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Ad o’ the Day™ (Supreme Court Edition)
So the New York Times has rejected this MoveOn.org ad (via Politico’s Playbook) accusing the U.S. Supreme Court of being “Corporate America’s Newest Subsidiary.” Graphic: The sponsors of the ad – MoveOn.org, People for the American Way, and the Alliance … Continue reading
National Trifle Association
You never want to get an envelope stamped “Final Notice” from the National Rifle Association. But that’s exactly what just arrived at the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider. So it is with some trepidation that the hardworking staff is … Continue reading
Simon Sighs
Plaintive TV Guide cover headline: Who Will Replace Simon? The feature story about American Idol’s orderly transition of power mentions plenty of candidates, but here’s the money graf: Everyone from Martha Stewart to Howard Stern has been mentioned as a … Continue reading
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Tagged American Idol, Fox want Foxx, Foxx Hunt, Jamie Foxx, money graf, Simon Cowell
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CBS=Can’t Be Serious
So CBS Sports decided it needed to offload its onerous (read: $6 billion) March Madness® madness. Wednesday New York Times headline: CBS Considered Paying ESPN to Take Tourney Lede: An extraordinary idea was broached last fall when CBS was trying … Continue reading
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Tagged Can't Be Serious, CBS Sports, ESPN, March Madness, NCAA basketball tournament, TBS, The Big Dance, Totally Been Suckered
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Red Sox Pitcher A Wall Street Journal Lackey
Headline in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal: Be Happy Your Team Didn’t Buy Any Pitching Lede: While baseball teams have significantly cut back on their spending over the last two winters, general managers are still often seduced by the lure of … Continue reading
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Tagged Free Agnt Duds, John Lackey, Red Sox Nation, Wall Street Journal
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Times SquareCare
Full disclosure: I hate Times Square. The Missus and I go to the theater in New York a lot, and walking through Times Square is always the worst part of the evening, no matter how bad the play is. See … Continue reading
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Tagged George Bernard Shaw, Timecode Square, Times Square, Times SquareCare
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WHRB.orgy
It’s Orgy season at Harvard radio station WHRB 95.3 FM (program guide here), that time of year when the hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider buys a dozen or so audio cassettes and does some serious guerilla taping. Try it – … Continue reading
What I Caught (Picasso Edition)
So the Missus and I went to the Big Town for a Picasso-palooza and here’s what we took in: First Stop: the Museum of Modern Art for “Picasso: Themes and Variations,” a dazzling array of 123 prints from MOMA’s basement and … Continue reading
Tea Party Poopers
There’s an interesting YouTube/Fair Use dustup developing which – bad luck – involves the disproportionately prominent Tea Party movement. Start with this parody video from liberal advocacy website The Full Ginsburg, which features a faux Crayola CEO thanking Tea Partiers … Continue reading
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Tagged Crayola, Fair Use, Funny or Die, Googletron, Hallmark, I Own The World, Social Times, The Full Ginsburg, YouTube
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