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- National pundits don’t understand why Chicagoans aren’t falling for Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
I’d like to take a moment to show a little love for Maggie Haberman, a senior political reporter for Politico, who’s apparently the first national pundit to make the startling discovery that Chicagoans don’t like Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
I’m still wondering how New York Times columnist David Brooks got that baby past the copy desk.
I have a theorem about that too: your chances of getting that special, one-on-one with the president are contingent on how far you’re willing to stick your head up Rahm’s—well, I think you can guess how that theorem ends.
Other than to remind you of the school closings. And the clinic closings. And cooking the crime stats in the middle of a crime wave. (Good job on that one, David Bernstein and Noah Isackson.)
In Mayor Emanuel’s case, he should call a press conference with his favorite reporters and declare that he achieved all his goals and is moving on to become the head of a hedge fund—a job he’d probably be good at.
