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In Desperation, Lott's Trying to Roll Himself Out as Martin Luther King. Sorry, Trent, Karl's Got His Stilletto Stuck in Your Back. So You Can Save Yourself the "Black Like Me" Routine. It's Becoming a Little Embarrassing.	12/17/02 8:00am Support BuzzFlash
Bush "Unofficially/Officially" Cuts Lott Loose. BuzzFlash Called This One from the Word "Go." It's Back to the Plantation for Trent!
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The Third Edition of Fortunate Son Premiers Exclusively on BuzzFlash.com! Only Available on BuzzFlash.com at This Time! Preface by Greg Palast, Into by Mark Crispin Miller. Daschle Urged To Perhaps Not Run for President. We Agree. We Need a Dragon Slayer, Not a Guy Who's Just Been Wrestled to the Ground by a Mugger, Stands up, and Then, as a Gesture of Forgiveness, Extends His Hand to Help the Mugger to His Feet . 12/17 Paul Wellstone D.C. Office to Close Shop on Friday. BuzzFlash Sends Its Best Wishes to the Wellstone Staff. 12/17 "Big Hug": A "Bush Dyslexicon" Update, By Mark Crispin Miller for BuzzFlash.Com We Hate to Brag, But BuzzFlash Was the First One to Let You Know That the Knife in Trent Lott's Back Was Put There by Karl Rove, A BuzzFlash Editorial Video of Gore Explaining Why He Isn't Running 12/17 The BuzzFlash Buzz Store. It's What Keeps Us Going! Great for Holiday Gifts. We Send Out First Class and Priority Mail -- and We Pay the Postage. Are Newspapers Allowing the Sale of Guns To Criminals and Terrorists Through Classified Ads, Just Like Gun Shows? Hmmm. 12/17 Trent Lott and Don Nickles, Two Peas in a Bigot Pod: From the Archives An All New American Shooting Gallery BuzzFlash Alerts! Don't Miss A Thing! Stories from a Parallel Universe: Right Wing Poobahs Thought Trent Lott Was Too Much of a Compromiser and Not Ideologically Pure Enough. What Does That Mean? He Didn't Read Mein Kampf Every Night? 12/17 Anyone Doubt BuzzFlash's Theory About the White House Sticking the Shiv in Lott's Back. Well, Even The Wall Street Journal is Dumping on Lott. Read Down to "Rogue Elephant." Column Also Confirms White House is Leaking Anti-Lott Info. 12/17 Who is That Whispering into the Ear of Disgraced Wall Street Journal Writer John Fund? Could it Be Mr. Rove, Telling Him to Join the Rest of the Amen Chorus White House Right Wing Media Hookers and Call for Lott to Step Down? Could be. 12/17 Krugman: Trent Lott is Just the Tip of the Iceberg 12/17 A Great Holiday Gift: "Hail to the Thief: Songs for the Bush Years." This is a Fantastic 15-song Satirical CD. Lott, Nickles Civil Rights Votes Similar. It's Just That Nickles Keeps His White Sheet Locked Up In His Closet, With His Guns and Ammo. 12/17 Gore "At Peace" with His Decision 12/17 BuzzFlash Headlines On YOUR Web Site for Free (You Can't Get Any Cheaper Than That!) -- Spread the Pro-Democracy, Anti-Hypocrisy Word! Karl Rove's Press Puppets Continue to Do the Bidding of Herr Karl: Peggy "Madwoman of the WSJ" (Which is To Really Say Something) Noonan Calls for Lott to Step Aside. 12/17 REPOSTED: Is the Drive to Replace Trent Lott as the Next Majority Leader Coming from the White House? A BuzzFlash News Analysis Unbelievable! Powell: "U.S. Not Trying to Oust Saddam." This Administration Gets Loopier Every Day. They Can't Get Their Story Straight. 12/17 Brian Whitaker looks at how the American media are softening up public attitudes to war with Iraq 12/17 REPOSTED: More on Why Karl Rove is Conducting a Behind-the-Scenes Campaign To Get Trent Lott to Step Down as Majority Leader, A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL FEMA Director to Step Down in March to Run Bush's Election Campaign 12/17 Bill Maher Interviews Michael Moore 12/17 The "Bushism-A-Day" Calendar Makes the Perfect Holiday Gift Gore Scores with Best 'SNL' Season Ratings 12/17 BuzzFlash Can be Even Better, But Only With Your Support. Click Here. New York Transit Strike Averted 12/17 Depressed? Read "The