By Steve Rhodes

“Former Mayor Richard Daley spoke exclusively with ABC7 Eyewitness News for the first time since he was hospitalized this winter,” Ben Bradley reports.
1. Only if you define “exclusive” as “we caught up with the former mayor at the White Sox opener where anyone could have talked to him.”
2. Only if you define “interview” as “we asked him about his health in several different ways and put cliches in his mouth that he parroted back without saying anything worth putting on the air.”
3. Only if you define “reporter” as “someone so deferential to a man who oversaw torture and nearly bankrupted the city while running an entirely corrupt City Hall that he forgot to ask about the mayor’s imprisoned nephew and the kid he killed.”

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Posted on April 8, 2014

By Tuffy And The Angry Aussie

Back to myth-making while a city evaporates.

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Posted on April 7, 2014

By Steve Rhodes

At least Chicagoland this week roused itself from its two-week slumber to become incredibly aggravating again; nothing is worse than being a bore.
Of course, that means a return to fact-free hagiography of Rahm Emanuel and Garry McCarthy.
And hey, enough Liz Dozier, huh? We get it.

More painful: watching the #Cubs or watching #Chicagoland?

— Beachwood Reporter (@BeachwoodReport) April 4, 2014

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Posted on April 4, 2014

By The Young Turks

What does MSNBC look for in a host? While you can argue it doesn’t apply to all of their hosts, it’s hard to argue that Al Sharpton doesn’t simply repeat talking points in support of the President Obama. Watch the mashup in this video if you’re still not convinced, and then listen to The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur break it down.

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Posted on April 2, 2014