Monthly Archives: August 2011

Mittsing In Action

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

From Politico’s On Media blog: No Sunday show for Romney yet In this week’s Turn the Table , Mike Allen spoke to Bob Schieffer, Christiane Amanpour, Candy Crowley and Chris Wallace about the winners and losers of the debt deal, … Continue reading →

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Facehook In Missouri

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Last year the hardworking staff noted the controversy over what the Boston Herald called on its front page: ACEBOOK FLAP Herald lede: Teachers could be disciplined or fired for friending students on Facebook and school administrators would be encouraged to … Continue reading →

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Why The WSJ Is Still A Great Newspaper

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

We know, we know – the Wall Street Journal has been truncated, general-interested, Rupertverted, yak yak yak . . . But what other paper puts a two-pound hailstone on its front page? The Journal’s Friday A-Hed: All Hail the Record Chunk … Continue reading →

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My Rental! My Sublet! My Rental! My Sublet! (II)

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

More slop on the Faye Dunaway rent-control rumpus in Manhattan housing court: Actress Says She Can’t Be Evicted Because She Moved Out The day after court records revealed that Faye Dunaway would be joining the masses of New Yorkers braving housing court … Continue reading →

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Dr. Ads Presents ‘The Baggies’

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

From the Wayback Machine: The good doctor hands out the least-coveted awards in the ad business. (Originally posted on SneakADtack.com)    

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Mitt Romney’s ‘Secret Campaign Cash’

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

NBC News (via Mediaite) is reporting that a Boston-based “mystery company” gave a pro-Romney political committee a drive-by $1 million donation, then disappeared. A mystery company that pumped $1 million into a political committee backing Mitt Romney has been dissolved … Continue reading →

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Olbermann & Rich: Rupert Payboch

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

The Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider has been swamped with compare-and-contrast exercises lately (see here and here and here). Here’s another one: Keith Olbermann (in The Guardian) and Frank Rich (in New York) whacking their former employer Rupert Murdoch. … Continue reading →

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Chewing The Scenery So Hard They Need To Floss

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

From Terry Teachout’s About Last Night blog (via ArtsJournal): TT: Just because Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, and Elsa Lanchester in the denouement of Witness for the Prosecution, Billy Wilder’s film version of Agatha Christie’s play: The hardworking staff loves … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Albert Haynesworth Edition II)

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Today brings another compare and contrast exercise regarding the questionable character of new Patriot Albert Haynesworth (who’ll go on trial in Washington, D.C. later this month on a sexual abuse charge), and questionable judgment of the team in acquiring him. Bob Ryan’s … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Albert Haynesworth Edition)

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

Compare and contrast in clear idiomatic English: Boston Herald Inside Track item on freshly minted New England Patriot Albert Haynesworth: NBC football analyst Cris Collinsworth likens the New England Patriots [team stats]’ re-education of new tackle and NFL badboy Albert Haynesworth to “The Taming of the Shrew!” The “Sunday Night … Continue reading →

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