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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    10/17/09

    In reply to New York Times to Washington Post's Executive Editor: Liar, Liar, Liar.
    The Chatham House Rule, eh? Goodnight you princes of DC, you kings of the Mid-Atlantic. #washingtonpost
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/17/09

    In reply to New York Times to Washington Post's Executive Editor: Liar, Liar, Liar.
    Trial balloon: The public can offer journalists hookers and blow, cash and vacations, to win their loyalty. #washingtonpost
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    10/17/09

    In reply to New York Times to Washington Post's Executive Editor: Liar, Liar, Liar.
    scruples. ethics. discuss. #washingtonpost
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    Image of applejuice applejuice
    10/17/09

    In reply to New York Times to Washington Post's Executive Editor: Liar, Liar, Liar.
    What's wrong with thise dudes pic on the main page? It shows up like it is the opposite of the coneheads pic.
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    Edited by applejuice at 10/17/09 3:31 PM applejuice was starred applejuice was unstarred
    Image of Wrapitup Wrapitup
    08/28/09

    In reply to Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic
    You can see why Hillary lost to Obama in the primaries right here. The guys from BM (heh)are stuck in their self-made echo chamber of lies and excuses and have completely lost touch with how people really perceive them. They can get away with not giving a shit about that when it comes to corporate clients. But when you're marketing a person directly to consumers, like in politics, Penn's tone-deafness, excessive focus on dumbshit buzzwords and terrible ideas cost them the prize.

    This is about marketing honchos, who follow Mark Penn's 'advice,' being too lazy and too arrogant to get out into the trenches and actually listen to people and get clear first-hand information. Instead they use some erratic, semi-delusional, self-congratulatory insider as their go-between and promote his work like crazy because he says cool-sounding things. All this applies to Thomas Friedman too.
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    Image of heartbreakturnip heartbreakturnip
    08/28/09

    In reply to Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic
    Does anyone else find Burson-Marsteller domain name amusing? Awesome brand management, PR guys! Or am I just being fecal? (See Gottheimer's email address.)
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    08/28/09

    In reply to Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic
    Mark Penn is not a journalist and is not understood as a journalist. So who cares? Can't we take aim at their anti-Obama "news" stories instead?
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    08/28/09

    @daveyjonesisdead: And frankly, I think you may be the only who reads him, Ham. Stop! You're just encouraging him! He probably thinks he's the cat's meow because you care what he says and does. Eventually the WSJ will realize that Clinton didn't win the election and they will can him.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/28/09

    @daveyjonesisdead:

    Waitapicosec... If "there's no such thing as bad publicity" and HamNo knows this, and knows he's boosting Penn and BM, and he knows that non-insane-fat-white-guy posts get minimal page views...

    ..............what's this post really all about? Hmmm?
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    08/28/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: I felt that way about Gawker's relentless discussions of Politico stories, which in accordance with netetiqute included a link to the stories. And then there was the fact that Politico did some kind of ad-revenue sharing with sites that linked to them. THINGS ARE NEVER WHAT THEY SEEM! Except glamping, of course.
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    Edited by daveyjonesisdead at 08/28/09 5:40 PM daveyjonesisdead was starred daveyjonesisdead was unstarred
    Image of Jasper Reardon Jasper Reardon
    08/28/09

    In reply to Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic
    So, there's no denying that the WSJ is having an ethical problem here. A particularly egregious one. But does anyone else find Gawker's attempts at policing others a bit...ah...ridiculous?
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    Image of NoelleBlue NoelleBlue
    08/28/09

    @Jasper Reardon: I don't think it's policing others... Gawker has always focused on the going ons at other media outlets. It's a big part of their MO.
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    08/28/09

    In reply to Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic
    Dear Mr. Penn - I have an old Hypercolor t-shirt you could write about. Kids love the Hypercolors.
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    08/28/09

    @AndPreciousLittleofThat:

    I'm seeing him as more the Thundercats type, or Kroft Superfriends.
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    Image of blix blix
    08/28/09

    @Smitros: The new Scooby-Doo has a different celebrity guest voice in each episode. Edgy!
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    08/28/09

    @blix:
    With who knows what personalities for the Mark Penn client list . . .
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/28/09

    @blix:

    I so wanted to do the goofy scooby laugh in response, but how do you do that in text?
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    Image of jaxdesert jaxdesert
    08/28/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Somebody needs to try that. I am hanging on the edge of my seat--Must. See. It. In Text.
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    Image of blix blix
    08/28/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: That is a tough one. I'd wimp out and post a link to a .wav file.
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    08/28/09

    @jaxdesert: eee-HEE-HEE-Hee
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    08/28/09

    In reply to Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic
    time for a flaming bag of doggie doo on his doorstep, as that is apparently all he is capable of understanding. a disgrace. and the wsj has lost whateve few shreds of dignity it still clings to
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    08/28/09

    In reply to Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic
    But if they're both pathetic, isn't it kind of touching that they've found each other? Commonalities are the foundation of a strong relationship.
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    Edited by Smitros at 08/28/09 11:11 AM Smitros was starred Smitros was unstarred
    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    08/28/09

    In reply to Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic
    Let's just co-opt "glamping" already and make it into an adjectival phrase. The Journal really glamped it up on this one.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/28/09

    @Aaron Altman:

    Glamping is what the Glampetts do.

    O the next thing ya know ol' Mark's a millionaire. ♫
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    08/28/09

    @Aaron Altman: Glamping leads to Santorum, no?
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    08/28/09

    In reply to Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic
    The WSJ wants to keep rewarding The Fail-Master for running Hillary's campaign into the ground.
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    Image of BlinkyMcChuck BlinkyMcChuck
    08/27/09

    In reply to Leak: How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients
    le ZING...
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    08/26/09

    In reply to Leak: How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients
    Maybe Mark Penn and Ben Stein can get together and start their own newspaper. They can call it Conflicting Interests.
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