Tag Archives: Wall Street Journal

The Boo Hoo Boehner Chronicles (pat. pending)

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Campaign Outsider

From our Late to the Party desk: Cryin’ John Boehner in Thursday’s Boston Globe: Cryin’ John Boehner in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal: Bonus WSJ headline: In Come the Republicans, and Out Comes John Boehner’s Handkerchief That’ll be the hardest-working piece … Continue reading →

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Free The Daniel Chester French One!

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

The artist who sculpted the Minuteman statue in Concord, Mass., and the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington is losing the Stockbridge Smackdown to America’s Imagemaker. Friday’s Wall Street Journal A-Hed headline: It’s a Norman Rockwell … Continue reading →

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WSJ Wants Not Neutrality

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

The Wall Street Journal’s campaign against net neutrality started in earnest last April with a question from op-ed columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.: End of the Net Neut Fetish? Hooray. We live in a nation of laws and elected leaders, … Continue reading →

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A Gay Old Time

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Jason Gay has always been a good read – from his days as media critic for the New York Observer to his current sports gig at the Wall Street Journal. On Monday, he ran this sporting tribute to totally gone … Continue reading →

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Something Doesn’t Ad Up About Facebook

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Facebook is all the rage these days, what with founder Mark Zuckerberg being Time’s Person of the Year 2010 and the site itself having “changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale.” Sure. Even better, … Continue reading →

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Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, And Cleavage

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

(Headline courtesy of our Search Engine Optimization desk) From Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal: Tax Deal Is Shaping 2012 GOP Campaign WASHINGTON—The tax deal now before Congress has kicked off the first real debate of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign, with … Continue reading →

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Belgian Woefuls

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Suddenly, Belgium: Charleroi-ling the News From Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal front page: Tour Embraces a Town’s Ugly Truth: It’s a Dump In Charleroi, Slag Heaps + Abandoned Subway = Tourist Attractions CHARLEROI, Belgium—Nicolas Buissart leads an “Urban Safari” that includes … Continue reading →

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Peggy Noodnik Watch (pat. pending)

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column this week takes Barack Obama to task for “[spending] his first year losing the center, which elected him, and his second losing his base, which is supposed to provide his troops.” Nut graf, regarding … Continue reading →

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Now Comes (Judith) Miller Time

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Jailbird Judy Miller had an op-ed piece in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal deconstructing the new movie “Fair Game” about the White House’s outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Lede: I went to jail in the summer of 2005 to protect … Continue reading →

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Brubeck And Call

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Campaign Outsider

Swell piece by Marc Myers on Dave Brubeck in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal. Lede: Shortly after I arrived at Dave Brubeck’s home here last week, the jazz pianist insisted we move to a glass- enclosed deck with a view of pine … Continue reading →

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