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Ford slammed by Chicago mayor
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Posted on 01/18/2010 8:38:41 AM PST by CarryaBigStick

Harrison Ford has come under fire from the mayor of Chicago after wading into a debate about the city's former airport, with the politician calling the actor "elitist."...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aviation; chicago; harrisonford; meigsfield; richarddaley
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Richy Daley calling Harrison Ford an elitist, funny.
1 posted on 01/18/2010 8:38:43 AM PST by CarryaBigStick
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To: CarryaBigStick

Da Mayor could call Ford an overpaid hack actor who stumbles about Jackson, Wy drunk and unruly and running his mouth.


2 posted on 01/18/2010 8:40:25 AM PST by junta (S.C.U.M. = State Controlled Unreliable Media)
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To: CarryaBigStick

Harrison Ford way back was not a real lib as he was a carpenter before star wars and american graffitti. He became a lib later. LOL! Love it. He deserves it.


3 posted on 01/18/2010 8:40:55 AM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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To: CarryaBigStick

Totally and completely off topic, but 45 years ago today I joined Uncle Sam’s family. Took a bus to Cleveland and a train to Fort Knox, and that was the beginning of my great adventure.
Thanks to all veterans and their supporters.

GO BROWN


4 posted on 01/18/2010 8:43:41 AM PST by Rannug ("When you make peaceful protest impossible, you make violent protest inevitable." JFK)
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To: CarryaBigStick

Wait, the Royal Blood Line of Chicago Mayors calls Harrison Ford an elitist? That’s rich or should I say regal.


5 posted on 01/18/2010 8:44:13 AM PST by rod1
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To: CarryaBigStick
""He’s a multi-millionaire. He can fly anyplace he wants in the country. This guy’s a multi-millionaire and you’re listening to him. He doesn’t live in Chicago. I don’t want to call him elitist, but it is. He has a jet. He has all these planes and all these toys. And he doesn’t understand this economy is tough with people and that lakefront belongs to us."

"And if I want to illegally-bulldoze an airport at midnight, stranding dozens of airplanes, I will. I'm the mayor."

6 posted on 01/18/2010 8:45:33 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Rannug

Thank you for your service!


7 posted on 01/18/2010 8:47:51 AM PST by knittnmom ("...only dead fish 'go with the flow'". - Sarah Palin 7/09)
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“And if I want to illegally-bulldoze an airport at midnight, stranding dozens of airplanes, I will. I'm the mayor.”

Nothing elitist about that, right?

8 posted on 01/18/2010 8:49:03 AM PST by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: CarryaBigStick

For those who don’t know (or care about) Chicago history, Richie had the city illegally deploy bulldozers in the middle of the night to destroy the runways on Meigs Field - a callous display of raw political power in action unusually blatant even by Chicago standards.

The city was eventually fined by somebody for that episode - of course Daley gets off scot-free, while the citizenry pay the piper with their taxes (not that they’re blameless, of course - they elected the idiot).


9 posted on 01/18/2010 8:50:08 AM PST by Stosh
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My favorite Harrison Ford quote is, “The greatest threat to human rights is economic opportunity.” Having said that, he is correct on Meigs Field. He could, and should, make a movie about that, with the bulldozers coming in and carving big Xs in the runway. I bet he could make it a good movie.


10 posted on 01/18/2010 8:51:32 AM PST by Excellence (Meet your new mother-in-law, the United States Government)
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To: CarryaBigStick

What the heck did the idiot actor say to get the ex-mayor so riled up?


11 posted on 01/18/2010 8:51:53 AM PST by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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Daley’s arrogance is beyond astounding.


12 posted on 01/18/2010 8:53:44 AM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: CarryaBigStick

My Flight Simulator version is so old that I can still take off and land at Meigs. Braaaack to Mayor Daly.


13 posted on 01/18/2010 8:53:51 AM PST by Ole Okie
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Ford who was decent in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones stuff has since been reduced to sensitive, teary-eyed, sniveling girlie-man roles that are unwatchable. He almost makes Richard Gere’s characters seem manly.


14 posted on 01/18/2010 8:57:53 AM PST by catpuppy (2009 --"We will not ration health care." 2012--"Anybody heard from grandpa?")
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To: CarryaBigStick

The article says this happened in 2003. Does Ford have slow reflexes now? ;-)


15 posted on 01/18/2010 8:59:16 AM PST by almost done by half
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To: 1rudeboy

I wonder how many jobs were lost after Miegs Field was destroyed?

The mayor didn’t care about the guys who weren’t able to get their planes out after he carved up the runway.


16 posted on 01/18/2010 9:02:02 AM PST by MediaMole
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As an MS Flight Simulator fanatic for many years, I was ticked off when they closed down Meigs Field. Meigs Field was the “home” airport for MSFS from version one of the sim, which came out around 1978 (When it was published by SubLogic), and continued as the home airport until FS 2004 was released.


17 posted on 01/18/2010 9:09:02 AM PST by Signalman
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To: CarryaBigStick

The airport was a landmark for pilots around Chicago for years. Ford is from Park Ridge, which is a northwest suburb. My wife’s grandfather was Supt. of Schools there where Ford and also Hillary graduated from. Ford’s a local boy.


18 posted on 01/18/2010 9:14:06 AM PST by dwg2
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To: CarryaBigStick
"Watch your mouth, kid, or you're gonna find yourself floating home."


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

19 posted on 01/18/2010 9:17:25 AM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Frantzie
Harrison Ford way back was not a real lib as he was a carpenter before star wars and american graffitti. He became a lib later. LOL! Love it. He deserves it.

Harrison Ford's advocacy of general aviation causes earns him a little street cred with me (EAA Young Eagles, GA Serves America). I keep hoping I'll run into him (figuratively) in the Idaho backcountry one of these days and have the opportunity to try and talk some political sense into the guy.

20 posted on 01/18/2010 9:33:07 AM PST by CarryaBigStick (My office is an Airtractor 402)
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