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As Mayor Daley continues to try to play the "Not My Fault" game in the Burge torture case, he's decided to kick things up a notch and get all sassy on us. Originally, the Mayor said earlier this week:
I was not the mayor. Wait. Wait. There's nothing in the indictment. You're mixing apples and oranges...you're doing a great disservice. I'm very proud of my role as prosecutor. I was not the mayor. I was not the police chief. I did not promote this man in the '80s. Let's put everything in perspective.He later added, "You can't hold me responsible. It would be like holding anyone responsible." All of this in spite of the well-known letter from then-Police Supt. Richard Brzeczek to then-State's Attorney Daley regarding medical findings on accused cop killer Andrew Wilson. In 2007, when running for re-election (as if there was ever any doubt), Daley went so far as to call the alleged torture a "shameful episode in our history." He added, "I'll take responsibility for it. I'll apologize to anyone. It should never have happened. Everybody should be held accountable. The system could have broken down."
Today, however, the mayor was singing a different tune.
"The best way is to say, 'Okay. I apologize to everybody [for] whatever happened to anybody in the city of Chicago.' So, I apologize to everybody. Whatever happened to them in the city of Chicago in the past, I apologize. I didn't do it, but somebody else did it. Your editorial was bad. I apologize.Your article about the mayor, I apologize. I need an apology from you because you wrote a bad editorial," Daley said, laughing.Hooooooolyyyyyyyy crap. We knew MayDay had a big pair, but this still astounds us. We wonder how long he'd be laughing if he ever had to answer some of John Conroy's 20 questions."You do that and everybody feels good. Fine. But I was not the mayor. I was not the police chief. I did not promote him. You know that. But you've never written that and you're afraid to. I understand."
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"You can't hold me responsible. It would be like holding anyone responsible."
I saw that press conference, he didn't do a very good job of disguising the "I'm totally bullshitting you" face. Srsly, it was like watching a kid like about stealing a cookie or something.
Daley: He speaks like a crybaby tyrant.
God, he is such a disgusting leader.
What a jerk.
God, I love Daley's esperatospeak...
"You can't hold me responsible. It would be like holding anyone responsible."
What the fuck does that even remotely mean? He makes Dubya sound like Sir John Gielgud
esepratospeak--good one.
YOu know I meant "esperantospeak" (with an "n"), right?
Oh, but lets talk about how bad Blago is. I mean this is what really pisses me off. How the Hell do we stand for this guy to be mayor! He allowed this and then covered it up!
And why isn't Dick Devine dragged by his ears into this? Where is Jesse, where is Meeks. Yea give me Blago any time
Oh and Anita Alverez was around then as well. What did she know and when did she know it?
I love Mayor Daley. I think this is pure theater. It is hilarious.
It is like Putin releasing a Judo How-To Video or you know slaying a tiger. When there is no worry about losing power, it is a free for all. Daley can literally do or say whatever he wants. It is awesome.
Say what you want about dictatorships. They are EFFICIENT.
@Navin:
Only the kid was a state's attorney and the cookie was knowingly prosecuting cases where torture was used to extract confessions.
But yeah...Richie...get your hand out of that jar!
Say what you want about dictatorships. They are EFFICIENT.
Not really. Study the budgets, bloated bureacracy and arm productions and other projects overseen by the Nazis--look past the autobahns and things like that. Look at nearly anything Stalin did--agriculture "reform" or crash industrliazation (which, I guess, was efficient if you overlook the human waste and cost overuns--that is, the USSR did stumble into industrialization). Mussolini hardly made the trains run on time--that's a myth that's been destroyed by historians and people who lived through the era in Italy. Napoleon wasted most of France's treasure on war, though, I admit, he did reform the legal system pretty well. Study any modern African dictatorship, too. And Chicago's budget is in shambles, and the morale of the people who work for the city (cops, for instance) and live here is going downhill.
Dictatorships, in general, are hardly efficient. That's a fallacy.
Tidla do you ever shut up! Do you really think she meant efficient in that way? Jezz.
I heard that clip this morning! Jezz! Did yall hear all those reporters in the backround laughing! I bet they are all O'bama supporters, nothing but closet racist just like the rest of the goooo gooo liberals