Last week Rachel Maddow called out failed Clinton consigliere Mark Penn for running an evil PR firm, Burson-Marsteller. The firm is evil, and Penn should just shut up. But he didn't! So he paid: After Maddow reamed Burson for working for a laundry list of the world's dirtiest companies, Penn sent ou...

Today's Mark Penn "Microtrend": lots of people are out of work! Well, that is just a "trend." The "micro" bit is that the sort of people the famous pollster knows personally are out of work! Not Penn himself, obv, or his friends from the Clinton campaign, all of whom are working for Obama or Mike Bl...

Politics magazine will release the results of their “2008 campaign poll of political insiders” this Thursday, but we already know the winner of one category: best ad of the presidential race. It is Hillary Clinton’s “3 a.m.” ad, the one about how Hillary Clinton was the...

Tina Brown, author of a best-selling book on Princess Diana and editor-in-chief of a neat blogsite that is like HuffPo but without the faux-populism "anyone can blog" shtick, is really sweating this new media environment. "No one I know has a job anymore," Tina says. Oddly she is not talking about t...

Now that it’s officially pre-2009, we can start guiltlessly recycling all the material we’ve already written into Top Ten Posts. Today’s took a surprisingly long time to compile. It seemed like a good idea to look at all the funny terms we used to describe our Political Enemies, an...

Hillary Clinton "loaned herself" $13 million last January, when she was losing to Barack Obama in the primaries, and now she has written that loan off, so the 2008 primaries are finally over. Turns out everyone won! Except Chris Dodd and Dennis Kucinich. And the Republicans. Anyways Hillary never ac...

Professional loser Mark Penn—the strategist who can tell you exactly how to become disliked by each individual microsegment of the population—has a new book ad WSJ column. Let's talk about how stupid it is: Today's made-up microgroup that Penn tenuously connects to current events: "Impre...

COMICAL SUNDAY READING: The Independent landed a sit-down with former Hillary Clinton campaign chief strategist Mark “Bowser” Penn during one of his awful British speaking engagements and JESUS, the write-up reads as if Mark Penn had once sodomized and tortured and eaten every member of ...

Burson-Marsteller worldwide CEO and president Mark Penn said the recent appointment of longtime President George W. Bush confidante Karen Hughes as vice chair marks the start of an effort by the agency to create a worldwide “bipartisan braintrust.� Related Posts Animated Harold Burson When we di...

Christ, what's the logo of this company going to be, the Hindenburg? Failed advisers Mark Penn and Karen Hughes team up to counsel ‘corporations in crisis.’ “Karen and I have had so many of the same experiences in the White House and campaigns, and have worked around the world,� Let's see .....