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Monthly Archives: December 2011
NYT Rips The Lid Off Romney’s Gunsels
Restore Our Future, the pro-Mitt Romney Super PAC that has spent $3 million on TV spots in Iowa during the past three weeks, should really have been named Destroy Newt’s Future. From today’s New York Time Page One feature: Group’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Destroy Newt Gingrich, Iowa, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Restore Our Future, super-PAC
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Soul Man Edition)
It’s Come-to-Jesus time in the Iowa airwars. New TV spot from Leaders For Families, a pro-Rick Santorum Super PAC: That testimonial from sanctimonious Iowa operator Bob Vander Plaats (R-$1 Million Price Tag) uses the code words “One of Us” … Continue reading
Globe Magazine Picks Carmen Ortiz As Bostonian Of The Year
From the Boston Globe press release: Boston, MA, Dec. 30, 2011 – The Boston Globe Magazine announced today that it has selected US Attorney Carmen Ortiz as “Bostonian of the Year” for 2011. She will be featured in a special … Continue reading
The Boston Globe’s Slowbituaries
Every now and again an obituary of a local figure turns up in the Boston Globe sort of . . . er . . . late. Previous case in point: Last year’s Globe two-week-late obituary of Joseph A. Sciacca Sr., father of … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Iowa Ad-O-Rama Edition)
And the hit jobs just keep on comin’ in the Hawkeye State’s GOP presidential slapfight. • Rick Perry goes cartoon in his latest Iowa TV spot. Got that? “The fox guarding the henhouse is like asking a Congressman to … Continue reading
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Tagged Fox, I See an America, Iowa, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Newtered, Restore Our Future, Rick Perry, South Carolina
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Free The Philip Morris Whatever!
Good news for the last three smokers in America. Altria, the Potemkin corporation that fronts for Philip Moris, has just established a front group for itself. Via Convenience Store Decisions: Altria’s tobacco operating companies launched Citizens for Tobacco Rights, a Website for … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Iowapalooza Edition)
The TV spots are airing fast and furious in Iowa’s GOP presidential bakeoff. Here’s a handy Des Moines sampler. Let’s start out on a positive note with this Mitt Romney ad: About that “getting rid of programs” part? Romney … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bird, Iowa GOP presidential bakeoff, Mitt Romney, MSNBC First Read, Newt Gingrich, PBS, Ron Paul, Winning Our Future
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Romney Wants To NASCAR Big Bird
Mediabistro’s FishbowlDC passes along this C-Span video from this afternoon in which Mitt Romney (R-Oscar the Grouch) says that he’d defund PBS if elected president. “We’re not going to kill Big Bird, but Big Bird has to have advertisers,” he said, explaining … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bird, C-Span, FishbowlDC, KFC, MediaBistro, Mitt Romney, PBS
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We’re #1! Boston Is America’s Drunkest City
No more inferiority complex for Bostonians – The Daily Beast has issued its 2011 list of America’s Drunkest Cities, and Boston is the tightest of them all. And just so you know this isn’t drunk – er, junk – science, … Continue reading
That’s Rich! (GOP 75% Edition)
Ever since Frank Rich exited the New York Times and entered the Richness Protection Program at New York magazine, the hardworking staff has worried about him dropping off the chin-strokerati radar screen. So we’re launching our That’s Rich! series (pat.pending), … Continue reading
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