{"id":10355,"date":"2013-11-06T21:55:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T05:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10355"},"modified":"2013-11-13T21:05:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T05:05:14","slug":"kpfk-bradcast-the-cbs-60-minutes-benghazi-train-wreck-lessons-from-election-day-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10355","title":{"rendered":"KPFK &#8216;BradCast&#8217;: The CBS &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; Benghazi &#8216;Train Wreck&#8217;; Lessons From Election Day 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_60MinutesBenghazi_BillDeBlasioProgress.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">This week on the <a href=\"http:\/\/kpfk.org\">KPFK<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/pacificanetwork.org\">Pacifica Radio<\/a> <i>BradCast<\/i>, I was joined by <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/authors\/eric-boehlert\/25\">Eric Boehlert of MediaMatters.org<\/a> to discuss: a) The serious questions about <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10344\">CBS&#8217; <i>60 Minutes<\/i> &#8220;train wreck&#8221; on Benghazi<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/04\/what-would-dan-rather-do-with-benghazi-debacle\/196733\">media&#8217;s dreadful double-standard<\/a> in comparison to the reaction to the Dan Rather\/George W. Bush Air National Guard story from 2004 b) Media failure in <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/31\/called-on-to-explain-big-story-media-botches-ob\/196689\">reporting on &#8220;Obamacare&#8221;<\/a> c) The double-standard at Fox &#8220;News&#8221; in covering the alleged &#8220;pissed-off patriot&#8221; who shot up LAX Airport last week and d) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/andrewkaczynski\/washington-times-ends-rand-pauls-column-after-plagiarism\">Rand Paul&#8217;s plagiarism<\/a> disaster.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I was joined by the great Howie Klein of <a href=\"http:\/\/DownWithTyranny.com\">DownWithTyranny.com<\/a> and the Blue America PAC to discuss the various <a href=\"http:\/\/downwithtyranny.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/tonights-election-results.html\">progressive victories from Tuesday&#8217;s elections<\/a> (and a few of the failures), as well as concerns about the still incredibly close, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10354\">100% unverifiable Attorney General race<\/a> in Virginia and its likely &#8220;recount&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Desi Doyen joined us as usual for the <a href=\"http:\/\/greennews.bradblog.com\">latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>. Enjoy the show!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Download MP3 or listen online below [appx. 58 mins]&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/KPFK_BradFriedman_EricBoehlert_HowieKlein_110613.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on the KPFK\/Pacifica Radio BradCast, I was joined by Eric Boehlert of MediaMatters.org to discuss: a) The serious questions about CBS&#8217; 60 Minutes &#8220;train wreck&#8221; on Benghazi and the media&#8217;s dreadful double-standard in comparison to the reaction to the Dan Rather\/George W. Bush Air National Guard story from 2004 b) Media failure in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,239,89,379,312,599,288,477,673,474,46,188,496,166,105],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-cbs","category-dan-rather","category-election-2013","category-health-care","category-kpfk","category-lara-logan","category-libya","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-rand-paul","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping","category-virginia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10355"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}