{"id":8992,"date":"2011-12-14T20:36:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T04:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8992"},"modified":"2011-12-16T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T23:07:10","slug":"first-world-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8992","title":{"rendered":"First World Problems…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frustrating. I spent much of the day prepping for my KPFK<\/a>\/Pacifica Radio show today, only to get to the station this afternoon to find out we were on a last minute, emergency fund drive this week, so my show was preempted, but I didn’t get the message (literally).<\/p>\n

Had planned to do a long overdue War on Voting update, as I haven’t gotten to cover elections much on the show for months. Had prepared to discuss everything from AG Eric Holder’s speech on voting rights issues<\/a> at the LBJ Library in Austin (who knew we even had an AG?!); to Ohio voters putting the kibosh<\/a> on GOP voter suppression laws going into effect next year to 96-year old Dorothy Cooper<\/a> now unable to vote in TN under the GOP’s new voter suppression laws there; to 84-year old Ruthelle Frank<\/a> told she may have to pay $200 to vote in WI under the GOP’s new voter suppression laws there; to the ACLU’s new federal lawsuit<\/a> against Gov. Scott Walker and the GOP’s voter-suppression laws in WI; to the League of Women Voters state suit<\/a> against same; to the jackass Jeffery Karnitz in WI<\/a> recently arrested after defacing ‘Recall Walker’ petitions; to our Special Report this week<\/a> on the battle for election integrity in Venango County, PA and the unexplained “remote access” on “multiple occasions” found, via a forensic investigation, to have taken place on their ES&S e-voting systems during recent elections (and the attempt by ES&S and the County Commissioners to spike that investigation by the county Board of Elections.)<\/p>\n

What a show that coulda been!<\/p>\n

The bad news: I couldn’t do it today at KPFK for the aforementioned reason. The good news: Mike Malloy<\/a> has asked me, at the last-ish minute, to guest host his show this Friday night! So today’s show prep for KPFK will be delivered to Malloy listeners on Friday instead!<\/p>\n

Relatedly, I’ll also be in for Mike next<\/i> Friday (before XMas weekend) and the Thursday and Friday thereafter (before New Years weekend). As usual, we’ll have LIVE<\/i> listening streams and chat rooms here during the show each night that I’m guest hosting, 6p-9p PT \/ 9p-Mid ET, so I hope you’ll join us! Especially since it’ll be our last few nights on our Clear Channel affiliate, Green960 in San Francisco<\/a>, before the only<\/i> progressive AM talk station on the air in one of the nation’s most liberal cities disappears from our public airwaves!<\/p>\n

For now, anyway, these things are all First World Problems. Though only as long as we remain a First World Nation. Given the way things are going, that is no longer a safe bet for much longer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frustrating. I spent much of the day prepping for my KPFK\/Pacifica Radio show today, only to get to the station this afternoon to find out we were on a last minute, emergency fund drive this week, so my show was preempted, but I didn’t get the message (literally). Had planned to do a long overdue […]<\/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":[89,400,6,28,404,477,284],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-election-2012","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-eric-holder","category-kpfk","category-mike-malloy","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992","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=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}