'BradCast' 4/30/3018 ('Celebrating the First Amendment')
b"The U.S. Department of Justice has rewritten their prosecutorial guidance manual for U.S. Attorneys, removing the section on the "Need for [a] Free Press."\\xa0 Memos written by former FBI Director James Comey after private meetings with President Donald Trump indicate Trump seemed obsessed with arresting and imprisoning journalists.\\xa0 Despite the unprecedented and disturbing attacks on the free press, bigwigs in the corporate media spent the last two days claiming to be "outraged" by comedian Michelle Wolf's routine at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner on Saturday night. The annual event was specifically themed:\\xa0 "Celebrating the First Amendment." Yet NBC's Andrea Mitchell, the NYTimes' Maggie Haberman and others joined high-ranking Republicans to attack Wolf, demanding an apology for jokes that they characterized as divisive, and critical of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders' appearance.\\xa0 The only problem:\\xa0 Wolf didn't attack Sanders' appearance. She appropriately roasted Sanders (and many others) for lying to the press and the American people every day.\\xa0 So we thought it might be useful to actually celebrate the First Amendment by playing Wolf's entire speech in full, so listeners can decide for themselves about the corporate media's bizarre response, along with their opinions of the appropriateness of "access journalists" hobnobbing with the very elected politicians they are supposed to be covering skeptically.\\xa0 Callers weigh in, and have a few thoughts on why many politicians and members of the corporate media reacted with such outsized "outrage.""