{"id":9845,"date":"2013-02-01T13:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T21:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9845"},"modified":"2013-02-01T13:35:55","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T21:35:55","slug":"al-gore-our-democracy-has-been-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9845","title":{"rendered":"Al Gore: &#8216;Our Democracy Has Been Hacked&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/AlGore_DailyShow_013013.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Speaking to Jon Stewart on <i>The Daily Show<\/i> this week, former Vice-President Al Gore said:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Our democracy has been hacked. It&#8217;s been taken over. It no longer operates the way our founders intended it to, because of anonymous donors, big money, corporations as people, might makes right. The lobbyists and special interests are now in control. They can&#8217;t do anything without begging permission from the powerful special interests and it is time that we take our democracy back and it <i>can<\/i> be done.<\/div>\n<p>Gore also offered a few interesting words about capitalism in the 1\/30\/2013 clip from <em>The Daily Show<\/em> which is posted below. In a lengthier conversation on MSNBC&#8217;s <i>Morning Joe<\/i> this week, posted below as well, Gore also discusses the deadly costs of the uncontrolled dumping of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere and the ravaging effects its having on our planet, criticism of his sale of Current TV to the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera, and he goes on to say that &#8220;<i>both<\/i> capitalism <i>and<\/i> democracy have been hacked&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:423341\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"420\" height=\"245\" id=\"msnbc2c0712\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=50637310&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc2c0712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"420\" height=\"245\" FlashVars=\"launch=50637310&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/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. 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