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Stop The Presses: WSJ And NYT Disagree On Mitt Romney’s ‘Vision’
This past weekend featured a most instructive compare-and-contrast about Mitt Romney in the national newspaper Big Dogs. From the Weekend Interview in the Wall Street Journal: On Taxes, ‘Modeling,’ and the Vision Thing Does Mitt Romney have a governing vision, … Continue reading
GOP Social Studies
It’s not that retail politics is for losers in the Republican presidential primary race, but the candidates stumping hardest in Iowa and New Hampshire – Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry – are generally polling lowest. (Exception that … Continue reading
A Christmas Carroll
For my money (of which there isn’t a lot), the best thing about Christmas Day is that it marks the end of Christmas music for another year. Back in the early ’90s, WBUR asked its on-air personalities to record their … Continue reading
Boston Herald’s E-edition Is E-nnoying
The hardworking staff opened the old mailbag the other day and what poured out but a letter from the Boston Herald Home Delivery Department. Which said this: INTRODUCING The Boston Herald e-edition! • Exact replica of the Boston Herald print … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus . . . Pause! (PAC It In Edition)
From Friday’s New York Times: Silent Night (or Two) for Attack Ads WASHINGTON — Santa Claus is bringing a very special present for Newt Gingrich this weekend: a bit of relief. The independent “super PAC” supporting Mitt Romney’s campaign, which has run … Continue reading
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Tagged Mitt Romney, New York Times, Newt Gingrich, super-PAC
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Family Size Edition)
‘Tis the season to cram family members into GOP presidential primary ads. Start with Ann Romney vouching for her husband’s “Character.” Partial transcript: You can never predict what kind of tough decisions are going to come in front of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Perry, Ann Romney, Iowa caucus, Mitt Romney, pop-up video, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, whole mishpocheh
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Boston Herald Turns George Will Into A Shill
Inside-baseball-loving columnist George Will has a problem: His wife, Mari Will, is an adviser to GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry. That doesn’t prevent Will from writing about the GOP presidential primary, but it does require him to disclose his spousal conflict … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Drudge Report, full disclosure, George Will, Mari Will, Rick Perry
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FFRF! Humbug!
An outfit called the Freedom From Religion Foundation ran this full-page ad in Thursday’s New York Times: The FFRF website also features billboards like this (very seasonable) one: Judging by this news media page, the organization is very – no, … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (GOP PAC Attack Edition)
From Politico’s Morning Score: PRO-ROMNEY “RESTORE OUR FUTURE” RIPS PERRY, GINGRICH: “Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry: Too liberal on immigration, too much baggage on ethics,” the ad’s narrator says. http://bit.ly/ubcrgF PRO-PERRY “MAKE US GREAT AGAIN” NAILS ROMNEY, GINGRICH: The ad started running yesterday … Continue reading
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Tagged Make Us Great Again, Mitt Romney, Morning Score, Newt Gingrich, Politico, Restore Our Future, Rick Perry
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Our Robocall From The Draft Hillary Crowd
The Missus, who’s much more in demand than the hardworking staff is, got a phone call the other day from an outfit called Run Hillary 2012, and here’s what the nice robocall woman said: This is a message from RunHillary2012.net. … Continue reading
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Tagged Hillary Clinton, robocalls, Run Hillary 2012, Sam Stein, The Missus, TPM
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