Daily Rag punks Republicans for "glee" over Chicago's failed bid

The Daily Rag, taking it's cue from MSNBC, scolded Republicans for expressing glee at Chicago's failed Olympic bid. Lex fired back:


You cannot be serious. The JG says Rio is corrupt. And Chicago is…what…a paragon of virtue, a city of high moral standards? Ha! I’d venture to guess that when it comes to corruption, Rio is a city of innocent rookies when compared to Chicago’s seasoned union and political thugs. Gov. Daniels’ quip was funny because it had the ring of truth to it and has been a comedy staple since the 1960 presidential election.*

The JG says that Rio’s police are heavy-handed. And what police force has the JG recently come to the defense of for being a model of restraint? None? Nearly one? Certainly not Chicago’s, your lefty editorial board is probably still trying to get the swelling down from being knocked around by Chicago’s finest during the ’68 Democratic Convention.

The JG, to use a Lib phrase reserved for cops acting in the line of duty, “acted stupidly” when it called Rio “one of the most violent cities in the world.” Even before young Derrion Albert’s brutally beaten dead body had time to reach ground temperature in his cemetery plot, and while the video of his death is still fresh in the mind, where does the JG get the temerity to call Rio or any other city for that matter “violent?” Oh and when the police have to deal with murderous violent citizens, maybe that is why they are so heavy handed.

Republicans are no more happy that Chicago lost its bid for the Olympics than 50% of the people of Chicago who opposed that bid in the first place. Chicago is an overwhelmingly Democrat city. So at least some of that 50% of Chicagoans who opposed the bid had to have been Democrats. Maybe your lead should have read “Faithless Democrats express glee…” But hey this is the JG. When was the last time anyone on the editorial board over there accidentally swerved into the truth?

Yeah, I did have a problem with the president going over to Copenhagen. He should not have gone. 20/20 hindsight bears this out. He wasted tons of fuel, prestige and time in his latest failed effort. While he was dithering, young Americans were dying. He makes a snap decision to travel to Copenhagen to boost Chicago’s Olympic bid but vacillates pondering a troop request that he has known about since July or early August. Wouldn’t all of the presidential resources that went into the Olympic bid have been better spent on getting our Afghanistan strategy correct?

* After the bid failed, IN Gov. Mitch Daniels quipped, “What’s the world coming to when Chicago can’t fix an election anymore?”