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To Know Trump (‘Donald the Menace’ Edition)
As if Donald Trump wasn’t enough of a cartoon, a focus group in Indianapolis this week was asked to compare the GOP candidates to fictional characters, and Trump came through – as he might say – incredible. Sort of. Via … Continue reading
Ads ‘n’ Ends From the Campaign Trail
Itemizing some deductions from the 2016 presidential race. Item: Local TV Stations Love All White House Wannabes Nobody profits from a presidential race more than the broadcast and cable outlets in the early primary states. From Bloomberg Politics: Local TV … Continue reading
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Norman Mailer Had Hillary Clinton Down Cold 20 Years Ago
Yesterday the dustupping staff happened upon Norman Mailer’s essay Clinton and Dole: The War of the Oxymorons, which ran in the cuppa coffee George magazine, and came across this digression about Hillary Rodham Clinton at the 1996 Democratic National Convention … Continue reading
Presidential Ad Flashback (1952 Campaign Song Edition)
First in a series from our Dustup 2016 NostADgia® desk The first presidential campaign television commercials ran in 1952 (the Eisenhower/Stevenson I bakeoff.) At the time, apparently, the inaugural political admakers thought that borrowing from the entertainment world might be … Continue reading
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Tagged 1952 Presidential Campaign, Adlai Stevenson, Dustup 2016, Dustup 2016 NostADgia desk, Dwight Eisenhower, hole in his shoe, I Like Ike, I Love the Gov, Irving Berlin, th man who saved the world from Hitler, University of Wisconsin Advertising Project, Walt Disney Studios
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‘South Park’ Invades Donald Trump’s South Parts
From our To Know Trump desk Full disclosure: The dustupping staff is not a regular viewer of Comedy Central’s South Park, but we’ve always admired the show’s ability to not give a damn what anyone thinks about it. And never … Continue reading
Attention @realDonaldTrump: Hugh Hewitt Blew It
Popular conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt – who tied Donald Trump to the whipping post recently over Middle East affairs, then folded like origami when he was criticized for it – took to Politico yesterday to do the crystal ball thing … Continue reading
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
Welcome to Dustup 2016!
Dustup 2016 – a multi-platform project of Campaign Outsider (Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter to come) – is dedicated to chronicling the most notable antics of the current presidential field. After all, there are (at least) 22 stories in the Naked … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic-themed Jesuit prep school, CNN debate, Donald Trump, Dustup 2016, Endless Summer of Trump, F. Scott Fitzgerald, GOP presidential nomination, Hair Apparent, Jeff Zucker, military-themed boarding school, New York Military Academy, Summer of Trump, The Naked Ambition, Time, Vietnam War
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