GOP Gerrymanders ‘Not So Bad’ for Dems This Year? Think Again, Argues Redistricting Expert: ‘BradCast’ 1/18/2020
On today’s BradCast: The ongoing GOP effort to undermine American democracy by making it harder to vote and easier to cheat in elections continues amid the fallout from Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election. While you might think Republicans would pay a price for joining him in that effort, its Democrats — and voters […]
Beware the Voter Scorned- Arizona Edition: ‘BradCast’ 3/24/2016
On today’s BradCast, guest host Nicole Sandler of Radio Or Not chats with Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, who explains that many of the problems voters experienced Tuesday in Arizona are traced directly back to the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. […]
Arizona Election Official Caught Breaking Into Vote Tabulation System: ‘BradCast’ 11/2/2015
Election Day is tomorrow in several states and many more local jurisdictions, but on today’s BradCast, we’ve already got our first “irregularity”. My guest today is John Brakey, a longtime Election Integrity advocate from Pima County (Tucson), AZ. Last week, he caught an election official — on video tape — breaking the security seal on […]
Glenn Beck in June 2010: ‘You’re Gonna Have to Shoot Them in the Head’
But, of course, “both sides do it!”…sigh…[via Stephen Webster at RAW STORY]… The video above was from June 10, 2010. “You need to go back to June — June of this year, 2010,” said would-be mass murderer Byron Williams, referring to Glenn Beck in a jailhouse interview. Williams had been stopped by police in a […]
Should Major US Pundits, Politicians be Prosecuted for Incitement to Murder, ‘Terrorist Threats’?
[Update 4:26pm PT: Related to the story below, one of the victims of the Tucson shooting has just been arrested for issuing a threat against Rightwingers at a taping for an ABC News special. It seems incitements by some are taken more seriously than incitements by others. Story here… -BF] * * * Guest blogged […]
Brad on ‘Red’ NC’s ‘Allen Handelman Show’ on Tucson Shooting, RW Radio & Restoring Fairness and Balance to OUR Public Airwaves…
As you may have noticed (or expected), I’ve been doing a lot of radio lately, discussing the AZ Shooting and related issues, such as the RW media and Democratic Party culpability and what needs to be done about it. A discussion I had earlier this week with the non-partisan Allen Handelman on North Carolina’s powerful […]
Sheriff Dupnik is Right: Radio Lies, Our Culture Dies
Guest Blogged by Sue Wilson A moment in the culture. A moment like Columbine, like Fort Hood, like Oklahoma City, yet different; different because the madman’s rampage that targeted Tucson, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was predictable. It’s hot in Tucson — temperatures soar to 117 degrees in the summertime. But that’s nothing compared to the […]
Giffords’ Doc: ‘101 Percent Chance of Surviving’
And, still more very good news… One of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ doctors declared Tuesday she has “a 101 percent chance of surviving,” as she made more progress, moving both arms and breathing on her own for the first time – just three days after a bullet shot through her brain. Doctors emphasize she is in […]
WikiLeaks Condemns Tucson Shooting Spree, Calls For Prosecution of ‘Senior Politicians, Media Commentators’ For ‘Incitements to Kill’
Late this evening, via an announcement linked from Twitter, the whistleblower media organization WikiLeaks released a statement related to the Saturday attack in Tucson on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and 19 others. The press release condemns “violent rhetoric by US prominent media personalities, including Sarah Palin” and urges that incitement of violence, including against their […]
Violent Rightwing Rhetoric Doesn’t Kill People. People Living in a World Where They Hear A Lot of Violent Rightwing Rhetoric Kills People.
This flier was circulated in Dallas in the days before John F. Kennedy was assassinated… Any of that look or sound familiar? If not, and if you didn’t see the Tucson Shooting coming months and months ago, then you are living in a world of complete and utter delusion. [Update 1/11/11: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., […]
BREAKING: REP. GABRIELLE GIFFORDS (D-AZ), 19 OTHERS SHOT AT TUCSON TOWN HALL EVENT
[DEVELOPING COVERAGE. LATEST UPDATES ADDED AT BOTTOM OF ITEM.] Three-term Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot “point blank” in the head at a town hall event in Tucson, along with 11 17 18 19 others according to news report. The “Congress on Your Corner” event was at a Safeway grocery store. After initial reports that […]
A Few Election Integrity Heroes on Election Eve…
On Election eve, amidst the usual, absurd and evidence-free caterwauling about imaginary “VOTER FRAUD!!!!” (and, man, am I happy to see that there are now tons of other folks in the media finally out there covering that particular scam so I don’t have to) a reminder of what real Election Integrity looks like…
EXCLUSIVE: Poll Tapes, Other Evidence Discovered Missing in Long-Disputed, ‘Fixed’ Arizona Election
– Special investigative report by Brad Friedman, The BRAD BLOG The mystery surrounding a long-questioned and allegedly “fixed” non-partisan 2006 Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) bond election in Pima County, AZ continues to deepen as troubling new details have now emerged. The resolution in this matter — should it ever come — could spell trouble for […]
Brad Guest Hosts the ‘Malloy Show’ Thursday!
[Now UPDATED with full — highly recommended — audio archives.] It’s Day 4 of our latest week-long stint filling in for Mike on the nationally syndicated Mike Malloy Show. And again we’ll be BradCasting LIVE from L.A.’s KTLK am1150 9pm-Midnight ET (6p-9p PT). I hope you’ll join us by tuning in, chatting in, Tweeting in […]
Arizona AG: Criminal Investigation Count ‘Affirms’ Original Result of 2006 Pima County Election
[Updated at end of article with video of Goddard’s Tuesday press conference, and a radio appearance shortly thereafter.] No evidence of manipulation was found in the results of a 2006 special election in Pima County, AZ, according to the state Attorney General’s announcement given at a press conference this afternoon in Tucson. Today, AG Terry […]