Blogged by Brad Friedman on 4/8/2006 8:44PM  
FEATURING: Ed Asner, Bruce Funk, Tom Tomorrow and Faiz Shakir!

Had a hoot sitting in as Guest Host for my buddy Peter B. Collins last Thursday on KRXA in Monterey (and a few other affiliates). If you didn't catch the show live, please enjoy the archives below as you see fit. Some fun, and occasionally harrowing, interviews here for your listening pleasure...

HOUR 1 [MP3]
BRAD rants on the state of our electoral system meltdown and interviews FAIZ SHAKIR, of the Center for American Progress, on the breaking news that day of Bush revealed as the Leaker-in-Chief.

HOUR 2 [MP3]
A full hour-long interview with the great and high-larious cartoonist/blogger, TOM TOMORROW of This Modern World. On tooning, on blogging, on his new book, Hell in a Handbasket (please buy it!) and on the most obnoxious bumper music I could possibly find :-) --- Also he points us to a 2003 strip he did on the horror that is Diebold Electronic Voting Machines.

HOUR 3 [MP3]
First half-hour, Emery County, Utah's 23-year elected County Clerk, BRUCE FUNK, on being locked out of his office after having the temerity to allow an independent examination of Diebold's touch-screen voting machines in his county. He explains the harrowing details of what was found and what has happened to him since. Don't miss this one, especially if you haven't yet heard his story. You can send a note of support for him right here...

Second half-hour, the legendary ED ASNER --- Lou Grant himself --- on Hollywood and Politics, his encounter with Ronald Reagan and all other manner of stuff. Includes Asner telling Brad to "Shut up!" What more could ya want?! Enjoy!

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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
... agent99 said on 4/9/2006 @ 2:14 am PT...


It's so relaxing to fast forward through the commercials!

Great job, Brad.


COMMENT #2 [Permalink]
... Larry Bergan said on 4/9/2006 @ 2:23 am PT...


Been waiting to hear this archive! This is late notice, but Mark Krispen Miller is on Book-TV (C-SPAN 2), tomorrow at 1:00pm Eastern for his book Fooled Again, about the stolen election of 2004 (yes I said stolen, I'm no lawyer, but I'm not stupid). For some reason it's not listed on the schedule at CSPAN yet, even though they've been giving alerts on the TV. Should be a good one.


COMMENT #3 [Permalink]
... Larry Bergan said on 4/9/2006 @ 2:41 am PT...


Correction on previous comment. Mark Krispen is on TODAY, Sunday the 9th at 1:00pm eastern.


COMMENT #4 [Permalink]
... Floridiot said on 4/9/2006 @ 6:11 am PT...


I heard Brad get shaddupped by Ed, trying to hog his compliments from the station owner ;-)
I also heard Brad mention Dredds comment, dude your famous now (at least to those who listened, and some aliens out in space about a million years from now who will be monitoring our airwaves)
Good job Brad, by the way


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... kamery cyfrowe said on 5/1/2006 @ 6:41 pm PT...


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COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
... John Dowd said on 5/10/2006 @ 8:09 pm PT...


Right at the end of the Ed Asner interview he cites one fact about 9/11 that bothers him--the speed with which the Patriot act appeared and was forced upon congress. Ed's made the point that the gov't could not possibly have generated the 350 page bill so quickly, and must have had that all planned. The implication being that there may have been some kind of conspiracy behing 911 itself.

But Al Franken said in his book, "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell them" that the Patriot act provisions were lifted for the most part from legislation that Max Cleland had been trying to get passed for quite some time, but the Republican's wouldn't give him the time of day about his pet security ideas, then when 9/11 happened, they stole the idea, claimed it was theirs, and filled up the bill with so much crap like workers signing their rights away and so on, that Cleland couldn't sign it into law in good conscience, which the Republicans then used against him to get him defeated, claiming that he was not patriotic. And of course, the no-paper-record DRE easy-to-hack Diebold machine in Georgia helped too. In case youdidn't know, one of the details Bev Harris found on the Diebold ftp site was a file of instructions about how to modify results--the computer directory was "Rob Georgia". She described it as a complete kit, with instructions and sample data files for use in testing, etc.

So anyway, I don't think Ed Asner is right about the significance of the Patriot act appearing quickly after 9/11. Yes it was not all written after 9/11, but we know where it was written before 9/11, so no mystery.

That's not to say that there are not many deeply troubling things about the 9/11 events, and people should dig, and publicize what they find, and make up their own minds. The thing that bothers me the most is why the third tower fell. Supposedly it was due to a fire in the basement from diesel fuel, but excuse me? When was the last time a fire caused a skyscraper to fall like that? It had not been hit by a plane, so I just don't get it.


COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
... Marszan said on 5/23/2006 @ 5:46 am PT...


Cleland couldn't sign it into law in good conscience, which the Republicans then used against him to get him defeated, claiming that he was not patriotic. And of course, the no-paper-record DRE easy-to-hack Diebold machine in Georgia helped too. In case youdidn't know, one of the details Bev Harris found on the Diebold ftp site ...
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VotersUnite.org's Daily Voting News 'Daily Voting News'
For December 04, 2008

by John Gideon

The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was signed into law in Oct. 2002. Amongst other things HAVA required the formation of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and provided some mandates, in Title III of the law, for federal elections including some standards for voting systems. Those standards include, but are not limited to, accessibility for voters with disabilities and accuracy in the vote count. Testing by experts in accessibility has shown that none of the Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen) voting systems presently in use meet the requirements for accessibility for disabled voters. Failures in testing and vote counting in real elections have also proven that, at times, the voting systems presently being used across the country do not meet the federally mandated requirements for accuracy.

So what guidance has been provided by the EAC to the states with regards to Title III? Well, actually none. In fact even though voting systems presently in use do not meet federal law the EAC is just now getting around to issuing guidance to state and local election officials and, according to the draft of the plan ‘featured’ below, it is going to take another two years before the EAC can complete the guidance.

Why can’t they just tell the vendors and the states that the law is clear and, if they fail to follow that law, violations will be referred to the DoJ? The fact that the vendors misrepresent their products as being accessible is a clear violation of the law. It is time they are held responsible and it doesn’t take two years of studying Title III of HAVA to make that clear....

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