{"id":8883,"date":"2011-10-31T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8883"},"modified":"2011-12-30T12:50:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:50:41","slug":"an-actual-discussion-on-american-tv-about-something-that-actually-matters-to-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8883","title":{"rendered":"An Actual Discussion on American TV About Something That Actually Matters to Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/UpWithChrisHayes_GreenwaldPanel_103011.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">No wonder MSNBC buried Chris Hayes&#8217; new show in in the absurdly early hours of the weekend TV ghetto. He <i>should<\/i> be hosting, at a minimum, NBC&#8217;s <i>Meet the Press<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Had he been doing so for the last several years &#8212; rather than the clueless elitists who have been, along with their weekly parade of meaningless softballs served up to similarly clueless elitist guests and panelists &#8212; we likely wouldn&#8217;t be in this mess.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s compelling round-table discussion on <a href=\"http:\/\/upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com\/\"><i>UP with Chris Hayes<\/i><\/a>, about so much that is actually at the heart of this nation&#8217;s problems, follows below. I hope you will watch it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"400\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7NCoR1YEGgY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"400\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-UnegPYuEE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Several days ago we also flagged an appearance by Glenn Greenwald, discussing his new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0805092056\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=tbb-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373&#038;creativeASIN=0805092056\"><i>With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful<\/i><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=tbb-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0805092056&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399373\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> on another MSNBC show (Rachel Maddow&#8217;s), highlighting a similar topic, the one at the very heart of every Occupy protest in the nation today: <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8872\">Accountability<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder MSNBC buried Chris Hayes&#8217; new show in in the absurdly early hours of the weekend TV ghetto. He should be hosting, at a minimum, NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press. Had he been doing so for the last several years &#8212; rather than the clueless elitists who have been, along with their weekly parade of [&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":[192,239,405,516,223,188,33,23,126,366,127,100],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-barack-obama","category-bush-legacy","category-chris-hayes","category-dept-of-justice","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-msnbc","category-nbc","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-torture","category-the-constitution","category-war-on-terror"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","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=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}