Boston Herald columnist Joe Battenfeld rides to Vicki’s rescue, whacks “brat boys.” All the drama here.
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Defending Vicki Kennedy Edition)
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Scott Brown Piggybacks On GOP’s “Hey, Obama – Build THIS” Riff
Scott Brown (R-I Built Myself) has a new web video out (via Politico’s Morning Score) that “juxtaposes the clip of the president saying ‘somebody else made that happen’ as it relates to success in the private sector against exhortations of free enterprise from John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan. Then it shows a clip of an angry-looking Elizabeth Warren saying, ‘There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody!’ It ends with a still photo of two adorable blonde girls selling glasses of lemonade for 25 cents. The tagline: ‘Let America be America again.'”
That’s just one more variation on the latest political media meme, and it gives Brown a twofer: He gets to whack Obama and Warren with the same stick.
But not only does Brown distort Obama’s words, he also ignores the Romney campaign’s distortion of Obama’s critic in this TV spot.
Double deception. Scott Brown built that.
We’ll give the last word to editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich (via the Boston Globe):
Boston: We’re Number Whatever! (Best American Cities To Buy A House Edition)
The Daily Beast has published a slide show of the Best American Cities to Buy a House, From Minneapolis to Fargo.
That alone should give you a hint of what’s to come.
Setup:
Home prices in cities around the country are slowly showing signs of recovery. As the real-estate market bounces back, The Daily Beast decided to figure out which locales offer potential buyers reasonably priced homes in economically viable communities.
To find the best cities to buy a house, we considered four categories, weighted equally, for 150 cities, with data from the National Association of Realtors and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. First, we looked at the median home price in each city for the first quarter of 2012. Then, because a good deal isn’t a steal if there’s no way to keep up with mortgage payments, we took into account the year-on-year job-growth rate, overall unemployment rate, and ratio of home prices to income.
The winners, so to speak, range from Fargo, ND to Davenport, IA to Decatur, IL to Topeka, KS to Amarillo, TX. Problem is: Who the hell wants to wake up in any of those towns?
It’s no wonder the houses are such a bargain.
Notably absent are the New York and Boston metropolitan areas.
This is one list Bostonians should feel good they didn’t make.
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Tierney Jailbirds Edition)
Everyone brings something to the dance on this story. IGTLTDT has the details here.
Joe K 3.0 Comes To Our House
When the hardworking staff returned home from a post-prandial promenade last evening, we were met by a campaign card attached to our mailbox by some Joe Kennedy III acolyte.
The front:
The back:
Is it just us, or does that feature more eyewash than your corner drugstore? Oh, yeah – and he’s running against the system? Seriously?
The early over-under on Seinfeld “about nothing” references to the campaign: 1132. But we’ll go for the zen thing. The yin and yang of Joe K 3.0: Union bug on the front, QR code on the back.
We’ll see how well they co-exist.
(Photo credit: The Missus)
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Feuding Kennedys Edition)
Say, the Sunday Boston Globe got some scoop about conflict in the Kennedy clan, yeah?
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Let The Massachusetts Ballot Question Rumpus Begin!
Well the Missus and the hardworking staff were watching the latest episode of the car-wreck-interesting USA limited series Political Animals when this spot popped up:
The sponsor? The Massachusetts Right to Repair Coalition, an outfit promoting one of the three ballot questions facing Bay State voters in November. (The other two propose to legalize medical marijuana and legalize assisted suicide. We’ll get to them in the near future, no doubt.)
All due respect to Monica S. of Taunton, though, this is really a big-bucks battle between auto manufacturers (BMW, Chrysler, Ford, and etc.) and auto parts manufacturers (NAPA, MIDAS, and etc.).
(Primer here.)
The hardworking staff has no idea which side is on our side in this donnybrook, so we’ll be consulting our trusty mechanic of 40 years Friendly Fred from Morrison’s Auto-Rite in the coming days.
We’ll keep you posted.
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Fred Willard PBS Backlash Edition)
The Boston Globe gets some payback.
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This Warren’s A Fundraising Record
According to Saturday’s New York Times, the prodigious fundraising of U.S. Senate candidates Scott Brown (R-$19.9 million) and Elizabeth Warren (D-$24.5 million) “could make the Massachusetts contest the most expensive Senate race in the country this year.”
Ya think?
Two fun facts to know and tell:
Ms. Warren’s haul . . . has already catapulted her to No. 15 on the list of most successful Senate money-raisers in history, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics done for The New York Times. [Helpful chart here.] With more than three months to go before Election Day, she is likely to climb higher.
And, given that “[a]bout 60 percent of Ms. Warren’s contributions of more than $200 in the second quarter came from out of state” . . .
“It’s easy for the Hollywood elites to support Warren,” Mr. Brown wrote in a fund-raising appeal on Thursday, because they would not be affected by what he argued were her detrimental policies.
“That’s why I need your help again,” Mr. Brown added. “Even if you can’t contribute $5,000 like Susan Sarandon or Oliver Stone, your online contribution for $10 or $20 or $30 or $40 will sure be appreciated.”
Call it the shucks and aw gambit.
Whatever you call this race, of course, you’ll eventually call it ugly.
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Fred Willard (Adult) Edition)
Check out the hardworking staff’s new website – It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town – here.
And ask for it by name.
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