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The Beachwood Radio Hour #43: The Endorsement Charade

By Steve Rhodes

Watch the Tribune and Sun-Times pretend the script isn’t already written! Plus: Chicago Whines; Fire Brian Williams; Journalism Under Attack From The Inside; The Lyingest Administration In Chicago History; and Me And My Medicaid.


SHOW NOTES
:00: Strawberry Rock Show.
* A Beachwood Radio Special Edition: Diary Of A Lost Pregnancy.
* The Beachwood Radio Sports Hour #37: The Big Gloom.
3:55: Alestorm at Mojoe’s in Joliet on Saturday night.
* Pirate metal.
6:25: The Endorsement Charade.
* Tribune: For Mayor, Rahm Emanuel.
* TribNation with Rahm Emanuel.
* Romenesko: Tribune Spends Huge Sums To Investigate Rahm Emanuel – Then Endorses The Guy.
* The Beachwood Radio Hour #27: Endorsements Are Bullshit.
* The Beachwood Radio Hour #28: The Sun-Times Is A Hot Mess.
* The Beachwood Radio Hour #29: The Sun-Times Is An Even Hotter Mess And Endorsements Are Even Bullshittier.
* Sun-Times: Rahm Emanuel Has Earned Your Vote.
18:56: Low Swans at Subterranean last Wednesday night.
21:05: Grab Bag.


* Dear Chicago: Stop Whining About Your Fucking Side Streets.
* This Is How They Do It In Minneapolis.
* Fire Brian Williams.
* David Carr: Brian Williams, Retreading Memories From A Perch Too Public.
* The integrity of journalism remains under attack – sadly, from within.
* Maureen Dowd: Anchors Aweigh.
* Variety: NBC Execs Had Told Brian Williams To Stop Telling That Story Years Ago.
37:24: Crybaby at Bottom Lounge on Friday night.
39:15: The Lyingest Administration In Chicago History.
* Barbara Byrd-Bennett Lied In The Pages Of The Sun-Times.
* The School Project.
* Mayor Rahm And His Administration Struggle To Tell The Truth.
* Reversing Rahm.
* Which Side Are You On, Eric Zorn?
1:00:50: Jonny Craig at the Bottom Lounge on Saturday night.
* The Chris Robinson Brotherhood at Park West on Friday night.
* Robbie Fulks and Lydia Loveless at the Hideout on Monday night.
1:03:35: Me And My Medicaid.
* This is me trying to tell the Medicaid redeterminer that someone can now qualify for Medicaid based on income alone, without kids or a disability:


When I worked in phone rooms, whoever was available was the “supervisor.” You’d yell out “I need a supervisor,” and the next person to end their call would walk over. Rarely was it anyone with managerial power or special expertise. – Tim Willette
STOPPAGE TIME: 20:48

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Posted on February 9, 2015