Gov. JB Pritzker’s fact-denying routine for dismissing critics reached a new low last week. “Carnival barkers,” his standard response to any critics, apparently now includes the Wall Street Journal, or at least sources like Wirepoints that they cite.
When asked about criticism of him by the Journal, Pritzker said this in an interview by Illinois Public Media:
But the Wall Street Journal, unfortunately they listen to the carnival barkers that are here in Illinois, the spelunkers for misery in Illinois, and they cite them in their editorials. They make no bones about the fact that they’ll just take the made up stuff, the Facebook fakery, from those organizations in Illinois and publish them on the editorial pages of one of the great newspapers in the country, certainly one of the most successful ones. It’s frustrating that they do that they don’t seem to know much about Illinois.
Pritzker presumably was referring in particular to a Journal editorial headlined Illinois’ Shocking Report Card, which cited Wirepoints’ report on abysmal outcomes in Illinois schools. Last fall, he said the information in that editorial “was provided to them by a right-wing carnival barker organization here in the state of Illinois. It’s just wrong, they are wrong.”
But our report was based entirely on data from Pritzker’s own agency, the Illinois Board of Education. The education data the governor says is “just wrong” comes straight from the board’s Illinois Report Card website and its data...
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