When Garry Mccarthy Calls A Story Bullshit That S A Compliment

For a journalistic lifer, there are various triumphs that can help compensate for the lousy wages and precarious existence of a newspaper writer.

   The cusser was Garry “Big Mac” McCarthy, who looks like he’s gearing up to run against Mayor Rahm in 2019.

   A couple of days before the event, Sun-Times reporter Fran Spielman interviewed McCarthy about SEIU’s protest.

“If I leave here, I will say, ‘I leave here because I want to make my m******** money.’ You know why? Because no f****** fans, no f****** Jerry Reinsdorf or f****** anybody is going to take care of my grandkids and put me in a 62-foot boat. That’s why there’s free agency.”

   Oh, yeah—now I get it. “Bullshit”!

   If he runs, the 2019 mayoral race may boil down to a progressive’s nightmare: Mayor Rahm v. Big Mac.