The Chicago Tribune Has Been Cleared

It was accused of being fair and balanced. The Chicago Tribune has been cleared!

Us

an excerpt from the Chicago Tribune, Voice of the People, 10.01.16: Trump isn't winning because of his dignity or intellect. He's winning because he is a symptom of a much deeper problem. He is a malignancy that should inform us all that we, as a nation, have a mountain of work to do in order to heal the gaping wounds that sprawl across our nation. He is the siren that tells us our neighbors, our friends and the people of our communities are in pain and need our help. Make no mistake, if we do not cut away the tumor that is Trump, it could end us."

"Before Announcing His Run"

from Kathleen Parker, Chicago Tribune on May 10, 2016 and re: Trump "He was inevitable not because he was The One but because he's a shrewd dealmaker with deep pockets and unencumbered by a moral compass. His platform and style were crafted to fit the findings of extensive polling he commissioned before announcing his run."

Smart

Mr. President, As the public salesman for the corporate bosses who are pleased but never satisfied, which time of year do you think cesspools are most inviting? A voter
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"House speaker mania in Congress" by Rex W Huppke, Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-house-speaker-huppke-20151019-story.html
or
"The Denial Rock that would be House speaker" in the paper paper.
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The crash of 2008 was aided and abetted by mega banks. Now that those banks are super hugely mega, will the coming crash be super hugely mega also?
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When old white men are depressed, can't sleep and hurl insults via computer, isn't there a pill for that?
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The wonderful thing about research using smart phones is that it can help everyone get smart about people we've never met and places we've never been and political ideas we've never thought about before. Learning at our own pace is smart.

"Still forgotten, still abandoned"

"There are only two problems with Fiorina: what she has done in the past, and what she promises for the future."
from
"Carly Fiorina's false pitch" by Steve Chapman, Townhall.com
http://townhall.com/columnists/stevechapman/2015/09/19/fiorinas-false-pitch-n2053928
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As a Kurdish Coptic Essene
Who fell in love with a black bean
On the one side
Of a greater later divide,
It paid and it didn't to be a mujadara queen.
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Mega gigantic corporate farms,
Fossils, killing tools, and other charms
Debase for their spoils
Of plagues and boils.
Where's the harm in sounding the alarms.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-american-millstone-michael-pfleger-st-sabina-perspec-0921-20150918-story.html
from
Michael L. Pfleger - "Still forgotten, still abandoned"

Stuck

der Trumpf

"This is the difference between Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders" by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/02/kareem-abdul-jabbar-this-is-the-difference-between-donald-trump-and-bernie-sanders/
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One paragraph from Kathleen Parker in the Chicago Tribune, Sept 3, 2015:
"Genius. Trump is a human handler extraordinaire - the jet-set equivalent of the blackhatted fellow who wheeled his cart into tumbleweed towns. He doesn't just sell snake oil. He milks the venom from the gathering throng of willing believers, then bottles it up and sells it right back to them. Delicious with raw meat."
and
Half of a paragraph from Steve Chapman in the Chicago Tribune, Sept 3, 2015:
"Donald Trump is doing so well because he exploits racial anxieties without ever raising them directly. He complains we are 'losing our country,' ridicules 'political correctness,' accuses Mexicans of 'bringing crime' and claims to represent the 'silent majority.' All these themes are designed to appeal to white resentments and fear of minorities."
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Unregulated capitalists running amok,
Those they bribe, and one skinny duck
Took a siesta
Before the fiesta,
While shortcuts self scored in the muck.

Break Rank

Bake America's Fate Again!
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"Koch brothers' new mantra: #RichLivesMatter" by Rex Huppke, Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-koch-brothers-forum-huppke-20150803-story.html
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Wanted, but not too much
And no matter where, they chose to go dutch
Their big gold strike was more than myth
BadAss McCoy and Titanium Smith.
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The designed dangers of MaceBook
May be felt after it sinks the hook
And addicts our feelers
Kneelers and dealers
Minds are more bendable when shook.
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Dentists have traditionally been feared and disliked. Consequently they have had a high suicide rate. Have they reversed the internalized fear and dislike and turned it on animals? Would that be progress or not?
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One Miss Happ excused
For bad luck forgiveness
By the casualty pardon board.
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They bled from vicarious paper cuts
They see red using nothing but gold and hired guts
They have no head for homies or their huts
They want to lead with bags full of nuts.
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The sixth bird is a furious bank
Five birds before had all sank
How spurious
How injurious
To let a seventh bird break rank.

