{"id":9654,"date":"2012-10-23T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9654"},"modified":"2012-10-23T16:32:44","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T23:32:44","slug":"my-thom-hartmann-tv-appearance-on-sproulrnc-voter-registration-fraud-scandal-and-chuck-toddthink-progress-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9654","title":{"rendered":"My Thom Hartmann TV Appearance on Sproul\/RNC Voter Registration Fraud Scandal and Chuck Todd\/Think Progress &#8216;Conspiracy Theories&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheBigPictureRT\">Thom Hartmann&#8217;s <i>Big Picture<\/i><\/a> TV show last night to discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9643\">arrest of the RNC operative in VA last week<\/a> after he was caught destroying voter registration forms, and revealing that he was working for notorious GOP operative (and paid Romney consultant) Nathan Sproul&#8217;s Strategic Allied Consulting, which the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9592\">RNC had claimed to have fired<\/a> several week ago, after apparently fraudulent forms were turned in by the company<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9609\"> in a dozen Florida counties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion then turned to talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9651\">Chuck Todd of NBC&#8217;s weekend charge<\/a> that reporting on concerns about the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9628\">Romney\/Bain folks&#8217; recent acquisition of Hart Intercivic<\/a>, the nation&#8217;s third largest voting machine company, is &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; talk along the lines of &#8220;Trump birther garbage&#8221;, and also about <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9653\">Think Progress&#8217; still-uncorrected, direct smear of The BRAD BLOG yesterday<\/a>, inaccurately describing our reporting on the matter as &#8220;conspiracy theory&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uO5cFoSJGzU?list=UUY8x1K2FMBw-jm-WCPbcHEg&amp;hl=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As we noted in <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9653\">yesterday&#8217;s response to Think Progress<\/a>, which includes our posting of the incredible emails from TP&#8217;s Senior Editor Judd Legum, I guess we&#8217;ll now have to count OH&#8217;s former Democratic Sec. of State Jennifer Brunner as one of those &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; as well!   Last night, <a href=\"http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2012\/10\/22\/jennifer-brunner-tagg-romneys-stake-in-voting-machine-company-doesnt-look-good\/\">she told MSNBC <\/a> (after my appearance on Hartmann&#8217;s TV show): &#8220;You&#8217;d be right to call out Romney and his son for having a financial interest in this company. It doesn&#8217;t look good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I also made a short appearance on brand new &#8220;conspiracy theorist&#8221; and MSNBC host <a href=\"http:\/\/WeGotEd.com\">Ed Schultz&#8217; radio show<\/a> this morning to speak to several concerns about the Romney\/Hart Intercivic issue, after he spent much of the show discussing those concerns with Ohio officials and others. Here&#8217;s that appearance [<i>appx 5 mins<\/i>]&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/Audio\/EdSchultz_BradFriedman_RomneyHartIntercivic_102312.mp3]<\/blockquote>\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>I was on Thom Hartmann&#8217;s Big Picture TV show last night to discuss the arrest of the RNC operative in VA last week after he was caught destroying voter registration forms, and revealing that he was working for notorious GOP operative (and paid Romney consultant) Nathan Sproul&#8217;s Strategic Allied Consulting, which the RNC had claimed [&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":[89,575,552,400,106,38,236,15,576,515],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-chuck-todd","category-ed-schultz","category-election-2012","category-election-fraud","category-hart-intercivic","category-jennifer-brunner","category-ohio","category-think-progress","category-thom-hartmann"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654","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=9654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}