Like Trib, Ill Review overlooks pot for kettle

Arch kindly calls it cognitive dissonance. I call it what it is: hypocrisy.

What is it with all these conserv-o-partisans like Fran Eaton at Illinois Review clamoring for Gov. Blagojevich’s head simply because he’s an inept quasi-leader who stomps his feet when he doesn’t get his way and has been implicated — though not yet charged, let alone convicted — in several legally questionable activities…?

Don’t they realize that also describes their not-so-lovable Pres. Bush to a T?

As a two-time Bush endorser, the Trib simply put the question of recall out there (likely knowing full well others would call for impeachment). Illinois Review’s Ms. Eaton, herself a well-recorded Bush defender and dogmatist, takes that next step and yelps, “Anything less than impeachment is dereliction of lawmakers’ duties.”

Yet, the only difference at this point is the number of letters after the B in their last names. Other than that, their leadership “styles” (I’m being generous) are almost exactly alike.

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November 2, 2007 at 9:46 am

Mary

Speaking of hypocrisy at the Illinois Review, note the way the holier than thou rightwing misleads even its own people.

Have you ever seen “articles” written by “Tyler Jones” or “John Ruskin” on Illinois Review? Those people don’t exist. Both are actually Curt Mercadante. Trust me on this, everyone with half a brain knows it.

Mercadante got busted as “Tyler Jones”. Now he’s “John Ruskin” again. Obviously conservatives think their fellow conservatives are fools.

And note that the worst venom is always reserved for another Republican, Liz Gorman, the Cook County GOP Chair. She’s even a conservative. But IR is constantly throwing bombs her way in reckless fashion.

Mercadante also works for Tony Peraica, who has a truly unhealthy hatred for Gorman. Mercadante is also an advertiser on IR, because he’s running for some county post in another county.

So appearently if you advertise on IR you get to viciously attack other conservatives while not being honest with the readers in the process. This is what passes for “conservative values” these days. Nice.

November 2, 2007 at 10:01 am

robnesvacil