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Subj: California's Wretched Recall Dear BuzzFlash,We haven't seen any proof that California Governor Gray Davis has done anything criminal that would constitute malfeasance and warrant a recall. Elected California Democrats are risking early retirement by cooperating in the process via standard campaigning. As reported in the links on your page, this apparent populist action to recall was directed by operatives high in the Bush Administration. The recall election is designed to further derail the morale of Californians eager for better leadership. Using a two-part ballot that includes over one hundred names will certainly result in votes begging to be disqualified. And the Democrats are doing nothing to stop us from experiencing deja vu when votes are miscast and miscounted. Davis didn't understand the ballot. He thought his name should appear with the others on Part II of the ballot. His Lieutenant Governor, Cruz Bustamente, says "Vote 'no' on the recall, but vote for me just in case." Just in case? Sounds like the Dems are willing to accept miscast ballots that could be disqualified by election officials. This is not good enough. Why are the Dems willing to risk so much. These ballots may even be scan-tron cards which will require voters to have access to a No. 2 pencil!! I'm not claiming to be another Nostradamus, but I see pencil shortages at polling places all over California. I also see people filling in the wrong oval, or more than one, or erasing one insufficiently. Watch MSNBC on Tuesday, September 2, 4:00 PM PST for a Town Meeting style discussion of the recall. I'll be on the panel and I'll have plenty of No.2 pencils for everyone--just in case! Sincerely Alan Reynolds
The only good thing I can say about this is at least Bush is tying his own noose.
--- Tom Fry/Konchog Norbu Subj: Grapevine of Shame http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,1595,00.html "Two hundred and seventy seven U.S. soldiers have now died in Iraq, which means that, statistically speaking, U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California...which is roughly the same geographical size. The most recent statistics indicate California has more than 2,300 homicides each year, which means about 6.6 murders each day. Meanwhile, U.S. troops have been in Iraq for 160 days, which means they are incurring about 1.7, including illness and accidents, each day." * * * Dear Brit, I am extremely disappointed in the efforts of Grapevine to trivialize the deaths of American servicemen and women in Iraq. There are roughly 150,000 service men and women in Iraq, whereas California has a population of roughly 35,000,000 which means that, given your statistics, the chance of any individual being killed in the line of duty in Iraq is roughly 60x higher than it is of being murdered in California. If you base the comparison on deaths of American soldiers in Iraq versus deaths of American policemen in Anytown USA, that number is several orders of magnitude higher. As a man with 30 years of experience in reporting the news, you should know better. Which begs the question: When did you stop being a journalist and turn into an apologist for the government's cause du jour? Was it about the same time that you stopped working for a fair and balanced news company and started working for Fox? Regards, Salvador Peralta Re: The Postcard Hello Buzzers, I keep seeing this everywhere...how many American soldiers died...counting the American dead and not the innocent Iraqi dead. I think the message would be much more effective if those numbers were juxtaposed with the numbers of American soldiers killed. It is important, hugely important, to remember that there are human beings on the other side of our guns that suffer and are still suffering because of this criminal act of war. Wanting to see the whole picture... Ann M. Fine RE: How FOXNews Trivializes The Deaths of Our American Soldiers BuzzFlash, I was reminded reading this article of what Mark Twain said about lies: There are three kinds of lies - Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics. Your article is just one more instance of the bush Regime lying and the Press swearing to it. Thanks for the good work. Bill Lieberman Dear BuzzFlash, If it were true that our Soldiers were fighting and dying for our "freedom," as the Repuglicans like to claim, then I would think wrapping himself in the flag and attending the funerals of Soldiers killed in Iraq would be the most politically advantageous thing our pResident Buffoon could do! At least it would be the most honorable, but we could never