Author Archives: Campaign Outsider

Grading The GOP Presidential Wannabes

Time to grade the presidential candidates, so once around the park, James, and don’t spare the horses: MITT PLEASURE They say when your opponent is self-destructing, just stay out of his way. In the GOP presidential primaries, Mitt Romney (R-Anderson? Anderson?) … Continue reading

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Department Of Duh! (Boston Globe Social Media Edition)

From Thursday’s Boston Globe: Social media offer new outlet for customer complaints Consumers get action as corporations tune in Really? Who woulda thunk? File under: Last Year’s News, Yesterday.

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Dead Blogging ‘Romeo & Juliet’ At The Boston Ballet

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Opera House to catch the Boston Ballet premiere of Romeo & Juliet and boy, it was swell. Preview:   Some other observations: • Apparently all they did back in 1400 was … Continue reading

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Koch Bros. Whack Obama Edition)

From our Hitting On All Solyndra’s desk: The Obama administration’s half-billion-dollar loan to solar company Solyndra is not only the subject of an independent federal review, it’s also the subject of a new $2.4 million ad campaign. From MSNBC’s First … Continue reading

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Correction o’ the Day (Jersey Shore Edition)

From Thursday’s New York Times: THE ARTS A critic’s notebook article on Monday about an academic conference at the University of Chicago on the television show “Jersey Shore” referred imprecisely to a comment made by Candace Moore, an assistant professor at … Continue reading

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (FCC Full Disclosure Edition)

The opaque organizations behind a whole bunch of political advertising these days may soon have to drop the veil if the Federal Communications Commission has its way. From Advertising Age: FCC’s New Political Ad Disclosure Plan Has Broadcasters Concerned Planned … Continue reading

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The Daily Caller Does Herman Cain’s Dirty Work

Conservative Net-work The Daily Caller has pimped out its email list to the Herman Cainiacs so they could send decent folk like the hardworking staff this: Patriot, Multiple polls have confirmed that Herman Cain is winning the Republican race for … Continue reading

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Obama Bashing Romney Edition)

While Republican presidential wannabes Herman Cain (R-More Stories Than Richard North Patterson) and Rick Perry (R-Laughing Gas) stumble around the political landscape, the Obamanaut super PAC Priorities USA Action is dropping 100 grand on web videos attacking Mitt Romney (R-Anderson? … Continue reading

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Screen Shot o’ the Day (pat. pending)

  That’s pretty much it in a nutshell, yes?

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Let The $4 Billion* Rumpus Begin! ( Make Us Great Again Edition)

(* The amount that will likely be spent on political ads this election cycle.) GOP presidential wannabe Rick Perry (R-Have I Stopped Laughing Yet?) is now being propped up by a $382,000 ad campaign just launched in Iowa and South … Continue reading

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