Step with us through the bizarre Fox ‘News’ looking glass on today’s BradCast, where we try to make sense of all the stuff that the disgraced former President, his beclowned running-mate, and their television and social media propaganda partners really hope you don’t make sense of at all. [Audio link to full show follows this summary.]
Among our stories today…
- The string of good news rulings continue from state judges in Georgia. Last night, just after airtime, yet another judge issued a ruling striking down new rules recently instituted by the MAGA-majority on GA’s State Elections Board. Democrats, Republicans and voting rights advocates alike charge that the SEB’s new rules are unlawful, might result in chaos, and could be used to try and delay or even block the certification of votes at the County level in the critical battleground state. The judge in this challenge, filed by a Republican, found seven of the Boards new rules to be “illegal, unconstitutional and void.” As we’ve reported in recent weeks, some of the new rules actually make sense. But instituting them this late, while voting is already underway, is likely a very bad idea. Apparently, according to the judge in last night’s state court ruling, they are also unlawful.
- Unlike Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for President does not appear to be afraid of adversarial interviews by real journalists — or even by Bret Baier of Fox ‘News’. The full, 26-minute interview from Wednesday is here. We share a clip or two including the moment when Harris clapped back hard against Baier’s attempt to whitewash Trump’s recent threats to use the U.S. military against his perceived domestic political opponents, who he has been repeatedly describing of late as “the enemy within”.
- Meanwhile, as Donald Trump continues to completely avoid or otherwise wilt during any real interviews outside of his rightwing fantasy world — due to his cowardly inability to handle real questions from real journalists who don’t play along with the imaginary dystopian Biden-Harris hellscape he and Fox have created for their brain-poisoned followers — his Vice-Presidential running mate continues to stick his neck out for Trump in the real world. And, somewhat understandably, he’s making an utter hash of it, because it’s all built on Big Lies and nonsense. J.D. Vance, after weeks of trying to change the subject while being pressed to answer if he believes Trump lost the 2020 election, finally answered the question yesterday. His answer is “no”. So, apparently Trump won the 2020 election?! Well, yes, Vance explains, because of “Big Tech companies” who, in 2020, “engaged in industrial scale censorship backed up by the federal government” to block the “real scandal” of Hunter Biden‘s laptop costing the Trump-Pence ticket “millions of votes”. You remember that, right? Back when Trump, not Biden-Harris, was actually in charge of the federal government? It’s complicated. We explain. We also explain how Trump and his $75 million benefactor and Twitter/X owner, Elon Musk, really are — literally — working together to engage in industrial scale censorship to block distribution of Trump Campaign documents hacked by Iran and to ban journalists who link to it. (Contrast that with Trump singing the praises of hacks and other election interference by Russia back in 2016 and 2020. As noted, it’s complicated.)
- Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for our latest Green News Report, amid the costly cleanup of recent climate change-fueled hurricanes which are now raising everyone’s insurance rates, not just for those who live in hurricane zones; as the U.S. Small Business Administration‘s disaster loan fund has now out of money, thanks to said hurricanes, with Congressional Republicans refusing to refill the coffers; and as our corrupted SCOTUS, curiously, chooses NOT to block the Biden EPA‘s new emissions limits for power plant…for now…
The BradCast
with Brad Friedman
10/17/2024
Fake Censorship, Real Censorship and The Trump/Fox ‘News’ World of Fetishized Grievance: ‘BradCast’ 10/17/2024 | Harris pushes back in Fox interview; Vance pretends Trump won 2020; Also: More new GA election rules found 'illegal, unconstitutional, void'... · · · · · Fake Censorship, Real Censorship and The Trump/Fox ‘News’ World of Fetishized Grievance: ‘BradCast’ 10/17/2024 | Harris pushes back in Fox interview; Vance pretends Trump won 2020; Also: More new GA election rules found 'illegal, unconstitutional, void'...
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OMG . . .
Kamala!!!!!
The difference between Kamala in 2020 and NOW, is like the difference between BEFORE Popeye eats spinach and AFTER Popeye eats spinach.
It’s like the difference between BEFORE Clark Kent goes into the phonebooth, and AFTERR Superman emerges from the phone booth.
It is like Incredible Hulk BEFORE and then AFTER he gets very angry (except she’s much more in control).
She, in effect, grabbed Brett Baier by he scruff of the neck and shook him like a squirming little rat.
Of course, Baier was only using techniques used habitually on FoxNooz—-Interruptions, changing the subject, etc etc etc ALL intended to keep the guest from completing thoughts that may turn out to be persuasive or compelling.
Kamala was already presidential. But she gets even MORE Presidential every day she takes on these challenges and does Jju-Jitsu on them.
Meanwhile, Trump gets interviewed by lightweight RW podcasters and various sycophants, and he can barely handle even that.
OK, that’s JIU-Jitsu
What do Kamala Harris and Daniel Boone have in common?
This meme will explain:
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