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Finally! Mr. September Makes A Contribution! (Our Gala 2500th Post Edition)

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Alex Rodriguez, the Skunk at the Yanks’ Garden Party, didn’t stink up the joint at the Big Ballpark last night because Raul Ibanez pinch-hit for him in the bottom of the ninth and did this:   And then in the … Continue reading →

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Let The Whatever-Billion-Dollar Rumpus Begin! (Poetry And Pros Edition)

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Michael Scherer waxes lyrical at Time’s Swampland blog: AFP Brings Poetry To Political Boob Tube Politicians are supposed to campaign in poetry and govern in prose. But political advertising this cycle has been, for the most part, a bunch of … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Herald To Globe: Wrong, Baby, Wrong)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Dennis Lehane is all lathered up, according to the Boston Herald’s Track Gals (and Megan!), because a Boston Globe review of his latest book, Live By Night, implied that he’s a racist. At least that’s how Lehane reads it. Details … Continue reading →

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Sarah Palin’s Big Makeover (Big Deal)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From our State of the Union Regress desk: New York magazine’s The Cut blog (tip o’ the pixel to the Missus): Sarah Palin’s Hollywood Makeover: Frosted Lips, Hair Migrating south from her native tundra to the relative tropics of L.A., … Continue reading →

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Three From The Note

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From ABC’s The Note, a trifecta of third-party ads: NRA: National Rifle Advertising “After the National Rifle Association endorsed Mitt Romney for president last Thursday, the group has aired its first TV ad of the 2012 election season attacking President … Continue reading →

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Correction o’ the Day (Corrugated Metal Fence Edition)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From Tuesday’s New York Times: NEW YORK An article in some editions on Sunday about the discovery of a child’s remains in his family’s backyard on Long Island misidentified the kind of fence that was beside the makeshift grave where the remains … Continue reading →

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Let’s All Go To The Lobby . . . )

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Influence peddling is the order of the day at Boston’s local dailies. Details at IGTLTDT.  

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The Skunk At The Yanks’ Garden Party (Let’s Swing At Ball Four! Edition)

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Yankee Killer Alex Rodriguez did it again last night, fanning for the last out on what was decidedly ball four in Game 2 of the ALDS between New York and Baltimore.   Before you start barking at the hardgrudging staff, let’s … Continue reading →

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The Blogola Watch® (Fashion/Shopping Division)

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From our Pay to Plug desk: Fashion/Lifestyle bloggers are engaged in some serious buckraking – from $5000 to $50,000 – for flacking designers and brands, and the blogees are starting to rebel. Details at Sneak Adtack.    

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Columbus Day Edition)

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

From our We Love a Parade desk: The local dailies were definitely not in lockstep in their coverage of Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren at the East Boston Columbus Day Parade. Details at IGTLTDT.    

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