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Offline CG6468

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Forget the tears — the Jacksons know they got off easy
« on: August 15, 2013, 02:56:24 PM »
John Kass doesn't quite replace Mike Royko , but he comes real close.

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Forget the tears — the Jacksons know they got off easy

August 14, 2013 2:55 PM CDTChicago Tribune columnist John Kass reacts to the prison times given to Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi for separate felonies involving the misspending of about $750,000 in campaign funds. (Posted on: August 14, 2013)

John Kass
August 15, 2013

It's obvious there was much drama in the courtroom as Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi, waited to be sentenced in the theft of $750,000 from his campaign fund.

He cried and she cried, and after the drama came the actual sentence.

So let's talk about what actually happened. Let's put off the discussion of the wet tissues and the echo of sniffles, and that vague and unproven spin about Jackson's reported, but unsupported, mental illness.

First, consider what federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson (no relation) did to Chicago's royal political couple from that courthouse in Washington.

She didn't bring her federal hammer down. She didn't throw the book at them. She didn't even give them a sharp slap on the wrist.

She gave them some federal time, but not as much as they deserved.

In real terms, Jackson will serve a little more than two years, and she'll serve one. Not a bad price for stealing and spending three-quarters of a million dollars.

This is not a tragedy for the Jacksons. It's a victory.

But for us?

It's a sad joke.

John Kass tells it like it is!

Go, Mr. Kass! Yippee!!!!!
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Re: Forget the tears — the Jacksons know they got off easy
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2013, 02:57:14 PM »
Kass has turned into a heck of an entertaining radio host too.  9 to 11 every morning on WLS.
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Re: Forget the tears — the Jacksons know they got off easy
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2013, 03:02:32 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on August 15, 2013, 02:57:14 PM
Kass has turned into a heck of an entertaining radio host too.  9 to 11 every morning on WLS.

As a teenager many years ago I used to listen to Dick Be-on-dee(sp) at night on WLS.....doesn't come in here in SC any more.
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« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2013, 03:04:58 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on August 15, 2013, 03:02:32 PM
As a teenager many years ago I used to listen to Dick Be-on-dee(sp) at night on WLS.....doesn't come in here in SC any more.

Dick Biondi, I believe.
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Re: Forget the tears — the Jacksons know they got off easy
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2013, 03:07:12 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on August 15, 2013, 03:04:58 PM
Dick Biondi, I believe.
  Thanks....didn't know how he spelled it.
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Re: Forget the tears — the Jacksons know they got off easy
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2013, 03:12:34 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on August 15, 2013, 03:04:58 PM
Dick Biondi, I believe.

Yep, back in the day....

My wife heard him in Buffalo, NY, before he came to Chicago.
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