🍑 C'mon, Georgia voters–don’t embarrass yourselves

What *is* Herschel Walker is trying to say? [READER]( The Daily Reader Not bragging or anything, but I'm starting to get good at figuring out what Herschel Walker is trying to say when he says stuff that makes no sense, which is pretty much everytime he says anything at all. I realize I can’t say I’m 100 percent certain what Walker’s saying. Not sure Walker knows what Walker’s saying even though he’s the one saying it. Also, not certain that knowing what Walker’s saying is something to brag about. But we all have our callings. For those not paying attention . . . Walker is the Republican candidate for U.S. senator in Georgia, handpicked by Trump and officially nominated by MAGA in their primary. The Democrats have already guaranteed control of the senate. So thankfully, the fate of democracy is not at stake in Walker’s race against incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock. Making it a little easier to enjoy your Thanksgiving turkeys. Speaking clear thoughts is clearly not one of Walker’s strengths. There are many theories as to why most of his thoughts come out as mumble jumble, most relating to head injuries he may have suffered as a football player back in the 80s. I’ve learned that the key to understanding what Walker’s trying to say is to focus less on the words that actually come out of his mouth and more on the unheard ideas in his brain. Like when a city hall press secretary for the original Mayor Daley told reporters: “Don’t say what he said. Print what he meant.” In Walker’s case, it's generally a rehash of some MAGA talking point put into his brain by his media handlers because it scored high in their focus groups. So he tries to say what they told him to say, but it crosses with other stuff in his brain, and the resulting burst of words gets lost in translation. For example, this nugget from a recent speech he made on the campaign trail: “I used to love Archie Bunker. Did you not like Archie Bunker? But because of Senator Warnock, it wouldn’t be on the air because he’s still living in the past.” For the record . . . Archie Bunker was the fictitious protagonist from a couple of sitcoms, the last of which went off the air in 1983. Senator Warnock was 14 years old in 1983. So he clearly had nothing to do with any show related to Archie Bunker being on or off the air. My guess is that Walker’s handlers wanted him to denounce “cancel culture.” And how you can’t say anything anymore. And so they canceled Archie Bunker because he was politically incorrect. Now you might say Archie Bunker was “canceled” by CBS for bad ratings. So there’s a teeny-tiny, microscopic particle of truth to what Walker is saying, or trying to say. Or maybe he’s like Bob Dylan in one of those songs where he says any old thing just to mess with our minds. In fact, now that I think about it, Bob Dylan wrote a song that applies to Walker. It’s called “Idiot Wind”. Relevant line . . . “Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth . . . ” C’mon, Georgia voters. Don’t embarrass yourselves. You know what to do! Enjoy your turkeys, everyone. *P.S. – On Tuesday, December 6, Maya Dukmasova and I will be hosting [First Tuesdays: The Ghost of Council Future]( at the Promontory in Hyde Park. Be sure to [grab your tickets]( going to be a great conversation! Listen to [The Ben Joravsky Show]( [What Ben's Reading] Thomas Sowell’s [Black Rednecks and White Liberals](. Checked it out of the library on the advice of David Seaton, WVON talk show host. We were going to discuss it on the air, but got distracted by other things. I disagree with many of Sowell’s conclusions, but he’s worth reading. [Kerry Reid]( on Alice Childress . . . [Ben Joravsky]( on the midterms—gerrymandering works . . . [Best of the Ben J. Show]( [LeAlan Jones on the Bears]( call him Monday Morning LeAlan … [Carlos & Rossana]( on Bring Chicago Home . . . 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