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By PUMA Pundit on April 4, 2009
It is safe to say that the only thing that prevented FDR from taking the USA all the way to the left is WWII, this time I am not sure if we shall be as fortunate. This cartoon is from a 1934 edition of the Chicago Tribune. The names of the players may have changed, [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged chicago tribune, donald richberg, FDR, germany, harold ickes, henry a. wallace, hitler, National Recovery Administration, new deal, nra, rexford guy tugwell, stalin, stimulus, usa |
By PUMA Pundit on February 17, 2009
It is about time. This madness has dragged on long enough… CT Roland Burris, resign The benefit of the doubt had already been stretched thin and taut by the time Roland Burris offered his third version of the events leading to his appointment to the U.S. Senate. It finally snapped like a rubber band, popping [...]
Posted in Nation | Tagged chicago tribune, Rod Blagojevich, roland burris |
By PUMA Pundit on February 16, 2009
Awesome. It feels real good to have such an impartial media that has no ulterior motives. MediaBistro Chicago Tribune’s Jill Zuckman joins President Obama’s administration as the Department of Transportation’s director of public affairs and assistant to Secretary Ray LaHood. Zuckman was a Washington-based correspondent at the Tribune and also made frequent appearances on MSNBC [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged barack obama, chicago tribune, jay carney, Jill Zuckman, peter gosselin, ray lahood
By PUMA Pundit on December 15, 2008
Got to love it, straight from a banana republic play book, Obama promised to investigate himself. Anyway, the report shall allegedly be released in a few days, here is the mp3 file of Incoming White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs speaking to the Chicago Tribune’s Rick Pearson on the fact that the report shall be [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged chicago tribune, rahm emanuel, rick pearson, robert gibbs, Rod Blagojevich
By PUMA Pundit on October 16, 2008
Described in a 2004 Chicago Sun Times article as someone Barack Obama regularly seeks out for “spiritual counsel”, James Meeks, is a long-time political ally to the democratic frontrunner. When Obama ran for the U.S. Senate in 2003, he frequently campaigned at Salem Baptist Church while Rev. Meeks appeared in television ads supporting the Illinois [...]
Posted in Obama | Tagged barack obama, chicago sun, chicago tribune, friend of the day, james meeks, tony rezko |