{"id":11356,"date":"2015-09-11T17:52:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T00:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11356"},"modified":"2015-09-14T17:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T00:35:38","slug":"voting-elections-climate-911-and-to-hell-with-false-balance-bradcast-9112015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11356","title":{"rendered":"Voting, Elections, Climate, 9\/11 and to Hell with False Balance: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 9\/11\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_VoteHere_Drought_911_091115.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Seriously. To hell with false balance.<\/p>\n<p>On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>: a ton of news on Election 2016 &#8212; from the horse race (as ridiculous as it&#8217;s become) to the horrible track conditions on which the horses will be running, as Americans <i>try<\/i> to vote and have their vote counted, counted accurately and in a way that they can <i>know<\/i> it&#8217;s been counted accurately.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the media, particularly the <i>New York Times<\/i> continue to confuse repeating with reporting on both voter suppression and climate change &#8212; and they actually appear to be getting worse, not better.  So, Desi Doyen joins us to debunk the latest global warming denial nonsense from GOPers Trump, Fiorina and, yes, Palin with none of the <i>Times&#8217;<\/i> &#8216;he said, she said&#8217; false balance.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, we finish with some thoughts very much worth pondering from Tom Engelhardt of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/176041\/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_exceptional_pain_dispensed_by_the_indispensable_nation\/#more\">TomDispatch<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/14-years-after-911-the-war-on-terror-is-accomplishing-everything-bin-laden-hoped-it-would\/\">The Nation<\/a> on this 14th anniversary of 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a very short description for a <i>very<\/i> busy, news-packed show today. Enjoy!&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_VotingNews_ClimateDenial_9-11Anniversary_091115.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen to the complete show online below&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_VotingNews_ClimateDenial_9-11Anniversary_091115.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>Seriously. To hell with false balance. On today&#8217;s BradCast: a ton of news on Election 2016 &#8212; from the horse race (as ridiculous as it&#8217;s become) to the horrible track conditions on which the horses will be running, as Americans try to vote and have their vote counted, counted accurately and in a way that [&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":[66,192,239,761,405,760,543,479,594,106,200,72,74,188,148,172,491,388,47,280,243,517],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-66","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-ben-carson","category-bush-legacy","category-carly-fiorina","category-climate-change","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016","category-election-fraud","category-environment","category-georgia","category-iowa","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-new-york-times","category-photo-id-laws","category-rick-perry","category-sarah-palin","category-texas","category-vote-caging","category-voter-registration","category-voting-rights-act","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356","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=11356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11356"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}