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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Kamala Harris, the perfect Rorschach candidate

The Chicago Way

WGN Plus

News & Politics, News, Columnist, Politics, Carlin, Plus, Wgn, Jeff, Tribune, John, Chicago, The, Kass, Radio, Way

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Chicago Way w/John Kass (08/26/24): This week, the Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of Chicago, Charles Lipson, joins John Kass and Jeff Carlin to assess the DNC in Chicago, look at what RFK Jr. brings to Donald Trump’s campaign, and gauge what Democrats see in Vice President Kamala Harris […]

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0:00.0

Do you know who the smartest person in Chicago is?

0:04.0

Jeff Carlin, executive producer W. G.N. radio, who was in Mexico during the Democratic

0:11.0

National Convention. The rest of us watched it. Jeff enjoyed the

0:15.8

margaritas and the fish tacos, man, you are the smartest, but for the rest of

0:22.2

us, what we saw was the Democrats stuffing reality into the memory hole,

0:28.3

stuffing Kamala Harris into the memory hole. When she wasn't vice president all she was was born in a

0:35.6

peach blossom and the do was her baptism and talking about all this will be

0:41.5

Charles Lipson,

0:43.2

Professor Emeritus University of Chicago.

0:46.2

You can get all the stuff on Charles Lipson.com

0:49.6

and Jeff Carlin of WGM radio is here of course with us and I'm John Cass

0:57.2

Executive editor of John Cass News.com where you always get a good cup of Midwestern common sense and where are you as

1:07.6

Kamala Harris is reborn as Robert F. Kennedy chases after that pretty red balloon of hers trying to burst it and make her cry,

1:18.0

you're on the Chicago Way podcast on WGM Plus.

1:22.8

So this is a guy who lives high on the hog and he has this Tammany Hall style attitude to power.

1:31.4

And it is, it's the Chicago way absolutely the Chicago way is a deep cultural phenomenon

1:39.2

it's the Chicago way the Chicago way that the focus. In a tower by the river, there lived a man.

1:47.0

There was a man who took a stand, with pen and paper in his hand,

1:57.0

defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword. No escape from his ink lasso in the tower by the river,

2:08.0

castle.

2:10.0

He pulls a knife, you pull a gun, you send one of yours to the hospital, you say, one of hiss to the morgue.

2:17.0

That's the chapackleway.

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