Emerging Democratic Majority." Remember that the Democrats Won the Last THREE Presidential Elections. Republicans Can Only Win Through Campaign Deception and 5-4 Supreme Court Votes. This Book Will Cheer You Up! From the BuzzFlash Archives: Ashcroft, the Neo-Confederacy Movement, Bush and Orwell "Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate," by Naomi Klein Cast Your Vote for News That Fights Back. BuzzFlash Needs Your Support to Expand Our Coverage. Debunking the bin Laden tape: Voice detective wonders why U.S. called it genuine 12/17 Guaranteed to Offend Everyone: The Trent Lott Christmas Greeting Card, For White Guys Only! 300,000 to Invade Iraq? 12/17 Enron Party and Comments of the Two Georges 12/17 The December 16th BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) Bush's Treasury Nominee to Get BIG Pension 12/17 Pentagon Broadcasts Propaganda Over Iraq 12/17 Hmmm, Looks Like Alexander Cockburn is Reading BuzzFlash Editorials, Doesn't It? 12/17 Sen. Boxer takes aim at Bush's policy on Iraq 12/17 The December 16th BuzzFlash Mailbag - Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, And All-American Bush Businesses in Government 12/17 If Lott's Out, Who's In? 12/17 Ex-N.J. Governor, Thomas Kean, To Head 9/11 Panel 12/17 Transcript Of Gore's 60 Minutes Interview Kissinger didn't convince you that Bush is on tilt? OK, how much do you know about Elliot Abrams? 12/17 ACLU's membership gets boost after 9/11 12/17 For the Holidays, Send a BuzzFlash Premium to a Friend or Relative Four, or more, could challenge Lott 12/17	Flesh-Eating Bacteria Hits Calif. Marine Base 12/17 "Get Your War On" by David Rees The BuzzFlash Buzz Store. It's What Keeps Us Going! Great for Holiday Gifts. We Send Out First Class and Priority Mail -- and We Pay the Postage. From the Archives: Lott Promised to Wage "War" on Democrats 12/17 The Legend of Strom's Remorse 12/17 Don't Forget December 12, 2000: Too Close Too Call Bush to California: Choke on this. The White House has joined with the oil and auto industries to undermine the state's rigorous environmental regulations. 12/17 The Detestable, Decrepit Strom Thurmond 12/17 2002 Postscript - How to Beat the GOP 12/17 Don't Stop Fighting! "The Conscience of a Liberal," by Senator Paul Wellstone. From BuzzFlash.com. Buzz Into Winter! Get A BuzzFlash.com T-shirt And Spread the News! Alarm at 'EU Pentagon' plan 12/17 The Osama Clock - How Many Days Will Osama Run Free (not to mention the Anthrax Terrorist) As BuzzFlash Editorials Indicated This Week, The Knives in the Back of Lott are Coming from Karl Rove, Not the Democrats (Who Remain Generally Mute). In This Case, Bush Cartel Surrogate Senator Don Nickles Calls for a New Vote. He's Not Freelancing! Don't Scrooge American Workers Out of Unemployment Benefits; Urge House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert to make extending unemployment benefits the first priority of business when Congress reconvenes in January. 12/17 Trent Lott is Republican Party's Monica Lewinsky, By Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. See "Bowling for Columbine." Michael Moore Truly Understands the Interrelationship Between Race Fear-Mongering and the Gun Lobby. When Charlton Heston Says America's "Mixed Ethnicity" is Behind Our Gun Violence Problem, He's Talking Race Talk. 12/17 Deadlocked Supreme Court Lets Wetlands Case Stand 12/17 $40 Twofer Special: Forbidden Truth and War on Iraq Despite Joe Lieberman's Odd Love for the Orwellian TIPS Program, It Didn't Make It Into the Homeland Security Bill. 12/16 Beware an ecological catastrophe in Iraq; Worse than the last time 12/17 About that "Sexual Lawsuit" Against Bush in Texas, A BuzzFlash News Analysis Is Our Children Learning? Paul Begala Knows the Answer to That Question The White House has decided that New York will not get a separate federal homeland security office, despite the region's suffering on 9/11 and continued risk as a new terrorist target. 