news flash

Much of the recent coverage about Russia and Ukraine reminds me of that Afghan news flash in 1987.

"They told us no matter what we're going to catch you – maybe if you're driving on the street with your kids - so we thought, what we'd been seeing on the news: flash bombs, cornering cars," Arthur says.

In 2008, Sarah Palin, accepting the vice presidential nomination, told the Republican convention: “Here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion.”

News flash: They don’t actually run this place.

To the millions who greedily gobbled up scuttlebutt about her legendary meanness over the years, this is far from a news flash.