Herald The Lynchpin For Rep’s U.S. Senate Run

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

If today’s edition is any indication, the Boston Herald will be Stephen Lynch’s in-House organ during his run to replace departing U.S. Sen.  John Kerry (D-Empty Seat).

The feisty local tabloid has one news report (“Some unions already on Lynch’s side”), two columns, and an editorial about Lynch – most all of it positive.

Representative sample: Peter Gelzinis’ column.

STU_8221.JPGWorking-class hero Steve Lynch has got the goods

Steve Lynch was exactly where he wanted to be yesterday afternoon — standing in an ironworkers’ hall, around the corner from the housing project where he grew up, and poised to mount an underdog challenge against a fading political relic.

It’s a place Lynch knows all too well . . .

Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

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Globe Op-Ed Page Plays Hardball With Herald

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Party desk

Wednesday’s Boston Globe op-ed page featured a piece by sports economist Andrew Zimbalist spanking former Red Sox manager Terry Francona for criticizing the Sox owners in his new book as being more interested in money than the game of baseball.

Zimbalist calls Francona’s narrative “as unconvincing, as it is, at points, nasty, petty, inaccurate, and unfair.” That’s not the only thing that’s unfair in this piece. Here’s how it starts . . .

Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

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Let The Wild Chuck Hagel Rumpus Begin! (Twitter Edition)

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The Chuckleheads have branched out from TV spots attacking the Secretary of Defense nominee to social media attacking the Secretary of Defense nominee with this Promoted Tweet (tip o’ the pixel to techPresident):

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There’s also, apparently, this Web ad:

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This all comes from Use Your Mandate, “a purportedly bipartisan effort connected to former Michael Bloomberg aide Bradley Tusk, and using a Republican firm to purchase media” according to techPresident.

Accent on purportedly.

 

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Two Guys Named Mo

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Remarkably, the local dailies pull a crisscross in their editorials today about Gov. Deval Patrick’s appointment of his former chief of staff William “Mo” Cowan to fill the U.S. Senate seat just vacated by John Kerry (D-I Am Secretary of State Now) until the special election this summer.

The Boston Herald’s surprisingly upbeat editorial:

Diversifying the Senate

Yes, Gov. Deval Patrick is inordinately fond of “firsts.” And by appointing his former chief of staff and chief legal counsel Mo Cowan to the U.S. Senate he will double the number of African-Americans currently in that branch, making it the first time since Reconstruction two black men will be serving in that body at the same time — although neither was elected. (South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley earlier named Republican Rep. Tim Scott to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Jim DeMint.)

There is something to be said for bringing a little diversity to a body badly in need of same. But Cowan is also smart, energetic, a consummate professional and at age 43 really just at the start of a promising career that come summer will take him back to the private sector. He is also unflaggingly loyal to the governor he has served since 2009. Patrick won’t have to lose any sleep wondering what Cowan will do or say next.

Which brings us to the best part — he’s not Barney Frank.

From the Boston Globe’s surprisingly downbeat editorial . . .

Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

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Someone Please Put Alex Rodriguez Out Of Our Misery

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From our Couldn’t He Be Al-EX Rodriguez? desk

The hardretching staff – a Made Yankee Fan in Boston since 1974 – has long considered Alex Rodriguez a cancer upon the Pinstripes, and that’s never been truer than now.

From New Yorker writer Ian Crouch’s latest piece:

THE STEROID ERA, CONTINUED

Detroit Tigers v New York Yankees - Game Two

When we left Alex Rodriguez, in mid-October, he had reached what then seemed to be the nadir of his mostly prodigious career, finding himself helpless and despondent at the plate and benched in key moments during the playoffs. His lone accomplishment in a dismal series against the Tigers came when he reportedly used his perch in the dugout to obtain the phone number of a female fan in the stands. (From the Post: “A-Rod Plays the Field.”) Then, after the Yankees fizzled out of the postseason, news came that he was getting hip surgery and would miss a good chunk of the next season.

Now Rodriguez may have discovered another level down toward rock bottom, with the publication of a detailed report in the Miami New Times that accuses him of buying banned performance-enhancing drugs—including steroid creams and human-growth hormone—from a so-called anti-aging clinic in south Florida, beginning in 2009 and continuing through last year. (Rodriguez has hired a lawyer, and his representatives have released a statement denying the allegations. ESPN reported on Tuesday that the Yankees were exploring ways to void his contract.)

Please God, if there’s any mercy in this world, exercise it now and A-Rid of us this al-ball-tross. The hardwishing staff believes we speak for all Yankee fans in saying we’d be eternally grateful.

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That’s What You Get Living In Mayberry

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Boston residents got a big helping of more of the same following last night’s State of the City address by Mayor-for-Life Thomas M. Menino.

