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The Chicago Way

Chicago Way w/John Kass: When the bell tolls for America’s once great newsrooms

The Chicago Way

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Chicago Way w/John Kass (05/03/23): This week, RealClear Politics’ Tom Bevan is here to discuss the forecast for Biden/Harris against Trump, DeSantis, and the rest. Plus, what really went down with the swift cancelation of Tucker Carlson’s top-rated cable show? Check out more Kasso at JohnKassNews.com Follow Everything John Kass – JohnKassNews.com Follow @John_Kass Follow @JPCarlin […]

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0:00.0

Here those bells, the requiem for the newsrooms of America, as the hypocrites of corporate, corrupt

0:23.9

media that has killed itself, met with each other at a grand dinner in a ballroom in Washington,

0:32.1

yuckin' it up over how smart they are and how dumb the rest of us are. And to talk about that,

0:40.1

the White House correspondent's dinner, and other things, media, politics, culture, not

0:48.0

other than Tom Bevan, co-founder and president of RealClearPolitics.com, and a guy who's

0:54.4

allowing me to reprint and republish articles from a group that he's involved with, RealClear

1:00.9

Investigations, which has an amazing series on religion and freedom. Joining us as always is

1:09.0

Jeff Carlin, my friend, future physics teacher, and a guy who, you know, loves pies and cats,

1:17.2

but I'm trying to get him to love sausage. Maybe we'll talk about that another time. But for right

1:23.8

now, Tom Bevan, Jeff Carlin and me, John Kass, JohnKissnews.com, on media, politics, culture,

1:34.4

and the pity party. And where are you as those bells ring and old man Biden is puffin' up his

1:42.2

chest, telling everybody he's ready to be president again in his late 80s, his late 80s. You're on the

1:53.5

Chicago Way on WGN Plus. So this is a guy who lives high on the hog, and he has this

2:04.8

Tamini Hall style attitude to power. And it is, it's the Chicago Way, absolutely.

2:11.6

Look, the Chicago Way is a deep cultural phenomenon. It's the Chicago Way.

2:18.4

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

2:27.5

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

2:34.8

defeating foes in every ward with a pen more mighty than the sword. No escape from his ink

2:42.0

class, oh, in a tower by the river. Kass, oh, here's how you get him. He pulls a knife,

2:49.8

you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue,

2:53.9

that's the Chicago Way. The media world is topsy-turvy as we speak. Tucker Carlson is being

3:03.8

attacked relentlessly by the so-called conservatives of Fox News. We have CNN inviting

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