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This Is What Real Journalism Looks Like – Tales From The Campaign Trail

When the going gets tough in the heat of a campaign, the tough get going. When you want to know what’s really going on at those far-distant campaign rallies and you suspect that the Lamestream Media are holding back just a teeensy bit of the truth: THAT is when you want to read the straight …

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Stacy Goes to Hell (MI): All in the Interests of Journalism, Of Course!

As hinted in the prior post, Stacy McCain’s Saturday night plans involved a trip to Hell, Michigan to check out the local denizens of the dark, where he found that he was altogether overdressed for the occasion. Being, of course, compelled to keep an ear open for political discourse, he concluded, based on a random …

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On the Road Again: Stacy McCain Follows the Campaign Trail to Super Tuesday

Grok friend, Robert Stacy (The Other) McCain, a devotee of the Hunter S Thompson school of Gonzo Journalism, is on the road again in pursuit of news and unusual angles along the primary trail to Super Tuesday. (Thanks to Bob Belvedere at Camp of the Saints for the picture.) True to the Gonzo style, Stacy …

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