Posted on 10/13/2010 4:15:28 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
This is really outrageous. William Kelly, who has a program on the weekends on Chicago's WIND radio, went out with the rest of the media shadowing Rahm Emanuel as he walked around meeting and greeting Chicago voters yesterday. The outrageous part was that Kelly, a conservative, was pushed away by one self-professed "real" reporter and threatened with violence from another simply for asking Emanuel if he thought the stimulus was a failure.
I am very familiar with William Kelly as I’ve worked with him off and on for the last year since his run for State Comptroller in the primary. Certainly Kelly is somewhat of a gadfly in Republican politics in Chicago, but for the Old Media to push him around and threaten to "deck" him is way out of bounds. Further, Kelly is just as much a "real" journalist as they are and has just as much right to ask candidate Emanuel a question as they do.
The fist arrogant Old Media "reporter" confronting Kelly is the rotund Charles Thomas of ABC 7 TV. He is the one that keeps insisting that Kelly is not a "real reporter." Presumably, Thomas imagines himself to be the only "real reporter" in the streets! Worse was the threat of violence blurted out by "reporter" Jay Levine, a reporter from CBS 2 TV. He threatened to "deck" Kelly for asking questions of Emanuel...
Video at Publiusforum.com...
watching the video over and over won’t change it. If RE doesn’t want to answer the guys questions that’s his business. It doesn’t excuse the other jerks behavior. Why would I waste my time calling anyone about it?
A liar AND too stupid too understand English? Bad combo for you, Sick Whimper Youranus.
Why do you come to FR?
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