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Jon Stewart Devastates Glenn Beck in a Brilliant, Dark, Stunning Parody

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By Mark Karlin

 

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Over nearly 10 years, BuzzFlash has repeatedly received e-mails and letters from readers thanking us for helping them by offering articles that dispel the right wing/centrist mainstream media myths.  During the Bush years, many a time people wrote something akin to "I don't know how I would have survived with my sanity intact without you."

Since I only have a salary of $22,500 a year, these are the rewards of our work.

But who do I go to in order to make sure that I maintain my sanity?

Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show."

In fact, it is the only program I watch with any regularity on television. (Alas, the cable package that includes MSNBC costs more, so I watch Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann in the day-after clips.)


Hoffman Gets His Teabags Dunked by Democrat Owens in New York's 23rd!

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By Mark Karlin

Forget about the two GOP govenor pick-ups in VA and NJ. The splash heard 'round the country was Right Wing Nut Job (RWNJ) Doug Hoffman getting his teabags dunked by Democrat Bill Owens in New York's 23rd Congressional District, which borders the "socialist" nation of Canada.


When Foxx Speaks for FOX: Rep. Virginia Foxx Says Healthcare Reform is Greater Threat Than Terrorism

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By Mark Karlin

Move over Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann, a cross-eyed senior citizen congresswoman from the hinterlands of North Carolina is outFOXing you with statements only the typhoid fever mind of Glenn Beck could come up with.

Most recently Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (5th District, R-N.C.) stated point blank that health care reform is more of a threat to the U.S. than terrorism: "I believe we have more to fear from the potential of that bill passing than we do from any terrorist right now in any country."


Vigilance: The Public Option Could Easily Unravel Yet

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By Mark Karlin

After generally experiencing a post-Obama inauguration period of disappointment, progressives mobilized themselves, heightened their intensity of feeling, hit the streets, and bombarded Congress to ensure a public option -- and the activism paid off: Harry "Who Took My Backbone?" Reid actually included a government option with a state opt-out in his consolidated version of a Senate bill.


Can You Show Pornography and Call Yourself a 'News' Network? Was Tokyo Rose a 'News Anchor'?

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By Mark Karlin

Well, the corporate mainstream media is by and large defending FOX against accurate and unusually candid characterization by the White House.

It's mindboggling to believe that a WH lapdog press corps who embraced Jeff Gannon would somehow quibble about whether FOX News -- which does everything from incorporating GOP message points as "news" to leading "tea party" rallies to ignoring basic facts and replacing them with propaganda -- is an arm of the right wing and the GOP.


Heritage Foundation, Part of Right Wing Infrastructure, Defends 30 Republican Senators Who Enabled Rape

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By Mark  Karlin

For BuzzFlash, when it comes to enabling rape, the Republican think tank-media-political infrastructure sticks together: a bunch of white guys -- primarily from the South -- who believe corporate criminal personhood trumps the rule of law when it comes to gang rape.

I have written two pieces on the extraordinarily shocking and ethically sick vote of 3/4s of the GO


Sarah Palin Goes Down Cheap on Amazon: Just $9 for "Going Rogue," A $29.00 Book. WTF?

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By Mark Karlin

Not many new books get a 69% discount before they are even released. In fact, BuzzFlash -- which sells progressive books -- has never seen such a slashed price for a book before it came out like the $9.00 Amazon.com is charging for "Going Rogue."

Yes, Palin and "Going Rogue" -- not released until November 17 -- are going down cheap, at a price usually reserved for what are called "remainder" books, the surplus stock of a book that is dramatically discounted.

Of course if you give it away, you can have a popular product, so it's no surprise that as of October 19, "Going Rogue" is number 4 on Amazon.

And the right-wing think tank media infrastructure, which is so successfuly integrated, is indeed giving it away!

The right-wing rag site, NewsMax, is offering "Going Rogue" free with a subscription, or for a cost of -- coinky dink -- $9.00.


Here are the 30 Republican Senators, 3/4 of Their Representation, Who Voted to Enable Rape

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By Mark Karlin

A phony publicity-seeking Balloon Boy story can, in a moment, consume the attention of virtually the entire American media, but -- as I wrote yesterday -- there has ban nary a lick of coverage about 3/4s (30) of the Republican Senators voting to enable rape, as they did last week.

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Jon Stewart Lambastes 30 Republican Senators Who Voted to Sanction Rape

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By Mark Karlin

 

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Last week, Senator Al Franken proposed an amendment that would prohibit the Pentagon from contracting with firms that force women employees to agree not to sue companies if they are raped as a result of their employment.

"Kind of a slam dunk," Jon Stewart noted in another of his devastating commentaries on October 14.

The amendment resulted from a Halliburton/KBR employee who was gang raped and temporarily imprisoned by fellow employees in Iraq and then went public.  Halliburton/KBR had a no-sue-if-raped clause in her contract.

So, as Stewart caustically noted, 30 Republican Senators -- 30 -- voted in favor of denying recourse to rape victims in order to protect corporate America. 

It, simply put, is beyond belief in a civilized society that 30 Senators -- all Republicans -- voted in favor of rape, gang rape, in the precipitating case that caused Franken to try and end governmental sanctioning of this outrage.


Antonin Scalia and Glenn Beck: Just Two Degrees of Radical Separation

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By Mark Karlin

Not long ago, I wrote a blog entry about how Antonin Scalia wrote a dissenting opinion in a capital punishment case appeal in which he made the chilling and mind-boggling argument that the Consitution did not prohibit executing an innocent man.

Don't believe it, read his dissenting opinion.

Scalia portrays himself as a "strict constructionist," but he -- li