Tag Archives: The Weekly Standard

The Weekly Standard Pimps Out Its Front Cover – and Editorial

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

The Weekly Standard is about as pro-business as they come in the magazine industry. But the neocon bible breaks new ground in its February 22, 2016 edition, which is a veritable bake sale for advertisers of all sorts. Start with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged AFPM, American Fuel & Petroleum Manufacturers, Black Hills, Joseph Bottum, Mount Rushmore, The Weekly Standard, Xanterra Parks & Resorts | 2 Comments

What Can Brown Do for Donald Trump in WMD Rumpus?

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

Apparently nothing. After GOP Hair Apparent Donald Trump (R-Donald Trump) jumped the snark in his Republican presidential primary debate comments last week about George W. Bush, 9/11, and WMDs, former somebody Scott Brown (R-Scott Brown) – who fashioned himself a New Hampshire kingmaker … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 9/11, Donald Trump, Downturn Scotty Brown, George W. Bush, GOP Hair Apparent, Jonathan V. Last, jumped the snark, Scott Brown, The Weekly Standard, Trump vice president, WMDs | 1 Comment

The Weekly Standard Gives Alex Beam a Shoutout

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Boston Strange! The Hub’s proudest contrarian has popped up in the current edition of The Weekly Standard’s ever-lively Scrapbook. The Cosby Crisis If one good thing comes out of the Bill Cosby Crisis, The Scrapbook is fairly certain what it will be. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alex Beam, Bill Cosby, honorary degrees, New York Times, The Scrapbook, The Weekly Standard, University of Massachusetts | Leave a comment

Wait, What? They Like Ike Memorial?

Posted on August 17, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

As the hardworking staff noted last fall, The Weekly Standard’s senior editor Andrew Ferguson has been on the Eisenhower Memorial debacle like Brown on Williamson. Then there’s Frank Gehry, the starchitect who designed MIT’s Stata Center among other landmark buildings. His … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Five-Star Folly, Andrew Ferguson, Bob Dole, Donald Trump, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower, Frank Gehry, Gehry's Folly, like Brown on Williamson, MIT, National Mall, Pat Roberts, starchitect, Stata Center, The Weekly Standard | 7 Comments

The Arts Seen in NYC (The Divine Patti LuPone Edition)

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town last weekend to catch one thing and another and say, it was swell. First, of course, there was crosstown traffic, which takes roughly 30 minutes to navigate. Official Campaign … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC, Al Hirshfeld, Albert Maysles + David Maysles, Alexei von Jawlensky, All Or Nothing At All, America Is Hard to See, and Venice, Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans and Other Works 1953–1967, Arthur Dove, Bauhaus, Bing Crosby, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Bruce Museum, China: Through the Looking Glass, Christopher Kane, Crosstown Traffic, Cut Piece, David Leopold, Douglas Carter Beane, Ella Fitzgerald, Erich Heckel, Ernie Kovacs, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Everything Is Design, Everything Is Design: The Work of Paul Rand, Fairfield/Westchester Museum Alliance, Fashion Institute of Technology, FIT, Folk City, Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival, Fractured Fairy Tales, Francis Seymour Haden, Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola, Gabriele Münter, Gay Talese, Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Gift, Gilded New York, Global Fashion Capitals, Gothamist, Grete Stern, Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer: The Woman in Gold, HBO, Heather Nolin, Horacio Coppola, IBM, James Gardner, Jerry Saltz, Jewish Museum, Jimi Hendrix, John Singer Sargent, José Luis Sert, Joseph Pennell, Léonide Massine, Le Tricorne, Lincoln Center, London, Marcel Breuer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mikhail Larionov, MOMA, Mortimer Menpes, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of the City of New York, Natalia Goncharova, Neue Galerie, New York magazine, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New-York Historical Society, NeXT, One Club Creative Hall of Fame, Pablo Picasso, Patti LuPone, Paul Rand, Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television, Ringo Starr, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rorschach test, Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art 1907-1917, Sargent: Portraits of Artists & Friends, Saving Place: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks, Saving Places, Sergei Diaghilev, Shows Every Day, Shows For Days, Sinatra: An American Icon, Stettheimer Dollhouse, Steve Jobs, The Hirschfeld Century: The Art of Al Hirschfeld, The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, The Weekly Standard, Tiffany & Co., UPS, Vasily Kandinsky, W. Graham Robertson, Walls of Color: The Murals of Hans Hofmann, Whistler in Paris, Whitney Museum of American Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Yoko Ono, Yoko Ono: One Woman Show 1960-1971 | 5 Comments

That’s Just So Mean! (Transjenner Edition)

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the hardworking staff was cleaning up some of the piles of reading material scattered about the Global Worldwide Headquarters when we came across this recent piece by The Weekly Standard’s Matt Labash. Transjennered America Hero worship in our time. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner, Can't Stop the Music, Jason Seiler, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kim Kardashian, Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard, Transjennered, Vanity Fair, Wheaties | 8 Comments

Michael Reagan Milks the Old Man Like a Cash Cow

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the hardworking staff opened up the old mailbag today and here’s what poured out: And etc. So, pony up for the Reagan Ranch and get a swell calendar. Year in pictures: You might … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged hardneutral staff, Hillary Clinton, Michael Reagan, New York Times, Rancho del Cielo, Reaganabilia, Ronald Reagan, super-PAC, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Young America's Foundation | Leave a comment

Matt Labash Makes Kim Jong Ill

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

The hardworking staff has long been an un(L)abashed fan of Weekly Standard feature writer Matt Labash, and his latest piece makes us even more so. Troublemaker for Tyrants Thor Halvorssen hammers the Kims From the moment his dead-of-night emails, texts, … Continue reading →

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How Many Millennials Actually Watch Jon Stewart?

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Conventional wisdom holds that Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show on Viacom’s Comedy Central is so valuable because it’s a magnet for millennials, the magic 18-29 demographic that marketers lust after. From yesterday’s Wall Street Journal piece about “growing concerns on Wall Street that … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Horror Story, Archer, Bill Carter, Brian Williams, Comedy Central, Ethan Epstein, First Draft, Hollywood Reporter, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Jon Stewart, Louis, millennials, New York Times, Pew Research Center, Scott Pelley, State of the News Media, The Daily Show, The Weekly Standard, Viacom, Wall Street Journal | 4 Comments

Star(chitect) Power in Future Boston, DC Landmarks

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Campaign Outsider

This has been a good week for starchitects Renzo Piano and Frank Gehry, both of whom were resurrected in seemingly moribund development projects. Start with Piano, who designed the ill-fated Tommy’s Tower in 2007, the 1,000-foot-high skyscraper mayor Tom Menino wanted … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Five-Star Folly, Andrew Ferguson, Buz Eisenberg, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Frank Gehry, Gehry's Folly, MIT, Renzo Piano, Stata Center, Steve Belkin, The Weekly Standard, Tom Menino, Tommy's Tower, Winthrop Square | 2 Comments