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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Mitt Romney: Still Running Scared
Day Two in the Bunker for Willard Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts and presidential flameout. The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider asked for Romney’s response to a critical Wall Street Journal op-ed last Friday, and we’ve yet to hear from … Continue reading
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Tagged blogiators, Fee and Strung Along, Free and Strong America, Romneyites
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The Inestimable C.J. Chivers
New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers is back in Afghanistan after an absence of what seemed like forever (writing a book perhaps? Let’s hope). Headline: Foot on Bomb, Marine Defies a Taliban Trap Tyler Hicks/The New York Times Lance Cpl. … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, New York Times, Ryan T. Mathison, Tyler Hicks
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The E Is for Error
In the unending erosion of language standards in daily newspapers, this seems to be the weekend to toss homonyms around willy nilly. Here’s former National Enquirer editor David Perel in a Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined “How the Enquirer Exposed … Continue reading
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Tagged David Perel, Mark Leibovich, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, We Need a Syn-tax
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What Is Mitt Romney Afraid Of?
It’s now been 24 hours since the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider asked Mitt Romney’s peeps to reveal the Great Hairdo’s response to Friday’s Wall Street Journal column featuring this subheadline about the Massachusetts system of RomneyCare: Mitt Romney should … Continue reading
Mittigation
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has been widely proclaimed a winner in the improbable rise of new Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R- Want My Daughter’s Phone Number?), the flavor des jours of the news media (see here, here and here!). … Continue reading
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Tagged Free and Strong America, Kimberley Strassel, Mitt Romney, Scott Brown
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From the Mailbag . . .
This week, up to several missives poured into the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider, much to the delight of the hardworking staff. First up: A letter from Bill Clinton (I/Me/Mine – Chappaqua, NY) headlined, “Lies, rumor-mongering, obstruction of progress … Continue reading
More Cave Drawings
Another gem from New York Times reporter Damien Cave, who’s chronicling Haiti’s earthquake hangover. Exodus to Countryside Reverses Long Trend Maggie Steber for The New York Times Mikerlyne Dorvil, injured in Haiti’s earthquake, rested her head on her brother, Arckela, … Continue reading
“No” Toaster
So the legendary Poe Toaster didn’t show. Every year for the past 60, some “mysterious visitor” has left three roses and a half-bottle of cognac at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in a Baltimore cemetery. Except this year. This year (via … Continue reading
Journalists’ Dilemma Makes Good TV
Haiti has been a petri dish of journalistic quandaries in the to-be-or-not-to-be-involved category. Especially for the TV doctors (via TVNewser): Bob Steele, a journalism values scholar at the Poynter Institute, tells the LA Times’ Matea Gold, “I think it’s very hard for … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Steele, Poynter Institute, Richard Besser, TVNewser
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New U.S. Senator, new look. Questions? Comments? Bitter recriminations?