McHenry County Blog

The Tribune is in favor of First Amendment free speech rights…unless it is for conservatives.

Friday, it published an editorial entitled,

License to offend,

“oh, mying” the Federal Court decision ordering Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White to issue “Choose Life” license plates, if 800 or so people pony up the cash.

Agreeing with its liberal columnist Eric Zorn, the editorial board pointed out,

the judge acknowledged, this could lead to a dustup over something even more controversial. We're imagining a plate honoring the KKK or Friends of the Aryan Nation. But Coar didn't make the law; he's just interpreting it.

Then, suggested,

The General Assembly can always take another look.

While they're at it, lawmakers should ask themselves if it's necessary to have these tags at all.

They used the “police can’t read them” argument and, by the way provided what I am sure is an unintentional chuckle by pointing out different types of specialty plates, including

six species of wildlife that sportsmen love to shoot.

I’m not aware of fishermen shooting fish.

Then, Saturday comes this editorial which starts,

For quite some time media critics and those on the left have argued that Fox News is an ideologically driven propaganda network.

If one replaced the word “left” with “right” and “Fox News” with “Chicago Tribune,” the shoe would fit.

Labels: Chicago Tribune, Consevative, Eric Zorn