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What’s Mitt Romney’s Problem?
As a service to our splendid readers, the hardreading staff checks out a lot of dailypolitical digests, and sometimes the contrasts are just too big to ignore. Case in point: The “Romney Problem” as articulated by MSNBC’s First Read and … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC The Note, Global Worldwide Headquarters, Mitt Romney, MSNBC First Read
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Does The New York Times Have A Campbell Brown Problem?
Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown has had two – count ’em, two – op-eds in the New York Times in the past month or so. The first ran on May 19 under the headline, “Obama: Stop Condescending to Women.” The … Continue reading
Michael Mittken And The Bain Gain
The Sunday Boston Globe featured a knockout piece in its Business sction on the Mitt Romney-Michael Milken connection. The story behind Romney and the junk bond king Deal with Michael Milken in the late ’80s transformed Bain Capital and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bain Capital, Boston Globe, Drexel Burnham Lambert, junk bonds, Michael Milken, Michael Mittgen, Mitt Romney
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When A Nation Forgets Its Own Idioms . . .
. . . it looks sort of idiotic. The hardworking staff can’t help but notice that what once were familiar American phrases have become, well, unfamiliar. Some recent examples: • Democratic strategist on CNN describing Mitt Romney’s Latino problem thanks … Continue reading
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Tagged CNN, Ed Shultz, Elgin Marbles, forget our idioms, French Open, mangled phrases, MBTA, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, Nicolas Sarkozy, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Rick Perry, The Ride
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Mitt Romney Isn’t Rich Enough? Now He Wants The Hardworking Staff’s Money!
The hardworking staff trundled down to the Global Worldwide Headquarters earlier today to open the old mailbag, and what poured out but a letter from Mitt Romney. O frabjous day! Calloou! Callay! The letter started out: Dear Fellow Republican, My … Continue reading
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Tagged Mitt Romney, Politico, RNC, Seinfeld election, Waiting for Godot
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It’s A Seamus! Gail Collins’s Ca-nein Column
It was bound to happen sooner or later. We all have our limits. So today the New York Times featured a Gail Collins column that mentioned Mitt Romney but made no mention of dogs or cars or roofs. In fact, … Continue reading
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