Actually, according to the Ministry for Information, that is just a photo of WUIS Statehouse Bureau Chief Amanda Vinicky. Your party membership is in jeopardy, Comrade.
“I want to get to know you both, on a first name basis. I want to get to know you, your families, your hopes, your dreams, your fears, your weaknesses, and your vulnerabilities. I want to get to know you both well, so just start with those, if you both could…”
WUIS Statehouse Bureau Chief Amanda Vinicky and Chicago Sun-Times Statehouse Bureau Chief Dave McKinney look in disbelief at the stupidity of the Raunerbot’s question.
(Doors bust open during panel discussion. Two men enter, Jules and Vincent, wearing black suits and ties, white shirts…)
Jules, eats moderator’s hamburger, sits next to AV
(To Vincent) Jules: Well, if you like burgers give ‘em a try sometime. (To AV & DM) I can’t usually get ‘em myself because my girlfriend’s a vegitarian which pretty much makes me a vegitarian. But I do love the taste of a good burger. Mm-mm-mm. You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?
AV: No.
Jules: Tell ‘em, Vincent.
Vincent: A Royale with cheese.
Jules: A Royale with cheese! You know why they call it that?
DM: Because of the metric system?
Jules: Check out the big brain on Dave. That’s right. The metric system. What’s in this?
AV: Diet Pepsi.
Jules: Diet Pepsi, good. You mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash this down?
AV: Go right ahead.
Jules: Ah, hit the spot. We’re here because Bruce Rauner sent us…
Vinicky gets brought a Pepsi after specifically asking for a Coke. This is what’s known as “the look.”
- Under Further Review - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:13 pm:
Listen, the most read pages in the Chicago Sun-Times are the horse racing results. The Tribune really did us a huge favor by dropping coverage of the ponies.
DM: “Amanda, since I had that ‘discussion’ with Rauner’s ‘campaign aides’, I can’t straighten my neck out again.”
AV: “You were lucky. It would be hard typing with broken fingers.”
AV: “Do you think Rauner understands Madigan and Cullerton aren’t going to let him do anything if he wins?”
DM: “You’re assuming he knows who Madigan and Cullerton are.”
- Wordslinger - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:05 pm:
DM: “Yes, Mr. Rauner, I do have a family. Why do you ask?”
- tikkunolam - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:06 pm:
Actually, according to the Ministry for Information, that is just a photo of WUIS Statehouse Bureau Chief Amanda Vinicky. Your party membership is in jeopardy, Comrade.
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:07 pm:
“Mr. Rauner, meet Mr. Collins.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:07 pm:
Bruce Rauner asks fellow panelists…
“I want to get to know you both, on a first name basis. I want to get to know you, your families, your hopes, your dreams, your fears, your weaknesses, and your vulnerabilities. I want to get to know you both well, so just start with those, if you both could…”
- Nonplussed - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:07 pm:
Top Dog & Doghouse
- horse w/ no name - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:07 pm:
I don’t care if it’s the last diet pepsi, I got it first. Is he still staring at it? He still staring at it, isn’t he?
- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:08 pm:
“Hey, Amanda, take a look. I’ll bet you’ve never seen a newspaper publisher actually kiss a candidate’s derriere before.”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:08 pm:
Rauner, “I talked to both your bosses, so ask whatever you guys want, up to you.”
- Norseman - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:11 pm:
Mr. Rauner, do we have permission to answer the question?
- Wordslinger - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:12 pm:
“Is that a horse’s head?”
- Dan Johnson - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:12 pm:
“Seriously? I’m fired?”
“Thank you public media….”
- Nonplussed - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:13 pm:
Dave: “I remember when Public Radio didn’t have ads”
Amanda: “I remember when the Sun-Times wasn’t a piece of crap”
- Norseman - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:13 pm:
WUIS Statehouse Bureau Chief Amanda Vinicky and Chicago Sun-Times Statehouse Bureau Chief Dave McKinney look in disbelief at the stupidity of the Raunerbot’s question.
- Norseman - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:15 pm:
It’s hard to take a question from Quinnochio seriously.
- LizPhairTax - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:20 pm:
Rauner bought up all the Crystal Pepsi. He’ll let you have one if you play ball.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:20 pm:
(Doors bust open during panel discussion. Two men enter, Jules and Vincent, wearing black suits and ties, white shirts…)
Jules, eats moderator’s hamburger, sits next to AV
(To Vincent) Jules: Well, if you like burgers give ‘em a try sometime. (To AV & DM) I can’t usually get ‘em myself because my girlfriend’s a vegitarian which pretty much makes me a vegitarian. But I do love the taste of a good burger. Mm-mm-mm. You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?
AV: No.
Jules: Tell ‘em, Vincent.
Vincent: A Royale with cheese.
Jules: A Royale with cheese! You know why they call it that?
DM: Because of the metric system?
Jules: Check out the big brain on Dave. That’s right. The metric system. What’s in this?
AV: Diet Pepsi.
Jules: Diet Pepsi, good. You mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash this down?
AV: Go right ahead.
