Chicago Trib (conservative newspaper) comes out anti big lie:

[mucifer]

Trib's editorial board:

Jan. 6, 2021, the day a mob of Donald Trump loyalists carried out an insurrection against the Capitol, is etched in the minds of Americans. No doubt historians will memorialize that terrible, ugly day as a nadir in American democracy, a moment of shame that indelibly scarred the nation.

And yet, the Republican Party has set out to brand Jan. 6 as exactly that. The insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol with the aim of nullifying the free and fair election of an American president were simply exercising “legitimate political discourse,” the Republican National Committee decided at its winter meeting last week in Salt Lake City.

The party also overwhelmingly voted to censure two of its own, Reps. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming, for their participation in the ongoing House select committee investigation into the insurrection and the events leading up to it.

That would be an exercise in legitimate politics. What the Republican Party did last week wasn’t just self-serving. It was self-destructive.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/editorials/ct-editorial-republican-party-jan-6-insurrection-kinzinger-cheney-20220207-w7uxvezlwbeyhmccc3pozyr7xm-story.html

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R!

[redstatebluegirl]

2. I used to think my Grandpa got the Tribune just to scream at it over breakfast.

Grandma used to ask him why he got that paper when it made him so angry, he said you need to keep up with the nonsense they are spewing so you know what is coming down the pike.

[mucifer]

3. I remember growing up with the Suntimes and Daily News and they begrudgingly got the

Trib when they knew they couldn't go without Mike Royko.

[redstatebluegirl]

7. Yes we grew up with Sun Times and the Trib.

We lived downstate so we got them a day or so late in the mail. My Dad loved Mike Royko!

[Martin Eden]

14. We were a Daily News family

When it folded Royko went to the Sun Times, and when that was sold ge jumped to the Tribune.

After Royko passed away he was replaced by John Kass, a rightwing hack I couldn't stand. I'm so glad he's gone now, but I miss Eric Zorn since the Trib was sold.

My wide has gotten the Trib delivered since before we met, so that's our household newspaper. It's always leaned Republican but endorsed Trump's opponents in both elections, and gas called the Big Lie a lie from the start.

[bahboo]

15. Total Sun Times family here...

and, it was easier to read being in tabloid form.

[GeoWilliam750]

22. Showing my age, but I was Daily News paper boy

It is very much missed

[underpants]

5. That's why I listen in to talk radio

That’s truly bizarro world but a lot of people get brainwashed by it every day.

[redstatebluegirl]

8. No talk radio when I was a kid.

I'm sure Grandpa would have screamed at it as well!

[wnylib]

24. If you can stay up late and

tolerate bizarre occult BS, there is Coast to Coast for RW extremist politics. They are an all night AM radio talk show. Currently they are running ads for a campaign to "expose the truth" about Nancy Pelosi. The "Give it back, Nancy" promo attacks her for her wealth and says she should give it all back to the everyday people who need it.

They also run ads for Newsmax, and claim that covid was deliberately created in a plot to disrupt free governments. They oppose mask and vaccine mandates for the sake of American liberty.

Alex Jones is a friend of Coast to Coast host George Noory and has been a guest on the show several times - until he became too criminally hot to continue.

The show's programs are insane, but good for laughs - alien invaders as the source of ancient civilizations, deep state government conspiracies, hybrid people (half space alien, half human), etc.

They also advertise for survival food kits, and conversion of IRA accounts to gold in order to prepare for an "increasingly uncertain world."

[underpants]

25. Sounds great

It really is entertaining. Disturbing but entertaining.

The late night has always been the playground for extrapolated stream of consciousness from Larry King to Imus to the dusty preacher guy who just sat and rambled on (my brother used to watch him).

Survival food and gold GOLD are staples. Our local guys (AM and PM drive time) have about 20-25 minutes of actual content every hour with their own voiceover ads for home improvement, mortgage refinance, and restaurants filling the rest.

[wnylib]

26. Coast to Coast is nationally syndicated

and now has a TV channel. They also have a dating app to find "other like minded people." And a separate dating app for seniors. Would love to get a tape of one of those dates.

[murielm99]

23. I think my dad did the same thing.

At least I learned about how to determine which papers were conservative and which were not. Remember how they always had a biased editorial cartoon right on the front page?

[MissMillie]

4. This is HUGH! (well probably not)

but when a conservative paper puts the "conservatives" in their place, it's always a good thing.

[livetohike]

6. We'll probably be seeing more of this, especially with the

mid term primaries happening soon. Waiting for SW Pennsylvania’s conservative paper to come to their senses.

[MyOwnPeace]

9. They show 'hints' of it now and then......

but still a long way to go!

At least it is not as 'flaming' as it was with Scaife....

[redstatebluegirl]

10. I think a lot of Republicans with half a brain have figured out the democracy is at stake.

Before it was just a stupid game with Trump as the ring leader. Now they are beginning to see how serious it is. I think they are growing weary of that clown family as well.

[leftieNanner]

12. I think you are correct

The problem is that when it comes time to vote, they will decide that THEIR representative or Senator is an OK person. It's the other ones that are bad and they will still vote Republican. They just can't get themselves to vote for a Democrat.

Hope I'm wrong.

[question everything]

11. I think that it did not endorse Trump in 2016. Don't know about 2020

[mucifer]

13. Yeah they actually endorsed Obama in 2007. The first time ever for a dem. They endorsed Pres Lincoln

back in 1860 when the dems were the eviler party.

[question everything]

17. I was curious. In 2016 they endorsed Gary Johnson and in 2020 - Biden

[OMGWTF]

18. Gary "Aleppo" Johnson -- that's just sad. WTF were they thinking?

[question everything]

19. They could not bring themselves to endorse Trump and, of course, not Democrat Hillary

[beveeheart]

16. I'm not from Chicago, but vaguely remember a very funny Christmas poem

written by someone from one of these papers. IIRC, it changed from year to year. Anyone know what/who I'm referring to?

[calimary]

28. Which is why I will NEVER take delivery of anything they try to send me.

Not buying what they’re selling. Not EVER.

[Cha]

21. KR TY!

[empedocles]

27. Another crack in the right wing dam

[Cha]

29. Yeah!