{"id":10939,"date":"2014-11-12T18:35:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T02:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10939"},"modified":"2014-11-12T18:44:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T02:44:30","slug":"greg-palast-on-the-gop-crosscheck-tomas-young-in-crawford-tx-2005-kpfk-bradcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10939","title":{"rendered":"Greg Palast on the GOP &#8216;Crosscheck&#8217;; Tomas Young in Crawford, TX (2005): KPFK &#8216;BradCast&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_GregPalast_TomasYoung_111214.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/kpfk.org\">KPFK<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/pacificanetwork.org\">Pacifica Radio<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> I was joined by investigate journalist and author <a href=\"http:\/\/GregPalast.com\">Greg Palast<\/a> to discuss his disturbing <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.aljazeera.com\/2014\/double-voters\/\">report on the GOP&#8217;s secret &#8220;Interstate Crosscheck&#8221; database<\/a> and the hundreds of thousands of voters it may have knocked off the rolls this year.<\/p>\n<p>PLUS: A flashback to my interview with then 25-year old paralyzed Iraq War veteran turned anti-war activist Tomas Young at &#8220;Camp Casey&#8221; in Crawford, TX in August of 2005. It was Young&#8217;s first national interview proceeding his story being told <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2413\">on CBS <i>60 Minutes<\/i><\/a> in 2006 and in Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro&#8217;s documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/bodyofwar.com\/\"><i>Body of War<\/i><\/a> in 2007. During the interview, Young (who had driven 13 hours from Kansas City on his honeymoon, despite unceasing pain) describes the tragic story of how he was wounded during a rescue mission in an unarmored truck in Sadr City; how and when he turned against Bush&#8217;s war; we joke about BBQ in Missouri and more; and then hatch a (successful) plot to bring his story to national attention.<\/p>\n<p>After years of <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9928\">demanding accountability<\/a> for the Bush\/Cheney Administration war criminals, Young <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10935\">died earlier this week<\/a> just before Veterans&#8217; Day and just weeks shy of his 35th birthday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_GregPalastCrosscheck_TomasYoungCrawfordRIP_111214.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_GregPalastCrosscheck_TomasYoungCrawfordRIP_111214.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10935\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TomasYoung_BradFriedman_CrawfordTX_CampCasey_082805.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this week&#8217;s KPFK\/Pacifica Radio BradCast I was joined by investigate journalist and author Greg Palast to discuss his disturbing report on the GOP&#8217;s secret &#8220;Interstate Crosscheck&#8221; database and the hundreds of thousands of voters it may have knocked off the rolls this year. PLUS: A flashback to my interview with then 25-year old paralyzed [&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,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,89,87,675,405,117,596,6,28,10,24,171,477,654,43,300,47,105,280,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","category-media-appearance","category-brad-show","category-bradcast","category-bush-legacy","category-cindy-sheehan","category-election-2014","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-greg-palast","category-iraq-war","category-kansas","category-kpfk","category-kris-kobach","category-north-carolina","category-republicans","category-texas","category-virginia","category-vote-caging","category-wisconsin","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939","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=10939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10939"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}