I did wanna share with you though if you if you go to PolitiFact dot com
P O L it.i fect a calm you'll
find that I've been rated twice by PolitiFact once they said
what I was saying was mostly true and now they're saying what I said his pants
on fire
and what I what I it said no said about on radio and television I was
I was reporting on mmm where did it come from
a bit up
and as I was reporting out there there's
there there were several reports 1 I'm first appeared in the Washington Post in
fact
that the coke the Koch brothers could make a hundred billion dollars
from the tar sands that they own in Canada
and if they can get that stuff down to their refineries in the Gulf
my point
was not oh my god a hundred billion dollars
although that's you know as as Katie Sanders correctly points out
in PolitiFact staked out of my comments that number is questionable
as a lot of people challenging that number and and in Katy
actually contacted the Koch brothers asked them you know
she talked with Rob happening Koch Industries a spokesman for Koch
Industries and
and a Peter Murchie one
from Alberta Energy and the you know
coke fax: this is
you know a pro coke site in a letter that they wrote to Henry Waxman
I'm she also quoted you know the writers the washington post and some other
people but
but the point is the point I was making and I think this point and and
okay I'll cop to apply pants are on fire a hundred billion dollars the Koch
brothers
may or may not make a hundred billion dollars
and probably won't make a hundred billion dollars you know the price of
oil is down the
have to pay taxes on that income SK points out in the peas
may be the only make seventy billion baby doll I make $30 billion
maybe bill only make $1 billion
but if they
made one billion if they if they stood to make a billion dollar profit
of the existence the Keystone XL pipeline because they own
these all this a cringe in although the the
the ok with the Colts are mining rights dollars acreage in Alberta Canada
if they stand to make just one billion dollars
wouldn't be a good investment
to spend a couple hundred million dollars
buying politicians in the 2014 election
so that those politicians would make sure that you major one billion dollars
forget the hundred billion dollars EUR 1 billion I'll and
I would submit that the evidence that that's what happened
was that essentially the first thing the john bainer and the first thing that
Mitch McConnell said
after the results were in the elections that all these republicans got elected
Democrats were defeated
democrats were opposed to the Keystone got defeated do
but you what up also the first thing that they said
was our first order business is going to be Keystone XL
and a factor was you know the that the search is voted on
Italian daniel is getting near screener error I'm rebooting the new screen or on
my end
I think it was probably you know some a problem on my computer
arm but ian has
the the my point is that is it just a business deal
and we should not in the United States
its it's not a healthy thing for our democracy
that a couple a billionaire business people can say
you know we can make some money on this might not be a hundred billion dollars
on my behalf that it might be a quarter that might be attend to that might be
one percent other
but we can make some money if we get politicians on board let's invest in
politicians
I was in a a taxi last night
and a at the cab driver said
made the comment occurs where we live there
they're ripping up the waterfront Anders enormous my construction
the two billion dollar construction right
Annie Annie's like there's construction going on all over this town he said i've
I've lived here twenty thirty years I forget how long he said
and he said you know it used to be kinda sleepy little town and now it is
this is a boomtown and I said yeah
you know the the best investment you can make right now in the united states is
to buy a politician
there and he said he rushed you are
so right and there's so much money coming into this town to buy these
politicians
and it's true I mean you know you you can't
you can't go to a restaurant this town for for less than 50 60 bucks a person
just for you know simple dinner and drink its antennae and yet they have
reservations for that
so PolitiFact is
their probably right that I was wrong that the cokes will make a hundred
billion dollars
but they're gonna make something they're gonna make something substantial
and they're going to make it if they if Keystone is approved
because they were because they invested in the politicians who are supporting it
and that's an issue that's worth discussing am
I'm very disappointed the politic fact in point that out they didn't even
mention it
it's not even it's not even a part of the conversation the entire
the entire thing was is is hartmans use a hundred billion dollar number right
and you know I I get that they're they're dealing with bumper stickers and
things like that
and I was glad to see the the topic up and I'm
you know I'm glad that they
took me seriously enough to fact-check be thats
said Katie year whoever at PolitiFact might do the next one or if
other future ones how about looking into
this idea that billionaires and big corporations
are because the Supreme Court has legalized this
are now buying our politicians
and our politicians are no longer behaving in the interest of the
above the public we look at every state where the raising the minimum wage is on
the ballot
it passed i believe i I might have I might miss one or two but I I'm pretty
sure past everyplace and
it appeared and yet politicians who
openly oppose raising the minimum wage got elected
how because millions tens of millions hundreds of billions of dollars will
poured into political campaigns
to promote those politicians and make sure the people are not talking about
the fact that they're opposed to raise the minimum wage
I doubt most voters even if so
another thing where I would advise the Democratic Party be clear about who you
are
be clear about with you
islands are you're listening to but Tom Hartman program
call 866 987 thon
and be clear about who's funding the Republican Party totally it's become the
party the billionaires in the big corporations