Old Aeschylus knew war.
The media is at War with President Trump and it will take no prisoners.
Whatever. A fun read is becoming as tiresome as SNL and the two Chicago dailies.
The Double D brand has been burned into the hide of DNAinfo Chicago. That is too bad, because the otherwise entertaining and marginally informative 'neighborhood news' site, has been turned into yet another propaganda sheet for Illinois Oligarchs.
DNAinfo Chicago features two of Chicago's most honest, witty and ethical writers - Mark Schipper and Eddie Komenda. These gentlemen present the news and the background a Chicagoan requires, without the mewling belly-rubs by power brokers required of too many in journalism. Sadly, the need to divide, silence and besmear people with differing political points of view erases their quality work. Cow-Towing to oligarchs is becoming a regular feature.
Durbin and his creature Duckworth are Double D Industries. A double dose of fatuous bargainers, representing Illinois in the 'greatest deliberative body' on the planet. You know the one where recently Senate Majority Leader Yertle the Turtle hushed up the Socialist Saccagewea.
For the better part of a month DNAinfo has posted this Barnum-esque bunkum:
See How Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth Vote On Trump's Cabinet Picks
Wow! See -Hercules Defeat the Minotaur! See - Moses Part Donald's Weave!
Got it! Every rag in this hick burg, delighted to be lorded over by jerks, cretins, grifters and well-healed oligarchs, begins and ends each day with a list of Trump Thumping nonsense that no one reads.
The Chicago Sun Times and Tribune can not cover Chicago high school sports with anything resembling competence, but will crow like starlings in Bridgeport about its hard-hitting political coverage and ignore the daily thievery and bullying emanating from execrable City Hall and the egregious County Building.
Now, DNAinfo is a full time propaganda slinger. Well, old Aeschylus also seems to have advised our 21st Century ink-slingers and nodders in his play Agamemnon - Do not kick against the pricks.
Much safer.
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