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Wonkette political symbolism operative “Nicole” informs us of this photograph from the liberal New York Times depicting Blaggy, dressed to the nines, leaving prison after his best friend Barack Obama posted bail. We have a hunch that the very artistic NYT photographer was “going for something” by including this haunting poster of a common Chicago street rat in the foreground. It is a true fact that these posters are on every wall and telephone wire pole in Chicago, near the actual rats. [NYT]
I love that he wore a jogging suit to court.
Is it too much to hope that it was velour?
Only $4500 bond? Either his crimes weren’t that serious, or the judge personally knows Blaggy’s almost broke. Hmmm…
lol. photo of the year right there.
Sorry Governor, I didn’t know this party was Members Only.
To the Rat Pole Blaggy!
SayItWithWookies: Betcha betcha that Blaggy appointed the Judge after offering it to the highest bidder.
Sure htey aren’t warning the rats to stay away from Blaggypants?
Considering Blago’s rat-like features that poster has serious double meaning.
Has anyone already said he should get 10 years in prison just for his hair?
$4500?
The no rats sign obviously doesn’t apply to Rahm, and thus he dropped dime on Blago
The rats are very irritated with waht this guy is doing to their reputation.
shortsshortsshorts: Hey, at least he had a contingency plan. Dumb as he is, that still makes him smarter than the Flounderer-in-Chief.
I saw this on the NYT Page and immediately sent the link to my college roommate. Back in the day, we had one of these posted on our dorm room door. Yes, Chicago is filled with filthy red-eyed rats that eat dog shit and spread disease. Those signs are terrifying and hilarious. They’re usually posted in alleys behind the places that sell delicious Chicago hot dogs/burritos/polish sausage/pizza/pizza puffs/tacos/hamburgers to fat Chicagoans. Which means they’re everywhere. Damn California and its healthy eating! Now I really want a cheese dog.
hockeymom: The FBI picked him up at 6:15 a.m. They “gave him time to dress,” but not enough to indulge in sartorial splendor. In other words, they said, “Get your ass dressed, Blaggy, and hurry up!”
hockeymom: I thought the blagger was wearing a stonewashed jeans jacket (this is the midwest afterall). But you’re right velour is much much better
Buncha pussies in Chicago. Here in New York, we don’t bother posting signs about the rats, because they are everywhere, and our corrupt governor doesn’t go to jail.
In Illinois our crime is organized, do you want it unorganized for shits sake.
Any odds before the mob (or some other semi-interested party, including his wife) offs this guy? I’d say 1 in 5 he makes it to his next court appearance? Any higher? (Don’t forget the US is the 3rd world now)
jagorev: Justice, like our governor, is blind, Jag.
That’s how tough Noo Yawk is. We elected a blind man just to make fun of him.
I’m sure some enterprising prisoner will find a new and novel way to introduce Blaggy to the joys of having a rat inserted into his sphincter.
magic titty: yeah, $4500, there goes 3 months of blow for him.
SayItWithWookies: I kind of doubt the sitting governor is too much of a flight risk or that hard for the feds to track down at any given time.
“And if I don’t get what I want and I’m not satisfied with it, then I’ll just take the track suit and the rats myself.”
“I’ll just put the fucking rats in the senate before I give fucking Senate Candidate 1 my fucking track suit and I don’t even get time to wash my hair.”
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1321610,blagojevich-calls-obama-expletive-120908.article
Is anyone here from Chicago? What the hell kind of warning poster can you put up about rats? Try not to get bitten by the rats, jobless person, as you fight with them over discarded crusts? Don’t put the poisoned rats in your hobo stew? I’m fascinated and intrigued.
Palin/Blagojevich ‘12!
Tra: PROUD ex-Chicagoan. PROUD because I don’t have to live their, ever again.
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.
I hear Gov. George Ryan saved Blago a prime spot in the cell next to him:
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/
Tra: In Phoenix there is a special kind of rat called a ‘pack rat’ or a ‘roof rat’.
They are huge.
And yes, there are signs. Harvest the fruit off your trees before the word gets out on the rat twitter!
Live in Chicago and that rat poster should replace our state bird!
Did “The Hair” have to post bond too?
Chicago! My Town! I Love it. Really. We do, it must be said, understand the usefulness of ‘an acceptable level of corruption’ to get things done. Name another Rust belt city that survived the 70’s and 80’s as well.
The rat warnings are for people.
And, BTW, it’s ‘Blago’ not ‘Blaggy’
http://goestotwelve.blogspot.com/
brag all you want…rats in New Orleans carry guns..
they want dog food, you give ‘em dog food…don’t be stupid..
what’s corruption?…
GoesToTwelve: Thank you (re: Blago)! I was JUST coming to post that!
Tra: You can’t really tell from the picture, but the poster mostly has information about the last time the area was swept for rats/poision laid out/etc. So not so much warning posters as informational for city workers on rat patrol.
@Tra I’m in Chicago–where politics is always a fun sport–and the signs are in many alleys. They basically say that rats have been sighted in that area so close the trash bins and don’t throw food in the street. I mean, I think that’s what they say. In 10 years of living here I’ve never actually read one of the damn signs.
They gave him time to dress-he must have known he’d be on every tv/camera in the country. you’d think he’d have taken the time to put on a bleepin tie.
Rod’s attorney just released a statement saying that he did nothing wrong and that he’s not going to resign.
He will probably appoint our new Senator before dawn.
So Obama has had no contact and Lt. Gov Quinn hasn’t had
a lengthy discussion with the Gov since 2007?
Weird.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/illinois.governor/index.html
azw88: Rezko could be the biggest rat of them all.
