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The too-democratic Democratic Party
Body As this marathon health-care bill enters the uncertainty of semifinals tonight, we are left with one question of much broader philosophical scope: What in God's name are the likes of Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu and Blanche Lincoln doing in the Senate Democratic ...
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Michael Winship: New York's Tough Enough for Terrorist Trials
BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Michael Winship If you want to royally tick off New Yorkers, try telling us what to do. That's probably why the police stopped trying to enforce the jaywalking laws here years ago (as opposed to Washington, DC, where I once got one too many tickets and was sent to ...
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BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 20, 2009
BUZZFLASH MAILBAG Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here . You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net ; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip.html . Subject: President Obama vs ...
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Political Theater of the Absurd
Buzz Flash, Tragedy/Comedy: Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expressions of grief. Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927 Tragedy was the election in 2000 due to election fraud and the partisan, ...
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Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 20, 2009
BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE "Fifteen very bad things Republicans would do if they got their selfish way -- Always the political instrument of moneyed elites, and a retrograde societal force, the GOP today is more negatively impactful than ever. Its agenda, if fully implemented, would prove ...
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FOX (Again) Uses Old Footage To Beef Up Republican Crowds; This Time, For Palin -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
For any enterprising video editor This is a sure way to get work Over at FOX that has become The Potemkin village network. VERSE CASE SCENARIO read more
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Maria Allwine: Waiting to Die in the Good Ole USA, An Angry Worker's Call to Action
BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Maria Allwine What if we all just stopped working? All of us -- just stopped going to work and started living the lives we talk about and long for? What if we all just stopped getting in our cars and driving through the horrific traffic that leaves us angry and ...
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Back to Our Future
Body Have we lost the capacity to dream and the ability to distinguish between matters of substance and what Jon Stewart refers to as “our obsession with the trivial?” Have our leaders let us down or have we failed to demand enough of them and provide vigorous support for them? ...
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The dictatorship of the independent proletariat
Body Doubtless you recall all those plucky reassurances from the Democratic establishment earlier this month about what sure looked like political bloodbaths in Virginia and New Jersey. In the former's gubernatorial contest, the Republican victor annihilated the Democratic loser ...
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John Shadegg Uses Kidnapping to Scare Us, Yet He 'Kidnapped' Baby for Prop to Win BuzzFlash's GOP Hypocrite of the Week
John Shadegg Many Republicans rose up to whine about the prospect of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed being tried in New York City. Of course, the United States has tried and convicted numerous terrorism suspects in this country with no problems, and Republicans such as Rudy Giuliani was for ...
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FOX Fraught with Fraud Again: Covering Palin, They Claim Current Footage, Air Some from Last Year
BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph How long can FOX go without blatantly lying about the footage it displays on TV? It seems going a little over a week would have been pushing it. Not long after Sean Hannity had to accept the sting of Jon Stewart calling him out for inflating the ...
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Forget Political Fallacies: O'Reilly Brings in Dobbs to Talk Theology, Asks If Obama Is "the Devil"
BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT by Jeffrey Joseph Few people would wonder why Lou Dobbs ended up off of CNN's nightly lineup, but who would have thought his post-CNN interviews would make him appear reasonable? It would take someone asking questions so outrageous and unreasonable that the furiously ...
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Dave Lindorff: Obama Must Toss the Bums in Treasury Out, End the Wars, and Start Being a Leader
If you are sitting in class taking a test, and you've chosen to sit amongst your bone-headed, slacker friends, don't turn to them for help when you can't figure out of any of the answers. They may all tell you the same thing, but they'll all be wrong. That's the situation President Obama finds ...
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BuzzFlash Mailbag for November 19, 2009
BUZZFLASH MAILBAG Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here . You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net ; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip.html . Subject: Help Wanted!! Dear ...
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Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 19, 2009
BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE "Kristol Urges No Trial For Hasan: 'They Should Just Go Ahead And Convict Him And Put Him To Death'." Bill Kristol is another opportunistic right-wing radical nut , who obviously believes that justice and the Constitution is exclusive for certain people but not ...
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Nikolas Kozloff: Blackout in Brazil, Hydropower and Our Climate Conundrum
BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY by Nikolas Kozloff It's everyone's worst nightmare: being caught in an underground subway in the midst of a power outage. Yet, that is exactly what happened recently when Brazilian commuters in the city of São Paulo were trapped inside trains and literally had to be ...
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TARP Recipients Falling Behind On Payments -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
I'm more than willing now to offer my services for free Even though I'm just a humble civilian And call AIG's CEO to repeatedly ask, "When can we Expect you to pay back the $85 billion?" VERSE CASE SCENARIO read more
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Stop FOX Fraudcasting! Join the BuzzFlash "Get America To Turn Off FOX Campaign." Sign Up Now!
BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS FOX FRAUDcasting If you believe FOX is guilty, as charged, of FRAUDcasting , please join the BuzzFlash Brigade to get America to Turn Off FOX. read more
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There is indeed such a thing as "a stupid question"
Body I was about mid-sip when MSNBC's Ed Schultz induced the coffee-spraying moment: "What's the holdup ?" he abruptly asked a dumbfounded Sherrod Brown about health-care legislation in the Senate. Why aren't all Democrats on board with this yet? he continued, apparently back on ...
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Bill O'Reilly Doesn't Care About the Constitution, Once Again Wins BuzzFlash's Media Putz Award
BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK Bill O'Reilly For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. Poor Bill O'Reilly. Bill O spends his hour-long show spinning lies and deceit about ...
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