The Affordable Care Act, as ya say, was and had to be a compromise. remember who Obama's office had to fight; and now that it's a gov program, the gov program has to bid out to all the insurers owned by whom? which is why costs are going up; and to corps owned by those same billionaires behind the dark money of the GOP.
(reading a interesting book, Ref / Dark Money, by Jane Mayer, pub2016)

....anyhow, so that's why i find Hillary's platform totally lazy (not to mention wasteful), and what is so appealing with Bernie Sanders (r)evoluntionary idea to make Medicare a single-payer program for all.

To make it cheaper as Sanders wants, means making the program a bigger power so they can control prices more effectively, as well as taxing the supeRICH...

contrary to Sanders, the GOP does have an answer if we pay attention, they want to privatize it, and make it into a profitable traded commodity amoung themselves. (just like they proprose doing with police enforcement and prisons and a lot of the government programs.)

...these cats backing the corporatist side of the GOP are big meanies, and make Trump look small:
Robert Mercer, Steven A Cohen, Paul Singer, Stephen Schwarzman, Richard String, Corbin Robertson Jr., J. Larry Nichols, Harold Hamm, Sheldon Adelson, Oliver Grace Jr., Richard Farmer, Stephen Bechtel Jr., Thomas Stewart, John Cornyn, Jim DeMint, either Koch Brother

Waiting For Everyman

(9,385 posts)
86. He explained it very well and he's exactly right.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:58 PM
Feb 2016

For more, look up what a woman named Brooksley Born has to say about it. She was the head of the CFTC at the time and not only objected to this legislation, she was sounding the alarm about how dangerous the situation was even BEFORE this law made it a zillion times worse. If I remember right, she resigned when it passed. It was done super sneakily. Hearings had been held about the proposed law the previous summer and it was supposedly tabled then as far as anyone in Congress knew.

Her assistant then, Michael Greenberger of the U. of Md. is very knowledgeable too along with Sheila Bair of the FDIC. Look up the wikis on them and read what they wrote and said. There were some good hearings about it too, which were on C-SPAN. Also I'm pretty sure Amy Goodman interviewed Brooksley Born extensively about it. (Eliot Spitzer too, in New York tried to rein in the banks around this time and Bush Jr. took legal action to force him to back off!)

I remember these events in real time, and Thom is spot on. What he won't say, I will... the crash was done on purpose. The conditions to make it happen were deliberately put in place and there's no possibility they could have been an accident.

This makes my blood boil. This poor excuse for a woman, HRC, must never be President. I wouldn't put it past her making Phil Gramm her Secretary of Treasury! There is nothing she wouldn't do, no outrage she wouldn't commit. This effing TEARS IT!!!

I didn't know Gensler was her advisor. My God! And the two of them cooked that up for her to trot out at the Town Hall! I have no words. Shameless is far too weak for her. The whole lot of them ought to be doing time, frankly.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
89. K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 08:59 PM
Feb 2016

Hillary supporters, watch this one all the way through. Then I want you to tell me if you still support Hillary for office. If so, why.

In my opinion this is a devastating revelation. This demonstrates that the Clinton Administration is far more responsible for the 2008 economic collapse than we have been led to believe. It has been hard to follow all the many leads, the many players and wild assertions since 2008. This piece by Thom brings the entire thing into crystal clear focus.

As if all that wasn't bad enough, Hillary actually accused Bernie of voting for the bill. That has to break the record for being the most disingenuous thing ever said during a primary debate.

Just when I thought my opinion of Bill and Hillary Clinton could not get any lower. I guess I was wrong.

Does this not go to the very heart of the ethics issue? Don't you care that your candidate has been proven to be unethical in the extreme?

LW1977

(1,236 posts)
102. Thom Hartmann also said we should vote for whoever the dems nominated..
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:35 PM
Feb 2016

Listen to Mic 92.1 FM via iheartradio, they air that soundbyte all the time!

Boldine

(86 posts)
103. Thank you OP
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:35 PM
Feb 2016

I miss listening to Thom.

This is an old article, but has some good information. It also looks at Clinton's donor list.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-17/hillary-clinton-grooming-former-goldman-banker-become-americas-next-treasury-secreta

If it is a Clinton vs Cruz for president Goldmann Sachs can't lose, but the country certainly will.

WiffenPoof

(2,404 posts)
111. All I can do is shake my head...
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 11:29 PM
Feb 2016

She wants my support...my vote. How can I bring myself to support someone who is so disingenuous?. I just don't get it.

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