I don't often find myself agreeing with John Kass editorials in the Chicago Tribune, but his latest is spot on.

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He talks about how the media is giving HRC a free ride. He wonders why if some Republican Politicians have stood up and said they won't vote for Trump why haven't some Democratic Politicians stood up and declared that won't vote for corruption.

He then lays out how corruption works, which everyone knows (unless they are in denial). No one better then John Paul Stevens I might add, see citizens united dissent.

I don't work in Washington. Years ago, editors tried to send me to D.C. in the hopes I might acquire the necessary polish and gravitas. But I fought them off and happily stayed put.

So maybe it's that being a Midwesterner, I can't quite appreciate the difference between normal influence peddling and abnormal influence peddling.

But being from Chicago, where corruption is the glue that holds politics together — and the bread and the meat and the sport peppers and the fries — I can tell you what corruption does not smell like.

It does not smell like a smoking gun or a nonsmoking gun. And it does not speak Latin.

It smells like meat a-cookin', and that's not a language of words, but of appetite. It smells sweet, and there is no recipe. The recipe is understood, implied, and if you dare ask for the recipe, you are immediately ostracized and kicked out of the kitchen.

It doesn't involve a straight payoff. Everything is layered. A deal goes to Mr. X. Another deal goes to Ms. Y. It's all circular and rather complicated, like the Clintons parsing English, and everything is understood in the spaces between the words.

When pundits moan about "no smoking gun" and "no quid pro quo," they must be referring to some cartoon definition of corruption, ...

The other day at breakfast, I was talking about this stupid, narrow Washington definition of political corruption with a man who has made it his life study.

"Say you're in a meeting with an elected official, and you say, 'I'll give you so much money if you give me this favor and that favor,' You know what happens next?" asked the man wise in the Chicago Way.

I knew, but I played along: No, what happens?

"The first thing the politician will think to himself, 'Why is he talking that way? This son of a b---- is wired up,'" he said. "And no one will ever talk to you ever again."

That's why it's depressing to hear meat puppets insist that there is no there, there, with the Clinton Foundation and Hillary, because it's already been laid out.