{"id":13294,"date":"2020-02-05T17:53:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T01:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13294"},"modified":"2020-02-05T18:12:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T02:12:27","slug":"special-coverage-shredding-the-sotu-acquitting-a-guilty-trump-iowa-omens-bradcast-252020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13294","title":{"rendered":"Special Coverage: Shredding the SOTU; Acquitting a Guilty Trump; Iowa Omens: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 2\/5\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_TrumpPelosiSOTUTear_RobertsImpeachment_IowaCaucusApp_020520.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s special coverage of three different historic events &#8212; all at once, somehow &#8212; on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>. It wasn&#8217;t easy, but it was a very lively show in dark times nonetheless!  [<i>Audio link to show is posted below.<\/i>]\n<p>We&#8217;re joined today by old friends who, unlike the corporate media pundits and professional political operatives and academic geniuses, have been right over and over and over, for years, about pretty much everything. For some reason today, that is very comforting. <b>HEATHER DIGBY PARTON<\/b> and <b>TOM SULLIVAN<\/b>, both of whom can be found each day writing at <a href=\"https:\/\/digbysblog.net\">Digby&#8217;s Hullabaloo<\/a>, work through all of today&#8217;s nightmares with us. Parton, an award-winning opinion journalist can also be found as a regular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/heather_digby_parton\">contributor to Salon<\/a>. Sullivan, a North Carolina writer and resident is also a grassroots organizer in the state, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/ForTheWin.us\">&#8220;For the Win&#8221; training guide<\/a> for countywide Get Out the Vote operations should be required reading for every so-called &#8220;professional&#8221; Democratic party strategist in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>First up on today program, it&#8217;s the ugly, bitter State of the Union address, filled with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/state-union-fact-check-what-s-true-what-s-false-n1130311\">demostrable lies<\/a> and cheap, offensive TV game show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2020\/02\/trumps-sotu-speech-featured-reality-show-stunts-racism-and-pompous-empty-rhetoric-but-he-still-couldnt-erase-his-impeachment\/\">stunts<\/a>, as delivered by Donald Trump on Tuesday night, and literally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/pelosi-shreds-trumps-speech-reflecting-a-tumultuous-year-in-washington\/2020\/02\/04\/c378856c-4771-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html\">shredded<\/a> thereafter by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>Next, it&#8217;s the shameful <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/93c85dcfb0e6b2185391965e77ebea51\">historic acquittal<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/05\/opinion\/trump-senate-acquittal-impeachment.html\">cowed Republicans<\/a> in the U.S. Senate, just before airtime on Wednesday, of the proven-guilty President on both of his Articles of Impeachment, and some Senators from both side of the aisle who deserve notice for their votes.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, it&#8217;s the continuing fallout from the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13293\">disastrous use<\/a> of untested, secretly-developed, non-transparent technology &#8212; despite warnings from experts (and, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13283\">yes, us<\/a>) &#8212; in Iowa&#8217;s Democratic Caucuses on Monday, where we still only have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/02\/04\/us\/elections\/results-iowa-caucus.html\">partial results<\/a> reported by the Iowa Democratic Party as of today. We discuss that disaster and who may be the winners and losers from Monday&#8217;s contest, along with all of the other disasters and what they should mean for the candidates, the 2020 nominating cycle and the critical, <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=13290\">last chance<\/a> general election now on America&#8217;s horizon&#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-HeatherDigbyParton-TomSullivan-SOTU-ImpeachAcquittal-Iowa_020520.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-HeatherDigbyParton-TomSullivan-SOTU-ImpeachAcquittal-Iowa_020520.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=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/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>It&#8217;s special coverage of three different historic events &#8212; all at once, somehow &#8212; on today&#8217;s BradCast. 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[Audio link to show is posted below.] We&#8217;re joined today by old friends who, unlike the corporate media pundits and professional political operatives and [&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":[192,113,89,675,299,123,479,1068,390,969,6,28,1436,178,74,477,281,340,43,300,295,307,204,909,233,698],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-alabama","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-democrats","category-dnc","category-donald-trump","category-doug-jones","category-economy","category-election-2020","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-erica-d-smith","category-impeachment","category-iowa","category-kpfk","category-mitt-romney","category-nancy-pelosi","category-north-carolina","category-republicans","category-rnc","category-rush-limbaugh","category-sotu","category-thom-tillis","category-us-senate","category-ukraine","bb-type-bradcast"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294","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=13294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13294"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=13294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}