Monthly Archives: August 2015

Quote o’ the Day (R.I.P. Ritchie Valens Edition)

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured this House Call piece with Dion DiMucci (of Dion and the Belmonts) in its Mansion section. ‘The Wanderer’ Finds His Voice A teen hit-maker remembers his Bronx home and its connection to a fatal 1959 plane … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, Dion and the Belmonts, Dion DiMucci, House Call, J.P. Richardson, Mansion, Ritchie Valens, The Wanderer, Wall Street Journal, Winter Dance Party tour | 1 Comment

Carly to NYT: Drop Dead

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

It all started when the New York Times’s Mr. Dealbook, Andrew Ross Sorkin, wrote this knee-buckling takedown last week of Carly Fiorina’s tenure at Hewlett-Packard. Representative sample: [I]t is curious to those of us who have reported on her business career that there … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Andrew Ross Sorkin, Carliac, Carly Fiorina, Carly for America, CNN, Daily News, Dealbook, Fiorinistas, Ford to City: Drop Dead, Gerald Ford, happy hour debate, Hewlett-Packard, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Marie Antoinette, New Hampshire Union Leader, New York Times, Politico Playbook, Republican National Committee, Tom Perkins | 2 Comments

Is Forest Whitaker Twice As Good As Al Pacino?

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff noted with interest this item in yesterday’s New York Times Arts, Briefly column. Forest Whitaker Will Make Broadway Debut Forest Whitaker, the Academy Award winning film star, will make his Broadway debut next spring in a revival … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Al Pacino, Arts Briefly, Ben Gazzara, Erie Smith, Eugene O'Neill, Forest Whitaker, Fughie, Hughie, Jason Robards, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Paul Benedict, The Last King of Scotland | 1 Comment

Presidential Candidates: Want Free Ads? It’s a Snap(chat)!

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

The news media love to label things, and presidential elections are no exception. So 2000 was the Hanging Chad Election, 2004 was the Internet Election, 2008 was the Facebook Election, and 2012 was the Twitter Election (with this dissent). But the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged America's Liberty PAC, Barack Obams, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Facebook, Facebook Election, Hanging Chad Election, Hillary Clinton, Instagram, Internet Election, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Just Chillin', Mediashift, New Day for America, Newsweek, Pinterest, Rand Paul, Re/code, Scott Walker, Snapchat, Snapchat Election, TV, Twitter, Twitter election, Wired, YouTube | 1 Comment

The New ‘New Republic’ Has No Advertising

Posted on August 22, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

In the wake of the revolution/evolution at The New Republic last year, the hardworking staff has noted the Potemkin quality of the magazine, which is to say no advertising. But in its current issue, the new New Republic has hit rock bottom. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Benjamin Mullin, black history, boy publisher, Chris Hughes, Citi, Huffington Post, Jacobin, jacobinmag.com, mass exodus, Poynter, Talking Points Memo, The New Republic | 1 Comment

Claire McCaskill’s Fabulous Scott Brownout

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

New York magazine’s Marin Cogan has a corker of a piece in The Cut today (tip o’ the pixel to Politico’s Morning Score). Drinking Beer and Watching Baseball With Senator Claire McCaskill — the Most Candid Woman in the U.S. Senate “WHAT??? … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Claire McCaskill, Crystal Cruise's Crystal Visions Enrichment Program, Marin Cogan, Morning Score, New York magazine, Politico, Scott Brown, The Cut | 1 Comment

Evaluating E-Cigarettes Is a Drag

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Splendid readers! The hardlysmoking staff could use your help in sorting this headscratcher out. Over the past several days we’ve encountered two radically different reports on the relative merits/hazards of electronic cigarettes, and we can’t quite figure out which one is right. Or if both … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Daily Beast, e-cigarettes, JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association, PHE, Public Health England, The Guardian, Tripp Mickle, vaping | 4 Comments

Starbucks Is Not Just a Coffee Shop

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

You think the Seattle-based coffee chain is just a place to plant yourself, open your MacBook Air, and drink some overpriced Charbucks Latte? No. Starbucks is not just another outpost in Laptopistan. Starbucks is . . . a lifestyle brand. A … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Akeelah and the Bee, Bryan Stevenson, Charbucks, Equal Justice Initiative, Facebook, goo-goo ads, Google, Howard Schultz, Just Mercy, Laptopistan, New York Times, Opus Collection, Starbucks, Starbucks Salon, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment

First White House Transgender Hire Is From Brookline

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

The nation’s much-heralded transgender moment has finally ascended to America’s Big House. From the Washington Blaze: In first, White House hires openly trans staffer The White House for the first time has hired an openly transgender person as a member of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged America's Big House, Brookline, Daily Beast, LGBT, National Center for Transgender Equality’s Racial & Economic Justice Initiative, Presidential Personnel Office, Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, transgender moment, Washington Blaze, White House, White House Office of Presidential Personnel | 1 Comment

Wait, What? They Like Ike Memorial?

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardworking staff noted last fall, The Weekly Standard’s senior editor Andrew Ferguson has been on the Eisenhower Memorial debacle like Brown on Williamson. Then there’s Frank Gehry, the starchitect who designed MIT’s Stata Center among other landmark buildings. His … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Five-Star Folly, Andrew Ferguson, Bob Dole, Donald Trump, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower, Frank Gehry, Gehry's Folly, like Brown on Williamson, MIT, National Mall, Pat Roberts, starchitect, Stata Center, The Weekly Standard | 7 Comments