Monthly Archives: March 2010

Go Muskies!

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

As a proud Class of ’71 Xavier University graduate (full disclosure: I’ve never given them any money, then or now), I was of course thrilled to see the old alma mater on Page One of Tuesday’s New York Times. Headline … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Boston Globe, Derrick Jackson, New York Times, Sister Rose Ann Fleming, Xavier University | 4 Comments

Campaign Outsider Punctuation Patrol (pat. pending)

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

In Monday’s New York Times, “This Land” columnist Dan Barry filed a chilling recreation of last week’s shootout at the Pentagon, which left two Pentagon Force Protection Agency officers wounded. Representative sample, depicting the shooter as the latest in an … Continue reading →

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Campaign Outsider Official Twofer®

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

From the Weekend Wall Street Journal: Forbidden Fruit: Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones Steve Ballmer Sours on Apple Product; Work for Ford, Drive a Ford From the Sunday New York Times: Apple’s Spat With Google Is Getting Personal Questions? Comments? Bitter Recriminations?

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Who Is Gwilym McGrew?

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

( . . . with apologies to the Wall Street Journal editorial page) Sunday’s Boston Globe op-ed page featured an advertorial about a virtually impenetrable National Marine Fisheries Service dustup in Gloucester. The ad – which reprinted a March 9 … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Gloucester Daily Times, Gwilym McGrew, NOAA, Wall Street Journal, Who Is Vince Foster | 5 Comments

What I Caught

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I went to the Big Town and here’s what we took in (sorry for the goofy graphics, but I can’t get them straightened out): WEDNESDAY Any day that Page One of both the New York Times … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Calder, Caravaggio, David Smith, George Segal, Grandma Moses, Joseph Beuys, Maira Kalman, Man Ray, Marina Abramovic, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Miroslav Tichy, MOMA, Red, Remembering Mr. Maugham | 4 Comments

Gone Fishin’

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider will be incommuniblogo for the next few days. Play nice.

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Dizzy Lizzy Cheney

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Liz Cheney didn’t fall far from the tree. The daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney is fronting a website called Keep America Safe that is hazardous to America’s political health, according to some. From a piece on the lefty … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Al-Qaeda Seven, AlterNet, Daily Beast, George Will, Harry Reid racist, Huffington Post, Keep America Safe, Liz Cheney, Suzanne Lachelier, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

From The Mailbag

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider, it’s always a banner day when more than one letter pours into the ol’ mailbag. So imagine our excitement when we received two – count ’em, two – survey-related missives in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2010 Census Advance Letter, fauxraising surveys, One swell foop, U.S. Census | Leave a comment

New York Times Public Forgetitor

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

The New York Times is the current selection in the news media’s Plagiarist of the Month Club, a dis-honorific that Times Public Editor Clark Hoyt addresses in his column this week, headlined “Journalistic Shoplifting.” The back-story, as deconstructed by Hoyt: … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew Ross Sorkin, Clark Hoyt, dis-honorific, Gawker, New York Times Public Editor, plagiarism, Plagiarist of the Month Club, Zachery Kouwe | 1 Comment

The Los Angeles Times Front Page Newsstand

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Via the New York Times, not to mention through the looking glass: The entire first page of The Los Angeles Times on Friday was an ad that looked, in part, like the front page of The Los Angeles Times, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, Los Angeles Times, Southland, True Blood | 1 Comment