[Garrard] McClendon was stunned that after working so long without a contract, CLTV, which is owned by the Chicago Tribune Company, pulled the plug rather than pay him what he felt he was worth.
He may have been stunned, but so what? How many listeners or viewers did he have? Does Mitchell know? As for feeling underpaid, in this he may join millions of the same persuasion, each about himself or herself.
McClendon, who taught school for 17 years and holds a Ph.D. in education, told me that he basically thinks he was being paid under scale.
What’s the relevance of the Ph.D. etc.? Performance, not credentials, count.
There are few black male commentators working in the Chicago market. Cliff Kelley on WVON is the only one that immediately comes to mind. Since Chicago has such a large African-American population, the absence of the black male perspective is insulting.
To whom? People didn’t want to listen to this guy, and blacks are insulted? Not unless they like getting worked up
Vegetarians, read this. (Link dead, sorry. It’s two guys talking what’s for dinner in the kitchen. Funny. At vegetarians’ expense. So look at this beautiful picture instead. )
Now and then, rather often in fact, the left-wing bias becomes crystal clear. What did the lemmings do lately? Try this, with comment by Power Blog:
Sarah Palin referred to “our North Korean allies” on the Glenn Beck show, a slip of the tongue that was deemed newsworthy by CBS News, the Washington Post, and many other outlets. Did those same sources publish gleeful headlines when Barack Obama talked about campaigning in all 57 states? Of course not; Obama is so, you know, brilliant. Everyone who talks in public will occasionally mis-speak; whether slips of the tongue are newsworthy is an editorial decision that is entirely motivated by political loyalty.
Remember it, remember it when you pick up a newspaper or watch TV news or even TV features, which also toe the line.
While leaving to its own police force to investigate the sexual assault charges it quickly handed over to the local prosecutor the case of 88 people who were arrested by school police for peacefully demonstrating on campus the selection of anti-life president Barack Obama as an honored commencement speaker. The schools determination to punish the demonstrators can only be described as spiteful and obsessive.
The Notre Dame 88, which included a nun and an elderly priest, face penalties of up to a year in prison and fines of $5,000. The Chicago-based Thomas More Society, a pro-life law firm, is defending the protestors without charge. The university technically can claim that calling off the prosecution is out of their hands, but at the same time, it has not used its so-called prestige to seek Christian charity for the protestors.
“What in hell is going on?” Byrne asks. So do I.
Leave the assault to us, they say, following up on it not a whit. But those protesters must pay. Why not the other way around?
Republican gains in state legislatures were . . . impressive. They will control the redistricting process in four of the five states in this region. The exception is Illinois, where Rod Blagojevich’s successor as governor, Pat Quinn, held on by a few thousand votes — helped perhaps by the refusal of some Democratic county clerks not to send out military ballots in the time required by federal law. They did manage to send unrequested ballots to inmates of the Cook County Jail, though.
Look here and see who’s got this. No Chi or Chi-area coverage, except for Sun-Times of Oct. 13 saying most ballots had been sent. Fox has it, locally and nationally. So does Breitbart’s Big Government blog and several downstate outlets. But here it’s a snoozer.
The move to remove the president from office marks the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic that parliament has discussed impeachment of a president. Though the legislature is backed by the Iranian constitution, lawmakers can’t drive Mr. Ahmadinejad from office without the supreme leader’s agreement.
We got a constitution that works. Not automatically, of course. Constant struggle required.
It kills RC libs that one of their own, of the Joe Bernardin camp, got voted out of his heir apparency the other day by U.S. bishops, and no one says it better than NC Reporter’s Thomas C. Fox, who lays it on thickly.
I find myself thinking about Bishop Gerald Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., and how he must feel at this time. Whats going on inside him, really going on despite the good face he has put on to the world in the wake of the surprise, historic, and unprecedented rejection by his fellow U.S. bishops.
They “broke with four decades of precedent and essentially threw [him] out,” leaving Fox in a funk:
I cannot help but feel that the bishops hurt a good man along the way, and in the process revealed some things about themselves – at least the majority in their ranks did – that is less than admirable.
The rats! They “walked over a fellow bishop, by most accounts a decent man. . . . their vote . . . lacked a sense of civility and even perhaps charity.”
“Some on the right” are to blame, but so is the new man, Timothy Dolan of NYC, whom Fox skewers with deft thrusts:
Ive been reading that Dolan has a good wit and keen ability and will probably make a good president. But he arrives with a tarnished garment. I wish he [had] told his fellow bishops . . . that he was not available, that he was willing to wait his turn, that he could learn in the next three years, just like all his predecessors. He would have been a fine vice-president.
Well Fox did not see his wish fulfilled. C’est la vie. In any case, if Dolan had done as Fox wishes he did, he
would have taught us all a lesson in thoughtfulness and civility. It was a teachable moment. Instead we learned our bishops act [like] most other ends-oriented men in other political organizations.
If Fox learned that much, the teachable moment was not entirely lost.
Meanwhile, Kicanas demonstrated a “strong upper lip” in his concession statement:
[Dolan] has been a long time friend . . . [possesses] great wit, jovial spirit, keen ability to relate to people in a deeply personal way . . . exceptional leadership qualities. . . .
Good. I look forward to his leadership. But it doesn’t mean there is joy in Catholic leftism, which has lost a friend in a high place, it thinks. Sob.
This be stinky-stinky, in my opinion. The Emanuel-pushers smell a tiny legal problem which they want to head off at the pass. Richie D. points at it a fingerbone of scorn. Don’t gimme that residency stuff, he says. We know that don’t fly. What’s more, we do not intend to let it fly.
Go Richie, go Rahm, they are our men to match this mayoralty. It’s almost like keeping it in the family.
Blithe Spirit 