{"id":17625,"date":"2022-10-03T20:42:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17625"},"modified":"2022-10-03T20:42:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T00:42:42","slug":"thrashing-know-nothing-politicians-with-shaun-thompson-on-chicago-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/03\/thrashing-know-nothing-politicians-with-shaun-thompson-on-chicago-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrashing Know-Nothing Politicians with Shaun Thompson on Chicago Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-meta\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"entry\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shaun-thompson-chicago-radio-1200x630bb-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17079\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shaun-thompson-chicago-radio-1200x630bb-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shaun-thompson-chicago-radio-1200x630bb-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shaun-thompson-chicago-radio-1200x630bb-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/560theanswer.com\/radioshow\/shaun-thompson\">Shaun Thompson<\/a><\/strong> and I had a rollicking chat today on <strong>Chicago\u2019s The Answer AM 560, <\/strong>thrashing politicians across the board.\u00a0 No prisoners were taken. Shaun mentioned that politicians don&#8217;t bother reading the thick legislative bills they enact.\u00a0 I quoted Milton Berle&#8217;s great line &#8211; &#8220;You can send a man to Congress but you can&#8217;t make him think.&#8221;\u00a0 We talked about Covid fraud (here&#8217;s a link to my <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/02\/how-600-billion-was-stolen-from-the-american-people\/\">New York Post cover story<\/a> today). He mentioned that convicts in Chicago had snared PPP loans to pay their bail. 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