After All

If the governor is a scab and a half-assed walker,
A sneak and a liar and a  mocking down home talker,
Having no respect for workers,
Stealing for associates and lurkers,
Will somebody please habeas the corpus and chalk 'er?
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"Gov. Scott Walker's miserable leadership skills" by Fred Clark, Wisconsin State D Rep (2009-2014), Chicago Tribune Op-Ed
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-wisconsin-scott-walker-unions-president-perspec-0306-jm-20150305-story.html
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The current governor of Illinois is a bushie. Who would have thought
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White Washing a ton of DolomiteChromites
On almost all week and weekend nights,
There was still more time
For another nursery rhyme
And a bit coin bag of boehner-soaked slights.
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Compromise is a necessary ego adjustment in society. If Wonder Woman was in a room full of people, her spinning with outstretched arms would have to be modified into clog dancing with arms at her sides. It was the 70's, after all.

All About

The usual suspects rounded themselves up,

Personally awarding themselves a promotional cup

Of duty free dinners,

Partnered freedom winners,

And time shared stocks with fossils in a krupp.

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Rahm is not very bright. He wants to take away green space and cover it up with cement and toxic asphalt. Truth or dare, Rahm, truth or dare and how about this?
"Think outside the box for library/museum plans" by Lee R. Talley, Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/chi-think-outside-the-box-for-librarymuseum-plans-20150129-story.html

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The Iowa Sedum From It

Team players who favor the lock in with harshness arrived at the intersection of Gluttonville and BerSerk. They didn't know which end was up or which way was which. So they planted themselves right there and began to learn what gout was all about.

Welcome to Ugly

"Race and Policing in America"
 or
"A white dad's view on police dealing with black son"
 by Rev.Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-ferguson-police-michael-brown-darren-wilson-black-men-whites-perspec-1125-20141125-story.html
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Those who voted for the destroyers also voted for Pontius Pilate,
Mr. Magoo, and Ronnie the Reagan.
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re: bogus verdict in Ferguson Missouri


When 1/4 of 2/3 voted for exactly this result,
and 3/4 of 2/3 sat on their thumbs,
welcome to ugly.

To Distract Us

The Bill of Rights for Voting Equality
http://www.brve.us/
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State Department spokesperson says snooping on right wing allies is the new U.S. way of being a partner and an ally. And when the other partner and ally is Israel spoiling for a fight and willing to kill innocent citizens to prove it, the spokesperson said peace is a quieter and cheaper option, though neither ally nor partner finds it interesting or profitable.
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"Is Obama trying to get impeached to distract us?" by Rex Huppke, Chicago Tribune


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-talk-huppke-obama-distractions-20140729,0,7251527.story

"Money Has Been Happy"

"Money matters more than mouth (the old challenge: put your money where your mouth is) and money has been happy with Obama beginning six weeks after he took office, and it has never looked back."
from "A bull market under Obama's watch"
or
"Is Obama worst or best president"
by Len Robertson, Chicago Tribune Letters to the Editor




http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/letters/chi-letter-a-bull-market-under-obamas-watch-20140715,0,4772234.story

Imaginary Lines

"Behold, the drunk uncle-ization of America" by Rex Huppke, Chicago Tribune
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/huppke/ct-talk-huppke-drunk-uncle-20140708,0,615165.story
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Hi. I'm TomBobPetePaulJebKevin
An American sock puppet playing 7/11
Can't see my strings
Or the off-shored blings
Me and the parrots'll fly you to profit's heaven.
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An example of the sickness of Congress: it wants to spend LESS money to fix the present day problems at the Veterans hospitals than it wants to spend investigating the past in Benghazi.
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How dare young people cross imaginary lines?

"A Textbook Definition of Insanity"

"Fighting to be heard amid church's silence"
by Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-03-01/news/ct-chicago-archdiocese-sister-met-20140302_1_priests-chicago-archdiocese-pedophile
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"Vox Faux Populi"
by Chris Lehmann, In These Times

http://inthesetimes.com/article/16282/vox_faux_populi

. . . a textbook definition of insanity

Mute is Cute

Dear Chicago Tribune, I dare you to be fair. Publish a US map with the locations of the hate groups, such as "End Apathy" and "Definite Hate," and all other groups like them. If you won't do that, how about a local map showing where you all go to church? I dare you to be fair.
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The Koch brothers, desperate to win this year or they'll never win again, ordered 3 of their paid propaganda groups out of their holding pattern. Crunch time! The 3 groups are Anxious Aliens for America, Debt Freedom Bling, and Wraiths of Tedium, or something like that. Watch for their ads coming soon to small screens in your area. Mute is cute.