August 23rd, 2008
Mark Nickolas
Huffington Post
The Anatomy of a Deception: How The McCains Changed Their Baby Adoption Story Just Before 2008 Campaign Began
Posted August 21, 2008 | 12:32 PM (EST)
As was pointed out yesterday by the Christian Science Monitor, the McCain campaign was called out for lying about the purported urging of Cindy McCain by Mother […]
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(AP Photo/Cheez-It, Ray Stubblebine)
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(Lucas Jackson/Reuters)
That was now…
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This is then…
More Grim Moments in Marketing…
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Why in heaven’s name did they want the tribute in life-size?
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The Post-Crescent, Michael P. King
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This is not the first time a company has employed a national treasure as a means of advertising its products.
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In the Spring, 2005 a public relations team […]
Tampa Bay Rays’ Evan Longoria, right, and teammate Carlos Pena celebrate after scoring on Rays’Jason Bartlett’s two-run, seventh-inning single off Boston Red Sox’s Javier Lopez during a baseball game Wednesday July 2, 2008, in St. Petersburg, Fla.
(AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)
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“There was something familiar about this picture. The RAYS uniform shirt looks like something out of […]
ABC News
Ex-House Speaker Hastert Finds New Home
Former House Majority Leader Will Now Work for DC Lobbying Firm
By JUSTIN ROOD
June 3, 2008—
Former House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert settled in yesterday to new digs in the Washington, D.C. offices of Dickstein Shapiro, a law/lobby firm.
Hastert was said to have been the longest-serving Republican House Majority Leader in […]
STAR CHAMBER TUNA
The object of this game is to prepare casseroles, sandwiches, salads and surprises before the six dolphins caught in the tuna fisherman’s net perish. As a tie in with the Gluttony Channel, a fully-functioning Nimitz class aircraft carrier cyber-galley is available to the players, but Chinese submarines are on the prowl to end […]
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Access Hollywood
Associated Press
May 29, 2008 12:59 PM
BOSTON, Mass. –Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.—Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like […]
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Images: McCain & Cindy) AP Photo; (barbecue) moneypit.com
Political Ticker
May 16, 2008
Huckabee jokes about Obama ducking a gunman
Posted: 05:45 PM ETFrom CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand
(CNN) – During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage […]
Bush Comment on Food Crisis Brings Anger, Ridicule in India
By Rama Lakshmi
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, May 8, 2008; A18
NEW DELHI, May 7 — A brief comment by President Bush about the role of India in the world food crisis has set off a firestorm of criticism in this country.
Speaking to employees at a high-tech firm […]
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Images: (Original package) gordonfamily.com; (Whipped) holycowmilk.com
These two meals on bread did not make the initial cut,
but I foresee a great future for them.
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THE KILAUEA
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THE RAMAR
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Images: (Original sandwich photos) Detroit Free Press-#1 Sylvia Rector; #2 Mary Schroeder; (lava) via englishpeople.com & pe.pbs.org & veronicadelacruz.wordpress.com via cache.eb.com; (sky) (jungle) jungletarpon.com; (snakes) oregonstate.edu;