Monthly Archives: August 2010

Sad State Of Affairs At Boston Herald

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

From Tuesday’s Boston Herald: School guard faces rape rap Cops say he had affair with 14-year-old A Lawrence school security officer and basketball coach had a yearlong illicit love affair with a teen girl at his school that unraveled after Salisbury … Continue reading →

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F.B.I.=Federal Bureau of Idiots

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Sometimes you just gotta reprint – er, report (Fair Use-wise) – a newspaper piece in full. From Tuesday’s New York Times: F.B.I., Challenging Use of Seal, Gets Back a Primer on the Law The Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken on … Continue reading →

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Articles The Hardworking Staff Didn’t Finish (pat. pending)

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

(With apologies to The Weekly Standard’s “Sentences We Didn’t Finish“) From Daily Beast diva Tina Brown: Why America Needed Chelsea’s Wedding Chelsea Clinton’s nuptials weren’t just a celebrity-free PR triumph. They were a happy throwback to the carefree 1990s. Celebrity-free PR … Continue reading →

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New Word o’ the Day (pat. pending)

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Here’s one the hardworking staff hasn’t come across before (via MediaPost): A suspected malvertiser — a group buying online display ads as a means of distributing malicious code – appears to be posing as a bona fide advertising agency representing … Continue reading →

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Free The Textbook 101

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

The cost of college textbooks is high on the radar screen of the Elite Mainstream Media lately, probably because Elite Mainstream Journalists have a lot of college-age kids. From Sunday’s New York Times: $200 Textbook vs. Free. You Do the … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (John Kerry Yacht Edition)

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Friday’s Boston Globe: Kerry says he always intended to pay tax WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry yesterday acknowledged for the first time that he mishandled the political fallout from questions about taxes on his new $7 million yacht berthed … Continue reading →

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Maxine (Dirty?) Waters’ Boston Connection

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

First it was New York Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-How Many Rent-Stabilized Apartments Do You Have?). Now it’s California Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Can You Help My Husband Out?) in front of a House ethics committee. From a Saturday New York Times report: … Continue reading →

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Peggy Noodnik Strikes Again

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

From Peggy Noonan’s current Wall Street Journal column about Ronald Reagan’s 1980 co-opting of the John Birch Society (“Well, he said pleasantly, they said they support me, I didn’t say I support them”): He cared about reality, about the facts … Continue reading →

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