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Chicago Tribune Slams DePaul University For Banning Shapiro

Hank Berrien

Even the Chicago Tribune, which had been a staunch conservative paper for roughly 160 years before it took a hard swing to the left in 2008, when it endorsed a Democratic candidate for president (Barack Obama) for the first time, then reiterated that endorsement in 2012, somehow came down on the side of conservative Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro after DePaul University threatened his arrest if he set foot on campus.

On Thursday, the Tribune issued an editorial decrying DePaul’s actions. The editorial started by reciting the events that occurred leading up to Wednesday night’s confrontation between Shapiro and security officers mandated with keeping him off campus. The Tribune then reported:

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