{"id":11309,"date":"2015-08-12T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T23:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11309"},"modified":"2015-08-12T16:59:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T23:59:48","slug":"walker-bush-lies-and-bernies-rise-bradcast-8122015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11309","title":{"rendered":"Walker, Bush Lies and Bernie’s Rise: ‘BradCast’ 8\/12\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we begin with the sad breaking news about Jimmy Carter’s illness and a few thoughts on the ailing former President. Then, it’s onto a bit of fact-checking on “ObamaCare” and on Jeb’s silly, fact-free foreign policy propaganda speech last night at the Reagan Library.<\/p>\n

Next, Wisconsin’s own John Nichols of The Nation<\/i><\/a> joins us to explain new revelations<\/a> about an old criminal investigation of Wisconsin Governor and 2016 GOP candidate Scott Walker and his remarkable ability to blatantly lie about that and so much more.<\/p>\n

“Scott Walker is, frankly, better than just about anybody in American politics at gaming the media,” Nichols, who has covered him for years in the Badger State, tells me. “At counting on the media to take his absolute denial and give it the same treatment as the accusations, the charges, rather than getting to the bottom of it to actually figure out whether something is there.”<\/p>\n

He explains that Walker is clever enough to realize that lying works with today’s Rightwing electorate, who get their news from very selective sources that rarely bother to fact-check. “He is, in fact, the embodiment of where our politics is going,” Nichols warns, citing a description of Walker as “more Nixonian than Nixon.”<\/p>\n

Then, Nichols, a long time supporter of Bernie Sanders, addresses the recent controversy concerning Black Lives Matter protesters confronting the Vermont Senator and quickly rising 2016 Dem candidate to suggest that, as he explains in detail at The Nation<\/i> today<\/a>, such protests have, in fact, made Presidents such as FDR and Kennedy much greater than they might have been otherwise. He argues that the BLM protests have already had a similar effect on Sanders’ campaign.<\/p>\n

“What we should understand is that pressure from activists often makes politicians into what we like about them, what we respect about them,” he says. “What it means is that pressure from activists forces politicians — and Presidents even — to step up, to do what they should do, do what will make them more universal in their appeal.”<\/p>\n

Finally, some very<\/i> good polling news for Sanders in New Hampshire and more embarrassing polling news for Bush, Walker and the rest of the Republican Party…<\/p>\n

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