Media-battered special prosecutor fights back

The Burge special prosecutor who was sainted and then flogged in the space of a week by the Chicago Tribune is fighting back.

Edward Egan did an interview this evening with CBS-2 Chicago where he unloaded on defense lawyer Flint Taylor, who has been given a free pass by the Tribune and then the Sun-Times to launch far-fetched attacks at Egan's report, which wasn't sufficiently damning to police and prosecutors for both papers' taste.

Egan showed a flair for the soundbite in his interview with Mike Parker.

"Mr. Taylor gets 75 percent of his income from suing policemen and municipalities," Egan said. "I've described him as a legal huckster. His name is G. Flint Taylor and, in my opinion, the 'G' stands for ‘Gimme.'"

He wasn't done yet.

"The most dangerous position to be in in the justice system is between Flint Taylor and a television camera," Egan said.

Congratulations to Parker for giving Egan's side of this. Maybe the Trib and Sun-Times will stop allowing Taylor to hijack its news pages.

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