'BradCast' 4/13/2021 ('Both Sides'? Really, Liz?; And much more...)

Published: April 14, 2021, 1:42 a.m.

b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0\\xa0 The Biden Administration announced it will finally withdraw the last 2,500 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021. If the withdrawal actually does occur, it will happen exactly twenty years after the 9/11 attacks that led to America's seemingly endless war there. The FDA and CDC have paused the distribution of the Johnson and Johnson COVID vaccine after reports of rare blood clots in just six cases. Brooklyn Center, MN, has erupted in protest over the police killing of another unarmed black man, Daunte Wright, during a traffic stop for a minor infraction, leading to the resignations of the officer involved and the police chief. Virginia's Attorney General has opened an investigation into potential civil rights violations after disturbing new video of a different traffic stop in Virginia in December 2020 showed white police officers, with their guns drawn, pepper-spraying polite, calm, uniformed Army Lt. Caron Nazario. One of the police officers has been fired. It's just one of undoubtedly thousands of similar incidents NOT caught on viral video tape each year in America. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has been recently lauded for living up to the absolute minimum expectations for a Republican for appearing to condemn her party's radical extremism, but she simultaneously and falsely claims that 'both sides' harbor extremists. New data gathered by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) shows that far-right white-supremacist, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists are the primary driver of the record rise in domestic terrorism incidents in the United States, by far, over the last 25 years. The numbers of rightwing domestic terror incidents and fatalities in recent years far outnumber those attributed to 'far left' attacks. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"