Capitol Fax? You just made the list. And thus, a new rivalry is born!
Top story (because it’s about me): Yesterday, I made a joke that I voted for Scott Lee Cohen because his ads scared me into it. Well, another reason to hate the internets: it got picked up by my new arch nemesis Rich Miller at Capitol Fax. His line?
“Chicago Public Radio Web Editor Justin Kaufmann wrote about the situation today and admits that he voted for Cohen.”
He then quotes my lame attempt at the Cohen joke and moves on. Rich, I know that it was your attempt at a joke on top of my bad job, but I want to I thank you for unleashing your wacko commenters on me, which has given me some serious chuckle fits today. One of your commenters calls me a “vapid idiot for voting for Cohen” and this great gem:
“Scott Lee Cohen story exposes @wbez web editor as a Democratic voter.”
and after I tell him it was a bit, he says…
“justinkaufmanisacommie”
That’s a good one. A commie? Far from it…so I believe in the redistribution of wealth, read the teachings of Kruschev and subscribe to the Communist newsletter…
Okay, wait, stop the presses. I guess I have to Jay Leno this for the slower readers…see, that was a joke. I was kidding. I don’t care about redistribution of wealth. I had to Google Kruschev and I am not sure if there is a newsletter for the Communist party.
Rich, please don’t take that out of context and send it around to Springfield insiders, lobbyists and political campaign workers via an outdated web site/e-update that hasn’t been redesigned since 1997, featuring the classic brown, blue red and yellow (is there purple in there too?) template.
Game on, Mr. Miller. A new rivalry is born. I’ll be Biggie. You be Tupac.
B Story: Furlough funny business at City Hall. This is great reporting by the new Chicago News Co-Op folks. Remember when the alderman and mayor were going to take furlough days alongside other city workers? Well, they structured it on a 365-day work-year, where regular city worker’s days were taken from their 261 day work-year.
C Story: Phil Ponce! I didn’t know you had it in ya! Phil was crushin’ Cohen and his wife yesterday night on Chicago Tonight. Some producer at WTTW gets the gold star for the week. Dillard, Brady, Preckwinkle, Quinn, Cohen and throw in Adlai Stevenson and Robert Klein for good measure. Chicago Tonight is becoming the Violet Hour of public-affairs talk shows. Instead of socialites though, there is a line out the door of politicians. And Phil is at the door, letting the cool ones in.
Weather: Minnesota is supposed to get a lot of snow this week. We will get a little.
Sports: I’m thinking Scott Lee Cohen should get Mark McGwire’s PR firm. Scott, don’t you know how to deal with steroid allegations? Deny, deny, deny, deny again, don’t go under oath, deny and then when we don’t care anymore, admit it. Or maybe go the Sosa route and pretend it never happened. Oh, and the Super Bowl is this weekend.
Kicker: I don’t know if you saw this yesterday, but I did a quick investigative piece on how Bill Brady has a 400+ vote lead over Kirk Dillard. Simple, Facebook friends.
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Notice how J. Kaufmann doesn’t actually deny being a commie, he just admits to being a bad one…
J. Kaufmann doesn’t have a right hand. He has a left hand, and a Bolshevik hand.
Scott Lee Cohen is the candidate Reality TV Producers dream of. Steroids (Jersey Shore), Pawnbroker (Pawn Stars) and maybe next week we will find out he is a HOARDER!!! Hello, TV? Your next reality show is here, and it is called COHEN FOR LT. GOVERNOR.
I admit to being lax about Scott Lee Cohen. I was so busy with my mile long
list of trying to keep the judges straight. Why must voting be so complicated ?
My polling place said everyone screwed up on the judge-thing. Total confusion !
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Thank you Phil Ponce for mercilessly drilling Cohen and wife.
The Mancow waste concerned me. I was worried when John Callaway died.
Carol Marin and company did a great job with the mini-meat debates.
Channel 11 is our lifeline to local politics. The nitty-gritty.
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Thank you comrade Kaufmann, partner in the struggle.
Stanford! Who’s side are you on??!!!!!???
Karen – how did everyone screw up on the judge-thing? I’m intrigued…
And MB – I know some people in Hollywood. Let’s book a trip and set-up a pitch meeting. We just need to find a couch to sleep on. I know a guy who used to be an asst. under-writer on Criminal Minds. So we have an in…
I’ll tell you this much: Wealth never gets redistributed my way at WBEZ. Zing!
Judge thing:
My polling place was so slow everyone was chatty. Unusual. I asked about the
turnout – which was a miserable 40 people – the person checking the names said:
“I guess there’s no more hope.” They all talked about how busy the last election
was and people were lined up around the block before 7 am.
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When I put my ballot in the counter the ballot taker seemed surprised it did not
burp back and reject my ballot. I witnessed people not voting any judges at all
or skipping or accidently missing or misvoting the judges. Nobody wanted to do
the ballot over. Apparently I was the only one up to that point that voted for
every judge.
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It was so sad I didn’t even witness any donuts ! Recession in the poling place.
Hollywood pitch thing:
It is a mandatory cliche that you “sleep in your car” while in LaLa Land.
This is especially true when telling this story in Chicago in the dead of winter.
This annoys any friends (or enemies) who are still here waiting tables.