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Inside the Grant Park Media Mosh Pit

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Many of you know well the many talents and exploits of our intrepid web guru Justin Kaufmann. He carried himself with such rare distinction during the DNC and RNC (when not partying with delegates from Idaho) that we decided to risk sending him into the eye of the storm once again. Alas, he’s holed up alongside Chicago Public Radio political reporter Ben Calhoun and thousands more of his closest media friends stuffing his face inside the bowels of the Grant Park media tent.

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