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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 6:58pm.
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A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW If you produce a "Top Gun" where you’re glorifying pilots, the military will give you every assistance. But if you are arguing something that’s critical of what the military would be doing, you’re probably going to get the cold shoulder. A film like "Ironman," based on a Marvel comic, portrays the military in a positive light, or even more so, as morally correct. It’s seen as a real recruiting vehicle in tough recruiting times.  Technorati Tags: Interviews military-industrial complex
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 05/06/2008 - 11:53am.
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Where are the questions about Rick Renzi, whom he got in a fist fight with, but eventually became friends with, who served in McCain's past campaign, and who’s now received a 53-count indictment against him by the FBI? McCain kept Renzi on as a co-chair of his Arizona campaign while running for office, after the guy was being investigated for all manner of misdeeds. Or the questions about Pastor Hagee. But beyond that, he befriended the late Jerry Falwell, who blamed 9/11 on Americans. He blamed it on gays and lesbians and a variety of other groups. -- Cliff Schecter on the Real McCain Technorati Tags: Interviews Schecter BuzzFlash McCain
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 4:01pm.
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The late Molly Ivins is beloved by progressive voters and political junkies for both her wisdom and her wit. BuzzFlash already has honored her as a Wings of Justice recipient. Now we pay tribute by revisiting her remarks, made in the run-up to the last US presidential election in 2004. We reprint our August 11, 2004 interview in full, below:
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
by Sean-Paul Kelley for BuzzFlash.com Technorati Tags: Interviews Molly Ivins Elections
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 4:34pm.
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A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW Year after year, the Bush people come forward and say how great the economy is, and that's full of crap. Since Bush has been President, median family income has gone down. For working families, it's gone down hundreds of dollars. Five million more people have slipped into poverty. Eight million people have lost their health insurance. Three million Americans have lost their pensions. And we have lost millions of good-paying jobs. -- Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 8:34am.
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A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW I'm going to tell you right now it's a tough challenge, but a lot of things are tough. Tougher than the challenge of taking down an incumbent is the challenge of getting up every day and struggling with how you're going to meet your mortgage or your rent, or take care of your children and your parents as they age, and see that you get health care, and have an environment that means we have clean air to breathe, and we leave the earth in a better condition than when we found it. Technorati Tags: Interviews Donna Edwards Primary Progressives Netroots Wynn Maryland Democrats
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 04/01/2008 - 5:44am.
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A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW I think what has happened with Jeremiah Wright is that, whatever you think of him, and however unfair the media has been to him, he has given the right a way to mobilize resentment against Barack Obama that they never had before ... [Wright] is presented as the quintessential angry black man that the right wing loves to incite hatred against. So Sean Hannity is running with this as far as he can. -- Journalist Max Blumenthal * * * Technorati Tags: Interviews
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 5:04am.
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A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW I think it's fair to say that they are not just playing the "race card," but they're trying to combine race and fear. This is the thing that probably pushed me over the edge with the Clintons. ... They see race as an effective button to push to move people in their direction, to create doubt. And that was the whole Rove thing, to create enough doubt that people go back to their default positions and their belief systems. ... They're using fear to put them where they want to be. Technorati Tags: Interviews
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 9:05am.
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A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW Some conservatives want to blame it all on George W. Bush, and they say, no, it's not our fault. He's the one who betrayed the conservative movement. That is just a cop-out, because George Bush could not have done anything that he did without the support of the conservatives who controlled the House and the Senate and the Supreme Court at the time. In fact, he wouldn't even have been President without them. ...
I think they have ruined the economy. They've ruined the country. They've ruined our image around the world. And they've ruined the conservative brand name. I don't think they can or should ever be trusted with power again.
-- Bill Press, Author, Progressive Talk Radio Host, Political Commentator and Former Chair of the California Democratic Party
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Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 1:47am.
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A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW It's funny that, with all the claims of how successful the surge is, you haven't seen a big surge in the amount of on-the-ground reporting by American journalists. You would think, if things were so calm there, that you'd be getting a tremendous surge in the on-the-scene reporting by Americans. But they still seem to be mainly relying on their Iraqi staffers. That seems to be a tip-off that things are not so hunkey-dory. Technorati Tags: Interviews Greg Mitchell Iraq Media War Reporters Colin Powell
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