City Hall Cover Story

It's amazing that City Hall has a cover story all set up for Jackie Heard's House of Pharmaceuticals and releases it mere hours after our readers break the story before the mainstream media. These paragraphs reek of spin spin spin:

• Daley learned of the situation while he was flipping through a stack of reports on properties deemed drug and gang houses. He noticed Heard was listed as the owner of one of them, Heard said.

  She could not remember exactly when that happened, but noted that the mayor meets with police officials about once a month to find out which areas of the city are experiencing drug and gang problems.

Mayor Daley flips through stacks of reports? About drug and gang houses? Since when? That paragraph is laughable on it's face. Either Daley is a genius micromanager who knows where every penny, contract and vote is coming and going to or he's a bumbling idiot who answered, "I don't recall" dozens of times at a Federal deposition regarding the Machine. Pick one. But the media really needs to stop covering up the corruption that occurs on a daily basis by accepting these bullshit stories as fact.

The Tribune also fell for this spin job.