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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com. Originating on Pacifica Radio's KPFK 90.7FM in Los Angeles and syndicated coast-to-coast and around the globe! NOW FIVE DAYS A WEEK!

'BradCast' 8/27/2020 (Guest: Col. Moe Davis, former Chief Military Prosecutor at Gitmo, now Dem candidate for NC-11)

08-27-2020 (54.94 MB)

On today's 'BradCast': At the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, the GOP's candidate for North Carolina's 11th Congressional District offered some strange remarks. Today, his Democratic opponent joins us in response. Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel MOE DAVIS was the Chief Military Prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay until he resigned in protest after political pressure from the George W. Bush Administration to use evidence obtained through torture against detainees. Now Col. Davis is the Democratic nominee for the open NC-11 seat, vying against 25-year old Republican (apparent Nazi-enthusiast) Madison Cawthorn, whose RNC speech, delivered from a wheelchair, contained quite a few bizarre statements and factual errors. Davis sets the record straight, delves into specific policies and issues important to NC voters, and offers his thoughts on police reform, systemic racism in policing and the ongoing protests in Kenosha, WI in the wake of the murder of two protesters by an armed rightwing vigilante. Also today: An update on the devastating damage wrought by monster Hurricane Laura in Louisiana. In the three nights of the RNC Convention so far, no speakers have mentioned the words 'climate change,' despite one of the strongest storms on record hitting the U.S., and huge wildfires burning out west. During the bizarre, dangerous Night 3 of the RNC, Vice President Mike Pence gave a presidential-sounding address to a mask-less crowd filled with elderly war veterans. Pence warning that the current violence on the streets during the Trump Administration is actually a preview of what we could expect from 'Joe Biden's America', and pledged to 'make America great again -- again.' Hopefully the event does not turn out to have been a COVID-19 super-spreader event...