Half-Empty vs. Barely Noticed: Boston Papers' Treatments of Obama Appe

Tom Blumer
October 25th, 2009 11:13 AM
President Obama was at Democratic Party fundraising events for incumbent Democratic Governor Deval Patrick in Massachusetts Friday night. The Boston Herald's Hillary Chabot described the attendance at one of the events (HT Jules Crittenden, who is a Herald editor, via Instapundit) as "barely half-full with 125 deep-pocketed Democrats" in the second paragraph of her report ("President Obama: ‘…
 

MA Zoo-Funding Battle Hints At PC Zoo-Management Infection

Tom Blumer
July 30th, 2009 3:13 PM
The zoo I'm referring to is the Franklin Park Zoo (FPZ), not the Massachusetts state legislature, although the slang version of the word's meaning likely applies there as well.As reported in a July 10 Boston Globe story, in reaction to Patrick's line-item veto of $4 million of the FPZ's $6.5 million annual subsidy, Zoo New England, which runs the FPZ's two zoo sites, ".... in a written statement…
 

Gov's Aide in Sex Assault on Boy... Democrat or Not

Warner Todd Huston
February 9th, 2008 1:06 PM
 

CBS’s Smith: Most Blacks ‘Feel Discrimination’; Wonders ‘Is Th

Kyle Drennen
January 21st, 2008 1:07 PM
On Monday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith talked to two liberal politicians, the black Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, and black mayor of Washington D.C., Adrian Fenty, about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and asked Fenty: You know, if we look at this statistically, it's not a particularly bright picture. I want to just put up a couple of statistics very quickly here. The…