BuzzFlash Twitter Feed

• Romney Darkens Skin Color to Appear More Hispanic for Univision Interview? -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Cruel & Unusual Punishment: NDAA -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Hobby Lobby’s Billionaire Owner Sues Over Contraception Mandate -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Hoist the Flag, Praise the Lord, Pass the Ammo: US Foreign Policy -- Robert C. Koehler for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Obama: "When you express an attitude that half the country considers itself victims, that somehow they want to be dependent on government, my thinking is maybe you haven't gotten around a lot."
• Advice From the Ground Zero Mosque Imam: Let the Global Movement of Moderates Rise
• Obama Solidifies Lead Over Romney, Ahead by Five Points: Reuters/Ipsos Poll
• PA State Rep.: Photo ID Law Only Disenfranchises the "Lazy" 47 Percent
• Club For Growth To ‘Mixed Bag’ Romney: You’re On Your Own
• Michigan Polls: “In 28 years of polling in Michigan, I don’t think I’ve seen a gender gap this large."
• "Tommy Thompson said Wednesday that Mitt Romney is dragging him down in his Senate race against Rep. Tammy Baldwin."
• "Mainstream Republicans have confided in Sen. Chuck Schumer that they intend to regain control of the GOP from the tea party wing if Mitt Romney loses the election..."
• Eric Alterman | The Problem of Conservative 'Intellectuals'
• The 15 Best Protest Signs From The Chicago Teacher's Strike
• In New Policy, the New York Times Forbids After-the-Fact "Quote Approval"
• A Conservative History of the United States
• Ann Romney’s Private Response to Horse Attacks
• VIDEO: Mitt Romney, Out Of Context
• Secret Ryan Transcript: Social Security and Medicare are the Target
• VIDEO: Jon Stewart Blasts Fox News Over Romney Video: ‘Chaos On Bullsh*t Mountain’
• A Big Loophole? Chick-fil-A Is Already Raising Questionable Money
• VIDEO: Martin Bashir | Romney Doubles Down on "47%" Amid Conservative Jitters
• Arctic "Death Spiral" Leaves Climate Scientists Shocked and Worried
• An Open Letter To Candidate Romney
• GOP Blocks Veterans Jobs Bill: "It Is Altogether Fitting And Proper That We Should Do This"
• SATIRE: Mitt vs. Mitt: A Frank Conversation Between Romney and His Alter Ego
• VIDEO: Cast of 'West Wing' Reunites for Video on Voting
• “The working poor haven’t abdicated responsibility for their lives. They’re drowning in it.”
• "Either we’re at a turning point in the 2012 election, or a lot of pollsters are getting it wrong."
• "An American soldier who sought refuge in Canada after she became disillusioned with the Iraq war has been ordered to leave the country by Thursday."
• Illinois Company on Hook for Millions in 'Popcorn Lung' Lawsuit
• Who Was at Romney's "47 Percent" Fundraiser?
• VIDEO: Live with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
• House Democratic Leaders Letter to Boehner: No Recess Until Responsibilities to American People Met
• Pastors Pledge to Defy IRS by Preaching Politics from Pulpit Ahead of Election
• RNC Anti-Obama Video Offers Master Class In Out-Of-Context Editing
• A Direct Stake in Economic Life
• Romney Has Support Among Lowest Income Voters
• Mitt Romney Video Sends Capitol Hill Republicans Running For The Hills
• Did Romney Use Fake Tan to Appeal to Latino Voters in Univision Appearance?
• "Burnt Orange Report published a picture of a chair hanging from a tree in front of a house in Austin, Texas. In a dark twist on Clint Eastwood’s empty chair meme, it appears the resident, Bud Johnson, lynched the chair as an effigy of President Obama."
• Economists Identify the 100 Top Air Polluters and Highlight the Economics of Environmentalism
• Romney And Allies Have Money, But Will It Matter?
• VIDEO: Romney Campaign Caught Plagiarizing Obama Website
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Shrieks
• VIDEO: Romney Praises Hitler on Energy Policy (NOT Satire, This Really Happened)
• Ohio Secretary of State Reveals Plan to Further Restrict Voting
• Richest 400 Americans' Net Worth Jumps 13 Percent to $1.7 Trillion
• Conservative Media Try to Save Romney's Campaign
• Paul Krugman | Nation of Takers
• Is Romney Tanking the GOP's Efforts to Take Control of the Senate?
