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Blogs, Bleader Oct 18, 2018
Staffer Ryan Smith says goodbye to the Reader

Social media editor Ryan Smith has some parting words about politics and his three-and-a-half-year tenure at the Chicago Reader.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Jumping Ship, Politics, The Contrarian, Media, News, Behind Our Scenes, Chicago Reader, alt-weekly, Bruce Rauner, Rahm Emanuel, Donald Trump, Noam Chomsky, Rush Limbaugh, George W. Bush, Ricketts family, Chicago Cubs, Rezkoville, Ryan Smith

Blogs, Bleader Feb 8, 2016
The X-Files's obsession with UFOs seems quaint in the era of the super PAC

The conspiracy-minded premise of The X-Files has aged much worse than its cast.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Arts, 90s Nostalgia, Paranormal, Small Screen, The X-Files, Chris Carter, Fox Mulder, Dana Scully, FOX News, Rush Limbaugh, Ted Cruz, Barack Obama, Joel McHale, Rupert Murdock, Edward Snowden, conspiracy theories

Blogs, Bleader Jun 3, 2015
Whatever your age, you probably don't trust Rush Limbaugh

The Pew Research Center has released a report on where the generations get their political news.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Pew Research Center, political news, baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, Fox News, NBC News, Twitter, Facebook, New York Times, Rush Limbaugh

Blogs, Bleader Sep 18, 2014
If Rush Limbaugh wants to blather—let him blather

Bad idea—the Democratic petition to shut up Rush Limbaugh
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Women's Issues, Media, Politics, News, Rush Limbaugh, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Ohio State University, sexual assault on campus, November elections, Politico, Dylan Byers

News & Politics, Zoom in Mar 8, 2014
Zoom in: River North

Adam Brooks's Freedom Wall—which features a list of 69 seemingly random famous names—has been tattooed to the side of 325 W. Huron for nearly 20 years.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Zoom in, Adam Brooks, Martin Luther King Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Rush Limbaugh, Freedom Wall, America Online, Hammond, Indiana

Blogs, Bleader Mar 20, 2013
To those Lane Tech kids protesting the purging of Persepolis

It isn't even the worst of the Emanuel administration's sins.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, News, cannabis, Chicago Public Schools, Lane Tech high school, marijuana, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, NATO, Persepolis, persepolisgate, River North, Rush Limbaugh, TIFs

Columns & Opinion, Savage Love Oct 18, 2012
It didn't lie well with them

Readers don't like dishonest advice about an antichoice boyfriend. Plus: Biblical erotica.
- By Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, pro-choice, personhood, lying, dishonesty, pregnancy, abortion, Nancy Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, antichoice, Scott DesJarlais, bondage

News & Politics, Media Aug 5, 2010
A Tempest for the Tea Party

The big news in the JournoList "scandal"? Lefty journalists talk to each other.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, The Daily Caller, JournoList, Tucker Carlson, Neil Patel, Ezra Klein, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Chris Hayes, Spencer Ackerman, Sarah Spitz, Sarah Palin, Roger Simon, Howard Kurtz, Andrew Sullivan, Tracy Van Slyke, Media Consortium, Andrew Breitbart, BigJournalism.com, The Emerging Progressive Media Network, In These Times, Cabalist, Shirley Sherrod, Rush Limbaugh

Blogs, Bleader Aug 4, 2010
JournoList — Who Cares?

In Daily Caller vs. JournoList, the grass roots have no rooting interest.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News Bites, Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson, JournoList, Tracy Van Slyke, Media Consortium, Mike Quigley, Sean O'Brien, Sean O'Brien, Congressional interns, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Andrew Denney

Blogs, Bleader Mar 9, 2010
Laughter Is the Best Medicine, And Even Americans Can Afford It

Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh do the health-care-reform opposition no favors by speaking out.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News Bites, Obama Health Care Plan, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Whitehorse, Yukon, Costa Rica, David Knowles

