Tag Archives: Fred Barnes

Our Rick Perry Anti-Redemption Edition

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

As you splendid readers might – or more likely might not – remember, the hardworking staff recently noted The Weekly Standard’s rehab job on lame duck Gov. Rick Perry (R-Oops), who once again has presidential ambitions. (Far more convincing – … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Amy Davidson, Baton Rouge, Comeback Kid, Cryin' John Boehner, David Duke, deportation, Earl Long, Edwin Edwards, Fred Barnes, Huey Long, immigration hearings, Jennifer Rubin, Kingfish, KKK, Louisiana, Matt Labash, Pres. Obama, Rick Perry, Russell B. Long, Ted Cruz (Control), The New Yorker, The Weekly Standard, Washington Post | 2 Comments

The Weekly Standard, Redemption Issue (Rick Perry/Edwin Edwards Edition)

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Comeback Party desk Last week’s issue of The Weekly Standard featured a pair of Act Two political characters – one failed, one jailed – auditioning for the 2014 Comeback Kid designation. Start with Fred Barnes’s take on … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Baton Rouge, Comeback Kid, David Duke, Earl Long, Edwin Edwards, Fred Barnes, Huey Long, Jennifer Rubin, Kingfish, KKK, Louisiana, Matt Labash, Rick Perry, Russell B. Long, The Weekly Standard, Washington Post | 2 Comments

Weekly Standard Exclusive! Charles Krauthammer Is Twins!!

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

For most of its 20-year history, The Weekly Standard has been sort of cruise-crazy. The neocon magazine, long considered the in-house organ for the House of Bush, has sponsored cruises from St. Maarten to Alaska, where Weekly Standard founder/editor William … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alaska, Broadmoor Resort, Byron York, Charles Krauthammer, Chris Krauthammer, Colorado Springs, Fred Barnes, House of Bush, Michael Barone, Sarah Palin, St. Maarten, The Weekly Standard, Washington Examiner, William Kristol | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging The Fender Bender In Denver

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Ads ‘n’ ends from last night’s Barack Obama/Mitt Romney bakeoff in the Mile High/Low Expectations City: • If you picked “crushed” for your drinking game, you were knee-walking by 9:14. • The first half hour of this thing was strictly … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barack Obama, Big Bird, China, Fender Bender in Denver, Fred Barnes, GOP bedwetters, Jim Lehrer, Mitt Romney, Nintendo Air Debate, PBS, presidential debate, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment

Etch A Stretch

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Campaign Outsider

Mitt Romney can’t stand the gaff(e). Fred Barnes highlighted the problem in a recent Weekly Standard column: Gaffing His Way to Victory Mitt Romney is leading the league in gaffes. We know this because the media are counting. The Weeklists his … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC News, Christian Science Monitor, Eric Fehrnstrom, Etch A Sketch, Fred Barnes, gaffeshow, Mitt Romney, moonwalk, staff-gaffe, Weekly Standard | 6 Comments

JournoList & The NBA

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

After a weeklong slapfight between The Daily Caller and The New Republic, the so-inside-it-should-be-paying-condo-fees JournoList rumpus has officially gone mainstream now that the inexorable Fred Barnes has broached it in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Headline: The Vast Left-Wing Media … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, Fred Barnes, Jonathan Chiat, Journolist, Larry Bird, LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, NBA, The Daily Caller, The New Republic, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment