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Dead Blogging Round Two of the GOP Presidential Rumpus
In the interest of full disclosure, the dustupping staff should mention that we lost interest in last night’s CNN Republican Presidential Debate around the time Ben Carson spoke about hizzzzzz . . . Whatever. Regardless, here’s some dotsam and netsam … Continue reading
Jeb Bush Super PAC Depicts Jeb Bush As Cipher
From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk The Bush-Industrial Complex has finally decided to spend some of its hundred-something millions to kick-start the Frère Apparent’s presidential campaign. From CNN: Jeb Bush super PAC drops $24 million on ads Let the air … Continue reading
Carly to NYT: Drop Dead
It all started when the New York Times’s Mr. Dealbook, Andrew Ross Sorkin, wrote this knee-buckling takedown last week of Carly Fiorina’s tenure at Hewlett-Packard. Representative sample: [I]t is curious to those of us who have reported on her business career that there … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Ross Sorkin, Carliac, Carly Fiorina, Carly for America, CNN, Daily News, Dealbook, Fiorinistas, Ford to City: Drop Dead, Gerald Ford, happy hour debate, Hewlett-Packard, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Marie Antoinette, New Hampshire Union Leader, New York Times, Politico Playbook, Republican National Committee, Tom Perkins
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Tip o’ the Pinhead to Zippy (Talking Statues Edition)
Bill Griffith’s Zippy the Pinhead is the strip comics-lovers love not to understand. But yesterday’s installment didn’t tax the brain too much. We officially dub him Zippy the Eighth. Special bonus: That asterisk in the second panel leads to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Griffith, CNN, Isaac Newton, Queen Victoria, Sherlock Holmes, Talking Statues, Zippy the Eighth, Zippy the Pinhead
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When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés . . .
. . . well, that’s just sad. The hardnoting staff has a habit of recording mangled phrases in the press, and here’s our latest batch. • From Boston Magazine last July, about the 2014 Massachusetts gubernatorial race: “[Martha Coakley’s] apparent reversal … Continue reading
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Tagged @MickeyBPowerPop, Allen Craig, Arsenio Hall, Bill Clinton, Boston Bruins, Boston Globe, Boston magazine, Brian Krause, CNN, Condoleezza Rice, Daniel Nava, David Desharnais, Doug Band, First Read, International Cherry-Pit Spitting Contest, Iowa, Jeremy Roenick, John Kerry, Johnny Carson, mangled phrases, Martha Coakley, Mexican immigrants, Montreal Canadiens, MSNBC, New Republic, NPR, Quebec, Red Sox, Rep. Steve King, SCOTUS, Secretary of State, St. Louis Cardinals, Stanley Cup, stare decisis, Wall Street Journal, Will Middlebrooks
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Herald Revising History Again (Bombing Coverage Coverup II)
The Boston Herald continues to criticize news organizations that erroneously reported an arrest two days after the Marathon bombings – without noting that the feisty local tabloid itself did exactly the same thing. Exhibit A: The Herald’s Press Party webbcast on Friday, … Continue reading
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Beat The Herald Edition)
The Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight resumed last night, with the Boston Herald’s underdog Press Party webcast featuring this: The Boston Herald’s “Press Party” gives credit to local media for outperforming the national print and TV networks in our half-hour show devoted to … Continue reading
