Post Archive
January 2010
Single Daughters [Scott Brown]
At least the entire country wasn’t watching …
MSNBC Still Driving a Model T
According to MSNBC last night, the late Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, is trailing NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a recent poll. MediaBistro’s TVNewser discovered humorous error and as poster Kevin Allocca pointed out, Harold Ford Jr. has served as an MSNBC political analyst. [busting news] For …
Wisdom From Jon Stewart
The Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because, once again, they glued their balls to their thighs. – Jon Stewart The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Mass Backwards www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis …
We Just Won a Boat Load of Money and Might Retire
Don’t be jealous, but we woke up to this email: On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Balan Rathakrishnan wrote: Your e-mail ID has won 1,000,000.00 GBP in the British Tobacco Promo. Our response below: Dearest Balan Rathakrishnan, When we woke up this morning on our neighbor’s lawn [don’t …
Voting Glitch: Turns Out “Yankees Suck” Wins MA Special Election
This would not have surprised us: Many predicted an historic upset in the Massachusetts special election to fill the Senate seat left open by the death of Ted Kennedy. But Republican Scott Brown was not able to defeat Democratic candidate Martha Coakley. The election instead went to Yankees Suck, which …
Did the DCCC Really Just Say That?
This won’t play well at all. The DCCC’s official response to losing Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat: “President George W. Bush and House Republicans drove our economy into a ditch and tried to run away from the accident.” [was this edited?] Ummm….
Famously Twittered: Pants on the Ground in MA
If you need to be caught up to speed, click here. @pourmecoffee Don’t be fooled by early MA Senate results. A lot of the pro-Brown nudist districts report first. Classic.
Election Day Web Strategy
The NRSC took a bold, yet expected approach to their homepage today: The DSCC took a less subtle approach:
What About Driving While Blackberrying?
Paging Angie Goff … The Capital Beltway is the #3 worst commute in America. Daily Beast: America’s 75 Worst Commutes #3, Capital Beltway, surrounds Washington, DC … Weekly hours of bottleneck congestion: 194 … Worst bottleneck: Southbound, Exit 2A-B … Length of worst bottleneck: 1.26 mi … Weekly hours of …
Politico’s Kiki Ryan Has All the Fun
Drive the morning Drive the afternoon Drive the after-party Politico sent Kiki Ryan on location to Las Vegas night club Pure. Not a bad gig.
Remember this Headline
It’s a brilliant move. Pollster John Zogby Predicts A Coakley Win If he’s right, he’ll be showered with gifts and fed the finest grapes. If he’s wrong he’ll fire up a new poll and 10 minutes later everyone will have forgotten.