chicagotribune.com
Giannoulias (D-IL) fails to end bank controversy

“….”Can I look back and make sure I don’t say anything inconsistent?” Giannoulias asked, somewhat awkwardly. “This was eight years ago. Seven or eight years ago. As I mentioned, if we knew everything about this individual’s past, we wouldn’t have given those loans.”
A silky parser of words may have had an easier time, perhaps an artist in the lawyerly game of negative implication — when what’s not said is more important than what is said.
If such a candidate could make reporters feel tingles running up their legs, if he could offer himself up as an empty vessel for their guilt and their hopes, he might get away with it.
But that guy is in the White House now….”
“…But the Rezko issue was marginalized as mere partisan Republican harping. And in local and national media accounts, Obama was portrayed as Rezko’s victim.
The implication was that the spidery Rezko stalked the idealistic and naive young Obama and almost dragged him down, by buying that strip of land in the Kenwood neighborhood, so Obama could afford that dream house.
That’s not reality. But politics isn’t about reality as much as it is about establishing a compelling narrative. And the media so loved Obama’s creation myth…”

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