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Read this excellent piece from Vic Tafur on how Las Vegas and its poster boy worked together to arrange a mutually beneficial split.
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Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
Staying in London means becoming the face of Tender’s failure, not to mention the poster boy for Britain’s bad habit of giving its most privileged sons every benefit of the doubt.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2026
Of all the recent poster boys for appalling misbehavior by the State Police, Michael Proctor would of course rank number one.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
But Groyper poster boy James Fishback and gender-warrior and former state House Speaker Paul Renner are up and running.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2026
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Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
Staying in London means becoming the face of Tender’s failure, not to mention the poster boy for Britain’s bad habit of giving its most privileged sons every benefit of the doubt.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2026
Of all the recent poster boys for appalling misbehavior by the State Police, Michael Proctor would of course rank number one.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
But Groyper poster boy James Fishback and gender-warrior and former state House Speaker Paul Renner are up and running.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2026
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“Poster boy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poster%20boy. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.
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