Over the weekend at the DNC Summer Meeting in Minneapolis, 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate Martin O’Malley excoriated his party for their ‘rigged process’ of Presidential debates. Bernie Sanders agreed and BRAD BLOG’s legal analyst Ernest A. Canning apparently does too.
He wrote about it this week, including his concerns that the process could result in a 1968-like rift within the party. He joins us to discuss it on today’s BradCast.
Also today, in a victory for President Obama (and for peace and diplomacy) it looks like the Iran Deal now appears to be sealed in the U.S. Senate — despite wild disinformation about it (and a Republican base which appears clueless about that and much more).
We also take listener calls on all of the above, including some on our programs earlier this week on the KS statistician being blocked by the state from examining evidence she believes suggest “voting machine manipulation” and the attorney representing the couples suing the KY County Clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses in defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Plus: Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report as we get ready to take a few days off for the holidays. (But, don’t worry, your BradCast will be ably guest hosted once again by the excellent Nicole Sandler of RadioOrNot.com for a couple of days until we’re back after the holidays!)
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See DNC chief faces perilous fall
Funny thing is that Bernie Sanders is still going to win the nomination and the general even though the DNC and the media are totally against him in every way possible.
He is tied exactly where Obama was in 2007 even though by this time Obama had the luxury of about 10 Debates.
Sanders has had zero.
After the first debate Clinton is DONE and they know it
You may or may not be right, Nunyabiz1 @2, but irrespective of whether Sanders obtains the nomination, democracy itself has been harmed by what O’Malley described as a “decree of silence.”
You had some 24 million people tune into a GOP “debate” in which issues of global climate change and income inequality were never mentioned.
Democracy can only thrive when the electorate is provided the information needed to make “informed” choice. We the people have a right to know where each candidate (including 3rd party candidates) stands on issues that matter. The silence inflicted by the DNC is deafening.
BTW there was one statement Brad made that I didn’t get a chance to correct. The Hillary Clinton campaign did not say she had locked up 1/5 of the superdelegates. They claim she has already locked up 1/5 of the delegates needed to secure the nomination — this despite the fact that we’ve yet to hear one word of debate let alone before the first votes have been cast in the Iowa caucus and NH primary.