In the WWII Sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, an illuminating laugh-getter was for the Allied POW‘s to observe the choice of the hapless Col. Klink, then chose the opposite. As Klink was generally wrong, inverting his decision tended to have good results.
Brilliantly, The Sun Times has picked up on the Klink Heuristic in endorsing Republican Jim Oberweis in the 14th Disctrict of the US House. The “Republican” Tribune has endorsed Oberweis opponent, Democrat Bill Foster.
Simply inverting the opinion of the Tribune is bound to be a major improvement over the Cheryl Reed Sun-Times. Well Done, Bright One!
Read More of The Col. Klink of Journalism off-site...John Powers says:
I conjure that a meeting of our local Fourth and Fifth Estates at Gene and Georgetti's would flow something like this:
Trib: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
Sun-Times: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
Trib: They *broke* the chalice from the palace?
Sun-Times: And replaced it with a flagon.
Trib: A flagon...?
Sun-Times: With the figure of a dragon.
Trib: Flagon with a dragon.
Sun-Times: Right.
Trib: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Sun-Times: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Trib: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Sunt-Times: Just remember that.
Pat Hickey says:
The Statue of Liberty Play works on really dumb teams - but it works.
If the Trib is Col. Klink, the I like to think of STNG as the Wally Shawn character in Princess Bride:
'. . .But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own goblet or his enemy's? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.'