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Posted on 01.31.08 by dancurry @ 6:12 pm
Illinois is the Land of Liberaldom. For the second straight year one of its U.S. senators was ranked most liberal in the nation. In 2007 it was Barack Obama. The year before, Dick Durbin. Do you think the news media will dare ask Barack how he can be a “uniter” when he has the most partisan voting record of 100 senators? Do you think the media would be silent if a top Republican nominee for president was campaigning as a uniter and had the most conservative voting record in the senate? For those who are wondering why there’s no chance in hell the Bush administration will award the FutureGen clean coal project to Illinois, you might look at these rankings. If you were president and it was a close call between various states, would you give it to the one whose two senators have done nothing but wildly criticize you for months? Speaking of FutureGen, the governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, had the stones to ask presidential candidates to give their position on bringing the project to Illinois. This from a governor who has been ducking reporters for more than a year because of the burgeoning federal investigation of corruption within his administration.
Technorati Tags: 2008 election, Barack Obama, corruption, Dick Durbin, Illinois, liberals, Rod Blagojevich |
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Posted on 01.31.08 by dancurry @ 1:11 pm
This report indicates that websites are trying to purge coverage of the 2004 visit of Tony Rezko pal Nadhmi Auchi to Illinois. It was Auchi’s company that wired Rezko’s law firm $3.5 million last year. The wire transfer led to Rezko’s bond revokation this week.
There will be a lot more website purges in the months ahead when it comes to Rezko related items. Technorati Tags: 2008 election, Barack Obama, corruption, Illinois, Iraq, Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko |
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Posted on 01.29.08 by dancurry @ 10:52 pm
The Democratic Secretary of State in Ohio, Jennifer Brunner, who single-handedly is trying to throw the state into electoral chaos in about a month, also is being criticized for her link to Individual H (Myron Cherry) in the Tony Rezko indictment. Technorati Tags: 2008 election, ballot, Illinois, liberals, Tony Rezko |
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Posted on 01.28.08 by dancurry @ 6:35 pm
For those Republicans and Independents who plan to vote for John McCain because you like the way the news media likes him—reconsider. When it comes to the news media, it only likes McCain as a foil to conservative Republican doctrine. When McCain was opposing President Bush’s tax cuts, or pushing campaign finance, the MSM couldn’t get enough of the Arizona senator. The media likes him again because he’s the anti-Mitt Romney. Once the primaries are over, the MSM will turn on McCain again, just like it did when McCain was pushing the surge. Supporting McCain for his media support—it’s fool’s gold.
Technorati Tags: 2008 election, John McCain, journalism, liberals |
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Posted on 01.28.08 by dancurry @ 6:24 pm
If you think the Tribune’s endorsement Sunday of Barack Obama’s candidacy in the Democratic primary for president was a nod to John F. Kennedy, guess again. The Trib used its Republican endorsement of John McCain to talk about the JFK legacy.
We’ve pointed out many times here how JFK wouldn’t recognize the Democratic Party today. Here, again, are some differences between Barack and JFK.
Apologies to that noted agent of change, Ted Kennedy.
Technorati Tags: 2008 election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Illinois, John McCain, journalism, kennedy, liberals |
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Posted on 01.28.08 by dancurry @ 5:16 pm
For Barack Obama, it just draws more attention to the worst stain on his public career. For Governor Rod Blagojevich, it locks Tony down in jail until his Feb. 25 trial date. A few days in the notorious Metropolitan Correction Center in downtown Chicago and he might be more willing to testify against Rod. In the government’s filing today, it alleges that Rezko was clandestinely funneling assets to family and friends, including Rod’s other top indicted fundraiser, Chris Kelly.
Technorati Tags: 2008 election, Barack Obama, Chicago media, Chris Kelly, corruption, Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko |
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Posted on 01.25.08 by dancurry @ 11:45 am
What about the guy above? His name is John Burgess, founder of International Profit Associates. You have taken more than $150,000 from him, ridden on his company’s corporate jet and spoken at a company event. He’s accused by the federal government of “egregious” sexual harassment and is under investigation by the state of Illinois for fraud. He’s a convicted criminal and disbarred lawyer. Do you not know him, too. By the way, IPA’s lawyer is implicated but not charged in the Rezko indictment.
Technorati Tags: 2008 election, Barack Obama, Chicago media, corruption, Hillary Clinton, International profit associates |
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Posted on 01.24.08 by dancurry @ 7:20 am
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s unprecedented fundraising operation, under heavy investigation from U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, finally broke down in 2007, newly filed reports show. For the first time since he became a candidate for Governor in 2001, Rod’s yearly fundraising total was dramatically diminished:
So, fundraising is tanking. And, legal defense bills are rising. Rod incurred $965,352 in charges from defense lawyers last year to defend against Fitzerald’s probe. That means for every dollar a donor gave Rod, 39.7 cents went to Jim Thompson’s law firm. Rod’s 40-cent corruption tax is driving customers away.
Technorati Tags: 2008 election, corruption, Illinois, Rod Blagojevich |
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Posted on 01.24.08 by dancurry @ 7:01 am
Media bias tactic #1: Sanitize left-wing groups when they put out a report. It is a lazy, dishonest practice and exposes the MSM as nothing more than a propaganda tool of the left. No wonder most media outlets are losing money rapidly and public distrust continues to rise. Yesterday, almost the entire MSM jumped on a study from a George Soros-funded group that said Bush lied. The information was nothing more than recycled old charges. But the MSM liked the message so it abandoned its definition of news and forget to mention the study was funded by a left-wing kook.
I would like someone in the MSM explain to me how it is fair to ignore the group’s motivations. It’s not like the same standard holds true for the right.
What a nakedly dishonest day of reporting it was yesterday for most of the country’s “respected” press.
Technorati Tags: 2008 election, journalism, liberals |
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Posted on 01.20.08 by dancurry @ 12:46 pm
Hillary Clinton says she wants to usher in a new era of openness as president. Maybe she ought to have a little talk with one of her largest donors. That donor, troubled consulting firm International Profit Associates of Buffalo Grove, IL., has filed suit against 40 small business owners across the country who claim they were defrauded by IPA. The small business owners’ and their lawyer’s offense: They posted their pending federal racketeering lawsuit on a low-key internet site! I wonder whether IPA also plans to sue the Department of Justice, which posts its legal documents on the Internet as well. Read the whole thing below and decide whether it is legitimate or an act of legal thuggery. One of the ironies is that IPA’s lawyer is Myron “Mike” Cherry, a man who says here he linked IPA to the Clintons. Cherry has been identified in published reports as “Individual H” in the indictment of Tony Rezko. Hillary has taken more than $150,000 from IPA, including a ride on the company’s corporate jet, and the acceptance of a contribution from a high school age child of an IPA executive. She also spoke at an IPA event while the largest and “most egregious” sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the Chicago office of the EEOC was pending against the company. She has not been questioned about IPA money since 2006, when her staff said she was reviewing the situation. IPA money has become an issue in the GOP primary in Illinois’ 14th District Congressional race, where Jim Oberweis has hammered opponent Chris Lauzen for taking nearly $100,000 in IPA money before returning it recently.
Technorati Tags: 2008 election, Barack Obama, corruption, Hillary Clinton, Illinois, International profit associates, journalism, Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko |
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