expect that from a man who dodged Vietnam and went AWOL for over a year! Perhaps it is the families of these dead Soldiers who are refusing to allow Bush to attend their funerals? Nancy Lynn Nagy (TN) Subj: Brit Hume I am old, but I have a good memory: when Bush the elder was in the White House his tennis partner was none other than Brit Hume. Now how can a media person who is on the inside track with the president cover him objectively? So, do not be surprised when Hume shills for the president's little boy. My daughter bought me a copy of the book: Weapons of Mass Deception, by Sheldon Rampton & John Stauber. You will never watch another television show with all it's spin meisters giving the party line again without seeing how the media is used to fool the masses. Francis Sent to: city@thestar.ca <city@thestar.ca>; spin@cnn.com <spin@cnn.com>; crossfire@cnn.com <crossfire@cnn.com>; thenews@msnbc.com <thenews@msnbc.com>; nightly@msnbc.com <nightly@msnbc.com>; opinion@msnbc.com <opinion@msnbc.com>; homepage@msnbc.com <homepage@msnbc.com>; hardball@msnbc.com <hardball@msnbc.com> RE: THE WHITE TOLD THE EPA TO LIE! SO GEORGE W. BUSH GASSED HIS OWN PEOPLE! HE POISONED HIS OWN PEOPLE! DIANE ANDERSON Subj: Bill Maher on Larry King Dear Buzz, Hope lots and lots of Larry King viewers caught Bill Maher last night (8/28) and heard him spell out clearly what we Buzz people have known nearly forever: 1) W is a draft dodger (by way of having chosen to confine his active duty to (primarily) Texas) 2) W was AWOL for a year or so. Maybe these facts will one day come home to roost. Like the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and so many other hungry people, some of us have a dream. Pamela of the Poconos From the League of Conservation Voters Organization comes this ad: Risks to the Environment: Oil
Rigs in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge CAN YOU SEE THE PATTERN HERE? From: http://www.lcv.org Chewgababy Subj: FOX Trivializing death of soldiers & Halliburton BuzzFlash, Rush Limbaugh talked about how inefficient the government is because soldiers are complaining that they aren't getting enough fresh water, showers facilities, generators (and the air conditioners they power), AND hot food when they come in from 12hr and 24hr patrols. Rush said that's why we can't and shouldn't depend on the government. What Rush neglected to mention is that the PRIVATE CONTRACTOR for those services is HALLIBURTON. Officers are complaining that those soldier support functions should have been left with soldiers who must go into combat situations whereas contract labor will refuse for safety reasons. Rush praised a woman who bought her son an portable air conditioner after learning his soap melted in the tent HE was sleeping in. Then she formed a group to buy a/c units for other soldiers. Soldiers are buying cell phones in the Baghdad market place so they can call home b/c Halliburton hasn't provided the resources. Check with Reporters who were embedded with the troops some of whom are just getting back to the US. Gina Subj: Iraq/Wash DC Body Count Buzz: A link on your site brings up the Iraq/Wash DC. body count comparison. Rummy: "You've got to remember that if Washington, D.C., were the size of Baghdad, we would be having something like 215 murders a month," Rumsfeld said. "There's going to be violence in a big city." I'm sure someone has pointed this out other than me but we would have to compare that 215 in DC to ALL the murders a month in Iraq. American's and Iraqis! Otherwise the point is BS. Which, of course, it is. Whit... Think, Listen, Question, Learn, Discuss, Participate Subj: Someone better start exposing Bush's use of Iraq and Afghanistan in his 04 bid I have heard on at least two occasions on NPR that elections are scheduled in Iraq and in Afghanistan for "late summer of 04". I hardly think this is a coincidence.. Someone better expose it soon. Roger Subj: How much is a gallon of gas by you? Hey Buzz, How much is gas where you are? By me, it's $1.71 for Regular. How come the media hasn't made such a big deal about this? How high did was a gallon of gas back during the Clinton admin around the time when the media went on a non-stop blitz about the burdensome cost of gas and the negative effects on the economy ad nauseam? Jeff Subj: Scott Ritter Hey BuzzFlash, A quick question; can someone tell me one thing Scott Ritter has gotten really wrong regarding this whole sorry war? His statements and predictions appear dead-on. Ken Subj: The head of Diebold Inc. voting machines working for Bush re-election openly Please get this out, our Democracy might be a thing of the past.
