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Here’s the full video of today’s Blagojevich derring-do, which you really should watch from start to finish.
It’s taking some time, but we’re slowly coming to terms with the (a) sublime hilarity of Rod Blagojevich’s actions today and (b) the wonder of a human being that is Rod Blagojevich, in general. For starters, it’s always comical when Harry Reid gets called on a bluff, which is what happens every time Harry Reid bluffs. Then, this press conference Blago threw together just to fuck with people; it was slightly less shameless than Blago standing naked on the podium and shouting, “I AM PLAYING THE RACE CARD, BECAUSE I CAN.” Blago’s brazen, abrupt turn to anarchism today, it’s just… it’s… your Wonkette editor is almost in tears out of pure admiration for this man. Obama is old news now; can we just make Blago president for life? YES WE CAN (DON’T LYNCH ME).
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Can’t…get…the stain…of white guilt off! Can’t….
How come the MSNBC cut the story off before Eliza got chased across the ice?
there is a Tv show about dogs in the womb coming on Sunday. I think a fetal dog would be better than rod. no hair but less full of shit.
Blago is kinda making Harry the Leader looking even more toothless than usual.
Me kinda like this Blago in a bad way…
It’s Chicago – and Blaggy is a Serb. Is anyone really surprised?
Watch that “sticking out his tongue” thing Blago does. I think that might be his crazy tell. He does it first when he says that Burris was his opponent for Governor (tongue poke).
I love how he says that he has enjoyed having the limelight for the last few weeks, but now we should focus on Burris. Any wingnut ass who thought that Bill Clinton was a sociopath needs to watch this tape.
the word “presently” means in the future, the word “currently” means right now. just saying.
It’s all I got, kinda stunned…
Oh when the taints cum marching in…
Can it possibly get any dumber?……
You know, we used to make fun of Blago’s wig, that it somehow seeped in and controlled his brain like Homer in some Simpons episode. But, that’s a cartoon, it’s not real.
Now, we have all seen Burris’s grave – it is a fact. And I 100% guarantee you its empty. Now we see Burris on the stage with Blago, who’se looking especially pasty looking. The ONLY conclusion is that Zombie Senator now controls Blaggo.
Did you notice Burris stood close, but didn’t talk when Blaggo was talking? Mind control, or at least ventriloquism. Watch out, don’t let the Zombie Senator do this to you too Barry!
So Burris and his office have $14,000 in contributions to Blagojevich? Well, according to Blagojevich’s standards, that’s pretty much above reproach.
[re=207278]ivenson[/re]: Yes, seriously, go to about 40 seconds in. Is he trying to entice someone in the media to let him lick some pussay? God, I’m kind of turned on now.
We here in Chicago doit a lil differnt dan you folks in da Nations Kapital. We bring a gun to a gun fight. Da Chicaga way, you know what I’m sayin. Sose you all don’t gets the wrong impression, de idea is, you wanna play, youse gonna pay one ways or udders. Got ME!
Sose, for dose folks from DC, who tinks dat they have ANY controls over the workings of da working city, you know, da one wit big shoulders. Well, you ain’t been listenin have you?
Enjoy your stay in your fancy pants hotels. Remember, tomorrow they could be the new Wrigley field, if some cash don’t come this way quick. You listening now?
This would have been a lot more interesting if Blago had named Vicki Iseman.
Just saying.
And if Vicki had this “Mandingo” thing going on with Burris.
Who then turned out to be a transvestite.
Or even white.
Whatever.
I wish Blags had mastered effective governing as thoroughly as he’s mastered spectacularly douchetastic political manipulation.
As a downstate Illinois libtard, I’ve always kind of admired his ability to enrage the huge population of Limbaugh/Fox News parroting dipshits surrounding me here.
Rockets in Palestine? Huh? A presidential transition? What are you talking about? This is the only story.
The best thing about the Blaggy/Burris mess is that we get to hear otherwise serious anchors and talking heads talk constantly about taint. Not one iota of taint!
So Blago rides a unicorn too?
Man, lynchings have really gotten lame, no? Last one involved pubic hair on a Coke and now … this.
[re=207298]cal[/re]: Obama:unicorns::Blago:donkey show.
He should have nominated Caroline Kennedy. Because, you know, that’d be the only bigger mindfuck, you know.
Apparently the people of Illinois are entitled to two Senators and a governor that would love to steal the candy from your small child, who he is actually seeking a bribe from to be governor of the state. But it’s not just your children! He wants to solicit your elderly parents as well out of the retirement they have worked so hard for in order to pay for the plot, the coffin, and of course the moratorium (aka Masturbatorium). KEEP YOUR HOMES LOCKED. As Burris will die, probably tomorrow morning from some “help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” thing, COUNT ON BLAGO to call you. He probably has a phone-bank set up right now for this brand new pyramid scheme of executive appointees. Palin did the same, no?
