Speaking of which, last Saturday there were between 1,000 and 2,000 people in downtown Chicago demonstrating in support of the Madison workers, but you wouldn’t know it from the local media. I didn’t see even on mention of it, and I was told Sen. Dick Durbin was there. Same on CNN — they covered Madison, but didn’t say a word about the protests going on in the rest of the country. I’ve also read that the NY Times didn’t cover demonstrations happening a few blocks away from their offices. This is really shabby, even for our shabby corporate MSM. I think the Big Media were glad to cover this when it looked like Walker was going to win but, now that he’s losing and the protests are increwasing in size, it seems they’re trying to diminish the story. Can’t say I’m surprised. Gratifying to see, if nothing else, that some GOP gov.s around the country are dropping the union-busting parts of their economic restructuring bills, for now anyway. Also happy to see the Republicans committing suicide in broad daylight by pissing off many of their constituents — most firefighters and cops, for instance, used to vote GOP, but I don’t think they will be anymore.