Why I hate DC

Two masked men destroy a Hummer's windows and tires in a leafy DC neighborhood, "where Prius hybrid cars and Volvos are the norm." Good. Wouldn't want the poor dears to, you know, go without. Some of the "liberal-leaning" neighbors peer from their own car windows in "smug satisfaction" at the wreckage. Others see the new Enviro-Klan at work, horrified that the men didn't call their representatives and maybe attend a lobby day.

"They've got everything at their disposal in this city to make a statement in a legal way," Fremaux said of the bat-wielding men who struck out at the Hummer. "I consider this a hate crime."

Horrified, the Sun-Times looks south. No, keep going. Further.

The S-T continues its campaign against Rio's Olympic bid.

"For Rio -- beset by crime and poverty -- the stakes are high. ... This year, in unrest that attracted international attention, Rio police battled armed drug gangs in shanty-towns called favelas."

You know, because in Daley's city-upon-a-hill such awful things don't happen with numbing regularity.

Perhaps sensing that the Sun-Times' sort of critique could cut both ways, the big guy diplomatically adds, "Every city has its problems...You don't have to go and trash people to get the message over."

Especially when your hometown media will do it for you.