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more about #markpenn more comments → Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Ooh, how bout this one: "The Foetal Consumer" more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: The Abominable Flackman more » Conchie Birdie: Yes, the internet is the reason I have yet to procreate, but that doesn't mean I don't cry every night wishing for a suburban with an ACK bumper sticker. more » Btwbfdimho: Pay this man one million dollars, at once. Why, is he another lover of Stephanie Birkitt? more » redqueenmeg: Does that mean I don't have to take my kid to soccer practice tonight? more » GORDONGARTRELLE: But do any of them glamp? more » Smitros: How about the Fail-up Pundit? more » MrInBetween: A check drawn on a foreign bank takes longer to clear. more » Mo MoDo: New Trend: Micro-Whores. more » jasonelias: 9/16? He's failing at failing. Get back to work, fail some more! more » daveyjonesisdead: News item: Grandparents are devoted to their grandchildren! Next Week: People in a marriage tend to care for one another! more » markscottmusic: What! People are ditching their land lines for cell phones?! This is BRAND NEW information! more » Matt Cherette: I have nothing to contribute to this post other than to say that the last line of it reminds me of the hilariously genius tweet Lindsay Lohan wrote af... more » Wrapitup: 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... more » heartbreakturnip: Does anyone else find Burson-Marsteller domain name amusing? Awesome brand management, PR guys! Or am I just being fecal? (See Gottheimer's email add... more » -
#microtrends
Mark Penn Eats His Own Mom
PR-man-masquerading-as-newspaper-columnist Mark Penn invented the term "Soccer Mom," which, of course, is the queen of all Microtrends. But now he's declaring the whole Soccer Mom thing dunzo! What catchphrase will you hang your hat on now, Señor Penn? More » -
#microtrends
Mark Penn has not published a self-serving WSJ column since 9/16. We miss you, Mark!
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#flackery
Mark Penn's Column Now 100% About Mark Penn's Business
Trendy flack Mark Penn promised the WSJ that his evil PR firm would stop using his newspaper column as a tool to troll for PR clients. Instead, he's just writing columns off of surveys by his own polling firm! More » -
#flackery
Mark Penn Is Back, to Recruit Some Telecom Clients
Lo! Like a slow, squawking bird sent down from heaven to a desultory duck hunting expedition, Microtrend-inventing flack Mark Penn is back with another WSJ column. His first since we learned how dirty he is! More » -
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Why Is Mark Penn Scared to Write a New Flacktastic Column for the 'Newspaper?'
Microtrend-spotting genius Mark Penn hasn't had a new WSJ column since it was pointed out that he's using the column to recruit PR clients. (Which the WSJ doesn't care about!). Potential clients are waiting, Mark! What are you—chicken?? -
#scandals
Mark Penn and Wall Street Journal Now Equally Pathetic
We were disappointed yesterday when the cowardly Wall Street Journal failed to fire faux-trendspotting flack Mark Penn for using his newspaper column to troll for PR clients. But—hearteningly—both Penn and the paper appear increasingly pathetic!
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#cowards
Wall Street Journal Unbelievably Keeping Mark Penn as Columnist
Yesterday we reported that Microtrend-spouting flack Mark Penn's PR firm was using his Wall Street Journal column to drum up PR business. Penn is ethically compromised. But today, the WSJ tells us they're keeping Penn on as a columnist. Cowards.
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#exclusive
Leak: How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients
Mark Penn, the strategist who dashed Hillary Clinton's presidential hopes, is the Wall Street Journal's "Microtrend"-spotting columnist. He's also CEO of PR giant Burson-Marsteller. Only a scumbag would abuse the former to drum up business for the latter.
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#microtrends
You Know You Have Never Been Camping, Mark Penn
Have they moved Mark Penn's fortnightly genius column to Saturdays just to thwart us? No matter! This week's Microtrend secretly shaping our society: Glamorous Camping, or "glamping." (Utter silence). Uhhh. Maybe Saturday is the right day. [WSJ] -
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Mark Penn Has Assistant Assemble Listicle About 'Bosses'
American genius thinker of the first order Mark Penn has produced yet another newspaper column, about a Microtrend, as is his wont. This one is about how We Are All Bosses Now and features many nonsensical space-filling words, namely: More » -
#microtrends
Elites (Suckers) vs. Normals (Fat Poors)
Paltry idea-hustler Mark Penn's column today actually contains a single legitimately interesting fact(!). It also affords an easy joke opportunity at Mark Penn's expense! He is an Elite. More » -
#geniuses
Mark Penn Discovers Pessimism
Mark Penn, failed campaign strategist and head of one of the world's most ostentatiously amoral PR firms, has used polling and research to ferret out a new microtrend: People are pessimistic, these days. That will be one million dollars. [WSJ] -
#pollstergrifter
Mark Penn Now Helping to Destroy the Housing Market
Does trying to convince people unsure about the shaky economy and plunging home values to sign mortgages seem like a good idea, right now? Pollster Grifter Mark Penn thinks so! More » -
#science
Men: poor dumb fat drunk losers. It's a microtrend!
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#losers
Microtrend: You're No 'Professional'
"Everyone today wants to be a professional and most people believe they are." But most of you are deluded. Mark Penn is here to tell you why. And to spout further generalizations, for money! More » -
#antitrust
Uh Oh, Google's in More Antitrust Trouble!
Google's G1 is the biggest enemy of Apple's iPhone. And Apple is making a big push into the Web. So it's totally hunky-dory that Google and Apple share board members, right? Wrong, say antitrust cops. More » -
#poll
Hillary Clinton Asks You to Pick Your Poison
Hillary Clinton is holding a contest to sucker people into paying her debt to Mark Penn. You can choose a prize, including a not-creepy-at-all day with Bill Clinton. We ask, which is the most bearable? More » -
#microtrends
Mark Penn Can Help You Make Thou$and$ on the Internet!
Just in case you had any remaining shred of a suspicion that inane Microtrend maker-upper Mark Penn might actually have some worthwhile advice about something, today he touts blogging as a good job opportunity. Ha! More » -
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'Pollster Grifter' Bilks Innocent Secretary Out of $2.3 Million
To answer Time's headline: NO. Mark Penn should not get paid. He should be put in a box with insects. But apparently that is not an option! More » -
#publicrelations
Failed Political Flacks Jockey For Crown of Evil
Yesterday we asserted that former Bush roboflackMale Ari Fleischer was America's most irrelevant talking head. Today, however, we learned that former Bush roboflackFemale Dana Perino is joining forces with Microtrend maker-upper Mark Penn. Revision: More »
