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BP Puts Easy Street On Easy Street

Posted on March 8, 2011 by

BP has spent untold millions on its Make It Right advertising campaign, designed to convince the public that the oil giant is undoing the damage caused by its giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Exhibit ZZZ: This TV … Continue reading →

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Is Hungary’s Prime Minister Slow As Molasses?

Posted on October 10, 2010 by

(Still in iPadland, so no links) The Associated Press reported on Saturday that Hungary’s red sludge reservoir is “very likely” to collapse, dumping another 90 million gallons of the goo into the Hungarian countryside – for a grand total of … Continue reading →

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Haley Barbour Says News Media Are Tar Balls

Posted on June 30, 2010 by

On Tuesday’s All Things Considered, Mississippi governor Haley Barbour told NPR listeners that the news media are a bigger threat to the Magnolia State than the BP oil spill is: The news media coverage did not differentiate from what was … Continue reading →

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BP=Brutish Petroleum (NYT), Bash President (WSJ)

Posted on June 20, 2010 by

Saturday was surely Bratish Petroleum day, what with Typhoid Tony Hayward gone a-yachting and all. Via the New York Times: BP officials on Saturday scrambled yet again to respond to another public relations challenge when their embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, … Continue reading →

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BP “Faking This Right”

Posted on June 12, 2010 by

BP’s “Making This Right” media campaign is a slow-motion train wreck, starting with anything featuring CEO Typhoid Tony Hayward, a man who truly puts the “damage” in damage control. (Can we agree that Hayward is the worst media spokesman since … Continue reading →

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Campaign Outsider Update Event™

Posted on May 29, 2010 by

Whenever the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider is faced with three posts to update, we promptly issue an official Update Alert© and host an official Update Event (pat. pending). To wit: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facetime Farce, Revisited When we posted about … Continue reading →

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BP Spin Patrol Update

Posted on May 28, 2010 by

After inexplicably sitting out Wednesday, BP’s full-page (read: expensive) damage control ads reappeared in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal on Thursday. BP’s elaborate spinsite is here. Have a blast.

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Sarah Palindrone

Posted on May 24, 2010 by

Even by the subterranean standards at Fox News, Chris Wallace’s interview of Sarah Palin yesterday was a flat-out embarrassment. Not only did Wallace allow Palin to Katrina Barack Obama over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, she also … Continue reading →

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Rand Paul, Flee Party Idol

Posted on May 23, 2010 by

So Tea Party movement flavor du jour Rand Paul, after sweeping through the Kentucky U.S. Senate GOP primary, has put both feet in his increasingly suspect mouth. Foot #1: On Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC leftathon, Paul trashed the 1964 Civil Rights … Continue reading →

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BP Does Not Stand For Best Practices

Posted on May 21, 2010 by

Arr-ooo-gah! Arr-ooo-gah! BP has shifted into DEFCON 4 as oil keeps pouring into the Gulf of Mexico and turmoil keeps pouring onto BP. First, the oil. According to Reuters: BP said on Thursday it was siphoning 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons/795,000 … Continue reading →

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