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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
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
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
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
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
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