O'Dell attended a strategy pow-wow with wealthy Bush benefactors - known as Rangers and Pioneers - at the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch earlier this month. Full Story: [LINK] A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: The Ten Commandments controversy and the Pryor confirmation Dear BuzzFlash, I wonder if this whole Alabama 'ten commandments' controversy is just a stage managed contrivance of the Bush-Rove variety to give Pryor a ready-made and timely example of his 'truthfulness regarding his promise to side with the law and not his religious convictions should the two come into conflict. After watching his confirmation hearing in which he repeatedly directed critics and skeptics toward his record of upholding the Constitution and the law in situations where his religious beliefs were an issue, and then just a day or so ago seeing him up in front of the cameras telling America that he followed the law and not his own religious convictions by supporting the removal of the monument from the courthouse, I see this whole affair as a ploy to get him confirmed. And people are being used in the process. The problem for the right wing is that this could very easily backfire. The left is already completely and rightfully distrustful of anything odorously Bush and is unlikely to be fooled by this. And Pryor has just pissed off his own crowd by allowing the monument to be removed. A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: Request to put Ashcroft's and Bush's Oath of Office on BuzzFlash BuzzFlash, Could you put John Ashcroft's oath of office on BuzzFlash and also George Bush's oath of office on BuzzFlash? I have searched and can't find them. I just want to determine the inconsistencies of their actions based on the oaths they have taken. There must be something definable that makes them legally accountable for the "bait and switch" tactics they are consistency pulling on each and every issue. Their "bait and switch" strategy is eerily the same whether GMO's or WMD's or the Constitution/Bill of Rights. It is is consistent and precise. The objectives given to participants working to achieve these objectives are never consistent with their pre-planned intended objectives. For example "we the people" are paying for the Iraq War out of the US Treasury, our soldiers are fighting the Iraq war, and the iraqi people are suffering; "we the people" now are paying for reconstruction out of the US Treasury, our soldiers are still fighting during reconstruction and the Iraqi people are sill suffering during reconstruction. This so a few select corporations can profit from reconstruction on a no bid, cost plus basis and so we can start on a drive to de-nationalize Middle Eastern. We the people are paying for GMO's from the US Treasury during research, production and promotion. We the people are being given a gag order by Monsanto through government edict not to be allowed "informed consent" the basis of democratic process. I do not want to be force fed by any corporate interest. I do not want my family to be force fed by any corporate interest. The individual, the family, the nation and the world do not want GMO's. Does any type of legitimate plebiscite matter to this group. It's another bait and switch. GMO's for profit not hunger, consistent in the method of "bait and switch/falsified objectives. So are we "fighting terror and evil" to dismantle our constitution, and so we are "fighting terror and evil" to fill the coffers of carefully selected corporate monopolies. There must be something illegal about this. It appears to be an "inverted" form of the redistribution of the earth's resources and wealth, its all "trickle up." Has George Bush ever lived a "trickle down" life? Is there anything in the Oaths of Office that contradicts this type of behavior. Does it have enough relevance to be used as any type of legal base for prosecution? This is serious. Thank you, I read BuzzFlash every day even on the weekend. Sincerely, Deana Jewett The best article I have read and re-read on this; [LINK] As Robert Byrd has said "A House of Cards Will Fall." Will it be in time to save us and the earth, our planet? Will there by any future generations? [BuzzFlash Note: You can find the President's Oath of Office here. We were unable to quickly locate an Oath of Office for the AG.] Subj: Bush's brain on lithium - please uses this version instead, if it's not too late!!! Dear BuzzFlash, As one of the 2 1/2 million adult Americans with bipolar disorder, I read with interest your reader commentary on whether Bush could be bipolar. Manic, possibly, as Cathy speculates, although more along the lines of Tweety-Bird than, say, Winston Churchill or Mozart or Isaac Newton or Abraham Lincoln, to name an illustrious few. As to whether Bush has the mental faculties required to ride the pendulum back the opposite way into depression, I doubt it; I mean, this isn't a simple trick like a chimpanzee swinging on a vine that we're talking about here. It's just as well, since Dubya on lithium is too daunting a prospect for even the perfectly rational mind to contemplate. He's dull-witted enough as it is; why tamper with faulty wiring in a dim bulb and very likely wind up with an even bigger blackout than the one that recently shut down the entire Northeast? Now THAT'S depressing! Emily Theroux, Subj: Send Bush and GOP to another planet Dear