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'The Empire Strikes Barack'

Here is the only pro-Barack Obama (or pro-anyone, really) YouTube video that I've been able to sit through in its entirety. But, then again, I'll sit through pretty much anything involving Star Wars. Because Star Wars is the greatest thing ever. Period. More »

1:22 PM on Sat May 3 2008
By ian spiegelman
4,706 views, 22 comments

spin

The Pentagon Has Ronn [sic] Torossian's Support

The New York Times' big front page investigative story on Sunday about the tight connections between ex-military "analysts" on news programs and the Pentagon's PR machine was a solid re-affirmation of most people's suspicions that they, along with much of the media at large, were all play-acting in the inevitable march to war. The piece was hugely comprehensive, but it did lack the input of one man: incompetent superflack Ronn [sic] Torossian, head of the press-friendly agency 5WPR! Luckily, Ronn has chimed in with his advice to all of you who may have been upset by the story of undercover warmongering propaganda: chill. It's all just PR 101. More »

5:11 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
805 views, 15 comments

Latest by famousauthor: @fairplay310: A liar AND a moron? That's heavy. I think at last count that the office consists of just Ronn and one part-time cunt, but I may be wrong. If so, "Hamilton Nolan" will correct me--perhaps under yet another more »

One More Thing Classic Bugs Bunny WWII short. One of the non-racist ones, by the way. I'd link to one of the "banned" ones, but I don't want to get into a whole thing.

30 comments

romenesko

King Of Journalism Will Crush Starbucks Propaganda!

We find it endlessly amusing that mild-mannered Jim Romenesko, who runs the most feared blog in journalism (except this one), puts an equal amount of passion into "Starbucks Gossip," his other blog that is, for some reason, the preeminent inside news site for the coffee chain. And he's not too happy about the company's corporatized attempt to move in on his territory with its new, half-bright "MyStarbucksIdea.com" site. Romenesko is throwing down in public! More »

10:11 AM on Fri Mar 21 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,966 views, 13 comments