'BradCast' 12/17/2020 (Guest: Political media analyst Eric Boehlert on the press to cover GOP denial on election, COVID)
On today's 'BradCast':\xa0 Trumpism has completely captured the off-the-rails Republican Party, and that poses a very real danger to the nation, in their denial of the worsening COVID crisis and the GOP's false, evidence-free claims of a 'stolen' 2020 election \u2013 a threat to democracy itself. But the corporate media continues to downplay and falsely portray the GOP's anti-democratic schemes and coronavirus failures as 'both sides' at fault for the nation's massive problems. Political media analyst and author ERIC BOEHLERT of Press Run discusses what he describes as the 'media's defining failure of 2020' - its 'bogus Both Sides narrative' obscuring the Republican Party's utter failed response to the COVID crisis and their obstruction of a long-overdue emergency relief bill for struggling Americans, and the insanity of more than 100 Congressional Republicans signing on to the failed attempt by the Texas state Attorney General to nullify the votes of 20 million Americans in order to steal the election for Donald Trump. Boehlert argues the press has no idea how to cover those two issues of serious, existential denialism that jeopardize American lives and democracy itself. Also today:\xa0 A massive, record-setting snowstorm slams the Northeast. President-Elect Joe Biden is set to make two historic, climate-related cabinet nominations - Michael Regan, the first-ever African-American to serve as EPA Administrator, and Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico, the first Native American Secretary of the Interior Department. The two landmark appointments appear to be very good news, but the latter cuts into the Democrats' incredibly thin majority in the House next year...