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Meyer Dings Bell, Carly Snarls & Snarks, Press Picks



Before the City of Bell (“promoting a healthy, balanced and moral lifestyle”)  became a global  symbol of greed, rapacity and plunder by scumbag public officials, the town was best known as the site of the heist of 55 Oscar statuettes from a loading dock on March 8, 2000.
Although three trucking company employees were… »

Press Clips: Windbags, War & WikiLeaks


It didn’t take long for the Beltway’s windbag geniuses to prove anew how brilliant they are, by devising instant conventional wisdom about the unprecedented dump of classified Afghanistan war documents by the double-secret online cult called WikiLeaks.
From the condescending Anne Applebaum (“these documents just don’t… »

PPIC: Voters Oppose Offshore Oil & AB 32 Rollback


By large margins, California’s likely voters oppose expanded offshore oil drilling and believe that enforcement of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions law will create more jobs – not kill them – a new Public Policy Institute of California poll shows.
Public attitudes are polarized between Democrats… »

Humpday: Bell Chimes for Krusty, eMeg in 2016!


Back when George Stephan- opoulos was peddling his memoir of life in the Clinton White House, he often began his stock talk to audiences with a classic joke premised… »

Chris Finnie: Missing the Point About the Grassroots


By Chris Finnie, Special to Calbuzz: Calbuzz recently highlighted a link to Talking Points Memo, headlined “Meg Whitman Copies Obama Playbook,” in which writer Christina Bellantoni argues that eMeg’s… »

Reilly: Underfunded Brown Bid a Case of Deja Vu


Today Calbuzz presents an assessment of the campaign for governor by political strategist, businessman and columnist Clint Reilly. Reilly, whose advice Brown recently sought, has a unique perspective, having… »

Swap Meet: Drugs, Money & the Underwear Bandit


Today Calbuzzard and Chief Editorial Pen Stabber Tom Meyer buzz kills the state Democratic party which, for reasons that remain hazy, made a hash of their chance last weekend… »

Obama Pantsed, Lobby Exposed, Calbuzz Menaced


With a cast of thou- sands, it’s hard to decide exactly who’s the biggest loser in the sad and sorry saga of Shirley Sherrod. For those who’ve been resting… »

Conservative Yakkers: eMeg “Lying” on Immigration


The ferocious pounding that high-profile conservative talk show hosts John and Ken delivered to Meg Whitman over the L.A. airwaves this week clearly shows that her blatant untruthiness isn’t… »

eMeg Asks: What Does Jerry Have to Hide?


In the summer silly season of California’s 1990 campaign for governor, a  strategist for Dianne Feinstein used to say that running against Pete Wilson  was like “getting up every… »

Michael Jackson State Park: No Thriller for Locals


Assem- blyman Mike Davis’s idea to turn Neverland, the 2,500 acre estate once owned by the late Michael Jackson, into a state park is a hit with tourists and… »

The Death of Truth: eMeg and the Politics of Lying


Perhaps it’s just a case of wishful nostalgia, but it seems to us that before the rise of Fox News, Rovian manipulation and the abnegation by certain people of… »

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