{"id":11499,"date":"2016-01-08T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T01:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11499"},"modified":"2016-01-08T17:35:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T01:35:56","slug":"liars-and-tyrants-and-fears-oh-my-or-the-week-in-wingnuttery-bradcast-182016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11499","title":{"rendered":"Liars and &#8216;Tyrants&#8217; and Fears, Oh My! (Or, the Week in Wingnuttery): &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 1\/8\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Obama_LePage_Moore_Bundy_010816.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, it was a trip through the week in wingnuttery, as we catch up with a number of stories we&#8217;ve been following of late, including (but not limited to):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&bull; America&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10698\">dumbest<\/a> Governor, Paul LePage (R-ME), is apparently also America&#8217;s most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/01\/07\/politics\/paul-lepage-maine-heroin\/index.html\">racist<\/a>;<br \/>\n&bull; President Obama&#8217;s exceedingly modest and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/01\/07\/politics\/poll-obama-gun-action\/index.html\">popular<\/a> executive actions on gun safety freak out the NRA and the stooges who follow them;<br \/>\n&bull; Native Americans in Oregon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/pacific-northwest-news\/index.ssf\/2016\/01\/burns_piaute_tribe_militants_s.html\">speak out<\/a> against the out-of-state militiamen who&#8217;ve taken over a federal facility on their tribal lands;<br \/>\n&bull; The Chief Justice of Alabama&#8217;s Supreme Court, Roy S. Moore, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/01\/06\/462161670\/alabama-chief-justice-orders-state-to-enforce-ban-on-same-sex-marriage\">reignites<\/a> confusion over same-sex marriage in the state;<br \/>\n&bull; And, Wheaton College <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/wheaton-termination-proceedings-larycia-hawkins\">shames itself<\/a> still further by attempting to terminate a tenured professor because she believes Muslims and Christians &#8220;worship the same god&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I said: A week of wingnuttery. (And some well-deserved righteous rants in response.) Enjoy! <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ObamaGunsTownHall_WeekInWingnuttery_010816.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen to complete show online below&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ObamaGunsTownHall_WeekInWingnuttery_010816.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>On today&#8217;s BradCast, it was a trip through the week in wingnuttery, as we catch up with a number of stories we&#8217;ve been following of late, including (but not limited to): &bull; America&#8217;s dumbest Governor, Paul LePage (R-ME), is apparently also America&#8217;s most racist; &bull; President Obama&#8217;s exceedingly modest and popular executive actions on gun [&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":[505,113,239,89,675,471,19,227,309,346,49,477,350,551,51,677,771,712,300,126,533],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tea-party","category-alabama","category-barack-obama","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-chris-christie","category-cnn","category-fbi","category-gay-marriage","category-hugh-hewitt","category-illinois","category-kpfk","category-maine","category-nra","category-oregon","category-paul-lepage","category-race","category-religion","category-republicans","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-war-on-drugs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499","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=11499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11499"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}