Tag Archives: Barack Obama

Wait – Barack Obama IS Like LBJ After All!

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

As America celebrates the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the hot parlor game is to compare ‘n’ contrast Lyndon Baines Johnson’s style of presidenting with Barack Obama’s, largely to the latter’s detriment. As Obama journeyed to … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Bloomsbury, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Summit, Clay Risen, Hubert Humphrey, LBJ, LBJ Library, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Robert Caro, The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act, The New Republic | 2 Comments

Stop the Presses! Two People Actually Object to Stealth Marketing!

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Two people other than the hardtracking staff, that is. As our kissin’ cousins at Two-Daily Town noted last week, Boston Red Sox huckster – sorry, slugger – David Ortiz used the President of the United States as a prop for … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Boston Globe, Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz, Jay Carney, Letters to the Editor, Linda Given, Roger Chappius, Samsung, selfie, selfuffle, Sneak ADtack, SouthShoreRick, Two-Daily Town | 1 Comment

Let the Whatever Billion Dollar Rumpus Begin! (McCutcheon v. FEC Edition)

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission decision letting big-bucks political donors go all in, here’s the bad news by the numbers. From the NBC News digest First Read: Political spending from outside groups — … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Al Gore, Barack Obama, Bette Davis, bucky night, Center for Responsive Politics, fasten your seat belts, FEC, First Read, George W. Bush, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, Mitt Romney, NBC News, Supreme Court | 2 Comments

‘The Most Interesting Front Page in the World’

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

Sharp Page One piece in yesterday’s Boston Sunday Globe about Jonathan Goldsmith, the Vermont actor who plays The Most Interesting Man in the World in Dos Equis commercials. The hardworking staff does always read local front pages, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Boston Globe, Camp David, Dos Equis, Globeniks, Jonathan Goldsmith, Most Interesting Man in the World | Leave a comment

Extra! The Globe Out-Heralds The Herald! (Deval Patrick’s Crack Cousin Edition)

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

This defies the natural order of things, but hey . . . Friday’s Boston Globe, Page One: Friday’s Boston Herald, page 16 . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, crack cousin, Deval Patrick, It's Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town, Jesse Mermell, Onyango Obama, presidential clemency, Reynolds Allen Wintersmith Jr. | Leave a comment

Is Chris Hughes Turning The New Republic Into Edvertorial?

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Chris Hughes answered the phones during Facebook’s startup, consequently became a multimillionaire, subsequently joined the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, and eventually bought The New Republic. It was clear early on that Hughes would make the magazine a house organ for the Obama administration, starting with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Chris Hughes, Christine Haughney, Dan Kennedy, edvertorial, Facebook, Media Nation, New York Times, PandoDaily, Sneak ADtack, The New Republic, TNR | 1 Comment

The New York Times Has An Afro Problem

Posted on October 4, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Maybe the Good Grey Lady was having a bad hair day Wednesday, but the Times certainly seems to be double-talking about the Afro sported by Dante de Blasio, son of New York’s mayoral frontrunner. Two days ago the Times ran … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Afro, Barack Obama, Bill de Blasio, Chirlane McCray, Dante de Blasio, DNAInfo.com, Good Grey Lady, New York Times | 1 Comment

Quote o’ the Day (How Obama Beat Romney Edition)

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

National political correspondent Jim Rutenberg has a killer piece in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine about the digital whiz kids who steered Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. Nut graf: Previous campaigns would make decisions about how to direct their … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2012 presidential campaign, A.M.G., Analytics Media Group, Barack Obama, Jim Rutenberg, Kantar Media CMAG, Mitt Romney, National Media, New York Times, Nielsen, Politico Playbook | 4 Comments

Free The Smoker Whatever!

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

This is getting abusive. As a mostly former smoker, which is to say we spend 22 hours a day not smoking, the hardworking staff must protest the latest surge in repressive taxation of the specially nicotined. Start with the current … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Boston Globe, cigarette excise tax, lefthander, misplaced modifier, sentence fragment, sin tax, specially nicotined, split infinitive, SYNtax, Wall Street Journal | 2 Comments

Idiotic Quotes o’ the Day (Bar(h)ack Obama Edition)

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Campaign Outsider

Via Mediaite: MSNBC’s Axelrod And Gibbs Deny ‘Pro-Obama’ Allegations, Claim Mantle Of ‘Independent’ Analysis MSNBC’s hiring of former high-ranking Obama staffers David Axelrod [Obama’s Narrator] and Robert Gibbs [former Obama White House press secretary] once again puts the network in the position of having to defend … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, CNN, David Axelrod, Howard Kurtz, Mediaite, MSNBC analysts, Obama's Narrator, Robert Gibbs | Leave a comment