{"id":11237,"date":"2015-06-22T17:51:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11237"},"modified":"2015-06-22T17:52:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T00:52:21","slug":"race-guns-flags-terrorism-and-the-rights-quickly-changing-politics-of-denial-bradcast-6222015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11237","title":{"rendered":"Race, Guns, Flags, Terrorism and the Right&#8217;s Quickly Changing Politics of Denial: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 6\/22\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_SCConfederateFlag_USFlagHalfStaff_062215.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">News events are now moving very quickly following the terrorist shooting last week at Charleston, SC&#8217;s Emanuel AME Church. On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we do our best to bring you up to date if you made the mistake a taking a few minutes off over the weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Politicians (Republican ones, particularly those running for President &#8212; but even one or two in the Obama Administration) are now being forced to flip their previous positions at lightning speed, even as the state&#8217;s Republican Governor Nikki Haley announced today that she is calling for the South Carolina legislature to remove the Confederate Flag &#8212; a long time symbol of slavery, rebellion, divisiveness and hatred &#8212; from the grounds of the state capitol.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;ll get you up to speed on the rapidly &#8220;evolving&#8221;, all-new positions from Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, Lindsey Graham, Ben Carson and many others.<\/p>\n<p>In the bargain, Fox &#8216;News&#8217; and all of the politicos and pundits who swear allegiance to it, now find their ideological walls closing in on them, after years of being mired with <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/22\/guns-race-and-fox-news-pathological-denial\/204078\">&#8220;pathological denial&#8221;<\/a> on all of the very topics the SC shooting tragedy highlights (and many more.) <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/authors\/eric-boehlert\/25\">Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America<\/a> joins us to talk about it all on today&#8217;s <i>BradCast<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we begin to catch up on a few items we&#8217;ve had to push off due to last week&#8217;s breaking events&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_EricBoehlertFoxSCShooting_062215.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_EricBoehlertFoxSCShooting_062215.mp3]<\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/stitcher.com\/s\/player.php?fid=25838&#038;src=psl\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News events are now moving very quickly following the terrorist shooting last week at Charleston, SC&#8217;s Emanuel AME Church. On today&#8217;s BradCast, we do our best to bring you up to date if you made the mistake a taking a few minutes off over the weekend! Politicians (Republican ones, particularly those running for President &#8212; [&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":[192,761,26,89,675,405,223,479,594,200,227,14,566,477,417,188,107,774,300,518,248],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-ben-carson","category-brad-blog","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-bush-legacy","category-dept-of-justice","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016","category-environment","category-fbi","category-fox-news","category-jeb-bush","category-kpfk","category-lindsey-graham","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-national-security","category-nikki-haley","category-republicans","category-rick-santorum","category-south-carolina","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237","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=11237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11237"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}