{"id":7796,"date":"2010-04-11T15:41:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T22:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7796"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:40:40","slug":"donate-to-the-brad-blog-in-support-of-our-acorn-pimp-hoax-coverage-so-much-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7796","title":{"rendered":"Please Donate to The BRAD BLOG in Support of Our ACORN &#8216;Pimp&#8217; Hoax Coverage &#038; So Much More&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TheBradBlog_TruthToPower.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">A gentle reminder here that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> runs almost <i>solely<\/i> on the support of <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Donate\"><b>donations<\/b><\/a> from readers <i>like you<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> receives no corporate or foundational support, has no deep-pocket &#8220;angel&#8221; contributors (though we&#8217;d welcome one or three!), and the ads running on this site cover very very little (<i>extremely<\/i> little!) of the actual costs we have to cover each month just to stay up and running.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an exhausting last several months here as we&#8217;ve directly taken on, with <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7759\">some success<\/a>, some absolute Goliaths. And while I think we&#8217;ve been instrumental in helping to substantially turn back the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7780\">tsunami of corporate media distributed disinformation<\/a> which has helped to undermine democracy in one of the greatest <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7783\">Rightwing Hoaxes<\/a> of the modern era, I have failed to find time during it all to post a direct plea to help underwrite all of the work done here.<\/p>\n<p>If you support that work, <i>please<\/i> consider <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Donate\"><b>donating<\/b><\/a> as a vote for it to continue &#8212; particularly in this crucial election year.  While <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Donate\"><b>donations of any amount<\/b><\/a> are <i>always<\/i> appreciated, monthly sustaining contributions &#8212; also in any amount you chose &#8212; are even more so. You can make such a contribution, security and quickly, via the light-blue &#8220;Please Help Support The BRAD BLOG&#8221; box you&#8217;ll see if you scroll down our right sidebar.<\/p>\n<p>Snail mail contributions are also welcome, made out to: <i>Brad Friedman \/ 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594 \/ Los Angeles, CA 90028<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I hate asking, try to do so as little as I can, and wouldn&#8217;t do so at all unless it was necessary. So I thank you mightily in advance for your consideration&#8230;  &#8212; Brad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gentle reminder here that The BRAD BLOG runs almost solely on the support of donations from readers like you. The BRAD BLOG receives no corporate or foundational support, has no deep-pocket &#8220;angel&#8221; contributors (though we&#8217;d welcome one or three!), and the ads running on this site cover very very little (extremely little!) of the [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,26,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acorn","category-brad-blog","category-mainstream-media-failure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796","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=7796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}