BuzzFlash, I have an idea! It would be great. We can ship all the Republicans to some planet somewhere. They can have their dictatorships that they want. Bush can be king of that planet. He thinks he is king of this one but maybe he actually can set up a kingdom in outer space somewhere. cari Subj: Only way Bush can win Buzz, Bushie knows that the only way he can win in 04 is to steal. So, Californians, here is my thought. One of the ways Rove plans to steal for Bush in 04 is to use Arnold the Naked to try to get into the governator's office and fix the electoral votes in 04 (project Karl Rove). Don't support the recall unless you want Bush back in office. He will attempt to steal some other states but California is one that he is CERTAINLY trying to steal. No on the recall Yes on Bustamante. MLR Subj: mailbag...8/29 Yes, folks, I agree. It is getting totally disgusting to hear everyone on the stupid Fox Network, excusing the killing in Iraq, because of the deaths in the streets of the big city, every day! Like, those deaths have not always happened...and they are just the same! Oh, please! People been getting killed in the streets of large towns since the NRA got their way and killed the bill to not check at gun shows! Also..murder is up now, as every other crime goes down...the reason...I think it is because people are hopeless...there are so many out of work...and frustration, depression and all the bad things that make life a living hell under Bushie! They, the Fox net..will always find a way to excuse the deaths in Iraq...they must, ....it is their livelihood...their job...the be behind this administration! And, for those of you who wonder about boycotting of products of programs you hate..I listen to Rush...and deliberately go into a store...ask to see a product...then say..."uh, oh..can't do it...you sponsor Rush, right?" Most of them do not even know it, but they will pass it on! I am not ashamed of that ...if enough people rise up and start something...maybe, just maybe ,it will help someday. That idiotic Bill O'Reilly, vowed that he would denounce the President if he found no WMDs in Iraq...Has he done it yet??? Nah, and he is not going to ...so Billy O gets some boycotting, too! I am fed up with being fed up!!!!!!!!!!!!! We just have to fight back with something! Shirley.......St Louis RE: The Weekly Standard vs. BuzzFlash.com and Sidney Blumenthal Governor Gang-Bang vs. Cruz Bustamovie...how great is this? John Westermann,
author of Exit Wounds, High Crimes, The Honor Farm, Sweet Deal, Ladies
Of The Night, teaches at Stony Brook University. Dear BuzzFlash, This is in response to your recent post about Brit Hume's statement. Feel free to use it or append it to your blogs if you feel so inclined. Michael Scott Perhaps another way to look at Brit Hume’s statements is as follows: * * * California freeways safe to cross during rush hour Two hundred and seventy seven U.S. soldiers have now died on California freeways because they were ordered to cross without looking, which means that, statistically speaking, U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying while crossing the freeway than if they just got in their cars and drove. The most recent statistics indicate California has more deaths each year from commuting motorists than from soldiers crossing the freeway during rush hour as ordered, so it’s clearly OK to give stupid orders. The entire argument that US deaths in Iraq are not something to worry about because there are more murders in California isn’t just plain wrong, it borders on evil. Never mind that violence in America is a serious problem, marginalizing American deaths in this manner fails to pass any basic test of intellectual honesty because the underlying causes of death are not the same. Just because people are murdered in California doesn’t mean that the soldiers should be killed in Iraq. In fact, a truly fair journalist would ask “How many of the soldiers would have died if American didn’t go to war?”While the number of violent deaths in California would still be the same, the number of US soldiers that died would be zero! Shame on Brit Hume. His statements are wholly without merit. A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: Governor Gang-bang, or The Sperminator? Can't wait to see the action-figure doll, can you? Maria and the kids must be so proud. John Westermann,
author of Exit Wounds, High Crimes, The Honor Farm, Sweet Deal, Ladies
Of The Night, teaches at Stony Brook University. Subj: Crooked Republicans Run Texas... I often wondered why Texas was called the Lone Star State and now I know why; it's because the rest of the stars were stolen by the Texas republican legislature. Watching from outside your state it's become clear: Texas has the most corrupt, un-American republicans in the country. Everybody sees right through this gerrymandering scheme and yet the Texas GOP (Greed Over Patriotism), like a junkie in a pharmacy, won't give up. In the late 1800's crooks and bandits used to flee to Texas so often that Sheriff's put GTT 'Gone To Texas' on the warrants for their arrest. Given the schemes of Tom Delay and Rick Perry, I bet it wouldn't be too hard to find the descendants of these vermin among the Texas republican House and Senate. S. Van
