"I Don't Recall" Times 100

Entertainment is where you find it, and we found some in a Madigan deposition:

• In House Speaker Michael Madigan’s 13th Ward operation, secrecy is expected and loyalty is rewarded.
  
  Now those political vows are being put to the test in a civil courtroom, even as the speaker deals with his name surfacing on a recorded conversation as part of a federal City Hall corruption probe.
  
  Attorneys for a vanquished opponent have placed the powerful Southwest Side Democrat and his operatives under oath in recent months as part of a civil lawsuit alleging one of Chicago politics’ oldest and most effective tricks: putting sham candidates on the ballot to siphon away votes from a more formidable foe.
  
  The Tribune obtained never-before-seen depositions in the case that establish ties between Madigan’s organization and two other candidates in a 2016 Illinois House contest. But the depositions also show the speaker and his aides proved adept at providing short, clipped answers that do little to reveal motive or method.
  
  Take Madigan himself. The 76-year-old speaker used the phrases “I don’t recall,” “I don’t remember,” “I don’t know” and “I have no memory” more than 100 times during a five-hour deposition that he said was the first he’d ever given.

Perhaps Mike is getting senile and ought to think about stepping aside.