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Final Score—Barack Obama, 44 George Bush, 43
We’ve all seen it—close rivals like Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski giving each other a half shake/quarter back-slap as the winner of a hard fought game leans in and says something to the loser without breaking stride as fans rush the floor. They want you to think it’s something magnanimous like, “Good game, you’ll get…
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Hollywood’s Leading Man
“Am I gonna be a great man, Mammy?” “You sho’ is, youse gwine be president. The book says anybody here can be president.” “Ain’t that somethin’!” —Sammy Davis Jr. and Ethel Waters in Rufus Jones for President Before anybody had even heard of Barack Obama, before anyone had even considered his presidency a possibility, it…
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Flight 1549 — Alive and Safe
The internet became abuzz when a US Airways jetliner began its descent into the water. But people’s fears were quickly put to rest. From The New York Times reporting, it seems as if a miracle occured on the Hudson River. But, according to Newsweek, the National Transportation Safety Board refuses to speculate about what happened.…
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B.I.G.ger Than The Movie
If I got to choose a coast I got to choose the East I live out there, so don’t go there But that don’t mean a nigga can’t rest in the West… Cali got gunplay, models on the runway… —The Notorious B.I.G., “Going Back to Cali” Watching Notorious is like time traveling to back to…
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Diggin’ The Scene, With A Gangsta Lean
Here’s one more reason to keep General Motors afloat for at least a while longer, even as the company announced Thursday that it has revised its 2009 sales estimate downward—a black president has to have a brand new Cadillac. The Buzz doesn’t have anything against imports, but let’s face it, the Obama family just wouldn’t look…
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Presenting Comedy Show Headliner: Dubya!
Now the video over at Slate speaks for itself. And Bushisms author Jacob Weisberg has also ranked the outgoing prez’s top 25 quotes from the past eight years. Yes, The Buzz is ready to help Bush pack on Jan. 20, but won’t you miss his not-supposed-to-be-funny, misunderestimated utterances? Well, maybe in his retirement we’ll start…
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He's Got Some Splainin' To Do
Eric Holder has a family—and an all-American one, at that. That’s the first thing Democrats wanted everyone to know about Barack Obama’s attorney general nominee this morning. Before we got to Marc Rich and Puerto Rican nationalists and gun rights, Democrats wanted everyone to see the man who would be the first black AG as…
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Burris Seated Today (We Think…)
The Buzz can only hope that at age 71, we’ll look as good as Roland Burris, who is actually the third African American U.S. Senator from Illinois in the last 11 years. But we’re also hoping that we pick up a little more humility along life’s journey. We’d like to avoid erecting a mausoleum for ourselves,…
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Visit the Website for More Info
Oh, dear. It looks like President-elect Obama may be starting off on the wrong foot with the New York Times. How dare he not make time in his schedule to grant The Times’ White House correspondents their customary pre-inauguration interview? Even President Bush sat down with the “liberal media elite” days before he took his…
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