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Dr. Ads Gets All Touchy-Feely
From the old mailbag: Dear Dr. Ads, Please tell me which creative director (ahem, Jason Berry) has the biggest cojones in the business. Oh wait, I really did not want to know! If this is what they call “cognitive dissonance,” … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Ads, Jason Berry, Male Cancer Awareness Campaign, MCAC, Rhian Sudgen, Sneak ADtack
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Taylor Branch’s Pen State Of College Athletics
From our Late to the Party desk: Sometimes it’s good to be behind the curve. The hardreading staff has just started digging into Taylor Branch’s monumental October 2011 Atlantic piece The Shame of College Sports (described by Frank Deford in … Continue reading
League Of Conservation Smoters Whacks Brown Again
There’s a pretty good kibitzerpalooza taking place around the pending Scott Brown/Elizabeth Warren bakeoff for the U.S. Senate. In this corner: The League of Conservation Voters, which has launched a $1.8 million ad campaign targeting Brown over his alleged connections … Continue reading
Political Dustups Over . . . Dust?
Apparently farm dust is the new toxic waste in political campaigns. Via the Huffington Post: Ad By Crossroads, Karl Rove’s Outfit, Yanked Off Air For Being False WASHINGTON — An ad by Karl Rove-backed Crossroads GPS was yanked from rotation … Continue reading
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Tagged Crossroads GPS, EPA, farm dust, First Read, Hormone Cain, Huffington Post, Jon Tester, Montana, MSNBC
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Let The Seamus Sweepstakes™ Begin Again (Again)!
Just when the hardworking staff was thinking Seamus might be in the doghouse with New York Times columnist Gail Collins, he shows up in two consecutive columns, Thursday’s and today’s: The antipathy toward Mitt Romney is the most fascinating part … Continue reading
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Tagged @dbernstein, Gail Collins, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Seamus Sweepstakes The Sequel™
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For Mitt Romney, 2005 Was A Very Flip-Flop Year
The Wall Street Journal did no favors for presidential hypeful Mitt Romney (R-Newt Gingrich? Really?) in this Friday front-page piece: To win election as governor of Massachusetts in 2002, Mitt Romney made a truce with liberal activists and cast himself … Continue reading
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Tagged Mitt Romney, Oxymoron Watch, presidential hypeful, Total Moron Watch, Wall Street Journal
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NYT Misleads Readers About Cain Accuser
Actually, it isn’t really fair to single out the New York Times, but this characterization of Herman Cain sexual harassment accuser Karen Kraushaar is emblematic of the news media at large: Mr. Cain has said he does not know [Sharon … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Cain & Airable Edition)
Hormone – sorry, Herman – Cain has launched his first ad campaign, and it’s, well, eminently forgettable. Via MSNBC’s First Read: DES MOINES, Iowa — Herman Cain released his first television ad of the presidential cycle today, not surprisingly, in the first-in-the-nation … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Kleckner, First Read, Herman Cain, Iowa, MSNBC, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Steve Grubbs
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Boston Globe Draws GOP Fire Over Brown/Warren Headlines
Barack Obama often talks about the silly season in politics. Now, welcome to the sensitive season. From Ben Smith’s media blog on Politico: Let the Globe grumbles begin A Republican official sends over two recent headlines from the Boston Globe … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Smith, Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren, GOP, Politico, Scott Brown
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