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Tiger Woodshed
The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider isn’t on this earth long enough to read more than two articles about Friday’s Tigerpalooza. But we did happen to catch a couple of pieces in the weekend Wall Street Journal. The first piece … Continue reading
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Tagged Jason Gay, mea culpresser, Tiger Woods apology, Tigerpalooza, Wall Street Journal, Woodsman
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NYT Columnist A Total Weanie
From Campaign Outsider’s Bad Sentence o’ the Day ® Desk: New York Times op-ed contributor Charles Blow had a column in Saturday’s edition that addresses the movement of young adults in the U.S. “away from organized religion while trying desperately … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Sentence o' the Day®, Charles Blow, loosey-goosey usagey folks, New York Times
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You Call That Art?
Excellent A-Hed (definition here) in Friday’s Wall Street Journal. Head/subheadlines: After the Bubble, Beauty Is But Fleeting for Greenspan Portraits Some Owners Who Paid Top Dollar Stash Paintings of Ex-Fed Chief in Closet, Under Bed Lede: In the offices of … Continue reading
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Tagged A-Hed, Alan Greenspan, Erin Crowe, Greenspaniard, Wall Street Journal
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Palin By Comparison
Is it good or bad for Sarah Palin (R-No Hopey, No Changey) that she’s being attacked from the left and from the right? Lefty Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic has the No Hopey beat covered. Righty Dorothy Rabinowitz of … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorothy Rabinowitz, hopey changey, Leon Wieseltier, New Republic, Sarah Palin, Wall Street Journal
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NYT War Coverage Under Fire
I don’t care what Matthew Rothschild of The Progressive says about New York Times reporter C.J. Chivers’ Afghanistan war coverage (via faithful commenter CAvard). Rothschild’s lede: I’m disgusted with the New York Times coverage of the U.S. assault on Marja. … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Chivers, Matthew Rothschild, New York Times, The Progressive, Tyler Hicks
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Gail Collins Should Be More Kay-ful
For my money (of which there’s not very much), New York Times columnist Gail Collins is routinely a better read than the paper’s Op-It Girl Maureen Dowd. But today’s piece seemed to slip the rails in a reference to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative Political Action Conference, Debra Medina, Glenn Beck, Texas GOP
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NYT Paterson Shoe Finally Drops
So after all the hoopla – • From a New York Observer reporter’s tweet a week and a half ago (“anyone hearing about NYT bombshell on Paterson? Heard big, damanging [sic] story comin [sic]. been working for weeks, but still … Continue reading
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Tagged David Paterson, David W. Johnson, New York Observer, New York Post, New York Times, Public Editor
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‘Vice’ Precedent
Here at the Global Worldwide Headquarters of Campaign Outsider, we tend to be as open-minded as the next guy – assuming, of course, the next guy isn’t Jerry Springer. But when the hardworking staff read David Carr’s column in Monday’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Forbes, General Butt Naked, Jerry Springer, Stephen Glass, VBS.tv, Vice
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C.J. Chivers (As in, Shivers)
First, a quibble. Here’s the lede from C.J. Chivers’ page one piece in Sunday’s New York Times about a Marine battalion getting its first taste of war: MARJA, Afghanistan — The helicopters landed before dawn Saturday in a poppy field … Continue reading