Hook Subj: Liberty Dressing OK... Let me see if I've got this straight. After careful deliberation, George Bush decides to invade Iraq. Most of our traditional European allies -- at least the ones with real military and economic strength -- say "Whoa, there, big fella! You're gonna get yourself and us into a mess over there. Total havoc. Sure, Saddam is a jerk, but he's a weak jerk." They absolutely refuse to help, warning repeatedly that we're on our own if we decide to go to war. So we proceed to reason with them in our usual diplomatic way. We thumb our noses, call them cowards, and brand them appeasers. The Republican Congress gets in-your-face petty by removing the word "French" from the "potatoe" section of its cafeteria menus. Cabinet officers trade public insults with senior ministers of several Western nations. European contractors are threatened with US contract cancellations. We say self-righteous things about what would have happened if "we" had not stopped Hitler, conveniently forgetting that all or part of Poland, France, Russia, Belgium, and Czechoslovakia and others had been under Hitler's boot for up to four years before the first American was ordered into the battle. (And then only after Germany declared war on us. Hitler had been an real, ongoing threat to his neighbors -- with massive numbers of new ships and artillery and bombers and fighters that he wasn't even trying to hide, and of which no one, especially not the US, was trying to deprive him -- for six years before the first American shot was fired at a Nazi. But who cares if the history you're citing is against you when you're making a point, anyway?) So we and the British went into Iraq with the Coalition of the Cowed, Bribed and Gullible. And now we're in a mess. Sure, there are some bright spots, like paying a hundred times more to rebuild bridges in Baghdad than local engineers estimate it would cost if Iraqis were doing the work. But no matter how positive a side-benefit it may be, war profiteering by Bush-Cheney campaign contributors at the American taxpayer's expense can't fix everything. (No European or Iraqi companies need apply. After all, they can't kick wads of spoils back into GOP campaign coffers.) Whatever the advantages of being in Iraq may be, there are still the bombings, the snipers, the sneak attacks, the sabotage, and the newly-warring religious factions destabilizing the region. There's also the increasingly restless non-radical Iraqi public wondering how it is that the bastards Saddam and Uday and Qusay could keep the electricity on, the water running, the oil pumping (and the truck bombers at bay), but the valiant liberators Bush and Cheney and Rummy can't. There's the great new terrorist recruitment opportunities that the "Old Europe cowards" and most of our Middle Eastern "friends" warned us about and that we swore would never happen. And finally there are the body bags, though they will soon -- mark my words -- be turned to the support of the administration, too. Before long, we will hear that it would dishonor "those who have already paid the ultimate price protecting America" if we don't finish the job that they started. (Hey, it worked in 'Nam, didn't it?) So now we're shocked (shocked!) that the people we bullied, threatened, and made snide official remarks about aren't willing to call it all by-gones, send their troops over to be sniped at, and send their money to be grafted away to Halliburton, Bechtel, et al. For some reason they just won't get over it and get us out of the jam they told us we were getting ourselves into. The nerve of them! There can only be one course of action! NO MORE FRENCH OR RUSSIAN DRESSINGS ON AMERICAN SALADS, AND LET THE INSULTS RESUME! By the way, did you hear the one about the Frenchman, the German and the Russian who died in a car crash? So Saint Peter says to the Frog... Dave Paquette re: Next Year in New York Dear BuzzFlash - Another BuzzFlash Reader wrote: "I am starting to look forward to the republican convention here, I think the repubs will get the kind of greeting that they deserve." I can confirm that. This 50+ New Yorker (with 2 grown children) looks forward to next year. It will be my opportunity to do what enough Germans didn't do in the 1930's - stand up to the bullies and say NO! My one-bedroom Manhattan apartment is already filling up with friends making plans to be here a year from now. We expect there to be a "National Security" travel blockade in place, so everyone is making advance plans for a holiday and coming a week early. I predict that this will be the largest demonstration in the history of the United States, possibly the world, with more than 1 million showing up to join New Yorkers in expressing their rejection of the Bush Regime and it's criminal policies. The peaceful turnout will be so large that the Republicans will be unable to contain it or stop it. The usual anti-democratic stratagems of threats, propaganda, permits, bogus security concerns, police undercounts and protester pens will all be made irrelevant by the vast numbers marching down the avenues. Make your plans early! A BuzzFlash
