By Steve Rhodes
“During the debate, Emanuel fiddled with his fingernails, pulled up his socks multiple times and appeared to stifle a yawn or two when Romney was talking,” the Sun-Times reports
I’m not sure which would be worse: This story idea originating within the Sun-Times newsroom or City Hall.
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Question reporter apparently didn’t ask: Hey Rahm, what’s wrong with the president?
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M.I.A.: The 47 percent.
Why? Certainly not for the reason Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki gave to Lynn Sweet of the Sun-Times.
Questions Sweet apparently didn’t ask Psaki:
A) Did the campaign do polling on it?
B) Did Obama rehearse on it?
C) Does that mean the president won’t bring it up for the remainder of the campaign?
A more likely explanation is that he never found a comfortable moment to bring it out – or that a decision was made that such an attack wouldn’t appear “presidential.”
Charles in Charge
“A guest column submitted to the Register Star by Rep. Chuck Jefferson in support of a rate increase designed to help ComEd pay for upgrades to its energy grid was written by ComEd, an e-mail between the company and Jefferson’s office shows,” the Rockford paper reports.
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Wait. Does Charles Jefferson actually live here?
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Distribution Bias
Food trucks to be located where food is least needed.
Money Matters
Participatory Budgeting Expands To Four Wards Even As It Disappears From City Hall.
Rolling Stones Rehearsals
Chicago 1997.
The Cub Factor
Team Bizarro still gets it backwards.
Kool-Aid Report
Fifty Shades of Jay.
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The Eggplant That Ate Chicago
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The Beachwood Tip Line: Earth, wind, fire.
Posted on October 4, 2012