{"id":11401,"date":"2015-10-14T16:42:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T23:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11401"},"modified":"2015-10-14T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T23:41:40","slug":"what-happened-in-vegas-2016s-first-democratic-presidential-debate-bradcast-10142015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11401","title":{"rendered":"What Happened in Vegas – 2016’s First Democratic Presidential Debate: ‘BradCast’ 10\/14\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a> we dissect Tuesday night’s pleasantly substantive (for the most part) Democratic Presidential Debate in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Joining me on today’s show are two of our favorite guests, both long time journalists\/bloggers and both of whom have been pretty much right about pretty much everything for the past decade and more.<\/p>\n

Heather Digby Parton<\/b> — Salon contributor<\/a>, Hillman Foundation opinion journalism award winner, and proprietor of Digby’s Hullabaloo<\/a> blog — joins us for the hour along with Eric Boehlert<\/b> — Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America<\/a> and author of Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press<\/i><\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

Last night’s debate drew in a record<\/a> number of viewers and offered a striking contrast from the debates we’ve seen so far this year from Republicans. But, did it change either the trajectory or the conventional Beltway “wisdom” for any of the candidates? Has the Democratic Party finally broken away from the shackles of corporate wingnuttery?<\/p>\n

Was Hillary Clinton able to overcome the absurd attacks over pretend scandals from corporate media and the GOP? Was Bernie Sanders able to demonstrate his viability as a general election candidate? And what of those other guys on stage with them — and even one who was not<\/i> on stage with them? Why did this debate draw even more viewers than the Clinton\/Obama matchups in 2008? And was the DNC right in their decision to limit the number of debates for the Democratic candidates this cycle?<\/p>\n

We discuss all of that and much more on today’s BradCast<\/i>, with really smart observations from two really smart journalists who are decidedly not<\/i> “inside the Beltway” pundits…<\/p>\n

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