Reader Subj: Will Our Soldiers Still Be Willing? BuzzFlash, What saddens me, what SCARES me about the fabrications, exaggerations and fatuous hoodwink that the Bush regime pulled on the world, is that if the public figured out the chickenhawks (love that word!) didn't have a clue as to the magnitude of repercussions in Iraq - what must the soldiers, who were/are there, think? These young men and women went off to war with grit and confidence - to protect their country, secure in their (misguided) faith that their leaders would NEVER send American soldiers in harms way just to gain points in a political or economic game of brinkmanship. Now they know that they were lied to, that their buddies died so that Bush could pose, strut his stuff and appear decisive while hoping to God that the fear of massed/attacking U.S. forces would scare Saddam into submission with little if any payback. Bush's bluff didn't work, at least not for long, and he hasn't even come up with any WMD to vindicate himself. Our troops are STILL dying and the administration is STILL lying to them. How dumb does he think we are? The arrogance of Nixon? What if a real threat should now appear? Will our troops go so willingly next time? How many soldiers, even before that should occur, will resign from the reserves? How many young men and women will unquestioningly pack their duffels for a leadership that lied to them. When their own leaders trivialize their sacrifices, how long before the soldiers trivialize their leaders orders? Scenarios such as that are what lead to military coups - if Congress and the American people don't stand up now and get Bush out of there before he can do anymore damage. We Can Not Feel Secure if Our Soldiers Can Not Trust the Commander in Chief. A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: Protest of Republican Convention,Madison Square Garden, NYC, Aug 30-Sept 2, 2004 I understand Mary MacElveen's indignation at the Bush lies about the air quality at the 911 site. But rather than try to get the convention site changed, we should start to organize a GIANT PROTEST in Manhattan similar to the Feb 2003 anti war protest that I attended with a few hundred thousand of my patriotic friends. If we got only 10,000 or 20,000 patriots to march in a circle around the Madison Square Garden area we could accomplish the following: 1) give national media attention to the lies about the 911 air quality. 2) hinder the easy flow of Neocons into and exiting the Madison Square Garden area. 3) galvanize the opposition to "Four More Years of War". 4) negate the "positive spin" that the Republicans hope to gain from meeting in NYC on the anniversary of 911. Marty B. O'Malley p.s I have started making plans to visit my daughter in Brooklyn for the entire week of the convention. So you can expect at least one out-of-town Viet Nam Vet anti-war protester. Subj: Two Things First thing: I think it's very interesting that the State of Texas has a power grid that is independent for the rest of the nation. The Dallas Business Journal states: "ERCOT has its roots in a system established in Texas during World War II. The Texas Interconnected System was set up in the 1940s to support aluminum smelting on the Texas Gulf Coast for wartime airplane production across the country." I'm starting to think WW2 looks a lot like WW1...a corporate-sponsored war. When history repeats---do we notice?? Second thing: Why doesn't Der Fuhrer RoveBush appoint Arnold Schwarzenegger to be the next Governor-General of Iraq? It would put him in a situation where he could drive a REAL Hummer around, look tough and get shot at. It would be a great way to dispose of the man who Molly Ivins described hilariously as looking like "a condom filled with Walnuts." Michael from Eugene OR Subj: Barbara Bush Hey everyone, I noticed Barbara Bush's book in a home last week. Reminds me, Hillary's" Living History" is still in the top 10 for past 10 weeks. Guess Barbara's isn't selling too well. Could it be the public isn't interested in reading about the Bush family? Carolina Subj: Great idea for dem campaign ads (really, this is good) Hi, please pass this on, i offer it up to anyone (except joe lieberman) I estimate by now there must be millions of formerly-employed, previously hard working republicans who voted for bush and are now either unemployed, underemployed, or have run out of unemployment checks. Cops, firemen, factory workers, fed workers, state workers-- you name it. You know lots of these guys voted for the a-hole, buying the R line of shit. There has to be gobs of these guys now who are pissed and have seen the light. The dems, any of em, should find these guys and their families and just do one taped interview after another, showing these guys telling their stories, out of work, bankrupt, etc and letting em tell how they believed in the jerk and voted for him and won't do it again. Maybe a few more interviews with some parents who lost some kids in iraq that voted for the monkey that aren't quite so happy with him and his flag waving bs now. There would be no effective comeback for rove and co. to counter these with. Just a constant stream of them, all different guys, every week, every month. The only thing they'd have to do is be scrupulously careful to vet them very well and make sure rove doesn't plant a ringer with them and then scream that the dems "invented" the guy. Otherwise, i think a series of these interviews, harry and louise style even if you want, would be devastating! What do you think? Anyway, keep up the good work. Ed. Sent to: Eric Schmitt <erschm@nytimes.com>; Carl Lavin <lavin@nytimes.com>: Subj: News Tip For You: Bush is Violating the Hatch Act and misusing government funds Hi Eric, How come the NY Times [LINK] is ignoring the fact that the White House is violating the law?
