{"id":10283,"date":"2017-04-25T18:43:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T22:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=10283"},"modified":"2017-04-25T18:43:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T22:43:37","slug":"raising-hell-ernie-hancock-liberty-radio-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/25\/raising-hell-ernie-hancock-liberty-radio-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Hell with Ernie Hancock on Liberty Radio Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/liberty-radio-network-logo-995894_532012473515019_1102666330_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10284\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/liberty-radio-network-logo-995894_532012473515019_1102666330_n-800x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/liberty-radio-network-logo-995894_532012473515019_1102666330_n-800x296.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/liberty-radio-network-logo-995894_532012473515019_1102666330_n-150x56.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/liberty-radio-network-logo-995894_532012473515019_1102666330_n-768x284.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/liberty-radio-network-logo-995894_532012473515019_1102666330_n.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomsphoenix.com\/\">FreedomsPhoenix<\/a> mastermind <strong>Ernie Hancock<\/strong> and I had a rollicking time reviewing Trump&#8217;s record this morn.\u00a0 It is always fun to go on Ernie&#8217;s show on Liberty Radio Network &#8211; especially when my moderate tendencies need scourging.\u00a0 Ernie and I agreed on the outrageous missile strike on Syria (I said the U.S. government was acting like an international lynch mob) and on the indecent suggestions to prosecute Julian Assange.\u00a0 Ernie suspects I have been corrupted by living in the D.C. area. He never lets me forget that, when he stayed at a nearby hotel in 2008, he could see the top of the Washington Monument from the hotel&#8217;s top floor. I assured him that I can&#8217;t see the monument from my house and that the hotel never lets me go to that top floor.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the show by downloading or clicking the links below-<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10283-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ernie-Hancock-2017-04-25-Hour-2-James-Bovard-Trump-Admin-Part1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ernie-Hancock-2017-04-25-Hour-2-James-Bovard-Trump-Admin-Part1.mp3\">http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ernie-Hancock-2017-04-25-Hour-2-James-Bovard-Trump-Admin-Part1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10283-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ernie-Hancock-2017-04-25-Hour-2-James-Bovard-Trump-Admin-Part2.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ernie-Hancock-2017-04-25-Hour-2-James-Bovard-Trump-Admin-Part2.mp3\">http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Ernie-Hancock-2017-04-25-Hour-2-James-Bovard-Trump-Admin-Part2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FreedomsPhoenix mastermind Ernie Hancock and I had a rollicking time reviewing Trump&#8217;s record this morn.\u00a0 It is always fun to go on Ernie&#8217;s show on Liberty Radio Network &#8211; especially when my moderate tendencies need scourging.\u00a0 Ernie and I agreed on the outrageous missile strike on Syria (I said the U.S. government was acting like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[52,753,1059,1060,164,1061,486,1058,923,262],"class_list":["post-10283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mp3","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-ernie-hancock","tag-freedomsphoenix","tag-leviathan","tag-liberty-radio-network","tag-reform","tag-regulations","tag-russia","tag-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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