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🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | Is there anything better than Ray Centoro's column in John Kess news today where he talks |
0:07.7 | about Chicago as the city of lobsters. |
0:12.7 | The people placidly in a pot waiting for the whole thing to boil and boil them. |
0:18.4 | Of course, I could imagine WBEC or Channel 11 having a history fit over this and accusing |
0:27.0 | me of Ray Centoro of not supporting frogs because frogs are also the creatures that |
0:33.2 | sit in a pot placidly as the water boils. |
0:36.8 | I don't care about metaphor wars, we're in a political campaign. |
0:41.4 | The future of the city of Chicago is at stake and what I'm seeing is media playing dirty, |
0:50.5 | media pretending to be honest brokers and then playing just like some hacks out of the |
0:56.7 | 47th Ward. |
0:59.1 | Joining us today is of course, as always, Jeff Carlin, WGN Executive Producer, Master |
1:05.8 | Katz Baker Pies, and Joe Ferguson, former Inspector General of the city of Chicago. |
1:13.0 | And he once had a working good relationship with Lori Lightfoot until he told the truth |
1:19.1 | about the mayor in a report, a stunning report that she lost control of the city and |
1:25.2 | turned the city over to the rioters, the George Floyd rioters who destroyed the loop. |
1:32.5 | So what do you do with everyone that you know sitting in a pot of water, waiting for |
1:38.6 | to boil, not really understanding of what's happening as their city is going to boil |
1:45.9 | them alive? |
1:48.2 | You're on the Chicago way podcast with John Cast, Joe Ferguson and Jeff Carlin. |
1:54.4 | So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude |
2:01.4 | to power and it is, it's the Chicago way, absolutely. |
2:06.0 | Look, the Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon. |
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