{"id":17748,"date":"2022-11-22T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17748"},"modified":"2022-11-22T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T01:38:53","slug":"thrashing-corrupt-politicians-with-shaun-thompson-on-chicago-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/22\/thrashing-corrupt-politicians-with-shaun-thompson-on-chicago-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrashing Corrupt Politicians with Shaun Thompson on Chicago Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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 wp-image-17079\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/shaun-thompson-chicago-radio-1200x630bb-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" 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: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/560theanswer.com\/radioshow\/shaun-thompson\">Shaun Thompson<\/a><\/strong> and I had a rollicking chat tonight on <strong>Chicago\u2019s The Answer AM 560, <\/strong>making it hot for corrupt politicians from both parties. Shaun mentioned that I should be getting close to retirement age but I explained that throwing rocks at the government is cheaper than therapy. Shaun was appalled that Pennsylvanians elected Fetterman to the Senate despite the post-stroke apparent limits on his cognitive performance.\u00a0 I cut a little slack to a few those voters because Fetterman&#8217;s opponent was tagged as being from New Jersey (as well as Turkey).\u00a0 Midwesterners can&#8217;t understand the deep antipathy towards Jersey throughout the eastern U.S.\u00a0 Shaun had not heard the term <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow_dog_Democrat\">&#8220;Yellow Dog Democrat&#8221;<\/a> (someone who will vote for a Democrat even if the party nominates a yellow dog) but he took to it like a duck to water.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>You can listen to the 13 minute interview by clicking or downloading the link below \u2013<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-17748-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Jim-Bovard3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Jim-Bovard3.mp3\">https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Jim-Bovard3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaun Thompson and I had a rollicking chat tonight on Chicago\u2019s The Answer AM 560, making it hot for corrupt politicians from both parties. Shaun mentioned that I should be getting close to retirement age but I explained that throwing rocks at the government is cheaper than therapy. Shaun was appalled that Pennsylvanians elected Fetterman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1020,3389,509,3165],"class_list":["post-17748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicago","tag-fetterman","tag-humor","tag-shaun-thompson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thrashing Corrupt Politicians with Shaun Thompson on Chicago Radio - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chicago radio host Shaun Thompson and I had fun thrashing corrupt politicians of all parties.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/22\/thrashing-corrupt-politicians-with-shaun-thompson-on-chicago-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thrashing Corrupt Politicians with Shaun Thompson on Chicago Radio - 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