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THE BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK

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Michael Savage

THE BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK

For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.

There's been a lot of back and forth between the Obama and Clinton campaigns about accusations of "surrogate" insults. Recently John McCain jumped into the fray by demanding that Obama apologize because progressive talk show host Ed Schultz called McCain "a warmonger." So, we're now at the point that people have to apologize for third parties unrelated to them telling the truth!

But all of these minor slings and arrows pale by comparison with what many right-wing radio talk show hosts spew out as vile filth on a daily basis. Few, even Rush Limbaugh, get down as deep in the manure pile as Michael Savage (born Michael Alan Weiner). Savage was nominated by Jon Nilsen of Windsor, California.

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BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE

It was billed as “Testifying Before Congress,” but what we got was that proverbial “two-step” word parsing, flim-flam from Petraeus and Crocker. If you ask me it was nothing more than a crock of s*#t peddled to the public to make the biggest blunder ever committed, the biggest mistake ever made by a United States president, a six-year disaster of death and destruction, look like something it’s NOT! And it did not work, the American people are on to the jargon, the double talk, the insanity, we’ve had enough of it already, it’s time to bring our soldiers home, it’s time to bring an end to this the worst disaster of all disasters!

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If she had just done this.
We all would have mistook her
For just another lobbyist
Instead of just another hooker.

VERSE CASE SCENARIO

Tony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, "Blue State Jukebox." He was a daily cartoonist for the L.A. Times from 1994 to 1997. You can e-mail Tony at tonypeyser@yahoo.com.

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With experience being relative, is the smoothness of a well-run campaign a true indicator of a upcoming presidency? -- Chad

In the Obama-Clinton battle that has ensued, one crucial issue that keeps coming to the top is how the campaigns are run.

We have similar candidates with similar stands on a number of issues. This isn't Ronald Reagan vs. George H.W. Bush in 1980, where Bush called Reagan's economic plan, "voodoo economics." Of course, Bush sucked up to Reagan, and adopted not only "voodoo economics" but magically shifted to a pro-life position. Of course, Bush's original 1980 positions were spot-on.

But in one area, the campaigns have been distinct: how their campaigns have been run. Like it or not, the perception of a candidate is centered around how a campaign is run. The "geniuses" who had Michael Dukakis in a tank or John Kerry on skis deserve to be publicly flogged.

And no matter which Democratic presidential candidate you have supported, objectively Obama has run a great campaign and Clinton has run a miserable campaign. Despite this, Clinton has made it close.

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A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Loretta Napoleoni

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BE ELECTED
by Christine Bowman

The Chicago Tribune ran a lengthy page-one story on Monday titled: Clinton focusing on females: Democrat playing up gender to motivate base, analysts say. It offers a compelling look at the Clinton campaign's recent steps towards embracing gender instead of running from it.

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