Do you consider Thom Hartmann a Democratic leader/figure/supporter?

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327. I taught logic mcar.

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The poster you're responding to actually provides evidence to support your claim. He didn't read carefully.

...[Hartmann] expanded the show to an hour, and also licensed the show to RT , partially in exchange for use of their television studios and facilities.

"Partially"...how very interesting. Studio time was only a partial payment for the license. There must be something additional going on between Mr. Hartmann and RT. Thom needs to be more transparent.

Not only have you provided evidence of payment, but even if you hadn't, his argument would still be dubious because the absence of evidence for one claim does not necessarily prove the validity of the other claim.

As for the snark about "binary logic", Boolean reasoning involving the disjunctive or is tricky and best left to people who understand these things. Here's the argument:

If A then either B or C.
A is true.
B is false.
Therefore C must be true.

There's a logical flaw in your responder's thinking. He assumes without evidence that B and C (paid and unpaid) are the only two possibilities. There's a third option: that Thom is paying RT to allow him to broadcast.

If that sounds improbable, then you should read this post from a Hartmann apologist:

[Thom]doesn't get paychecks from them....he pays them for time on the network.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017451788#post5

The snarky poster is committing the fallacy of bifurcation by excluding third possibilities.

He is right about somethinf though. Somebody here doesn't understand binary logic.