12/17 Daily Howler: LOTT SAYS LITTLE! Why won’t Lott praise desegregation? Where on earth is liberal bias when the answer to this isn’t clear? 12/17 It's the Economy, Stupid: How Bush Has Made Our Lives Worse Clinton 'had plans to attack N. Korea reactor' 12/17 Lott's Remarks Are No Surprise to Those Who Know the South 12/17 Media buzz words 2002; Here's Your Decoder Kit 12/17 The BuzzFlash Buzz Store. It's What Keeps Us Going! This darned democracy is in the wrong place 12/17 Why Did Bush and Cheney Stop The Investigation Into 9-11? USA Today: GOP, nation cannot afford leaders like Lott 12/17 Lott is the Southern Republican Party of Bush, But He Made the Mistake About Being Open About the Racist Sentiments of the Grand Hypocrisy Party Southern Branch. Bush and His Cohorts Just Speak in Code Words Like "States Rights." 12/16 A Big Fat "NO" to Smallpox Shot for Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, "I do not believe it is necessary or should be taking place" 12/16 Why Gore Must Run -- And Will, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Posted Before His Announcement That He Will Not Run! 12/15 Confederates in the Attic: The Southern Partisan Interview with John Ashcroft (From the Archives). 12/16 Voodoo economics, 21st century style: Son of a Gingrich, grandson of a Reagan 12/16 Stage Direction from Karl Rove to George W.: Remember to Touch the Black Kid and Smile! 12/16 No Gore in 2004: BuzzFlash Has Three Words for Lieberman, Gephardt and Daschle About Running for the Presidency, "Forget About It!" 12/16 From the Archives: Is John Ashcroft Just as Racist as Trent Lott? 12/16 Unconscionable and Downright Evil: "As the Bush administration draws up plans to simplify the tax system, it is also refining arguments for why it may be necessary to shift more of the tax load onto lower-income workers." 12/16 High Court Asks Govt. Views on Anti-Abortion Case 12/17 Would You Trade Your Sons -- and Daughters -- for Oil? 12/16 C.I.A. Chief Prospers From Bond With Bush 12/17 "Daschle's willingness to give Lott a pass on this one is an extreme illustration of how defensive, denatured and defanged the Democratic establishment has become." Article from LA Times that Echoes a BuzzFlash Editorial from Several Days Ago. 12/16 The Costs of Hosting a National Political Convention: Boston 2004 12/17 The GOP is Still Dancing with the Beast of Racism 12/16 "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers" by Daniel Ellsberg Joe, You Had a Chance to Blow the Enron Scandal Wide Open, And Instead You Just Blew It! Like Daschle and Gephardt, You Walk in the Sands of History and Leave No Tracks. 12/17 A $40 Twofer Special: "Forbidden Truth" and "War on Iraq." And We Pay the Shipping. Support BuzzFlash!	Is the Bush Cartel Covering up the Saudi Relationship to 9/11. Read "Forbidden Truth" Now. Joe Conason's Journal: A Lott more? It's time to revisit John Aschroft's connections with the neo-Confederates. 12/17 The Rehnquist Choice by John Dean -- The explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy. Do The Sharks Smell Blood? GOP senators question Lott's future as majority leader 12/17 The Case Against the Bush Cartel War on Iraq. Scott Ritter Interviewed: "War On Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You To Know" By William Rivers Pitt with Scott Ritter. (Includes BuzzFlash Bumper Sticker, Button and Postcard with Order.) Peace activists on hunger strike; 13 Protestors oppose possible war against Iraq 12/17 The Truth About Bush's Accomplishments (Or, Lack Thereof) Hispanics slighted in news, study says; Networks accused of underreporting 12/17 The Mouthpiece of Corporate America: "Given that reality [of ownership by a handful of huge corporations], why should we expect anything different from [the media than] a pro-corporate, anti-worker point of view?" 12/17 Quiet FCC Maverick Raises His Voice on Media Rules 12/17 A Little Clarity on Lott and BET 12/17 Must Read: "Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law." Become a Reader Supporter of BuzzFlash.com. Otto Reich's Nomination to be Undersecretary of State for Latin American Affairs, "appears to be dead in the water" 12/17 40 off Death Row push end to executions 12/17 Keeping Track of John Poindexter - Web Sites Turn the Tables on Head of Total Information Awareness program 12/17 Mutilating Dogs used to teach Peruvian soldiers how to be ruthless killers 12/17 Rubbing salt in old wounds: Bush's appointments of Iran-Contra scandal alumni add insult to unhealed injuries of the Cold War 12/17 Invitation to Terror: "... terrorists stealing a tactical nuclear weapon from Russia." 12/17 In the Northwest: Conservative media are setting political agenda 12/17 David Corn: Blond Ghost in the attic; Theodore Shackley's CIA career is revealed 12/17 Proposed federal labs called 'recipe for disaster'; Facilities would handle world's deadliest germs 12/17 U.S. Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-Bellevue, is reportedly a finalist for a $700,000 lobbying job in the nation's capital with the Air Transport Association 12/17 2,000 protest war in Iraq, want proof 12/17 Stephen Chapman: As of 1999, reports The Memphis Commercial Appeal, Lott "had only one African-American worker, a mail clerk, out of a staff of 65." Yet. Mississippi is 36% Black. 12/16 Can Judge Bates be Impeached? "When Bates was deputy to Kenneth Starr, Bill Clinton's official tormentor, he definitely did not regard the White House as inviolate. He treated it like the public's closet, to be entered at will and rifled" The Past is Prologue: "Secrets," by Daniel Ellsberg. Get It for the Holidays. Reposted: The Esquire Article that Revealed the Partisan Inner Workings of the White House 12/16 "Most people in the White House would favor a new Republican leader, according to conservative commentator Bill Kristol." Just as BuzzFlash Said. 12/16 Sean Penn Follows His Own Script on Iraq and War 12/16 Bush Cartel Orwellian Logic on the Environment: To Save the Forest, the Trees Must Go 12/16 The military could be called on to keep order and quarantine affected areas if there were a smallpox outbreak in the United States 12/16 "I recommend this book to everyone with a brain -- and Republicans too," Says James Carville. "It's Still the Economy Stupid," by Paul Begala. Your Purchase of This Book Supports BuzzFlash.Com The Racist Council of Conservative Citizens, With Whom Lott Has Been Associated, Comes to Trent's Defense! But Criticizes Him for Apologizing About His True Beliefs. Highly Recommended Book on the Right Wing Agenda of the Supreme Court: "Courting Disaster." This Book and John Dean's Fantastic "The Rehnquist Choice" for $50 (less than the combined retail cost, and we pay the shipping). Support BuzzFlash. Republicans the Party of Lincoln? Honest Abe Left Your Party Back in 1948 - A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary Trent Lott: Open Mouth, Insert Foot REPOSTED: Tom Daschle, Too Little, Too Late, As Usual -- A BuzzFlash Editorial A Must Read: "Wealth and Democracy" by Kevin Phillips. A BuzzFlash Premium. The influence of money on government is now, more then ever, a hot political issue. It's Time to Stand Up to the New GOP Thuggish McCarthyism -- Or Lose Our Democracy 12/15 Trent Lott -- BuzzFlash Cartoon by Eric Harrison Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute Will Only Take a Second! Lessons To Be Learned -- Southern Style by Rebecca Knight THE LIGHTER SIDE: Trent Lott Apologizes for His Apology 12/16 The Top Ten Conservative Idiots: Trent Lott Special 12/16 These Are Ironic Times 12/17 Bush Names Bernard Law To Head 9-11 Commission 12/17 Lott's Choice of Apologies 12/17 Transcripts from Saturday Night Live 12/16 Liberty Man: The Phenomenal Fourth Issue 12/17

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Bush "Unofficially/Officially" Cuts Lott Loose. BuzzFlash Called This One from the Word "Go." It's Back to the Plantation for Trent!