The Mackerel Wrapper

A weblog for Pete Ellertsen's mass communications students at Benedictine University Springfield.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Whoops! Quote of the day ... 'all about Springfield!'

"We have a good city here. This is all about Springfield. This is not about Chicago." -- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, to City Hall Reporter Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun Times, Dec. 10, 2008.

During an interview with the Sun-Times in which he called on Gov. Rod Blagojevich to "do the right thing," presumably resign, Chicago Mayor Rich Daley told City Hall Reporter Fran Spielman he sees no reason why corruption charges against the governor would hurt Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympics. Spielman added:
If that were true, Daley said, “Just think, how could Germany ever have it? You could go around the country and the world and say, ‘How could those countries have it?’ Beijing just had their Olympics.”

He added, “We don't have the [bad] reputation. We have a good city here. This is all about Springfield. This is not about Chicago.”
And here in Springfield, we thought the problem was with Chicago.
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Springfield (Ill.), United States
I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.