Boston Globe report:

Optimistic Menino makes return to public stage

In a speech by turns sentimental and unabashedly bullish, Mayor Thomas M. Menino returned to the public stage Tuesday night after a lengthy illness and offered a buoyant vision of Boston, celebrating accom plishments and outlining initiatives for the future.

Menino entered Faneuil Hall to thunderous applause from a crowd of 800 that included Governor Deval Patrick, members of Congress, and scores of other elected officials and dignitaries gathered for the mayor’s State of the City address. Waving to the audience, Menino — serenaded by a Kelly Clarkson pop anthem with the lyric, “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” — used a cane to help navigate the 50-foot walk to the stage.

Boston Globe editorial . . .

Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

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Letter To Hardworking Staff: Don’t Let Brookline Drop Fox News

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

From the Global Worldwide Headquarters mailbag

The American Conservative Union has sent this letter to the hardworking staff, urging us to take action regarding the liberal watchdog group Media Matters‘ jihad against Fox News.

imagesDear Fellow Conservative,

If you’re outraged that in this critical year Obama-supporting liberals have launched a guerilla war aimed at shutting down Fox News then I need your help and fast.

Please complete and return your enclosed DON’T DROP FOX NEWS immediate action survey within the next 48 hours.

Right now, the pro-Obama liberals at Media Matters are working to destroy the only fair and balanced news channel on the air.

How?

The Media Matters liberals have undertaken a massive “DROP FOX” campaign aimed at pressuring companies who advertise on Fox News into pulling their commercials off Fox News programming.

Massive DropFox Tumblr from Media Matters here.

To be fair, the entire Media Matters website is an obsessive-compulsive example of Fox News derangement.

The American Conservative Union, meanwhile, describes itself this way:

Founded in 1964, the American Conservative Union (ACU) is the oldest and largest grassroots conservative organization in the nation. For more than forty years, ACU has served as an umbrella organization harnessing the collective strength of conservative organizations fighting for Americans who are concerned with liberty, personal responsibility, traditional values, and strong national defense.

Not to mention strong Fox News defense.

But this part of the Survey to be completed by Brookline Resident especially intrigued the headscratching staff:

4. Do you believe the Fox News Channel should bring back the “Glenn Beck” show?

So we wondered: Is there some connection between Beck and the ACU?

And here’s what we found.

So we didn’t fill out the survey.

So sue us.

 

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Boston Herald: Your Zumba Hooker Headquarters

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Margery Eagan has the local dailies’ Maine event in her Boston Herald column today:

zumba122912Potential jurors in Zumba case face probing questions

A truth too naked

“Do you have a domination fetish?”

“Have you dealt with this by hiring a prostitute?”

“Was this a wise investment for you, sir?”

Sadly for dozens of presumably upstanding Maine residents called for the jury pool in the so-called “Zumba” prostitution trial, these are the kind of sexual questions they may be asked . . .

Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

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Are You Ready For The ‘Ready For Hillary’ Super PAC?

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Despite Hillary Clinton’s protestations in her kissathon with Barack Obama on 60 Minutes last Sunday, the 2016 presidential race is very much on, as this Politico Influence item indicates:

CLINTON GETS ANOTHER SUPER PAC: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn’t left her State Department post yet, but already some of her supporters have formed another independent effort on her behalf. Ready for Hillary has filed the FEC paperwork to be a super PAC. It’s the second super PAC this month to form on behalf of a possible Clinton 2016 run. Earlier in January, HILLARYCLINTONSUPERPAC (yes, all one word) filed papers as well. See Ready for Hillary’s filing here: http://bit.ly/Vhnfmp

And see Ready for Hillary’s rumpus here.

From The Hill [!]:

Clinton backers launch ‘Ready for Hillary’ super-PAC in hopes of 2016 campaign

A group of Hillary Clinton supporters is launching a campaign to draft her to run for president — the first [or second, if you believe Politico] major push from an outside group for her to run.

The group, “Ready for Hillary,” filed as a super-PAC with the Federal Election Commission late last week and plans to roll out a website in the coming weeks.

It has already been active online, with nearly 50,000 Twitter followers and almost 30,000 people following the group on Facebook.

The effort is being spearheaded by Allida Black and Judy Beck, two longtime Clinton supporters who were on Clinton’s Virginia Women’s Steering Committee in 2008 and helped her raise more than $100,000.

The two also were behind Women Count, a political action committee that ran ads pushing back against calls for Clinton to drop out early from the 2008 presidential race.

Now, clearly, they want her to drop in.

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Herald Brings Brazil Nightclub Tragedy Home

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

The nightclub fire that killed 233 people in Sao Paulo Santa Maria, Brazil, yesterday has, as many have pointed out, haunting similarities to The Station nightclub fire in Rhode Island a decade ago. Both Boston dailies noted the echoes in their print editions today, one much more vividly than the other.

The Globe ran the story Page One, but it was a pickup from the New York Times.

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The Globe did toss in a couple of local references . . .

Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

 

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