{"id":11678,"date":"2016-05-06T17:06:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T00:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11678"},"modified":"2016-05-06T17:05:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T00:05:23","slug":"obama-trump-good-government-dumb-dems-and-bad-corporate-media-bradcast-562016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11678","title":{"rendered":"Obama, Trump, Good Government, Dumb Dems and Bad Corporate Media: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 5\/6\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Obama_TrumpTaco_050616.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">From Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/728297587418247168\">taco bowl<\/a> to the nation&#8217;s vital and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infrastructurereportcard.org\/a\/#p\/grade-sheet\/gpa\/\">crumbling<\/a> infrastructure &#8212; are the corporate media up to the task of adequately informing the U.S. electorate in one of the most crucial election years in our history? Signs aren&#8217;t encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>Today on <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>The BradCast<\/i><\/a>, why gleeful Democrats and Hillary Clinton supporters are nuts to be celebrating and underestimating the presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/277514-poll-clinton-up-3-points-over-trump-nationally\">Multiple<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/278366-poll-trump-has-2-point-lead-over-clinton\">recent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/04\/politics\/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-general-election\/index.html\">polls<\/a>, today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/06\/us\/maryland-shootings\/\">breaking<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/05\/06\/politics\/dick-cheney-donald-trump\/index.html\">news<\/a>, our nation&#8217;s recent history, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2016\/may\/6\/obama-chides-press-trump-coverage-reality-show-cam\/\">pathetic<\/a> corporate media coverage, a flawed and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/federal-prosecutors-in-virginia-assisting-in-clinton-email-probe\/2016\/05\/05\/f0277faa-12f0-11e6-81b4-581a5c4c42df_story.html\">vulnerable<\/a> front-runner and an incredibly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/second-brooklyn-elex-official-suspended-after-primary-foul\/\">frail<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/278231-election-fraud-feared-as-hackers-target-voter-records\">electoral<\/a> system should give Dems serious pause.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, President Obama&#8217;s comments on Trump, our aging infrastructure crisis and anti-government sentiment at a press briefing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/05\/06\/remarks-president-economy\">in Washington D.C. on Friday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/05\/04\/remarks-president-flint-community-flint-mi\">in Flint, MI on Wednesday<\/a> are cause for reflection on the notion of good government of, by, and for &#8216;we, the people&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>And then Desi Doyen joins us for what may be our grimmest <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> ever before we finish up today with a laugh, some good and bad news about <a href=\"http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/91f533296b044dceb72e94e58c96ae5f\/fanciful-boaty-mcboatface-passed-over-vessel-name\">&#8220;Boaty McBoatface&#8221;<\/a>, and a bit of listener mail&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ObamaTrump_GoodGovt_DumbDems_BadMedia_050616.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ObamaTrump_GoodGovt_DumbDems_BadMedia_050616.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>From Trump&#8217;s taco bowl to the nation&#8217;s vital and crumbling infrastructure &#8212; are the corporate media up to the task of adequately informing the U.S. electorate in one of the most crucial election years in our history? Signs aren&#8217;t encouraging. Today on The BradCast, why gleeful Democrats and Hillary Clinton supporters are nuts to be [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,239,494,89,675,405,500,543,299,479,390,594,106,6,200,16,226,477,188,305,107,111,540,300,737,549,391,736],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-bernie-sanders","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-bush-legacy","category-canada","category-climate-change","category-democrats","category-donald-trump","category-economy","category-election-2016","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-environment","category-florida","category-hillary-clinton","category-kpfk","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-michigan","category-national-security","category-new-york","category-oil","category-republicans","category-transportation","category-uk","category-washington-dc","category-water"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678","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=11678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11678"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}