Alexi Giannoulias, one of Barack Obama’s Illinois cronies, is running for his former seat in the United States Senate.
Giannoulias made his money from his family’s bank – a bank that (a) loaned money to, shall we say, shady characters, and (b) was just closed down by federal regulators.
As might be expected, his Republican opponent, Mark Kirk, leads Giannoulias in the polls and has repeatedly hammered him on the bank issue.
Now the CBS television affiliate in Chicago is threatening not to cover Kirk’s campaign if he has the temerity to actually campaign against his opponent’s record.
Reporter: Channel 2’s made a decision. We’re really not going to cover the Senate race, if it’s consistently only in your terms, is about Broadway Bank. The bank’s been taken over by the government, Alexi’s been pilloried. Tell me, what is your campaign going forward? What are the issues you are going to tell the voters why they should vote for you?
Unbelievable. Absolutely un-freakin-believable.
H/T: BigJournalism.com
