Why We Love Milwaukee

Why we love Milwaukee.  From Tim Cuprsin's Inside TV & Radio, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

HE SAID WHAT? Ald. Michael McGee frequently says outrageous and inflammatory things. But his comments weren't nearly as outrageous as Charlie Sykes claimed Wednesday on his annual "Insight 2007" broadcast on WTMJ-AM (620).

Playing a tape of a McGee news conference about recall efforts against him, Sykes claimed that the alderman was blaming "Jew cops" for being part of the attempts to remove him from office.

What McGee actually said was "Jude cops," referring to police accused of beating Frank Jude Jr. in 2004.

WTMJ general manager Jon Schweitzer admitted that Sykes had screwed up.

"We are aware that a mistake was made, and Charlie intends on dealing with this on his show tomorrow," Schweitzer said Wednesday.

One of the members of Sykes' morning discussion, public relations executive Jeff Fleming, of the Zizzo Group, said he hadn't heard the original comments by McGee, and couldn't quite make out the words in the audio that Sykes played Wednesday morning.

"I can understand how Michael McGee's comments could be understood as anti-Semitic. But in hindsight, it would have made more sense for him to have made comments about the Jude cops."

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And a thanks to Jim Rowen, The Political Environment for the heads-up.