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The British Scott Brown
Bet you never thought you’d see those fours words in a row, eh? But check out this John F. Burns piece in Wednesday’s New York Times headlined, “Cool Debater Helps Britain’s Also-Ran Party Stir a Race.” The “cool debater” is … Continue reading
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Tagged David Cameron, Gordon Brown, media self-cleaning oven, Nick Clegg, Scott Brown
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (Maddow As Hell Edition)
Friday’s Boston Globe featured a full-page open letter from MSNBC host Rachel Maddow about . . . well, just read it: The Friday Globe failed to actually report on the dustup, but the Boston Herald – Tabloids Rule! – ran … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Newspaper Town (con.)
What started out as a low-key-page-one-below-the-fold story in Tuesday’s Boston Globe . . . Brown pauses, then backs Republican repeal effort . . . turned into a high-pitched PAGE ONE SCREAMER in Wednesday’s Boston Herald: The Page 4 piece is a … Continue reading
Not Exactly Brownmail
Liberal advocacy group Americans United for Change spent a whopping $13,000 (reportedly) on a Boston-area television campaign aimed at pressuring Sen. Scott Brown (D-Scott Brown) into voting to end the GOP filibuster of Pres. Obama’s jobs bill. The TV spot: … Continue reading
The Weakly Standard
Leave it to the neocon newsletter to imply that it had eight – count ’em, eight – writers assigned to the Massachusetts Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-Drop Dead Gorgeous) beat. In reality, only three pieces (here, here, and here) actually dealt … Continue reading
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Tagged Drop Dead Gorgeous, neocon newsletter, Scott Brown, Weekly Standard
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Mittigation
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has been widely proclaimed a winner in the improbable rise of new Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown (R- Want My Daughter’s Phone Number?), the flavor des jours of the news media (see here, here and here!). … Continue reading
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Tagged Free and Strong America, Kimberley Strassel, Mitt Romney, Scott Brown
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Dead Blogging the Massachusetts Senate Election
All day Tuesday, you got the sense that only the Ladies Who Lunch in the People’s Republic of Brookline still believed that Martha Coakley could actually win the U.S. Senate race. It was special, alright: • When the polls closed … Continue reading
Typo o’ the Day (pat. pending)
Headline of Bill O’Reilly’s column in Sunday’s Boston Herald op-ed page: Palin’s back and bigger then ever It was corrected on the Herald website, but still . . . The same edition of the Herald featured a piece about the … Continue reading
Ads o’ the Day™
1) Scott Brown buys the Boston Globe Scott Brown’s full-page “Open Letter to the People of Massachusetts” in the Sunday Boston Globe is yet another example of his campaign’s pitch-perfect media effort in the current U.S. Senate race. Here’s how … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe ad, fit him to a Tea, Scott Brown, Tea Party Express
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Beauty Call, Part 2
Well the Missus got a phone call from a former president on Saturday and here’s what he said (in a surprisingly lackluster way; then again he does have some other things going on): Hello. This is Bill Clinton. I’m calling … Continue reading
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Tagged chin-stroking racket, Martha Coakley, Massachusettes, Scott Brown
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