Mike Papantonio skewers Republican Representative Todd Akin over his comments about "legitimate rape."
Mike Papantonio skewers Republican Representative Todd Akin over his comments about "legitimate rape."
While there isn't one single company responsible for the subprime mortgage meltdown or the cratering of our economy, but if you did have to narrow that list down to just a few names, Countrywide Financial would be as close to the top as possible. Just this week, whistleblowers have come forward to expose even more fraud and corruption within the company and they're now telling us that Countrywide was ripping off American taxpayers for millions and millions of dollars. Mike Papantonio talks about the latest blow to Countrywide with attorney James Kauffman.
Mike Papantonio talks about the latest round of hate coming from washed up, Republican, has-been celebrities like Ted Nugent and Hank Williams, Jr.
Mike Papantonio discusses the long history of Republicans defending rape, while demonizing victims.
Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss Todd Akin's claims about "legitimate rape" and how the GOP is being forced to distance themselves from Akin even though his views are in line with the mainstream GOP leadership.
Mitt Romney has some serious questions to answer about his history at Bain Capital -- questions that could easily have a huge impact on whether or not he succeeds in his bid for the presidency. One of the biggest questions is why he sought money from warlords in El Salvador to help finance Bain Capital in its early years. Mike Papantonio discusses the story that Mitt Romney doesn't want you to hear with Justin Elliot, an investigative journalist with ProPublica.
This past spring has already gone down as the warmest on record. But even before that, the world was breaking temperature records almost every year. All of this adds up to some pretty scary scenarios for our planet, but that's only half of the story. Mike Papantonio talks about the entire story with Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org.
The NRA wants us all to believe that they have all this money, all this power, all this authority and influence over American politicians. But when you actually start to look at the numbers, they certainly don't back up that claim. Mike Papantonio recently spoke with Paul Waldman, contributing editor for the American Prospect, about why the NRA isn't as big and bad as they want us to think.
Most American voters don't give too much thought to our judicial system but that system makes up an entire third of our government. And because we pay so little attention, Republican politicians have been packing the courts with industry-friendly hacks for decades. Mike Papantonio discusses the right wing stranglehold on our judiciary with attorney Tim O'Brien.
College students today are facing an enormous uphill battle, not only against the predatory student loan industry, but now, against predatory for-profit college scam institutions. These colleges promise all sorts of degrees and credentials, only for students to find out that the colleges aren't even accredited, and their degrees are essentially worthless. To make matters worse, a federal court this week actually sided with these deceptive, for-profit college scams, and Mike Papantonio recently spoke with Danny Weil from Truthout.org about what happened.
Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss Obama's support of a Constitutional Amendment to overturn the disastrous Citizens United ruling.
Mike Papantonio talks about the GOP plan for America, which isn't a pretty picture for those who aren't old, rich, white men.
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In recent months large portions of the U.S. were on fire. Record droughts covered massive swaths of America. The areas not experiencing droughts were inundated with flooding. Winter weather in many areas was almost non-existent. A few years ago an Academy Award-winning film called "An Inconvenient Truth" warned wary Americans that all of these events would become the new normal due to climate change. But these are no longer warnings -- this is the reality that we're living in now. Mike Papantonio discusses what this extreme weather means for the future and for the policies of our elected officials with Chris Mooney, author of the new book The Republican Brain.
Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz discuss the Tea Party's constant charge that "Obama hates America," as well as how the entire Republican Party has become a reactionary, intolerant bunch with no facts to stand on.
Dangerous, harmful pharmaceutical products are being taken by consumers everyday. And thanks to our industry-friendly FDA, and the deceptive practices of drug companies, most people don't even know if the drugs they're taking are going to cause permanent, horrendous side effects, or even worse, if those drugs will always lead to their deaths. Mike Papantonio talks about a very dangerous, yet very popular drug called Accutane, with attorney Troy Rafferty.
Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to talk about how the GOP is intentionally trying to sabotage President Obama by sacrificing our economy's well being and causing intense suffering for the 99%.
It's impossible for neo nuts to talk substance after eight years of an economy meltdown, an Iraqi desert lie, and a string of scandals ranging from mortgage scams to stock market corruption, and incompetence that murdered 3,000 Americans. Why bring up substance like that when all of that took place during your political party's watch? Instead, they choose to whine and cry like babies about President Obama -- that's the Republican Party's only tactic.
For months the GOP has been waging a war against women in America. Whether it's over birth control or even the more subtle economic factors, American women are treated as second-class citizens by the Republican Party. And today Mitt Romney is out there claiming in one breath that he's a friend to women and in the next breath he's telling us that he will restrict access to birth control and that the pay gap between men and women will not be touched. Mike Papantonio talks about why the GOP is disastrous for female voters with author Nancy Cohen.
Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to talk about the Democrats' efforts to combat the GOP's voter suppression tactics and how the GOP is trying every dirty trick imaginable to keep Democrats away from the polls this November.
Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz discuss the incompetence and arrogance of the former Bush administration that led to the disaster of September 11th, 11 years ago.
Mike Papantonio and Bobby Kennedy discuss the abysmal failures of the GOP with regards to national security, particularly the new information that reveals that the Bush Administration ignored month's worth of security briefings warning about a possible attack from Bin Laden.
Mike Papantonio and Ed Schultz talk about the latest round of GOP dirty tricks designed to suppress Democratic voters in this year's election.
Mike Papantonio talks about how the citizens' media -- independent blogs, newspapers, and radio shows -- are asking the tough questions and telling the stories that the traditional media has failed to do.
Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to talk about how the mainstream media is giving Mitt Romney a free pass on his Libya lies.
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In spite of the best attempts of Republican lawmakers to ease the regulations that protect both the government and consumers from corporate fraud, there is still one thing that they haven't been able to dismantle -- whistleblowers. Whistleblowers inside corporations have been helping to expose fraud and corruption for over a century and to this very day they are helping take down some of the biggest corporate criminals in America. Mike Papantonio talks about this issue with attorney James Kauffman.
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