• Republican U.S. House Staffer Pleads 'No Contest' to 5 Election Fraud Counts
• "The University of California, Davis police officers who doused students and alumni with pepper spray during a campus protest last November won't face criminal charges, prosecutors said Wednesday."
• When These 6 People Think You Blew It, You Know Your Campaign Is In Trouble
• Tax Moochers: Banks
• "It has been a year since “don’t ask, don’t tell” was repealed, and by most measures the change has been a success, military officials and gay service members say."
• In Rest of '98 "Redistribution" Clip, Obama Speaks of "Competition" and "The Marketplace"
• How the GOP Invented Mitt Romney’s “Moochers”
• 5 Ways Mitt Romney Has Stirred Up Race Resentment
• Poll: Obama Surges In Wisconsin, Leads Romney By 14
• Washington Post Poll: Obama up 8 points over Romney in Virginia
• Obama Leads Romney Among Small Business Owners
• Kristoff: "Romney has proved himself right: We manifestly do have a problem with people who see themselves as victims even as they benefit from loopholes in the tax code. One is running for president."
• "There is a broad and growing feeling now, among Republicans, that this thing is slipping out of Romney's hands," Wall Street Journal editorial writer Peggy Noonan wrote in a blog post. "It's time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one."
• New Romney ad features miners forced to attend pro-Romney rally — without pay
• Five Lies in Romney's War on the "47 Percent" -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Jon Stewart on Romney's "Mr Burns" Moment: "Even His Dad Wouldn't Vote for Him"
• Full Transcript of Romney Fundraising Comments
• Matt Taibbi: Why The Government Won't Fight Wall Street
• Despite PA Supreme Court Sending Anti-Democracy PA Voter Suppression Law Back to Lower Court, It May Still End up Being Implemented in November Election
• Senate Democratic candidates look strong in recent polling
• Lakoff and Wehling: Romney's Libya Tantrum Represents a Foreign Policy That is Dangerous to Peace -- George Lakoff and Elizabeth Wehling for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Romney Decries His Red State Southern Base as Lazy Moochers: the 47% -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• French Study Finds Tumors and Organ Damage in Rats Fed Monsanto Corn
• Here They Go Again! Senate GOP Blocks Veterans Jobs Bill
• Krugman: "But in middle age, close to 80 percent of the population pays income taxes"
• Rolling Stone Article on the FBI’s Entrapment of Occupy Cleveland Activists
• "Republicans believe Mitt Romney’s mistakes could prevent them from winning back the Senate."
• Chick-Fil-A Re-Evaluates Funding for Anti-Gay Marriage Groups
• Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Smallest Extent Ever Recorded
• Justice report faults ATF, DOJ officials for 'Fast and Furious
• Joan Walsh on Paul Ryan Dissing Romney on the "47 Percent" Statement
• Romney Paid Only Half a Percent More in Taxes Than the Poorest People in the U.S.
• Protests And Civil Disobedience Against Construction Of The Keystone XL Pipeline Continue
• Trayvon Martin Update: Tests only identify Zimmerman's DNA on handgun
• How Global Warming Will Make Oil Companies and Mineral Extractors Wealthier
• Anti-Union Ads in Chicago Paid for By Hedge Funds, Billionaires Who Can Profit From the Privatization of Education
• Seniors Who Paid Into Social Security and Medicare to Earn These Benefits Are Among Those Romney Includes in the "47 Percent" Moocher Class
• The Onion: Romney Apologizes To Nation's 150 Million 'Starving, Filthy Beggars'
• Humor: Obama Would Prefer Not to See David Letterman Naked, From His Interview on Late Night
• What Was The Worst Part Of Romney's Rant? The arrogance? The hypocrisy? The petulance? Or the greed?
• Maureen Dowd on Mitt: Let Them Eat Crab Cake
• Video Excerpt of President Obama on David Letterman Talking About the Romney "47 Percent" Statement
• Obama Leads By 5 Points Among Likely Voters in NBC/WSJ Poll. Remember He Leads by Much More Among Registered Voters.