Mr. Fitzgerald, leggo my Blago.
Juice-IL: Just curious.
Dawn who?
Tra: The poster basically says don’t leave trash and shit around b/c rats will eat it and overrun the city.
Hans_Christian_Henderson: I meant in the morning
BTW, (a) does Governor Rod know that his phones are still tapped and (b) in his first call after he made bail, did Blago call the judge a fucking asshole (or something less polite)?
All Blago, all the time:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16377.html
wheelie: Indeed, his name even sounds like a scandal… he was predestined to be a fuckup!
Borat: $4500, that’s more like a week’s blow, unless you live in Columbia
There is no God. Otherwise why would she have all this cool shit happen during my most demanding work week in months. Couldn’t have waited ’til after the fucking hols, HEENNGGHH?
I have no more time to comment, so I’ll spend what little time I have reading your comments, so they’d better be STELLAR111!!!!111!!!111
S.Luggo: No, just no. I just recovered from the last time I made the mistake of going to Politico.
If anyone is bored here’s another website that needs your truck nutz.
Juice-IL: Oh.
Sorry.
bago: Why would you think any of us are bored?
2 posts. 2 minutes.
bago: THANK YOU FOR THAT WE MUST GET WORD OUT THAT OBAMA IS IN FACT BRITISH HAWAIIAN INDONESIAN AND IS NOT CHRISTIAN LIKE EVREYBODY ELSE.
shortsshortsshorts: And his font got serifs goddam
jagorev: I once saw a rat in the Union Sq. station posting a picture of Spitzer on the platform. True story.
And, FUCK WORK! This is more fun.
shortsshortsshorts: Soon we’ll have your first name, too! Hahaha.
bago: quick, someone tell me a zip code that matches a state. damn petition is kind of anal about that.
slinkimalinki: oh, forget it, i only need that to send a letter to congress.
shortsshortsshorts: Ditto of the glad I don’t live there anymore - and I grew up in Hyde Park! Me and Hopey would have been like dis, (imaginary fingers crossed), only he’s young and handsome and I’m an old washed up terrorist.
Also - on the rat front… my mother loved to tell the story of the old man who had a push cart on Maxwell Street during WWII. (Can you tell where this is going?) When he died thousands of animal bones were found in his nasty-ass apartment…. including lots of little ratties.
Mmmm-mmm - I loves me some Chicago style Italian beef!
Nuts. It doesn’t display your full last name. T. Rucknutz is now known by the much less funny name of T.R.
Tra: Those rat signs also say you shouldn’t let your dog shit here because rats eat dog shit. But, yeah, nobody reads those signs. The rats here are pretty brazen. They’ll just scamper out inches in front of you while you’re walking down the street, telling you they’re going to block the sale of your sports team unless you fire your op-ed editors, feeding on trash, etc.
bago: If anyone is bored here’s another website that needs your truck nutz.
Hahhahahahah - some hilarious shit ovah there
Gosh, I wish you guys would stop it about Chicago. We natives have such delicate, Proustian sensibilities about our native haunts, and Chicago is such a fragile orchid of a city.
Tra: The signs just remind people to tie their garbage bags/close their garbage cans so rats can’t get in.
lawrenceofthedesert: I know, right? Yesterday it was all smack talk about O’Hare and today it’s “Hey, Chicago is rat central”. Also, I think there’s an implication being made that our politicians are corrupt. Oh, wait…
RomanTotale: tank this: ogradybt:
No one has the same story. I think you’re all from Iowa.
(Seriously, thanks for assuaging my curiosity. I am going to pretend they say, “Don’t feed the rats,” in the way that tourist-area signs ask you to please not feed the seagulls or pigeons or rapidly increasing homeless population.)
Kudos to that photographer, sure, but MAJOR props to that captioneer for cleverly inserting the gratuitous “, right,” so that viewers would, um, know which one was Blagojevich.
Madeline: yea, but no one mentioned the airport LSD tunnel has been broken all year. No more Swedish techno music in sync with the light show on the jetson sidewalk.
anabellum: Big deal. Everyone in the South carries guns.
bago: Cool! I’m unhappy about how it truncates the last name, though. How will anyone know it was signed by Phil McCracken?
slinkimalinki: That thing also wants an address. You can use the Houston Astrodome if you want. It’s at 8400 Kirby Drive, Houston, TX 77054.
I doubt rats obey the no rats signs.
Uncle Al: You are so right my friend. This is our fault anyway. There shoulda been laws banning people who grow hair on their foreheads from holding public office years ago!
I didn’t read any of the posts here hardly but did somebody say the petition is back in action? I need me some petition!
It is? Quick! I’m too lazy to look for the link! Somebody post it!
Hey, don’t Chicago rats come with tomatoes, celery seeds & that weird emerald-green relish?
Nevermind the link. It’s gettin near dawn in the east and the Wkette “reporters” will soon be up injecting steroids into their typing fingers. I’d have to look for the link anyway
WAY DOWN HERE
That and there is no more Scotck.
scotch
scrotch
Bearbloke: Naw, that’s how they eat dog. Rats come skewered and served nekkid on toasted italian bread with garlic butter.
So, he’s bailed out so, like, there’s still a chance that my offer of three hundred bucks cash money and a really clean eight-ball will get me Barry’s old job? Jeeze, that’s almost as much as what a job driving a garbage truck costs!
bonsai pajamas: I hear rats are only good with ketchup.
Why all the Chicago haters? I challenge you to eat any of our Chicago hot dogs/burritos (TBK)/polish sausage/pizza/gyros/tacos/hamburgers/Italian beef and not shed a tear of joy. Those rats may be invincible, but they’re citizens of our grand city just the same.