{"id":11994,"date":"2017-01-12T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T02:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11994"},"modified":"2017-01-12T19:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T03:01:28","slug":"reality-catches-up-with-republicans-or-vice-versa-plus-larry-flynt-vs-trump-and-the-media-bradcast-1122017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11994","title":{"rendered":"Reality Catches Up with Republicans (or Vice Versa); Plus: Larry Flynt vs. Trump and the Media: ‘BradCast’ 1\/12\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, the GOP “dogs” having finally caught up with the “reality” bus on ObamaCare and Iran and more. So, what will they do now<\/i>? Also, free speech icon Larry Flynt<\/b> joins us to blame the U.S. media for Donald Trump and much more. [Audio link to show follows below.<\/i>]\n

First today, the DoJ Inspector General announces<\/a> he will investigate the FBI and its Director James Comey concerning their controversial actions regarding Hillary Clinton’s private email server in the run-up to last year’s election and whether they ran afoul of long-established Justice Department guidelines.<\/p>\n

Then, the head of the Office of Government Ethics blasts<\/a> Donald Trump for failing to divest his business holdings. And, in the U.S. Senate, Trump’s unprecedented conflicts of interest came into play<\/a> during Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)’s questioning of super-genius Dr. Ben Carson, Trump’s nominee (for some reason) to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee, Gen. James Mattis, began his confirmation hearings today in the Senate, where he said he intends<\/a> to honor the anti-nuclear agreement with Iran that the GOP pretends to hate. At the same time, Republicans in both the House and Senate are finally beginning to face reality on that and on the fact that their years of pretending the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) was a disaster may now be a huge problem<\/a> for them, as they have no actual plan<\/a> to “repeal and replace<\/i>“<\/a> the program.<\/p>\n

Finally, we’re joined by Larry Flynt<\/a>, longtime First Amendment champion<\/a> and publisher of Hustler Magazine<\/i>, to discuss his recent ad [PDF]<\/a> in Variety<\/i> which slammed the U.S. media, blamed them for the rise and Presidency of Trump, and called on them to “wake up!”<\/p>\n

He tells me that while he’s seen a lot during his decades of battles with Republicans like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, but “it’s never been as bad as with Trump. Every time this guy opens his mouth, he tells a lie. I mean, that should not be tolerated by any member of the press.”<\/p>\n

Flynt also discusses what his $1 million bounty for incriminating video tape on Trump has uncovered so far, and why it’s so difficult to actually damage him at this point. We also discuss, among other things, Hustler’s<\/i> consistent years of covering news<\/i> in the magazine, in addition to porn, even when other media outlets have pulled their punches at various times when Republicans were in power. [Full disclosure: I have, for some years, written news articles and columns for the magazine and we discuss that a bit as well during today’s program.<\/i>]\n

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