{"id":11260,"date":"2015-07-08T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11260"},"modified":"2015-07-09T01:28:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T08:28:33","slug":"the-nations-dumbest-governor-and-the-nations-most-dangerous-bradcast-782015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11260","title":{"rendered":"The Nation&#8217;s Dumbest Governor and the Nation&#8217;s Most Dangerous: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 7\/8\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_PaulLePage_ScottWalker_070815.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We were live at the <a href=\"http:\/\/kpfk.org\">KPFK<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/PacificaNetwork.org\">Pacifica Radio<\/a> studios in Los Angeles for today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> and had the opportunity to open up the phones for a lot of great listener calls.<\/p>\n<p>But, first, we covered today&#8217;s disturbing, near-simultaneous <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/08\/technology\/united-nyse-wsj-down\/\">collapse of computer systems<\/a> at the New York Stock Exchange, the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> and United Airlines, and what we might (but won&#8217;t) learn from it.<\/p>\n<p>Then, it&#8217;s onto the nation&#8217;s dumbest Governor (perhaps in U.S. history) and the <i>unbelievably<\/i> dumb thing he&#8217;s finally done now&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Come and listen to a story &#8217;bout a Governor named LePage,<br \/>\nA total dumbass (and sometimes filled with rage).<br \/>\nThey said the state of Maine is the state he oughta run,<br \/>\nBut wait until you hear what their Guv has gone and done&#8230;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But while LePage may be indescribably stupid, at least he&#8217;s not running for President (yet) &#8212; unlike Wisconsin&#8217;s Gov. Scott Walker who is not only running, but currently has a <i>very<\/i> good chance of winning the Republican nomination. And he&#8217;s as insidiously sneaky and dangerous as Governors get.<\/p>\n<p>All of that and more on today&#8217;s lively <i>BradCast<\/i>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_DumbestDangerousGovs_070815.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_DumbestDangerousGovs_070815.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>We were live at the KPFK\/Pacifica Radio studios in Los Angeles for today&#8217;s BradCast and had the opportunity to open up the phones for a lot of great listener calls. But, first, we covered today&#8217;s disturbing, near-simultaneous collapse of computer systems at the New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Journal and United Airlines, and [&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":[505,192,89,675,390,594,357,477,350,677,300,388,523,426,143],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea-party","category-accountability","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-economy","category-election-2016","category-internet-voting","category-kpfk","category-maine","category-paul-lepage","category-republicans","category-sarah-palin","category-scott-walker","category-wall-street-journal","category-wisconsin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260","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=11260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11260"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}