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Track Gals (And Megan!) Rip Off Hardworking Staff

Yesterday the hardworking staff at kissin’ cousin Campaign Outsider noted that the Boston Globe was having a difficult time distinguishing between the late Tip O’Neill and Ken Howard, who played Tip in a local stage production. From yesterday’s boston.com homepage . . … Continue reading

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Restore Our Future Erases Its Past

Restore Our Future, the scorched-earth super PAC that has spent north of $35 million blowtorching Mitt Romney’s GOP presidential primary opponents, has now burned the evidence. From Politico: Restore Our Future cleans its YouTube channel of negative primary spots Restore … Continue reading

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Happy New Year!

The hardworking staff at Campaign Outsider’s Global Worldwide Headquarters thanks all of our splendid readers for their forbearance and comments this past year, and wishes you a happy and prosperous 2012. Cheers!

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So How Did State Farm Get A Free Ad On Campaign Outsider?

When the hardworking staff went to grab this post to scale out on Twitter, we discovered this at the bottom: No idea how it got there, no idea where it went (haven’t seen it again). Certainly haven’t seen any money for it. … Continue reading

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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (NYT Basic Mistake Edition)

From our All the News That’s Fit to Print a Day After Campaign Outsider desk: Friday New York Times The Caucus item: Ad by Group Supporting Bachmann Assails Perry When Representative Michele Bachmann hits the campaign trail, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. … Continue reading

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Appealing My BBC Ban

So a little while ago I offhandedly mentioned how the BBC had removed a comment of mine from their website for being “advertising or promotion,” apparently because the comment included a link to this space. I briefly flirted with the … Continue reading

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RateBU.com(ments) Comment Comment

Twenty minutes after this comment was submitted about RateBU, there was this: If Justin didn’t want to deal with all the backlash from the website and focus on his studies, then he shouldn’t have created it in the first place. … Continue reading

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NYT Hiller Killer Checks In

New York Times “This Land” columnist Dan Barry emailed the Global Worldwide Headquarters regarding our question about why he failed to identify WHDH’s Andy Hiller in this piece on Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Tim Cahill. Barry wrote in the piece: [A] … Continue reading

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Takara-jima Publishing Watch, Day Seven

A week ago, as the hardworking staff duly noted at the time, an outfit called Takara-jima Publishing ran a two-page ad in the New York Times asking this question: Classic teaser ad, yes? Made more teaser-y by the virtual absence … Continue reading

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