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Monday, January 26, 2009

Media Blagojevich Wants America to Listen Up

Posted by Dominic Holden on Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:46 AM

Here's Blago—asking for our ears—on The View this morning, saying that his first pick for the senate was Oprah, that you can take the boy out of the ghetto but you can’t take the ghetto out of the boy, and that “had I known somebody was listening I wouldn’t have used language like that.”

"All I ask for is a chance to prove my innocence," says the man who is skipping his own trial to appear on national television. Life is so unfair.

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The problem with populists from the middle class like Blago and Palin is they don't have all the snooty niceties of media polished elites. They weren't born with a silver microphone in front of them.

However, he and is closer to what I am and where I come from than most.

Posted by Queens Guy on January 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM

Ha ha, Whoopi is easily confused.

Posted by PedestrianMe on January 26, 2009 at 12:05 PM

@1 - you are a corrupt, lying scumbag, who uses his public office for personal gain?

Posted by Julie in Eugene (formerly in Chicago) on January 26, 2009 at 12:08 PM

Two words: brass balls.

Posted by Alicia on January 26, 2009 at 12:19 PM

Rod Blagojevich is a fascinating study in supreme douchebagery.

Posted by danhowes on January 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM

Haha, I want to keep Blagojevich around forever. Not as a public servant, but as a caricature of the most hilariously sleazy politician in universe. I want him to go on SNL as a parody of himself, to go on Oprah and jump on her couch, to go on Letterman and stomp on his desk. Every eight or ten months, I want to hear the newest wacky-shit-Blagojevich-has-done-now report, like him committing arson so he could stage a very public rescue of the people trapped inside, stuff like that. And I want his hair to never, ever change.

Posted by Christin on January 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM

I just moved to Chicago and initially regarded Blagojevich as curiously ridiculous and funny. But already he is becoming like Bush for me - can't stand to look at his face or hear his voice.

Posted by maybe if he was more attractive on January 26, 2009 at 12:53 PM

@6: Comedy is a fucking valuable thing.

Posted by Greg on January 26, 2009 at 1:20 PM

Y'know, he really should have stopped in at his hearing today.

Posted by The Cap'n on January 26, 2009 at 1:23 PM

He is right though that the rules as set up by the Illinois legislature don't let him mount a real defense. If his witnesses have to be approved by the "prosecution" that's kind of not evenhanded.

Posted by King Rat on January 26, 2009 at 1:59 PM

He's good at sounding like he knows what he's talking about.

Posted by dude on January 26, 2009 at 2:21 PM

Whoopi is playing dumb, for those who are really slow... at least I help so. I think its her plow to get him to be more clear.

Posted by James on January 26, 2009 at 6:52 PM

I keep wishing he'd shut up and start stripping.

Is that so wrong?

Posted by TVDinner on January 27, 2009 at 1:52 AM