Posted on 05/04/2012 7:22:59 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
With 16 days remaining until hundreds of diplomats descend upon Chicago for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit, NATO is working hard to educate world leaders on their host city.
But that effort may have briefly backfired.
A video about Chicago posted Thursday on the website of NATO's in-house television news network, Natochannel.tv, could leave leaders fumbling the facts at the international water cooler.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Illinois?
Didn’t that used to be a state?
Thankfully, violent crime is non-existent:
“Al Capone made the city notorious,” the narrator says near the end of the video, “but today, it is clear that the gangsters’ days are over, and Chicago is rich in resources thanks in particular to the trans-Atlantic links.
Didn’t that used to be a state?
Still is. It's a state of denial...
How stupid of them.Even *I* know it’s Skokie.
Everyone knows it’s in Carbondale!
Illinois?
Didn’t that used to be a state?
Still is. It’s a state of denial...
Islamic State of Illinois ?
Not that as yet. But complete denial as to what these crooks have made of this state’s economy and future well-being.
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