Another fact, not yet mentioned by Milbank is that the speeches (which are being transcribed at government expense) are being sent over to the Bush-Cheney reelection committee, who then post copies on their website. See for example: http://www.georgewbush.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=1990 http://www.georgewbush.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=1959 http://www.georgewbush.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=1993 Subsequently, the White House has removed some of the direct links to some speeches (specifically the links to the two Cheney speeches that were posted the first week of August 2003), but they're all still reachable via the whitehosue.gov search engine (and external search engines, e.g.: google.com). So that people who know how to find the speeches can still find them, but simplistic checks by the public would wrongly assume that the White House web site is no longer violating the Hatch Act. Regardless, even if the transcripts are completely removed from White House website, as long as White House staffers continue to transcribe and distribute Bush-Cheney campaign speeches, the Bush-Cheney re-election committee is still directly benefiting from a violation of the Hatch Act (in other words, the violation is the *transcribing* and distribution of speeches that are purely partisan campaign speeches at public expense). bruce FW: more about Diebold/from CalVoter Yesterday Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell rung the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. He was also in the news yesterday because he is raising money to support George W. Bush's 2004 campaign.
A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: It Wasn't Our Fault---Saddam Lied to Us! Re: U.S. Suspects It Received False Iraq Arms Tips, 8/28 LA Times [LINK] Dear Buzz: The liars are blaming Saddam for lying about having WMDs! That's so pathetically funny that I'll probably be laughing all day. Regards, William
Wilgus Subj: Intelligence? Buzz, It suddenly became glaringly clear to me that the Bush Regime had more convincing intelligence about planes crashing into buildings on 9/11 than they did about the Iraqi's possession of WMD. Which one did they choose to do something about and why? It seems to me that GW treats everything like a joke until it bites him in the ass. Watch him during his performance speeches as he makes his sneaky little laugh, eyes darting around the room as if he had something to hide. Maybe he does. Jack Pryor Subj: The fleecing of America Why should taxpayers (contemporary slaves) should foot the private carnage of Iraq? I suggest that we demand that all the expenses should be paid by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Ashcroft, Rove, The Carlyle Group, Bechtel, Halliburton, etc. In addition all those blind party sheep that still believe that Bush is not a liar, all the contributors to the Bush election campaign since he was not elected the first time, etc. should be footing the outrageous fleecing of America and not the honest taxpayers. They should also volunteer to replace our brave military, maybe then our great country will once again be respected and admired as we were. America PLEASE wake up. Bush lie and our boys die. Thanks for this forum were we can be truthfully informed of the issues. A very concerned citizen Subj: Are there stupid Democrats? I am a Democrat! I may be stupid, Unless, I am mistaken, I heard Bush's essentially say, before Legionaries in St. Louis, MO, ----We must have patience in Iraq. Look how long we have been in Germany and Korea ---Right? Even stupid people can understand that these nations welcomed the USA and other nations for their occupying forces. Bush fails to mention that occupiers were not faced with mob and terrorists actions. And, that the occupying forces did not start a war! Sen. Trent Lott, R of Mississippi, echoed Bush today on TV. So, the GOP strategy is laid bare. Stupidity comes in when some Democrats do not call his hand on this. As one Democrat, one vote, I call his hand! Am I stupid? What do you think? A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: A must-read article from the Wash Post, of all places Dear BuzzFlash This article is heart breaking. [LINK] Everyone should read it. Perhaps if the editors of the Washington Post read their own paper, they wouldn't be such slaves to the GOP. If only... Anyway, this is a great article. I especially like reporter's the description of the couple's bus ride from Las Vegas to Houston:
Thanks! A Big BuzzFlash fan Nancy Subj: 38 percent said yes, but 50 percent said they think a Democrat can win.
