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Rich Miller: "I don’t know if he pioneered it or not, but while reading the national commentary, it occurred to me that Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker has been pressing home the importance of 'freedom' for several years here."
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Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
Not surprising that Rich Miller is being a lap dog for JB the Hutt and the rest of the Dems. Control the media and you control the message and that message is that you are free to kill an unborn baby as an after the fact method of birth control. I am not so sure how that “freedom” works for the unborn baby, especially the female ones who are having their freedom and life taken away. Fat boy talks out of both sides of his mouth with his perpetual emergency orders shutting down the state for 2+ years during Covid… Read more »
Miller always has his lips firmly attached to JB’s backside, but this article is over the top, even for him. If JB agrees with a particular freedom, then he’s all about trumpeting it from the highest point. If not, he has no trouble restricting that freedom or attempting to abolish it altogether. Second amendment comes to mind.
This is classic Rich Miller. It’s all about the words politicians use, to him. Pritzker is a pioneer, as Miller sees it, for using the word “freedom” aggressively. Substance has no place in the column; hypocrisy doesn’t matter. Ignored is the long list of actions by Pritzker that infringe on freedom: Illinois has established itself as the state most hostile to First Amendment free speech rights. A list of examples is linked here. In one instance, a federal judge labeled a law the state was trying to defend as “stupid and likely unconstitutional,” so Attorney General Kwame Raoul gave up on the case. Illinois’ highly touted… Read more »
Anyone with a brain knows Rich Miller is a bought and paid for union stooge. He is an idiot.
He would have to get smarter just to be an idiot!
Don’t forget the unconstitutional gun and magazine bans!!