{"id":9158,"date":"2012-03-01T23:14:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T07:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2012-03-02T10:50:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T18:50:02","slug":"video-brad-on-the-young-turks-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9158","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Brad on The Young Turks&#8217; &#8216;The Point&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TYTThePoint_panel_BradFriedman_JohnFugelsang_022912.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyoungturks.com\/\">The Young Turks&#8217;<\/a> panel show <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/ThePoint\"><i>The Point<\/i><\/a> this week. <a href=\"http:\/\/SexyLiberal.com\">&#8220;Sexy Liberal&#8221;<\/a> comedian (and one of your <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFugelsang\">best bets on Twitter<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.johnfugelsang.com\/?page_id=23\">John Fugelsang<\/a>, was guest-hosting for Cenk Uygur and the show was largely election and voting related. So, as you can imagine, occasionally, I had an opinion or two.<\/p>\n<p>Topics ranged from Rocky Anderson to Ron Paul to why elections are held on Tuesday and if they still should be, among other things. The other panelists (both Right-leaning) included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pjtv.com\/\">PJTV&#8217;s Alexis Garcia<\/a> and comedian <a href=\"http:\/\/aviliberman.net\/\">Avi Liberman<\/a>. Enjoy!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"400\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6J-6LgKe0nk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 3\/2\/12, 9:40am PT:<\/b> &#8220;The Amazing Atheist&#8217;s&#8221; legion of fans (yes, he&#8217;s some sort of YouTube star, as noted during the show) are <i>furious<\/i> with me, apparently, for my remarks directed towards TAA&#8217;s comments in his video clip as seen during the show above. They have taken to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/6J-6LgKe0nk\">YouTube comments<\/a> to express their derision, including many on my lack of understanding of our system of democracy, etc, etc.  BTW, to be fair, since I didn&#8217;t get to specifically answer the Electoral College question during the panel discussion, and otherwise wasn&#8217;t able to fully expound on my third-party thoughts there (and neither was TAA able to respond directly <em>at all<\/em> to any of our thoughts, due to the way the format works on <i>The Point<\/i>),  I&#8217;ve let TAA, as well as the The Young Turks folks know that I&#8217;m more than happy to go one-on-one with TAA <i>and<\/i> his legion of followers live, anytime, if they are ever interested and feel like hosting such an affair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on The Young Turks&#8217; panel show The Point this week. &#8220;Sexy Liberal&#8221; comedian (and one of your best bets on Twitter), John Fugelsang, was guest-hosting for Cenk Uygur and the show was largely election and voting related. So, as you can imagine, occasionally, I had an opinion or two. Topics ranged from Rocky [&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":[26,89,400,28,273],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","category-media-appearance","category-election-2012","category-election-reform","category-ron-paul","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158","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=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}