Chicago Media Will Do Anything to Get Harris Elected Top Prosecutor

Burke, Chicagoans must consider media tactics in this crucial election

Asked about Kimberly Foxx’s greatest accomplishment as a prosecutor, candidate Clayton Harris stated without hesitation Foxx’s “exonerations.”

It doesn’t require deep knowledge for Chicago’s seemingly endless supply of political swamp creatures to understand where and how their bread is buttered. Harris certainly knows that if he wants to pull off winning the election to a job for which he is, like Kim Foxx, completely unqualified to hold, he must maintain the strict dictates of the ruling party in Chicago.

By making such an outlandish claim about Foxx’s exonerations being a great accomplishment, Harris has sent a signal to the Chicago media that he is their guy, for Foxx’s exonerations are, in fact, among the worst corruption in the history of the state, if not the entire country. They are bankrupting the city, funding the radical anti-police movement, and a key force in handing over control of the city to its marauding gangs.

But most importantly, the exonerations are the lie that binds progressives like Foxx and the media in Chicago. More and more, the sole purpose in Chicago media is to protect their doomed narratives so endemic in the exoneration movement. By supporting Foxx’s exonerations, Harris has given the critical wink to the Chicago media.

So what if Clayton Harris hasn’t been inside a courtroom in two decades? So what if his election would further drive Cook County’s best prosecutors to the exit doors? So what if crime continues to explode, if people leave Chicago and its economy implodes?   

Exonerations are now the guiding force in the running of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office.

Consider:

Former top prosecutor Anita Alvarez checked off every Democratic box. She was a Democrat, a minority who worked well with other Democrats. But Alvarez had one failing. She still held to the belief that a prosecutor’s job is to convict criminals, not let them out of prison on media-driven fantasies. Alvarez committed the cardinal sin to the moving-leftward Democratic Party in Chicago by undermining the infamous and highly influential exoneration of Anthony Porter. She also refused to vacate convictions tied to retired Detective Reynaldo Guevara, a series of exonerations that will shift more than a billion dollars from the public coffers to the exoneration industry.  

Alvarez’s unwillingness to play the exoneration game is the reason she was tossed aside by Chicago progressives in favor of a prosecutor like Foxx. Within days of her “election” aided by a crucially large cash infusion from none other than George Soros, Foxx began tossing convictions Alvarez wouldn’t.

The marriage between Foxx and the media was established and remains intact. In Clayton Harris’s statements supporting Foxx’s exonerations, he is letting the media know he will do the same.

No such guarantee exists for Eileen Burke, Harris’s competition for top prosecutor. Burke has a different, yet powerful message to the citizens of Chicago, a city degenerating into chaos: Regardless of my party affiliation, I will fight crime and put offenders in prison. That is music to the ears of citizens tired of the dangerous journey to their parked cars every morning. Though she is lifelong Democrat, Burke poses a similar danger to the process of dismantling the criminal justice system that Alvarez did. Burke has a spine and a moral code. As a former judge, she’s also got long experience actually sitting in a courtroom and applying the law.

It’s important to ruminate on what a catastrophe for the Chicago media Burke’s election would entail. The list of bogus exonerations during Foxx’s administrations would fill encyclopedias. The Chicago media has kept the evidence that they are bogus under wraps, but that would be impossible with a legitimate prosecutor like Burke.

Two cases are worth considering if Burke is elected. They are tied to two of the most prominent exoneration-pushing “journalists” in Chicago, Chip Mitchell at WBEZ and Greg Pratt at the Tribune. In many ways, Mitchell and Pratt are the Tweedledee and the Tweedledum of Chicago’s moribund media.

First, Tweedledee.

If Burke is elected, she would be confronted with Mitchell’s horrific coverage of three Spanish Cobras once charged with murdering officer Clifton Lewis in 2011 when Lewis was working an off-duty job at a liquor store. Mitchell took up a host of claims that the charging and convictions of the gang members were the result of corrupt prosecutors and cops. In one of Foxx’s most egregious “F— You’s” to the police, prosecutors under her dropped charges against two of the gang members, one of whom had already been convicted.  A third convicted offender remains in prison, a Cook County judge courageously refusing to bow to the media and legal pressure in that case.

In the wake of allegations against one of the prosecutors, Nancy Adduci, Foxx fired her.

Nevertheless, the allegations against cops and Adduci are steadily imploding upon further review.  

What then would a decent prosecutor do with this Foxx debacle? Basic human decency would require the new prosecutor to review the entire affair, perhaps even culminating in rectifying the injustice done to Adduci by offering the long-serving prosecutor her job back.

But for Mitchell, such a review could be, at the very least, humiliating, a powerful example of how the media is directly tied with Foxx and the exoneration industry.

Which brings us to Tweedledum.

How would Burke deal with Pratt’s coverage of Nevest Coleman and Darryl Fulton, two men once convicted of raping and murdering a woman in the basement of Coleman’s Englewood residence? After Pratt wrote a series of article that Coleman and Fulton were not culpable of the murder—even though the victim was last seen leaving a party with Coleman and was then found murdered in his basement wearing the same clothes as when she left the party—Pratt gave voice to claims that another offender whose DNA was found on the victim was the real bad guy. Pratt’s article was taken up by Trib columnist Eric Zorn, who demanded in a column that the two men should be released.

Sure enough, Foxx dropped their conviction, and they are waiting to become millionaires through a civil lawsuit. But attorneys defending the city did something unique. They alleged that media pressure played a central role in the exonerations. From their motion in federal court:

“The CCSAO (Cook County State’s Attorney) suddenly reversed course and dropped the charges in the midst of intense media pressure, primarily from the Chicago Tribune,” defense attorneys wrote in a motion.‍

They deposed the top prosecutors in the case under Foxx who made these comments about Zorn’s column based on the reporting of Pratt:

‍“I think Eric Zorn didn’t have any understanding of the facts of that case and did not have a basis to be writing the things that he wrote.”

These two exoneration cases are just a sampling of the outrageous injustices that have taken shape under Foxx. No decent prosecutor could allow them to continue and not attempt to rectify what Foxx has done. In doing so, the media would face scrutiny like never before.

And so the media has already begun the process of ginning up bizarre and likely baseless stories to push for their new progressive hero, Clayton Harris. Recently, news entities splashed across their pages and social media that the union representing cops, the Fraternal Order of Police in Chicago, endorsed Burke. The president of the FOP and many of its board members are MAGA, the media reminds the public.

This is news? Every police union in the country endorsed Trump. Further, what police union in the world would endorse a Foxx acolyte guaranteed to continue Foxx’s reign of terror in Chicago?

The fact is that the Chicago media can ill afford Burke winning the election. They would be exposed.

Therefore, watch the bizarre, baseless rants posing as journalism that will come out leading up to the election. Should it remain close and Harris suddenly pulls from behind, don’t be surprised if suspicious ballots and election tactics emerge.

If so, rest assured the Chicago media will don their spectacles, squint their eyes as if mulling a profound epiphany, and declare the election legitimate.

Sound familiar?