Hightower Lowdown blogs

VIDEO: Hightower debates McCain on Afghanistan

Jim Hightower — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:02:37 -0700

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LIVE: Hightower in Denver, Live From Main Street!

Jim Hightower — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:14:57 -0700

On Sunday, 8/24, Hightower appeared on stage in Denver at Live From Main Street's "So You Say You Want Change: Exploring the Conflicts and Opportunities Ahead" Hosted by Laura Flanders -- with guests Van Jones, Donna Edwards, and many more! Here's a clip: [Click here to view larger]

VIDEO: Free market hypocrites

Jim Hightower — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:43:50 -0700

Here's today's provocative question: Why do so many giant corporations hate the marketplace? Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

VIDEO: Cowboy George, horse thief

Jim Hightower — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:51:27 -0800

We've learned the hard way over the past seven years that George W lives in his own fantasy world--a place in which reality is whatever he wants it to be, facts notwithstanding. Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

VIDEO: Reagan on Rushmore

Jim Hightower — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:38:02 -0800

I must admit that the seven-year reign of Bush & Company makes me yearn for the years of Ronald Reagan, when the term "conservative" merely meant right wing, rather than full-tilt, bull-goose loopy. Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

VIDEO: Gifts for a happier new year

Jim Hightower — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:34:24 -0800

Wait till you hear about the gifts I gave to some of America's power elites for Christmas. Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

VIDEO: Lobbyists go shopping

Jim Hightower — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:35:09 -0800

The most determined shoppers of all this season are corporate lobbyists, scurrying from agency to agency in Washington in search of special favors for themselves. Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

VIDEO: Sweatshop crucifixes

Jim Hightower — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:02:50 -0800

This holiday season, "Made in China" sinks to a whole new level with sweatshop workers making crucifixes for Christian gift shops. Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

VIDEO: Voting with your dollars

Jim Hightower — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:06:18 -0800

Here's how you can say "no" to sweatshop labor and help support the American economy this holiday season. Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

VIDEO: Save the GOP from socialism

Jim Hightower — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:01:38 -0800

Republicans don't think millions of children deserve health insurance? Well, then, neither does the GOP! Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

VIDEO: Attacking our freedom to protest

Jim Hightower — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:31:34 -0800

The Bushites are trying to intimidate us and keep us from speaking our minds -- but the women of CodePink are fighting back. Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

VIDEO: A very personal protest

Jim Hightower — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:24:15 -0800

Over the years, I've come across some very clever protest actions, but here's one that just beats the pants off all the others. Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

VIDEO: Revisiting the arrest of the protesters

Jim Hightower — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:58:01 -0700

Think our government wouldn't suppress our right to peacefully protest? Think again! Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

VIDEO: The wonderland of Rudy, Mitt & Fred

Jim Hightower — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:15:03 -0700

What world do these Republican candidates live in? Certainly not the one you and I do! Do you want to put this video on your site or blog? You can embed the YouTube video by copying and pasting this code into your site: It's also available on Blip.tv, MySpace and Facebook!

Photo op: Hightower and Frazer

Deanna Zandt — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:58:26 -0700

Hightower and co-editor/publisher Phillip Frazer at Spring Lake, NJ, June 6 2007. They first met at this same spot 12 years ago, when they began planning the Lowdown, with Hightower's co-conspirator Susan DeMarco who hails from this neck of New Jersey.

Donate to the Lowdown!

Deanna Zandt — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:01:32 -0700

A number of you have asked for a way to donate to the Hightower Lowdown online, and we heard you: you can now donate right here on the site using your credit card or existing Paypal account. Questions? Problems? Drop us a line!

Hightower Download: Why we're in Iraq

Jim Hightower — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:03:03 -0700

Be sure to check out this week's episode of the Hightower Download: Why we're in Iraq. Plus there's The government's sick war on marijuana, Sports Brandalism, Bush's Backfire, What Color Is Your Meat? and Nobel Prize for Greed in the archives-- and don't forget to sign up for Sneak Previews while you're over there.

Hightower Download: The government's sick war on marijuana

Jim Hightower — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:13:35 -0800

Be sure to check out this week's episode of the Hightower Download: The government's sick war on marijuana. Plus there's Sports Brandalism, Bush's Backfire, What Color Is Your Meat? and Nobel Prize for Greed in the archives-- and don't forget to sign up for Sneak Previews while you're over there.

Hightower Download: Sports Brandalism

Jim Hightower — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:31:32 -0800

Be sure to check out this week's episode of the Hightower Download: Sports Brandalism! Plus there's Bush's Backfire, What Color Is Your Meat? and Nobel Prize for Greed in the archives-- and don't forget to sign up for Sneak Previews while you're over there.

Molly Ivins, 1944-2007

Jim Hightower — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:46:55 -0800

Molly is a spirit. A big, boisterous, joyful, irreverent, hell-raising, fun-loving, muckracking, uninhibited, maverick spirit.

As such, she lives.

I first encountered her in 1970, when she exploded from the pages of the Observer like a supernova. She was full of wit, smarts, and sass, grabbing readers by their hearts, minds, gonads, and funnybones. Damn, I thought, no human can write like that! She could knock you over and lift you up in the same sentence. It was her spirit coming at you. For forty years or so, Molly, wrote, spoke, taught, and agitated all across America, rallying progressive souls with the expressive force of that spirit to stand a little taller, get a little noisier, help whack some pompous plutocrat or asinine autocrat right in the snout -- then go have some beers and an uproarious laugh. In my years of knowing her, I found her to have five passions: (1) good, solid, and brave investigative Journalism (with a capital J); (2) the Bill of Rights -- I think she spoke to more ACLU meetings than any president of that organization; (3) progressive politics, aggressively populist, putting the corporate structure and the money powers right in our sights; (4) underdogs; and (5) the merry combination of good friends, good drink, and good fun (she orchestrated many a wild game of charades in her home, playing it as a full-body, contact sport). In my last dinner with her, Molly turned to me and said out of the side of her mouth: "This has been a hell of a ride." She meant the months of trying to stay atop the cancer bucking within her, but it could also sum up her 62 years in this life. Molly came to us as a spirit, lived with us as such... and has now left you and me infused with her spirit. She did her part -- and our happy task is to carry it on, breathing the fiery, loving, laughing essence of Molly.