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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Obama Bashing Romney Edition)
While Republican presidential wannabes Herman Cain (R-More Stories Than Richard North Patterson) and Rick Perry (R-Laughing Gas) stumble around the political landscape, the Obamanaut super PAC Priorities USA Action is dropping 100 grand on web videos attacking Mitt Romney (R-Anderson? … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion* Rumpus Begin! ( Make Us Great Again Edition)
(* The amount that will likely be spent on political ads this election cycle.) GOP presidential wannabe Rick Perry (R-Have I Stopped Laughing Yet?) is now being propped up by a $382,000 ad campaign just launched in Iowa and South … Continue reading
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Tagged Iowa, Make Us Great Again, MSNBC First Read, Politico Playbook, Rick Perry, South Carolina
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Perry & Thrust (Really Very Bad Day Edition)
Monday started out so well for presidential wannabe Rick Perry (R-Don’t Secede From Me Yet!). From Politico Playbook: –FIRST LOOK – NEW PERRY IOWA TV SPOT, “Doer” – The smiling governor, coatless and tieless, against a white background: “If you’re lookin’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Cornerstone, Doer, maple syrup hugging, New Hampshire, New York Times, Politico Playbook, Rachel Maddow, Rick Perry
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Rick Perry Real TV Spot Edition)
After scaling a series of misleading videos out onto the Internet (like the drive-by Misleading, which neatly lives up to its name), Rick Perry has launched an actual paid ad campaign on TV. Transcript of the ad (which is getting … Continue reading
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Tagged First Read, Iowa ad, MSNBC, Politico Playbook, Rick Perry
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Corporations Are People Edition)
The corporate humanization effort by Mitt Romney (R-Power to the Corporation!) just keeps drawing more heat. Via Politico’s Playbook: BREAKING: DNC buys an ad featuring Mitt Romney’s “Corporations are people,” airing this morning and into next week, on broadcast and cable … Continue reading
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Tagged corporations are people, DNC, Mitt Romney, Politico Playbook
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The Ghost Of Ted K Haunts Mitt Romney
And by “ghost,” of course, the hardworking staff means former Ted Kennedy advisers. The haunting part is an unaired TV spot from Kennedy’s 1994 reelection campaign that depicted challenger Mitt Romney as a vulture capitalist who helped consulting firm Bain … Continue reading
Boston: We’re Number Five! Boston University: We’re Number Whatever!!
Surveys, surveys everywhere . . . At the fancy-schmancy Aspen Ideas Festival this week (tip o’ the pixel: Politico Playbook), the Economist Intelligence Unit for Siemans released its U.S. and Canada Green City Index – and Boston made the Top Five: … Continue reading
When A Society Forgets Its Own Clichés . . .
. . . it’s just plain sad. But that, apparently, is what’s happening in America these days. From our Mangled Phrases desk: In Saturday’s Boston Herald, Hillary Chabot reported that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is “under new fire from … Continue reading
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