• Seniors Who Paid Into Social Security and Medicare to Earn These Benefits Are Among Those Romney Includes in the "47 Percent" Moocher Class

• More Than 180 Arrested on Occupy Wall Street's First Anniversary
• NYT: Obama Responds to Romney's "47 Percent" Statement on the Late Show With David Letterman The President Received a Standing Ovation from the Audience
• 4,000 Millionaires in Romney's "47%"
• Ann Romney on MoJo Video, 'Mitt Doesn't Need to Do This for a Job'
• James Carter IV, Jimmy's Grandson, Talks About He Tracked Down the Now Infamous Romney Fundraising Remarks on Video -- and the Vindication of His Grandfather
• Polls: Romney’s Libya Response May Have Done Real Damage
• Romney camp used $20M loan to cope with summer cash flow woes
• Big Civil Liberties Set Back: Obama wins right to indefinitely detain Americans under NDAA
• NYT Editorial: Mitt Romney, Class Warrior
• Chicago teachers vote to return to classroom
• The Ostroy Report: "I have some advice for Romney: before you write off every Obama supporter as a lazy, shiftless leech who sucks America's budget dry...check the statistics on poor, uneducated, unemployed white men and see who they're supporting politically. These are your people, Mitt."
• Can Romney Turn the 47% meme to his advantage in counteracting the 99% Occupy meme? Interesting analysis from The Nation.
• Mitt and Bibi: Diplomacy as Demolition Derby
• Keith Olbermann's Epic Special Comment on Romney's Videotape Debacle
• Anti-Abortion Group Launches ‘I Vote Pro-Life’ Pledge Tour on Swing States Campuses -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Paul Ryan's Little-Noticed Marathon -- Brian Scorse for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• The Wheels Come off the Romney Campaign -- Lynn Larrow for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Shocking Videos of Police Brutality at Yesterday's OWS Demonstrations
• WATCH: Full Secret Video of Private Romney Fundraiser
• David Swanson | Mr, President, Why Is My Son in Afghanistan?
• Pennsylvania Voter ID Law Sent Back By State Supreme Court To Lower Court For Reconsideration
• Romney's 'Dependent' Voters: Seniors on Benefits
• Court Says Groups Can Keep Donors Secret
• Washington Post Editorial | Mr. Romney’s "47 Percent" Fantasy
• VIDEO: VoterFraudSneakPeek
• VIDEO: Bain Capital owns Sensata Technologies. Watch soon-to-be ex-Sensata workers respond to leaked Romney video.
• Multiple New Polls: Obama Holding Solid Lead, Romney Fading in All Areas
• "Yeah, Romney's crud. But that video has another important lesson to teach about 'entitlement.'"
• ‘Women For Akin’ Site Pulled, ‘Supporter’ Revealed As Dem Tracker
• "What goes around comes around. Mitt Romney--who as governor called for wiretapping mosques and pioneered the creation of the so-called Commonwealth Fusion Center that keeps us all under surveillance--now finds himself in a storm of controversy over self-described off the cuff remarks caught on tape at a major-donor fundraiser."
• VIDEO: From Guantánamo to NDAA: Obama Admin Bids to Preserve Indefinite Detention at Home and Abroad
• VIDEO: 47 Percent
• Egyptian Warrants Issued For Terry Jones, Coptic Filmmaker over Anti-Muslim Film
• Mother Jones to Release Full Mitt "47%" Video Today ("Around mid-afternoon")
• Derp Derp Romney Surrogate: 47% Remark was Intended for "Businesspeople" Derp Derp Derp
• Former Pres. Jimmy Carter Congratulates Grandson on Unearthing Romney Video
• Paul Ryan Campaigns In New Hampshire Center Bolstered By Stimulus Funding
• Romney's '47 Percent' Remark Alarms Republican Strategists
• SATIRE: Ode To A Campaign In Disarray
• "While conservative activists are circling their wagons around Mitt Romney and encouraging to stand by his claim that the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay federal income taxes are essentially mooching off the government, prominent policy voices on the right are dismayed by his comments — both because they’re inaccurate, and because they cut against fundamental conservative causes."
• Forbes: Memo To Mitt Romney: The 47% Pay Taxes Too
• Romney Will Address Leaked Video On Fox News
• Romney to Half of Us: Not My Job to Worry About You
• A Sea Change in US-Israeli Relations?
