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Author Archives: Campaign Outsider
Product Place-mint In New Jason Reitman Film
From excellent Sneak ADtacknaut Jeff Francis: [L]ast night I saw a secret screening of the new movie directed by Jason Reitman (Up In The Air). I thought of you and your Sneak Adtack site. The movie, “Young Adult,” contains excessive product placement, … Continue reading
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Tagged Jason Reitman, Jeff Francis, product place-mint, Sneak ADtack, Up in the Air, Young Adult
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Boston Herald Right Hand, Meet Boston Herald Left Hand
Two weeks ago, the Boston Herald ran this: Boos for Whitey Bulger costume Murder victim’s brother upset by iParty jumpsuit Dedham-based party supply retailer iParty is selling a particularly scary Halloween costume this year — a prison jumpsuit based on … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Herald, Catherine Greig, Halloween, iParty, prison jumpsuit costume, Steven Davis, Whitey Bulger
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NPR=National Public Rehab For Eliot Spitzer
The hardworking staff yields to no one in its admiration for the work of Guy Raz, anchor of NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered. Then again . . . Sunday’s WATC edition featured a segment, Today’s Wall Street Not Much Different … Continue reading
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Tagged Chapter 13, Client 9, Eliot Spitzer, Guy Raz, NPR, Sheriff of Wall Street, Weekend All Things Considered
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NYT’s Ross Douthat Says Romney Will Do That
New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat, a.k.a. The Weakest Link, has officially anointed Mitt Romney (R-I’m Still Speaking) the inevitable GOP 2012 presidential nominee: Ignore the Politico daily briefings, the Rasmussen tracking polls, the angst from conservative activists over … Continue reading
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Tagged inevitable GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Ross Douthat
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As Dorothy Parker Once Said . . .
. . . to her childhood home, “Fare thee well.” From Friday’s New York Times: To Fan Fearing Wrecking Ball, the City Is Dorothy Parker’s As Dorothy Parker once said, New Yorkers like her “take New York personally.” What she … Continue reading
From Our Stating The Obvious Desk
ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd filed this insight in his weekly contribution to the conventional wisdom beat: After watching Fight Night in Vegas, or this week’s Republican debate, which heated up considerably, I was struck again by a truth … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC News, Fight Night in Vegas, George W. Bush, Matthew Dowd, Shotgun Index
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Mitt Romney Is A Moron
Quadrennial White House wannabe Mitt Romney (R-Oops! . . . I’m Running Again) has to be the least funny politician ever. From Matt Viser’s toe-curling report in Friday’s Boston Globe Political Notebook about Romney’s campaign swing through Iowa: When a woman … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, e-Viser-ation, Iowa, Matt Viser, Mitt Romney, Political Notebook
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Occupy Wall Street Goes Commercial
The Occupy Everything set has apparently gotten fed up with establishment media drive-by hits like this and this from the Wall Street Journal. So the Occupyniks have decided to create their own media vehicles, starting with print publications ranging from … Continue reading
That’s Just So Mean! (Hillary Clinton Hair Edition)
From this week’s Parade Celebrity file: Hillary Clinton’s Hair-Raising Comment “In the middle of the next big crisis, I’m cutting my hair. Believe me, we won’t be reading about what war is going on.” —Hillary Clinton, who turns 64 today, … Continue reading →