{"id":8999,"date":"2011-12-20T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8999"},"modified":"2011-12-20T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:36:42","slug":"video-brad-discusses-anonymous-threat-to-gop-iowa-caucus-on-thom-hartmanns-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8999","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Brad Discusses &#8216;Anonymous&#8217; Threat to GOP Iowa Caucus on Thom Hartmann&#8217;s TV Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon, we <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8997\">reported on the purported call by the &#8216;hacktivist&#8217; collectivist group &#8216;Anonymous&#8217;<\/a> to disrupt the GOP Iowa Caucus by, potentially, electronic attacks on the central tabulator used by the party to compile and announce vote totals to the media, and on the Republicans&#8217; ill-considered &#8220;security by obscurity&#8221; plans to counter such a threat.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I spoke to Thom Hartmann about the supposed threat in Iowa &#8212; as well as the broader threat to our electoral system posed by privatized e-voting systems across the nation &#8212; on his TV show, <a href=\"http:\/\/thomhartmann.com\/tv\"><i>The Big Picture<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s last night&#8217;s appearance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"400\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bkM9TmiRgCk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><!--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;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> covers your electoral system, fiercely and independently, like no other media outlet in the nation. Please support our work with <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Donate\">a donation<\/a> to help us keep going.<\/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>Yesterday afternoon, we reported on the purported call by the &#8216;hacktivist&#8217; collectivist group &#8216;Anonymous&#8217; to disrupt the GOP Iowa Caucus by, potentially, electronic attacks on the central tabulator used by the party to compile and announce vote totals to the media, and on the Republicans&#8217; ill-considered &#8220;security by obscurity&#8221; plans to counter such a threat. [&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":[89,400,106,6,28,74,300,515,514],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-election-2012","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-iowa","category-republicans","category-thom-hartmann","category-venango-county","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999","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=8999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8999"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}