{"id":11767,"date":"2016-07-19T17:17:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T00:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11767"},"modified":"2016-07-19T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T00:16:26","slug":"you-took-the-words-right-out-of-my-mouth-also-new-election-fraud-warnings-worry-and-woes-bradcast-7192016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11767","title":{"rendered":"You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth; ALSO: New Election Fraud Warnings, Worry and Woes: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 7\/19\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpSilhouette_MelaniaTrump_RNCCleveland071816_071916.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>: Day One of Donald Trump&#8217;s Republican National Convention in Cleveland was insane. But it was all going well enough until it became apparent late on Monday night that portions of Melania Trump&#8217;s headliner speech was <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/melania-trump-apparently-plagiarized-a-section-of-miche-1783889522\">plagiarized<\/a> directly from Michelle Obama&#8217;s 2008 Democratic convention speech.<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, the man who made &#8216;You&#8217;re fired!&#8217; a catch phrase can&#8217;t seem to muster up the ability to hold anyone in his own campaign accountable for it. As such, the oratorical fraud and, more importantly, how its being handled (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/07\/19\/politics\/melania-trump-michelle-obama-speech\/index.html\">denied<\/a>) by Team Trump, offers a stark warning to voters as to how a Trump Presidency might handle the actual serious issues and difficult decisions that need to be made.<\/p>\n<p>Or, at least, it should.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of warnings, new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2016-election\/poll-clinton-trump-now-tied-gop-convention-kicks-n611936\">national polling<\/a> remains tight between Trump and Hillary Clinton, who continues losing ground in several of them. That, as several new cases and disturbing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/articles\/county-807569-someone-information.html\">allegations<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/politics\/election-2016\/pahrump-woman-arrested-falsifying-party-affiliations-voter-registrations?utm_source=fark&#038;utm_medium=website&#038;utm_content=link\">voter registration fraud<\/a> by Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ksl.com\/?nid=157&#038;sid=40678172\">election insiders<\/a> in a number of states, along with some very <a href=\"https:\/\/lawyerscommittee.org\/press-release\/lawyers-committee-expresses-disappointment-u-s-department-justice-decision-terminate-critical-federal-observer-program\/\">troubling news<\/a> from the U.S. Dept. of Justice concerning their plans to no longer send observers to polling places in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-election-voting-northcarolina-ins-idUSKCN0ZV13L\">certain jurisdictions<\/a> with a history of racial discrimination, should serve as yet another stark warning for American voters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But will it?<\/p>\n<p>All of that and Desi Doyen with today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a> on the latest <i>BradCast<\/i>&#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_ElectionFraud_RNCDay1_MelaniaPlagiarism_071916.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman_ElectionFraud_RNCDay1_MelaniaPlagiarism_071916.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: Day One of Donald Trump&#8217;s Republican National Convention in Cleveland was insane. But it was all going well enough until it became apparent late on Monday night that portions of Melania Trump&#8217;s headliner speech was plagiarized directly from Michelle Obama&#8217;s 2008 Democratic convention speech. Incredibly, the man who made &#8216;You&#8217;re fired!&#8217; a [&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":[192,101,89,675,543,223,479,594,106,6,28,200,226,742,477,33,356,43,172,300,190,295,286,313,31,280,243,517,391],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-alaska","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-climate-change","category-dept-of-justice","category-donald-trump","category-election-2016","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-environment","category-hillary-clinton","category-india","category-kpfk","category-msnbc","category-nevada","category-north-carolina","category-photo-id-laws","category-republicans","category-riverside-challenge","category-rnc","category-rudolph-guilliani","category-us-supreme-court","category-utah","category-vote-caging","category-voter-registration","category-voting-rights-act","category-washington-dc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767","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=11767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11767"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=11767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}