The Really: Feeling left out of the Chicago publicity over Blago’s attempts to buy things and shut down things, The Chicago Sun-Times has pretty much just resorted to repeating rumors. Someone who works for the Sun-Times actually wrote this (it makes blogs look good): BY MICHAEL SNEED Sun-Times ColumnistSneed hears rumbles President-elect Barack Obama’s chief [...]
The Really: We thought this was REALLY funny, but you be the judge.
The Really: We may have voted in November but today is the day when Electoral Votes are really counted in the States. Did you also know that in about 1/2 of the states, the Electoral College representative in the state is not required to vote for the candidate who won that state? It’s True!
The Really: Tom Cruise removed the foot out of his mouth long enough to say that he really was sorry for being “arrogant” when he went on his diatribe about Brooke and her life in a 2005 interview. In an interview today (December 15, 2008) on Today with Matt Lauer, Tom cruised his way into [...]
The Really: Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich calls his hairbrush “the football” according to the New York Times. And yet, Mr. Blagojevich, 52, rarely turns up for work at his official state office in Chicago, former employees say, is unapologetically late to almost everything, and can treat employees with disdain, cursing and erupting in fury for [...]
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The Really: Bush is in Iraq? Somebody threw his shoes at him? Instead of responding in true Republican (“I should have ducked”) Bush said “I think it was a size 10.” Sometimes it is hard to tell the news from an Onion piece but: We accept this is news. Bush flew to Iraq? The journalists [...]
The Really: Another McCormick with a Tribune pedigree talks about the efforts of Governor Blago to silence his critics. Is there anything like a Chicago newspaperman? The target of the Blago effort to trap the Trib in its own troubles weighs in on the inside story.