{"id":14545,"date":"2023-01-31T18:32:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T02:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14545"},"modified":"2023-01-31T19:15:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T03:15:33","slug":"are-you-okay-chuck-todd-bradcast-1312023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14545","title":{"rendered":"Are You Okay, Chuck Todd?: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 1\/31\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_JimJordan-ChuckTodd-MTP012923_013123.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">We&#8217;ve got another grab-bag for you on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a>, from the new challenges faced by corporate media during a U.S. House controlled by GOP liars, to more evidence of the former guy&#8217;s weaponization of the federal government, to still more voter fraud by wealthy white people in Florida. <\/p>\n<p>Among the stories covered on today&#8217;s program&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NBC&#8217;s <b>Chuck Todd<\/b>, the usually milquetoast host of <i>Meet the Press<\/i>, actually <a href=\"https:\/\/m.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/1\/30\/2150075\/-Chuck-Todd-didn-t-let-Jim-Jordan-roll-over-him-or-the-facts-on-Trump-s-Mar-a-Lago-document-hoard\">stood up to a few lies<\/a> by accomplished GOP liar Rep. <b>Jim Jordan<\/b> on Sunday. That is never easy, given the flurry of lies the Ohio Congressman is capable of spewing at light speed. But Todd, who traditionally allows rightwingers to get away with all manner of BS with little if any response at all, did an impressive job this week &#8212; at least for a few minutes &#8212; in calling out several of Jordan&#8217;s patently false assertions attempting to equate <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s theft of hundreds of classified documents and refusal, for more than a year, to return them to the federal government, with the discovery by <b>Joe Biden<\/b>&#8216;s attorneys of a few dozen such documents from during his Vice Presidency found stored by aides at his former office at the Penn Center and his home in Wilmington, Delaware. We share the tale of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=igpAcd7lzWc\">the tape<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Jordan now serves as Chair of the House Judiciary Committee and its <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3kWvc6s\">silly<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/10\/house-gop-weaponization-panel\">newly formed<\/a> select <b>Subcommittee on &#8220;the Weaponization of the Federal Government&#8221;<\/b>. The new panel is meant to promote all sorts of QAnon and Fox &#8220;News&#8221; fantasies and victimization porn about the FBI and DoJ somehow having it out for Republicans. Or something. They will pretend to expose false claims such as the FBI paying millions of dollars to Twitter to censor and ban rightwingers during the Trump years. Or something. Will Democrats and our corporate media be up to the task of countering their nonsense over the next two years? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re looking for <i>actual<\/i> &#8220;weaponization of the federal government&#8221;, however, look no further than what the disgraced former President did with his appointment of DoJ weaponizer-in-chief <b>Bill Barr<\/b> as Attorney General. Late last week, the <i>New York Times<\/i> published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/26\/us\/politics\/durham-trump-russia-barr.html?unlocked_article_code=j8bSasQthYeuxQaQWxClLYfwFBcHLj71G5bFMc9MYCBmaZ2h4nIIpHzeaUvLOHgh7dt4KHSw4lEjtB-Y-FAXGDeHFikSlA2EiownR8Pnvs3S3z1SuhRVXSigqikGNFkJo3mQGjFrr9S4nPpMYCmoIDYHuDX6\">jaw-dropping exclusive<\/a> on Barr&#8217;s failed attempt at revealing &#8220;deep state liberals&#8221; at the FBI and DoJ with the appointment of <b>John Durham<\/b> as Special Counsel to &#8220;investigate the investigators&#8221; of Russia&#8217;s well-documented plot to interfere in the 2016 election. After four years, Barr and Durham have found <i>none<\/i> of the corruption that Trump and Barr pretended was there. But they did, apparently, find evidence of financial crimes by Donald Trump that, until the <i>Times<\/i> report just last week, remained their own little secret. Paging <b>Jack Smith<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of lies propagated by rightwingers and the corporate media, you may recall that, during the runup to the 2022 midterms, allegations of rampant, out-of-control crime in big &#8220;blue&#8221; state cities was all the rage. Trouble is, that was mostly lies as well. Now, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirdway.org\/report\/the-two-decade-red-state-murder-problem\">new analysis<\/a> puts some meat on those bones and dispels another longtime rightwing myth. As it turns out, <b>murder rates in &#8220;red&#8221; states<\/b> not only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/01\/27\/murder-rate-high-trump-republican-states\">far exceed &#8220;blue&#8221; states<\/a>, but that has been the case since at least 2000, according to evidence documented by the new report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of elections, yet another wealthy white vote fraudster has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villages-news.com\/2023\/01\/29\/fourth-villager-cuts-deal-to-avoid-conviction-in-voter-fraud-case-from-2020-election\/\">arrested for double-voting<\/a> during the 2020 election in <b>Ron DeSantis<\/b>&#8216; GOP enclave known as The Villages in <b>Florida<\/b>. He is the fourth, to date. And you won&#8217;t believe how easy the penalty was for this guy who, like the others, <i>purposely<\/i> voted twice. Especially as compared to the people of color who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/florida-politics\/2022\/10\/18\/body-camera-video-police-voter-fraud-desantis-arrests\/\">rounded up at gun point<\/a> by DeSantis&#8217; new &#8220;Election Crimes and Security&#8221; police force <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/florida-gov-desantis-election-police-unit-announces-20-voter-fraud-cases\">just before last year&#8217;s elections<\/a>. Those rounded up and tossed in jail by the GOP Governor and Presidential hopeful&#8217;s personal police squad were former felons who had apparently been allowed by the state to vote two years earlier, despite a loophole in a new law that bars some former felons from being allowed to vote. They had no idea they were voting unlawfully, unlike the white criminals in The Villages who got off with (less than) a slap on the wrist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And speaking of GOP election liars, <b>Kari Lake<\/b>, 2022&#8217;s failed, Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate in <b>Arizona<\/b> who lost by 17,000 votes but is still pretending she won, may now be <a href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3Rolk1x\">facing legal issues<\/a> of her own. According to a complaint filed by the state&#8217;s newly elected Sec. of State <b>Adrian Fontes<\/b> (D), in a letter sent to the state&#8217;s newly elected Attorney General <b>Kris Mayes<\/b> (D), Lake violated state law by publishing the signatures of several voters on Twitter last week. Fontes is seeking a criminal investigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=14543\">our latest <i>Green News Report<\/i><\/a>, as <b>New Zealand<\/b> is swamped by stunning, record rainfall; a new study finds building solar and wind projects is now cheaper than using existing coal-fired power plants; Tax payers in <b>Pennsylvania<\/b> are now on the hook for the clean up of thousands of recently discovered abandoned oil and gas wells; and the Biden Administration reverses a Trump scheme in <b>Minnesota<\/b> in order to protect a vast wilderness from toxic mining for the next 20 years&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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-JordanToddFBI-BarrDurham-MurderRates-VillagesFraudFL_013123.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/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>We&#8217;ve got another grab-bag for you on today&#8217;s BradCast, from the new challenges faced by corporate media during a U.S. House controlled by GOP liars, to more evidence of the former guy&#8217;s weaponization of the federal government, to still more voter fraud by wealthy white people in Florida. 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