Yahoo! News - Few Paying Mind to Democratic Candidates Steve Laudig Dear Buzz, I concur with your "BuzzFlash Reader commentary," Bush will do or have someone else like Bin Laden do something just before elections and thus get himself ELECTED this time. The American people will be duped once again and vote emotionally due to fear. The BuzzFlash readers comments went on to say no matter how much money Bush raises its still comes down to one vote per person, I don't agree- in light of the fact there is so much controversy over the touch tone voting machines and fraud.....we still don't get a receipt of who we voted for....what if they have to do a recount???? So many unanswered questions and so little time left.... Colette
Miller Subj: Arnold makes me literally sick Buzz, I think the nude photos of Arnold, smiling, and flexing, and proudly standing without a stitch of clothing on, showing his genitals, and then bragging about how they "took" a black girl upstairs and had group sex with her is what has made me physically ill. It makes me sick that Republicans are such hypocrites. Did he take this girl against her will? Arnold has never apologized nor is he ashamed of this past behavior. I am truly physically ill. mari Subj: Another postcard series? Dear BuzzFlash, I love your postcards: "Are you better off now..." and "Bush lied..." etc. Every time my hometown paper publishes an editorial and includes the address of the writer, I send him or her, one of each postcards. I was wondering if you were going to put out any more postcards to illustrate some of the other bonehead things Bush has done. On the environment, for instance, you could put out some "War on Terra" cards with relevant stats on environmental rape on the back. I'm sure the writers at BuzzFlash could come up with some funny slogan about Bush's attempts to end overtime payment and restrict OSHA regulations too. If you put them out for sale, be assured you have at least one fan here in PA who will buy them. I think your postcards have been great! Sincerely, Becky Ann
Bartlett Subj: Condi isn't the only lying B.....h! On the way to work this morning I heard the end of an NPR interview with the Sec. of Labor, Mrs. Mitch McConnell. She said she had a wonderful relationship with organized labor, the best in a long time. In honor of labor day everyone needs to send a note to this liar and ask why she is against raising minimum wage and so many things and in favor of not being paid for overtime. Karen Webb Subj: Republican Convention Dear Buzz, I liked the letter you published from the lady to Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council asking them to rescind their invitation. I would like to see a website to get New Yorkers, of which I am one, to sign a petition to the City Council and the mayor. More important would be to get 911 families to sign. Or at least to sign a petition asking the Repugs not to come here with any intention of using 911 for political benefit. Hobson Subj: BuzzFlash reader's commentary on NYTimes article Yes! Thanks very much for calling attention to the biased article in the New York Times today by Adam Nagourney. He and Katharine Q. Seelye were the worst to Gore during the last presidential campaign. Whenever they cover the Democrats it's always extremely negative. Today Nagourney also perpetuates the LIE that Dean had a bad showing on Meet the Press. (A video tape of Dean on that show is used by his campaign, so it certainly couldn't have been *that* bad!). But the most blatantly biased part of the article were the photos they selected of the Democratic candidates. UNbelievable photos. They were all the very worst they could find. Each candidate had his mouth open and all except Carol Mosely Braun looked very angry. Bush is almost never pictured like this. Another BuzzFlash reader Subj: Kudos and a comment Thanks people you give me my morning read and you are always informative! I don't know if you have seen any of the old 'Naked Gun' movies but the other day I heard Dubya described as being the 'Frank Drebin' of Presidents, which broke me up. I can't, for the life of me, remember who it was, was it you?? Anyway if it was thanks for giving me my yuk of the week. ttul [BuzzFlash Note: It wasn't us, but we think it's funny, too (with apologies to Leslie Nielsen).] |
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