Jules: Ah, hit the spot. We’re here because Bruce Rauner sent us…
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:26 pm:
Amanda Vinicky and Dave McKinney contemplate giving a chocking Bruce Rauner Diet Pepsi to help wash down a lodges peanut.
- Bill White - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:27 pm:
Ruh roh, Bruce brought his sledgehammer
- been there - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:28 pm:
“Bruce, How worried should we be? Bruce?”
- hisgirlfriday - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:28 pm:
This Rauner guy is totally gonna defund the UIS public affairs reporting program first thing he does, isn’t he.
- Concerned - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:31 pm:
Wordslinger for the win right out-of-the box!
- Percival - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:33 pm:
Agreed. I am not even going to try and top Wordslinger on this one.
- phocion - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:37 pm:
Hands up. Don’t shoot.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:41 pm:
Amanda Vinicky and Dave McKinney watch in stunned silence as Evelyn Sanguinetti slips and falls off the stage at the LG Debate.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:42 pm:
AV: She signed the waiver, right?
DM: I don’t think so…
- William j Kelly - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:43 pm:
Amanda: who put water in my diet Pepsi can? Dave: that’s how the threat begin Amanda!
- VM - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:45 pm:
Coca Cola afficionado Bruce Rauner demands that Amanda Vinicky be pulled from covering the Governor’s race.
- Valerie F. Leonard - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:54 pm:
Really, Rauner?
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 2:55 pm:
“Our third panelist is Chip Englander, winner of the UIS Rauner Fellowship. The first question is to Gov. Quinn from Mr. Englander…”
- Yellow Dog Democrat - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:01 pm:
Media Non Gratae
- Amalia - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:04 pm:
reacting to the seeding order of taking out political reporters.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:05 pm:
Amanda Vinicky and Dave McKinney respond to Candidate Grimm’s continued response that the “rent is too darn high”
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:10 pm:
Amanda Vinicky and Dave McKinney react to the continual handing of notes by Brooke Anderson to Gov. Quinn.
- Wensicia - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:11 pm:
DM: “Watch out for him, Amanda, Rauner’s coming after you next!”
- DuPage - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:13 pm:
When is he going to get here? That 18 dollar watch must have stopped again.
- Ahoy! - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:13 pm:
Vinicky gets brought a Pepsi after specifically asking for a Coke. This is what’s known as “the look.”
- Under Further Review - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:13 pm:
Listen, the most read pages in the Chicago Sun-Times are the horse racing results. The Tribune really did us a huge favor by dropping coverage of the ponies.
- Anyone Remember - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:14 pm:
Amanda Vinicky: “What do you mean I’m being ‘McKinneyed’?”
- Noper - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:45 pm:
“What do you mean you see a ghost over my left shoulder?”
- Mittuns - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:50 pm:
McKinney, hammered.
Vinicky’s Diet Pepsi, shaken.
- walker - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:55 pm:
BR: “I’d like to announce a new endowment for working reporters.”
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:55 pm:
“Dave, do you think one of those guys is Oswego Willy?”
“I don’t know, Amanda, but I’m pretty sure the old SOB that took the last Diet Pepsi is Arthur Andersen.”
- A guy... - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 3:56 pm:
How about this: 2 outstanding pros.
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 4:07 pm:
“- AA-! The cannoli have us away. Run!”
- Century Club - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 4:10 pm:
“Ya know, that’s where McKinney used to sit…”
- MrJM - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 4:18 pm:
To tell the truth, I have no doubt that Bruce Rauner’s campaign has suffered greatly due to the dishonesty of a man married to a politically active Democratic woman.
– MrJM
- MrGrassroots - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 4:49 pm:
Eyes up please and off my Diet Pepsi!
- circular firing squad - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 5:07 pm:
AV & DM bite lips as growing numbet of papers make limp endorsements for Mitt while confirming none of his plans, #s and schemes don’t add up
- low level - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 6:47 pm:
Chip Englender: “I told you to keep it quiet! Why don’t you do it like I did it in the Wisconsin races I worked?!? Wah”
AV & DM: “Go back and put your cheesehead back on, dude”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 7:13 pm:
DM: “No, Mr. Rauner, we won’t address you as ‘Governor’ until AFTER the election.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 7:15 pm:
AV: (Thinking) “I wish I’d brought a Thermos of margaritas. This is going to be one LONG debate.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 7:16 pm:
DM: “It always cracks me up when Madigan puts that banana peel on Princess Leia’s chair. It gets her every time!”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 7:18 pm:
AV: “Does the Sun Times still run ‘Marmaduke?’”
DM: “I don’t know. I only read my column.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 7:20 pm:
DM: “Amanda, since I had that ‘discussion’ with Rauner’s ‘campaign aides’, I can’t straighten my neck out again.”
AV: “You were lucky. It would be hard typing with broken fingers.”
- Streator Curmudgeon - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 7:22 pm:
AV: “Do you think Rauner understands Madigan and Cullerton aren’t going to let him do anything if he wins?”
DM: “You’re assuming he knows who Madigan and Cullerton are.”
- Modest Proposal - Monday, Oct 20, 14 @ 11:58 pm:
“This Diet Pepsi doesn’t have nearly enough hard alcohol in it for this campaign. Anyone have any good rum recommendations?”