{"id":12631,"date":"2018-07-03T15:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T22:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12631"},"modified":"2018-07-03T15:51:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T22:51:24","slug":"my-recent-appearance-on-terrence-mcnallys-free-forum-bradcast-732018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12631","title":{"rendered":"My Recent Appearance on Terrence McNally&#8217;s &#8216;Free Forum&#8217;: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 7\/3\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_BradAtKPFK_070318.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Desi and I are ducking out for a short breather over the Independence Day holiday. But, before we go, I appeared recently on <a href=\"http:\/\/terrencemcnally.com\"><i>Free Forum<\/i><\/a>, hosted by longtime broadcaster and great interviewer <b>TERRENCE MCNALLY<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>So, with McNally&#8217;s kind permission on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we bring you that recent interview, originally recorded in studio on June 24, 2018 at <a href=\"http:\/\/kpfk.org\">KPFK<\/a>, our flagship Pacifica Radio Network station in Los Angeles, in which the tables are turned a bit on me. <\/p>\n<p>I respond to his questions about my background, the bizarre circumstances &#8212; and, yes, election chicanery &#8212; which helped lead me deep into the world of investigative blogging, broadcasting and muckraking some 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We also discuss detailed concerns about the reported (and still unverified) results of the earth-shaking 2016 Presidential election, how jurisdictions around the country are now moving to new computerized voting and tabulation systems in its wake (even as those systems, with computer-marked, barcoded ballots will only sever to make public oversight of results worse, not better) and what Americans can do <i>right now<\/i> to fight like hell to assure they are able to vote and have their votes counted as per intent in the crucial 2018 midterms.<\/p>\n<p>Much thanks to Terrence for allowing us to re-purpose his program for today&#8217;s <i>BradCast<\/i>! Please see and download his many years of insightful interviews with tons of fascinating and much smarter folks than I, and sign up for his weekly email announcement list, at his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/aworldthatjustmightwork.com\/\">AWorldThatJustMightWork.com<\/a>! You can also hear his show on weekends at <a href=\"http:\/\/progressivevoices.com\">ProgressiveVoices.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Progressive-Voices-s189055\/\">TuneIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be back with ya after the holiday weekend! 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But, before we go, I appeared recently on Free Forum, hosted by longtime broadcaster and great interviewer TERRENCE MCNALLY. So, with McNally&#8217;s kind permission on today&#8217;s BradCast, we bring you that recent interview, originally recorded in studio on June 24, [&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":[54,26,89,675,405,299,64,8,594,930,6,28,261,24,83,477,337,188,15,300,166,348,243],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-brad-blog","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-bush-legacy","category-democrats","category-dick-cheney","category-election-2004","category-election-2016","category-election-2018","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-immigration","category-iraq-war","category-john-kerry","category-kpfk","category-los-angeles","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-ohio","category-republicans","category-touch-screen-vote-hopping","category-vote-by-mail","category-voter-registration","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631","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=12631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}