News & Politics, Feature Feb 25, 2010
Video
Human Care Bears

Rahm Emanuel's "retarded" outburst made good headlines, but the way some advocates portray the mentally disabled is far more offensive.
- By David Wilcox
- Tags: Feature, retarded, retard, Rahm Emanuel, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Stephen Colbert, "fucking retarded", Association for Retarded Citizens, ARC, the Arc, Down Syndrome, Tank McNamara, Sarah Silverman, Andrea Fay Friedman, Family Guy, Trig Palin, John C. McGinley, Huffington Post, National Down Syndrome Society, N*ggers, K*kes, F*ggots, C*nts, W*ps, and the R-word, Care Bears, Tropic Thunder, Simple Jack, Robert Downey Jr., The Other Sister, Riding the Bus With My Sister, Life Goes On, Corky Thatcher, Chris Burke, Erma Bombeck, "The Special Mother", microcephalic, Video

Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2009
This week in karma
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Sports, Rush Limbaugh, St. Louis Rams, NFL, Dan Snyder

Blogs, Bleader Oct 27, 2008
Nice to have him back

Rush Limbaugh makes a crazy on the Mancow show.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Mancow, Rush Limbaugh, WLS

News & Politics, Feature Mar 14, 1996
State of Grace

Saul Bellow's "Illinois Journey" Revisited
- By James Ballowe
- Tags: Feature, Saul Bellow, Illinois, travel, Holiday magazine, Galena, Illinois, Bonnie Geisert, Art Geisert, Nauvoo, Illinois, Cairo, Illinois, Shawneetown, Illinois, Shawnee National Forest, Gary DeNeal, Judy DeNeal, Springfield, Elizabethtow, Cave in Rock, Rush Limbaugh, Mormons, I-55, Estell Neff, Metropolis, Illinois, "Ramblin"' Rudy Phillips

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Staffer Ryan Smith says goodbye to the Reader

Social media editor Ryan Smith has some parting words about politics and his three-and-a-half-year tenure at the Chicago Reader.

The X-Files's obsession with UFOs seems quaint in the era of the super PAC

The conspiracy-minded premise of The X-Files has aged much worse than its cast.

Whatever your age, you probably don't trust Rush Limbaugh

The Pew Research Center has released a report on where the generations get their political news.

If Rush Limbaugh wants to blather—let him blather

Bad idea—the Democratic petition to shut up Rush Limbaugh

Zoom in: River North

Adam Brooks's Freedom Wall—which features a list of 69 seemingly random famous names—has been tattooed to the side of 325 W. Huron for nearly 20 years.

To those Lane Tech kids protesting the purging of Persepolis

It isn't even the worst of the Emanuel administration's sins.

It didn't lie well with them

Readers don't like dishonest advice about an antichoice boyfriend. Plus: Biblical erotica.

A Tempest for the Tea Party

The big news in the JournoList "scandal"? Lefty journalists talk to each other.

JournoList — Who Cares?

In Daily Caller vs. JournoList, the grass roots have no rooting interest.

Laughter Is the Best Medicine, And Even Americans Can Afford It

Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh do the health-care-reform opposition no favors by speaking out.

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Human Care Bears

Rahm Emanuel's "retarded" outburst made good headlines, but the way some advocates portray the mentally disabled is far more offensive.

This week in karma

Nice to have him back

Rush Limbaugh makes a crazy on the Mancow show.

State of Grace

Saul Bellow's "Illinois Journey" Revisited

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Social media editor Ryan Smith has some parting words about politics and his three-and-a-half-year tenure at the Chicago Reader.

The conspiracy-minded premise of The X-Files has aged much worse than its cast.

The Pew Research Center has released a report on where the generations get their political news.

Bad idea—the Democratic petition to shut up Rush Limbaugh

Adam Brooks's Freedom Wall—which features a list of 69 seemingly random famous names—has been tattooed to the side of 325 W. Huron for nearly 20 years.

It isn't even the worst of the Emanuel administration's sins.

Readers don't like dishonest advice about an antichoice boyfriend. Plus: Biblical erotica.

The big news in the JournoList "scandal"? Lefty journalists talk to each other.

In Daily Caller vs. JournoList, the grass roots have no rooting interest.

Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh do the health-care-reform opposition no favors by speaking out.

Rahm Emanuel's "retarded" outburst made good headlines, but the way some advocates portray the mentally disabled is far more offensive.

Rush Limbaugh makes a crazy on the Mancow show.

Saul Bellow's "Illinois Journey" Revisited

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