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Eugene Pincham passed while I was busy with that pesky day job. How sad
April 2008
The 25th Anniversary of Lee Elia’s Meltdown
“We get in there, Elia sees us, and he says: ‘Hi fellas, come on in,’ ” recalled Les Grobstein. “He seemed very calm.”
Grobstein, the omnipresent Chicago radio reporter with a memory to rival “Rain Man”, said he and three writers—the Tribune’s Robert Markus, the Sun-Times’ Joel Bierig and the Daily Herald’s Don Friske—were there for the start of the interview.
Grobstein said he asked the question that sent Elia into a rage: “Tough way to lose a game, huh?”
Elia told the Tribune’s Fred Mitchell the tipping point actually came when a Los Angeles reporter asked about how Cubs fans were reacting to the team’s 5-14 start.
Whatever the case, the crowd around Elia grew quickly.
David Schuster, now a WSCR-AM 670 reporter then working for Sportsphone, put his microphone near Elia but looked the other way.
“I had to turn my back to him so I wouldn’t laugh,” Schuster said. “I was thinking: What am I going to do with this tape? How am I going to edit it?”
Giangreco and his cameraman joined the festivities just in time to hear Elia say: “85 percent of the [bleeping] world is working; the other 15 come out here.”
“Les and I are looking at each other like: This is gold!” recalled Giangreco, now WLS-Ch. 7’s top sports anchor. “At the end of the rant, we both said in unison: ‘Thanks, Lee.’ And we ran out of there.”
For those who don’t remember, it’s NSFW, but damn funny.
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Let Me Explain
When you write in to talk about a campaign you work on from the computers at that campaign, you want to identify yourself as being from the campaign. In general, I protect privacy pretty well on here, but I don’t like campaigns hiding behind anonymity when posting. If it’s unrelated to your race or something, no big deal. That said, it really annoys me given how many times I’ve made this point to get the following headers in a comment about Ozinga:
New comment on your post #9525 "Bring Out the Self-Funders" Author : brian (IP: 65.118.27.130 , ozmail.ozinga.com) E-mail : jibhalf@hotmail.com URL : Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=65.118.27.130 Comment:
If you are writing from the campaign computers, I assume this to be official given it’s about the race.
And if you don’t know what an IP address is, get a fucking clue.
Save the Banana Boys
Via OneMan
Wow, some administrator needs to get a life
1) It was funny
2) No one was hurt
3) There was no danger
4) There was nothing unwholesome about it
5) There was no significant disruption
The horrors.
Franks and Fritchey Looking at Impeachment Bill
Blagojevich quotes Hank Williams
Two House Democrats said discussions on a possible impeachment resolution targeting Blagojevich accelerated after Tuesday’s disclosure by Ali Ata, whom the governor appointed to a $127,000-a-year post running the Illinois Finance Authority.
In his surprise guilty plea to federal corruption charges, Ata said he gave two $25,000 campaign contributions to the governor and then got Blagojevich’s assurance of landing a state job in which Ata “could make some money.” Ata is expected to testify against indicted former Blagojevich fund-raiser Tony Rezko.
State Rep. Jack Franks (D-Woodstock) and Rep. John Fritchey (D-Chicago) said a decision on impeachment could come within two weeks.
“We now find ourselves in a very different environment, where an individual has pled guilty to being a co-conspirator in transactions involving the governor,” Fritchey said. “Can state government be effectively led by a governor who is apparently at the center of some very significant allegations of wrongdoing?”
Blagojevich surfaced Wednesday at a Springfield prayer breakfast that was not disclosed by his staff. In an eight-minute speech, the governor did not address Ata. But, perhaps offering a glimpse into his current mind-set, Blagojevich closed by invoking the lyrics of an obscure, 1950s Hank Williams song, “Men with Broken Hearts.”
” ‘You never stood in that man’s shoes or saw things through his eyes or watched with helpless hands while the heart inside you dies,’ ” Blagojevich said. ” ‘So help your brother along the way no matter where he starts because the same God that made you made him too, these men with broken hearts.'”
Huh
John Fritchey citing KRS One on violence. Not a natural pairing.
Only Spending $350,000
Ozinga won’t trip the Millionaire’s amendment.
One presumes that the RNCC is crying as they have no money and one of their recruited self funders just announced he won’t self fund.
Oh, and he wants to stay in Iraq for as long as it takes to have a functioning Iraqi state. That isn’t even working in Mississippi.
The Problem of People Being Bad At Math
Primary campaigns go on regardless of how utterly impossible the math is….
Quinn Jumps In
QUINN: To be running away and not fully engaging the people of Illinois, who are the voters, the taxpayers, the people who we are accountable to, I don’t think that’s the right way to go. I think Governor Blagojevich should speak to the public and answer questions about anything and everything.And if the allegations about the governor are true?
QUINN: Well, if anyone committed wrongdoing, I think they should, uh, turn themselves in and suffer the consequences.
Quinn says he hasn’t personally seen any evidence of corruption in the administration. The governor hasn’t been charged with a crime, and a spokeswoman denies that he’s done anything wrong.