Eric Krol is the political writer for the Daily Herald, a Chicago area paper concentrating in north, northwest and western suburban Chicago. Krol interviewed Senator Dick Durbin, there's some audio, too. The entire article is here.
Q. (Eric Krol) So do you see this as almost an orchestrated attack on you …
A. (Senator Durbin) Oh, it definitely was.
Q. …or do you see it as the media really doesn’t know what they’re doing?
A. It’s an orchestrated right-wing attack that brings the mainstream media in. If they make enough noise. Here’s how they do it: go into a press conference in Washington and the guy stands in the back from Fox and just screams the same question over and over and over again to the point where the other reporters are, my God.
Q. How did they bring (Democratic Chicago) Mayor Daley in?
A. Bob Novak (Syndicated conservative columnist) . He came to Chicago one Monday and had lunch or a meeting with the mayor. Told him his side of the story. And unfortunately, the mayor didn’t know that we had put out a statement the Friday before about this and he made some statements along those lines. He’s also the father of a young soldier training to be a Ranger. I’m sure he felt extremely sensitive about that. We talked about it afterward. I don’t think he knew the whole story.
Q. Do you feel personally hurt by that?
A. I’m disappointed. I’m disappointed by it, but I’m going to continue to work with Mayor Daley. I’ve known him for 30 years. He came to see me after this event to talk about things that the city needed, and I’m going to continue to help.
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