Monthly Archives: October 2012

NYT’s Gail Collins: Brown & Warren ‘Two Angry Squirrels’

New York Times curMidgeon Gail Collins did a Saturday drive-by of U.S. Senate races, and here’s what she said about our Bay State bakeoff: Nobody in Massachusetts could have missed the fact that there’s a Senate race going on. In … Continue reading

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Weekly Standard: Factchecking The Factcheckers

The hardworking staff freely admits that we’ve often relied on sites such as FactCheck.org, PolitiFact.com, and the Washington Post’s Fact Checker to question the campaign ads currently swarming the TV airwaves like gnats at a summer barbecue. But we also … Continue reading

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Ads ‘n’ Ends From The Massachusetts Congressional Races

Once around the Public Garden, James, and don’t spare the horses. Sean Bielat: Hits and Missus Fourth Congressional district repeat candidate Sean Bielat (R-I Won’t Be Frank) has launched his first TV spot in the race against Joe Kennedy III … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Globe And Herald Editorial Cartoonists Agree!)

Stop the presses! The Boston Globe’s Dan Wasserman and the Boston Herald’s Jerry Holbert had the same line on the first presidential debate. Details at IGTLTDT.  

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Red Sock Of Courage Edition)

Curt Schilling has officially hit sock bottom. Details at IGTLTDT.  

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (The Herald Heralds Itself . . . Again)

The feisty local tabloid gets all double-jointed patting itself on the back. Details at IGTLTDT.

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Brown/Warren Senate Race: We’re Number Ugliest! (II)

First, as the hardworking staff duly noted the other day, it was the Daily Beast and MSNBC’s First Read. Now it’s BuzzFeed: The Ugliest Campaign In America A plan to keep it civil has backfired badly in Massachusetts. Scott Brown … Continue reading

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Dead Blogging The Fender Bender In Denver

Ads ‘n’ ends from last night’s Barack Obama/Mitt Romney bakeoff in the Mile High/Low Expectations City: • If you picked “crushed” for your drinking game, you were knee-walking by 9:14. • The first half hour of this thing was strictly … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Just Call Him Howie Carr-toon)

There’s something entirely cartoonish about the Boston Herald’s front page today. Details at IGTLTDT.  

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Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads In The New York Times (William Louis-Dreyfus Edition)

From our First-World Bitching desk The hardenvying staff has previously noted people who have the means (meaning $125,000-$175,000) to bloviate in a full-page New York Times ad about whatever they want to bloviate about. Now comes William Louis-Dreyfus, who says … Continue reading

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