• Tape Recordings Nail Debt Collectors In Flagrant Violations of Federal Law
• Why Romney’s Radical Theory of the Freeloading 47 Percent Matters
• Jesus' Wife? "A Harvard historian of early Christianity said the papyrus, written in Coptic in the fourth century, contains a phrase never seen in a piece of Scripture."
• The Delusional Mr. Romney
• The Rude Pundit | Note to Mitt Romney: Everyone Is Dependent on the Government, You Dumb F**k (WARNING: very harsh language)
• The Real Romney Captured on Tape Turns Out to Be a Sneering Plutocrat
• DOJ Says Ruling on Indefinite Detention Law Is ‘Unprecedented’
• Tweeters Mock Newsweek's #MuslimRage Cover
• US Homebuilder Confidence Surges To 6-Year High
• Bloomberg News Prediction: "Today, Mitt Romney Lost the Election"
• We Are All Welfare Queens Now
• Did Anti-Muslim Film Cross Legal Line?
• Occupy's Protest is Not Over. It Has Barely Begun
• Romney Camp Silent On Whether Bain Purchased Brutal Chinese Factory
• Derp Derp "Bay Buchanan, an adviser to Mitt Romney, said on CNN Tuesday morning that Romney's assertion that he doesn't have to 'worry' about 47 percent of Americans was a political analysis." Derp Derp Derp Derp
• The Mystery of Neocon Influence
• SECRET VIDEO II: On Israel, Romney Trashes Palestinians and the Two-State Solution
• Embassy Protests and Middle East Unrest in Context
• New York's Fractivists Keep the Heat on Cuomo
• GOP Civil War Is Coming as Mitt Romney Campaign Flails in Video’s Wake
• Jon Stewart to Debate Bill O’Reilly in Online Pay-Per-View Event
• Joint U.S.-Afghan Military Operations Suspended
• Maddow Blog | "Not Elegantly Stated"
• Now We Know, Republicans Want To Raise Our Taxes
• Mitt Tells Voters in Video to Drop Dead
• Romney "47 Percent" Fundraiser Host: Hedge Fund Manager Who Likes Sex Parties
• How Jimmy Carter's Grandson Helped Leak the Surreal, Damning Secret Romney Fundraiser Video
• What's Behind Mitt's Meltdown
• In ABC Interview, Romney 'Sympathizes' With U.S. Embassy Attackers
• Behind the 'Green Economy': Profiting From Environmental and Climate Crisis
• Bomber Strikes Vehicle in Kabul, Killing 14
• "Peregrine Financial Group's former Chief Executive Russell Wasendorf Sr. pleaded guilty on Monday to embezzling more than $100 million from customers of his futures brokerage, lying to regulators to cover his tracks, and mail fraud."
• SATIRE: In 'Part 2' of Secret Tape, Romney Proposes The Forty-Seve​n-Per-Cent Solution
• "US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday escalated a war of words with a prominent appeals court judge, saying the judge lied in a recent criticism of Scalia's judicial philosophy."
• Liz Cheney Claims Obama Has "Abandoned" Czechoslovakia (Which Hasn't Existed Since The Early '90s)
• Paddy Power, Famed Irish Betting House, Increases Odds on Obama Victory in Light of Romney 47% Government Dependents Statement
• More of the Romney Caught on Tape Revelations. Ghastly! Straight From the Mouth of Romney: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.
• GOP Hill Staffer: By 2010, GOP "Had Collectively Lost Its Mind" -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• GOP Strategy: Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Fact-Checking Curtain -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Religious Right Leaders Send Love Letter to Romney -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Colleges Replaced by Prison? Five Curses of Privatization -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Fascinating Video Showing Painting of An Obama Portrait in Time Lapse Photography
• VIDEO: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Swarm NYC Financial District to Mark 1st Anniversary of 99% Struggle
• The Constitution’s Unhappy Birthday
• Arctic Expert Predicts Final Collapse of Sea Ice Within Four Years
• Portraying teachers as villains doesn’t help a single child.
• House Republicans Plan Two Month Vacation, Leaving Key Bills Awaiting Action
• Voter Suppression: Coming to a State Near You?
• Chicago Teachers Continue Strike; Emanuel Injunction Denied
• VIDEO: Someone Secretly Videotaped Romney Speaking to His Donors
• William Rivers Pitt | I Will Occupy