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by Mark Karlin

Editor and Publisher

April 22, 2008

It is almost incomprehensible; it is such a brazen abandonment of progressive principles and such an embrace of Karl Rove tactics.

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One could argue right about now
The Marines should then
Just announce, "We're looking for
A few not-so-good men."

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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If we are going to judge character by who doesn't wear a flag pin, can't we judge character of those who do -- in their mug shot? This is Larry Craig's mug shot and look at what he's wearing. Thanks to The Smoking Gun for the picture.

Eric Zorn is a very good columnist for the Chicago Tribune. He has the ability to catch things others in the MSM miss. But he wasn't the first one to focus on the hypocrisy of why the patriotism questions were focused on Obama and not Sen. Clinton (or Sen. McCain). (Here's a hint: It was BuzzFlash.)

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BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE

Don’t tell me the White House, Repuglicans, and Mainstream Corporate Media aren’t a “band of brothers”! Tony Snow making the rounds, from “FOX NEWS to the White House to CNN,” get ready for some more “snow jobs,” and some more lies, this guy just can’t help himself!

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A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Michael Winship

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- A beautiful and balmy spring day, perfect for a boat ride. The destination, 45 minutes away, was Ft. Sumter at the entrance to Charleston Harbor, the Union stronghold at which the first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861.

Confederate batteries blasted the fort for 33 straight hours. But at the beginning of this so-called War of Northern Aggression (which really is how a plantation guide described it to us Saturday afternoon), chivalry still prevailed. And irony.

U.S. Army Major William Anderson, Sumter's commanding officer, had taught artillery at West Point. Now the man commanding the shore batteries raining red-hot cannonballs down on him was one of his favorite students, Confederate Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard. You have to wonder if the major wished he'd been a little less thorough teaching the general his trajectory tables.

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BE ELECTED
by Christine Bowman

Whose family hasn't argued about politics?

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Nash McCabe from the first time we heard of her, The New York Times.

_{photo -- Jason Cohn for The New York Times}

Nash McCabe is going to the polls today in Pennsylvania, and she probably won't vote for Barack Obama. In itself, this isn't a big deal: one vote against a candidate running for president is not shocking or even unusual. What is also not unusual about McCabe's vote today in Pennsylvania: it will be an uninformed one.

If you don't recognize the name Nash McCabe, she was the video questioner in the ABC debacle debate in Philadelphia. McCabe was also the focus of a previous story in The New York Times from April 4. Gee, I wonder where ABC got the idea to interview her?

In The New York Times story, McCabe is quoted as saying "How can I vote for a president who won't wear a flag pin?"

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A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION 

The only remaining argument that the Clinton campaign keeps rolling out is that Barack Obama is not electable and that McCain and the Republicans will wipe the floor with him. This argument has only one slight facet in its favor; it could become a self-fulfilling prophesy where significant numbers of HRC supporters refuse to vote for Obama, or God forbid, vote for McCain. Otherwise it is ludicrous.

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Subject: Pentagon Propaganda

Is this not a smoking gun? Are there not laws against this kind of stuff? Is it just an expectation I have of the fourth estate?

Damning. As though we needed more evidence, but thank God somebody is writing this stuff and it is on the front page of The New York Times. ...

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