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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' 3/12/2021: (Guest: Salon's Heather 'Digby' Parton on primetime for Joe Biden)
03-12-2021 (52.99 MB)
On today's 'BradCast': On Thursday, President Joe Biden signed his $1.9 trillion 'American Rescue Plan' (ARP), which may ultimately prove to be the most progressive, equitable relief, stimulus and investment package perhaps in U.S. history. Biden also delivered his first primetime speech to the American public, sounding a cautiously optimistic note that a nation battered by the COVID pandemic might be able to hold small family gatherings on July 4, which, he said, "after this long, hard year...will make this Independence Day something truly special, where we not only mark our independence as a nation but we begin to mark our independence from this virus." Award-winning opinion journalist HEATHER 'DIGBY' PARTON of Salon and Hullabaloo discusses Biden's speech, the relief bill, why folks on the Right appear to be floundering in response and retreating into the culture war fodder, and whether it could mark a shift in the landscape of US politics -- perhaps even the end of the Reagan Era. Also today: a pretty hilarious and on point comedy segment on 'How Business Works.'...
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