Mayor Daley Gets Sassy Over Torture Case

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Oct 23, 2008 7:40PM

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.

"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."

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.