Lies, Damned Lies, & the News
The "Friday News Roundup" panel on N.P.R., in discussing the conviction of former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich, expounded at length upon the culture of corruption that is Illinois politics. "The machine" was considered only slightly less nakedly corrupt that the P.R.I. was in the days when Mexico was a one-party state. Illinois politics is dirty, they cried with outrage. Yet at no point did anyone mention either President Barack Obama, former U.S. senator for Illinois & Illinois state senator, or Mayor Rahm Emanuel, current Mayor of Chicago & former U.S. congressman for Illinois.

So, any corrupt Republican anywhere is a brush with which to smear every Republican everywhere, but institutionalized corruption in Illinois politics has nothing to do with prominent Illinois politicians? I do love a good double standard from our self-appointed seekers of truth.