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When a Nation Forgets Its Own Clichés (‘Tamper Down’ Edition)
From our That’s Just Sad desk Every now and again the hardclipping staff chronicles the mangled phrases uttered by the differently clichéd among us and, man, they are legion. Here’s our latest batch, in reverse chronological order. • The other … Continue reading
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Donald Trump Is Truly America’s First Cubist President
From our Pablo Picasso desk Last fall the hardworking staff noted – Exclusive! – that Donald Trump Is Our First Cubist Presidential Candidate (Because He’s on Every Side of Every Issue). We even provided this handy clip ‘n’ save graphic, compliments of … Continue reading
Seriously, When Did ‘Based On’ Turn Into ‘Based Off Of’?
From our Syn Tax on Bad Grammar desk Well the hardworking staff was blithely perusing the relentless Brian Stelter’s CNN Reliable Sources newsletter let night when we came across this: Really? Based off of? The hardwincing staff has endured this example of American … Continue reading
Civilians Who Run Full-Page Ads in the New York Times (@elondumptrump Edition)
From our never-ending All Those Dollars and No Sense series Elon Musk, celebrated electric carhop and fledgling space cadet, generally gets positive press – except for yesterday, when this full-page ad appeared in four daily newspapers. Close-up for the … Continue reading
Quote o’ the Day (To Know Trump Edition)
We are reminded every day that Pres. Donald Trump (R-Donald Trump) is, for all practical purposes, pre-verbal. See the transcript from his recent Time interview for the gory details. But every once in a while we get a glimpse of … Continue reading
New York Times Publishes Chinese Government Propaganda
In the run-up to yesterday’s Donald Trump-Xi Jinping hoedown at Mar-a-Lago, the New York Times ran this full-page piece of aditprop from Chinese government mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency. (To be fair graf goes here) To be fair, just … Continue reading
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Tagged aditprop, Donald Trump, Mar-a-Lago, New York Times, Xi Jinpng, Xinhua News Agency
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Donald Trump Didn’t Honor Ryan Owens. He Used Him.
This is really hard to write, because in no way do we wish to minimize the death of Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens, who was killed in Yemen on Jan. 29 in a raid President Donald Trump has said was highly successful. Except … Continue reading
Real News Goes Full-Page Boogie at Donald Trump
Ever since Donald Trump became the tweeter-in-chief, the New York Times has been his favorite chew toy. Exhibit Umpteen (from yesterday): But the Grey Lady is punching back. From yesterday’s Times: Interestingly, nytimes.com/truth takes you to the subscription department, … Continue reading
Trump Coat Holders Howie Carr, Bill Belichick Ascend to NYT
From our Late to the Party of Two desk As our kissin’ cousins at Two-Daily Town have dutifully noted, Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr is not only a charter member of the local Donald Trump fanboy club, he’s also a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Belichick, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Charter Coat Holder, Donald Trump, Ellen DeGeneres, hairdo-in-chief, hardbleeding staff, Howie Carr, Jimmy Kimmel, Kevin Slane, Mar-a-Lago, Mark Shanahan, Matt Damon, Meredith Goldstein, Namesniks, Nicole Yang, Oscars, Palm Beach, sinergy, snakey local broadsheet, Super Bowl LI, Tim Gray, went over like the metric system
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The Zero-Character Twitter Presidency
Donald J. Trump, America’s tweeter-in-chief, speaks in 140-character bursts. He also, to all appearances, thinks in 140-character bursts. But he acts with absolutely no character at all. Just consider one hour in the Twitter life of the man who purports … Continue reading
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Tagged @realdonaldtrump, anti-Semitism, axis of ego, Benjamin Netanyahu, CNN, Crimea, Donald Trump, fake news, FBI, New York Times, NSA, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Washington Post
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