{"id":9637,"date":"2012-10-17T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T18:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9637"},"modified":"2012-10-24T23:34:58","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T06:34:58","slug":"help-the-brad-blog-and-get-a-signed-copy-of-greg-palasts-billionaires-and-ballot-bandits-and-his-election-files-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9637","title":{"rendered":"Help The BRAD BLOG and Get a Signed Copy of Greg Palast&#8217;s &#8216;Billionaires and Ballot Bandits&#8217; AND His &#8216;Election Files&#8217; DVD as Thanks!"},"content":{"rendered":"[<i><b>UPDATE 10\/24\/12:<\/b> We&#8217;ve now run through the limited number of books and DVDs that we had available. Thank you to those who helped out by donating. Your signed copies of Palast&#8217;s book and DVD will be on the way to you soon! Thank you! And hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to find more great premiums to offer in exchange for your support in the near future! Until then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=Brad@BradBlog.com&#038;item_name=Support+for+The+BRAD+BLOG&#038;item_number=2012\">your donations are always very welcome<\/a> and still very much needed in support of the work we do here. Thank you, as ever. &#8211; Brad<\/i>]\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=Brad@BradBlog.com&#038;item_name=BRAD+BLOG's+Palast+Election+Theft+Pack&#038;item_number=2012\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/GregPalast_BallotBandits_ElectionFiles_package_med.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Covering this insane election season 24\/7 means that I&#8217;ve had little or no time to try and raise funds to help keep our expenses in even minimal check here. I&#8217;m also lousy at it. I&#8217;d rather cover and break the news than raise money to help pay for doing it. <\/p>\n<p>As you hopefully know, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> does not receive <i>any<\/i> corporate or foundational support. We are 100% independent and need to stay that way. But that also means you guys need to help us out, if we are to keep the lights on here all.<\/p>\n<p>Our muckraking BBC buddy Greg Palast has noticed the bind we&#8217;re in, and has generously offered to try and help us out once again!<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s given us a limited number of signed copies of his very cool, <i>New York Times<\/i> best-selling new book, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballotbandits.org\/\">Billionaires &#038; Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps<\/a><\/i>  (featuring an intro by Bobby Kennedy Jr., a new comic book by Ted Rall called &#8220;Tales From the Crypt of Democracy&#8221; in the middle of it, and a list of &#8220;7 Ways to Beat the Ballot Bandits&#8221; at the end) to make available as premium offers to those who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=Brad@BradBlog.com&#038;item_name=BRAD+BLOG's+Palast+Election+Theft+Pack&#038;item_number=2012\"><b>contribute $75 or more to The BRAD BLOG right here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To make sure our readers get a package they can&#8217;t get anywhere else, he&#8217;s also helping to sweeten the deal by tossing in his DVD of BBC reports (and more!), called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregpalast.com\/store\/?id=13\">&#8220;The Election Files: The Theft of 2008&#8221;<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=fqhKmyjJOgw\"><i>Check out the trailer here<\/i><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Again, we don&#8217;t have a lot of these available, so it&#8217;s first come first serve. But if you can help us out with a donation of $75 <i>or more<\/i>, we&#8217;ll try to get both the signed Palast book (featuring his investigations of &#8220;the Koch Gang, Karl Rove, and Their Buck-Buddies&#8221;) <i>and<\/i> his DVD off to ya ASAP, so you&#8217;ll have both <i>before<\/i> the election!<\/p>\n<p>Best way to get your signed copy of Greg&#8217;s new book and his DVD is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=Brad@BradBlog.com&#038;item_name=BRAD+BLOG's+Palast+Election+Theft+Pack&#038;item_number=2012\"><b>donate here online with Credit Card or PayPal<\/b><\/a>.  (If you work quickly, you can also send a check via snail mail to: <i>Brad Friedman, 7095 Hollywood Blvd., #594, Los Angeles, CA 90028<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>My great thanks in advance to any of you who can help us out here and, of course, to the good Mr. Palast!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UPDATE 10\/24\/12: We&#8217;ve now run through the limited number of books and DVDs that we had available. Thank you to those who helped out by donating. Your signed copies of Palast&#8217;s book and DVD will be on the way to you soon! Thank you! And hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to find more great premiums to [&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":[26,63,8,122,400,6,10,56,490],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","category-election-2000","category-election-2004","category-election-2008","category-election-2012","category-election-irregularities","category-greg-palast","category-karl-rove","category-koch-industries"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637","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=9637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9637"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}