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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
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
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Whac-‘Em-All Edition)
Next week’s Iowa caucuses have turned into a daily double: Mitt Romney v. Ron Paul for win and place, everyone else for show. Cue Rick Perry’s latest ad, which touts the Texas governor as the Congress-free hoss in the race. … Continue reading
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Tagged Iowa Caucuses, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Texas crony capitalism
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Boston Globe Suffocates Boston Herald
When the hardworking staff fetched the Boston Herald from our front porch this morning, it was inside a plastic bag with this printed on one side: The Boston Globe.com Stories you take with you. Stories that stay with you. On … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, Boston Herald, lively index to the Globe, Notjusttheheadlines
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That’s Just So Mean! (Year In Review Edition)
Splendid reader Michael Pahre sent this along: Check out #22, 39, and, of course, your favorite #50: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/12/the_year_in_pictures_part_iii.html That would be photos from boston.com’s The Year in Pictures: Part III. #22: #39: #50: Questions? Comments? Bitter Recriminations?
‘Grunts: The GI Experience’ At Boston’s Panopticon Gallery
If you’re around Kenmore Square this holiday week (we can say holiday now, yes?), get yourself over to the Panopticon Gallery in the Hotel Commonwealth and check out Grunts: The GI Experience. Grunts is military vernacular for United States Army or … Continue reading
Why The New York Times Is A Great Newspaper
Exhibit Umpteen: Amy Harmon’s New York Times front-page feature headlined “Navigating Love and Autism.” Lede: GREENFIELD, Mass. — The first night they slept entwined on his futon, Jack Robison, 19, who had since childhood thought of himself as “not like the … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Harmon, Asperger syndrome, autism, Jack Robison, Kirsten Lindsmith, New York Times
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