{"id":12684,"date":"2018-08-17T18:12:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T01:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12684"},"modified":"2018-08-19T21:53:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T04:53:32","slug":"the-daily-sociopath-report-%e2%80%98bradcast%e2%80%99-8172018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=12684","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Sociopath Report: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 8\/17\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_logo_mixer.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> is guest hosted by me, Angie Coiro, host of <a href=\"http:\/\/indeepradio.com\"><i>In Deep with Angie Coiro<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Toddler-in-Chief gives us all more fodder than we can stand for a news review: telling Vietnam vets they can&#8217;t tell the difference between napalm and Agent Orange; doubling down on pulling security clearances, because anyone dared challenge his authority to do so (those puny blowhards in the military and from the CIA!); and blaming everyone but himself for the skyrocketing price tag of his vanity parade. He showed us! He&#8217;ll go to Paris and look at their parade, and buy himself some new fighter jets.<\/p>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s <b>&#8216;GAIUS PUBLIUS&#8217;<\/b> &#8211; or rather, <b>THOMAS NEUBURGER<\/b>, who&#8217;s now publishing his commentaries under his real name. You may know his prolific work at <a href=\"http:\/\/downwithtyranny.blogspot.com\/\"><i>Down with Tyranny<\/i><\/a>. He&#8217;s asked some provocative questions about unions vs. liberals, and how the Democrats fit into that picture. Just as we were speaking, word came down about Trump threatening to <a href=\"\u009dhttps:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/former-intelligence-officials-rebuke-trump-for-pulling-brennans-security-clearance\/2018\/08\/17\/ea8382f2-a20d-11e8-8e87-c869fe70a721_story.html?utm_term=.46766aebbc78\">pull Bruce Ohr&#8217;s security clearance<\/a>. He had some choice words about that, too.<\/p>\n<p>Finally: how arts groups and independent performers are navigating the dual challenge of diminishing funding and politically divided audiences. <a href=\"http:\/\/davidgans.com\/\"><b>DAVID GANS<\/b><\/a> is an itinerant independent musician; <b>MEREDITH HAGEDORN<\/b> founded the small, eclectic <a href=\"https:\/\/dragonproductions.net\/\">Dragon Theatre<\/a> in a Silicon Valley suburb; and <b>RONIT WIDMANN-LEVY<\/b> is Director of Arts and Culture at the <a href=\"https:\/\/paloaltojcc.org\/\"> Oshman Family JCC <\/a>, a multiple-venue events space. They all face different hurdles keeping their art vibrant.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_AngieCoiro_ThomasNeuburger_MeredithHagedorn_DavidGans_RonitWidmann-Levy_073018.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below&#8230; <\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/BradCast_AngieCoiro_ThomasNeuburger_MeredithHagedorn_DavidGans_RonitWidmann-Levy_073018.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s BradCast is guest hosted by me, Angie Coiro, host of In Deep with Angie Coiro. The Toddler-in-Chief gives us all more fodder than we can stand for a news review: telling Vietnam vets they can&#8217;t tell the difference between napalm and Agent Orange; doubling down on pulling security clearances, because anyone dared challenge his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1190,726,239,54,675,1194,500,55,1119,299,382,479,390,594,969,200,226,865,655,490,33,932,540,1211,1035,977,307,127,313,991,53,736],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","category-anthony-kennedy","category-barack-obama","category-blogging","category-bradcast","category-brett-kavanaugh","category-canada","category-cia","category-dccc","category-democrats","category-dept-of-veterans-affairs","category-donald-trump","category-economy","category-election-2016","category-election-2020","category-environment","category-hillary-clinton","category-italy","category-john-brennan","category-koch-industries","category-msnbc","category-neil-gorsuch","category-oil","category-omarosa-manigault-newman","category-paul-manafort","category-robert-mueller","category-rush-limbaugh","category-the-constitution","category-us-supreme-court","category-vietnam","category-washington-post","category-water"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684","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\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12684"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=12684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}