Rick Telander Article

Telander lines up Daley's ass....and spanks a home run:

• The City of Chicago, led by Mayor Daley and a vast and tumorous army of aldermen and bagmen and yesmen and opportunists and spineless, parasitic political-machine halfwits of forms never seen outside the roiling cesspool of governmental slop-trough greed, has proven itself unworthy of something as potentially delicious and fulfilling as the 2016 Olympic Games.

• Dear God, we don't ask for decency in Chicago or Illinois politics. We don't even ask for intelligence. But is it wrong to ask for something less than slapstick?

  Yet things just get worse and worse with our political leaders.

  What, 26 aldermen have been to prison in modern times?

• Do you know how much money Chicago stands to lose in this deal? Are you a wheeler-dealer? A connected guy? A Daley relative hooked up to pension-fund investments?

  You'll pay, if you're not.

  I guarantee you.

  I promise you.

Go read it all. Telander makes the points we've been trying to make for over a year now. Chicagoans are going to take a tremendous hit if the Olympics chose Shortshanks' paradise.