Daley condemned the movie “Hard Ball” because the kids in it swore. Censorship always, always, alwaysblows back in your face. Did that hurt the movies? No, they went to Toronto. Daley blocked the production of movies he felt did not reflect well on the city, and as a result movies weren’t filmed here for years. We’re the city that banned the movie “Georgie Girl” as obscene, that arrested Lenny Bruce for holding up a photo of a breast at the Gate of Horn in 1962. Daley’s wife, was able to get Mike Royko’s “Boss” pulled from store shelves before a national howl got them put back. Rahm’s predecessor, Mayor Edward Kelly, banned Nelson Algren’s “Never Come Morning” because the Polish National Alliance didn’t like it.In 1948, Mayor Martin Kennelly banned Jean Paul Sartre’s “The Respectful Prostitute,” based on its name alone. Does Rahm Emanuel have any idea of Chicago’s long history of shameful mayoral censorship? We’re the city that wouldn’t show newsreels criticizing the Nazis because they might foster anti-German feelings.
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