EH? But that’s Alaska, so whatever.
What is wrong with Burris that he would accept such an offer and stand up on stage with the guy? And why was Blago half-assed about it? I would have thought the true gonzo move would be nominating Alan Keyes. Though Blago is probably holding off on that one until he needs to announce his running mate for 2012 Presidential race.
Say what you will about Blago, but the man has balls and a flair for absurd public theater. He is the anti-no-drama-Obama.
The Senate has to block him now. If he hadn’t bragged about playing the race card, they could have played it, but now they’re in a pissing contest.
I’m pretty sure Bobby Rush just told Barry to suck his dick.
blago really reminds me of a friend of mine who got recently charged (and convicted) of 69 counts of felony relating to mortgage and real estate fraud. maybe it’s the beady eyes…that shit always means trouble
[re=207319]The Lucky Republican[/re]: You speak of the messiah this way? Cast away, you devil.
[re=207304]Keram2[/re]: I thought Helen Keller was in the running, but I guess another Kennedy will do.
Umm…Bobby Rush can go drink a tall glass of STFU. This asshole still holds a grudge against Obama for having the nerve to challenge his seat in 2000–he used the race card against Obama–a la’ “not Black enough to be down” meme then, and he has now brought out the race deck with this bullshit. Sorry, but a real journalist should do their research on Rush. Not to diminish a valid point about the lack of diversity in the Senate, but he has no credibility to talk about this topic when back in 2004–he opposed Obama’s run for the Senate–you know, the actual Black guy–to support the very White Blair Hull. So, in my book, he has willfully sold his soul to the sleaze that is Blago just to keep this prized “Black seat.” Utterly pathetic.
Wow, talk about a Magic Negro…for Blago, I mean.
@obfuscator: There exists another downstate Illinois libtard? Oh, my secular deity substitute!
Really, it’s getting better, though. My county went Democrat last month for the first time. Ever!
[re=207286]Edywin[/re]: No immediate response. We must first find a UN translator.
[re=207323]lawchic[/re]: yes! thank you! yes! thank you! gack.
plus, this is the kind of thing that conservatives and anti-affirmative action people feed on. rush basically says “put him (burris) in because he’s black and there aren’t any other black people in your house.” now the conservatives can (because rush started it) say “there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, perhaps MILLions of perectly fine, upstanding white people in illinois that could have been appointed senator, but it went to a black man. why? strictly because of race. i thought that’s what the liberals hated, being judged solely on race… blah blah blah where’s my percoset?!??!?!?!?1!” and so forth. way to be, blago. guns to a gunfight indeed. ho-lee lord.
What is it with this Harry Reid fella that he gets himself schooled by a dipshit like Blagojevich? Is it the job? I mean, looking at the glorious recent history of Senate Majority Bosses, we have Harry, Bill Frist, Trent Lott — can anyone spot a theme here? Jesus, no wonder that shit weasel Stevens was such a giant in the senior chamber. It’s like a retirement home for blowhards and petty crooks.
Burris will remind people a lot of Paul Simon, without the sexual dynamism or the bow tie. He’s perfect for the job. the only thing that could have made me happier would have been if Blago had had the testicularity to have named himself.
The Blogojevich is a solitary preditor.
[re=207328]thwanger[/re]: So it’s like we’re all sitting here waiting to see if Bobby Rush is Just an Honest Man speaking his Honest Mind, or is just an asshole. Welcome to Chicago politics. Cardiss Collins made me feel exactly that way for decades. More like douche nozzle to a gun fight.
shorts: Is that the scientific name for the species of headcrab on his skull ?
If I were a complete and utter cynic, I would say that Blago is trying to reverse the old saying, “Love me, love my dog.”
[Sorry, Burr-burr.]
But, of course, I am not a cynic. No, honest. Truth is beauty and beauty is truth. You looking at me?
[re=207329]artbot2000[/re]: You forgot Tom Daschle, the biggest Majority Loser of all.
[re=207332]bago[/re]: Well as it is continuing to GROW at an absolutely unnacceptable rate of speed, I think we need to keeeeel that evil specimin on his head, before it kills us all.
I think there should be more panic. WAKE UP SHEEPLES. BLOGO’s HAIR IS OUT TO GET YOU!!!11!
In this exciting scene from “Bob Guccione’s Blagojevich,” the Mad Governor, invoking the principle of Posse Incitatus, nominates a dark horse as a Senator. The people of Illinois are then vigorously fisted while Rush and Burris savor the Governor’s taint.
[re=207336]Chet Kincaid[/re]: That is why we deserve the Batman. We will not need him, but we deserve now. Gothem is safer. Yaa. Totally man.
14,000?! That’s all it costs to get a job that pays over $100,000 a year, plus perks (nudge, nudge, wink,wink)? Where do I sign up?
Oh, my new new take on this (for those who have been sitting up and waiting) is that Blagojevich’s appointment of an allegedly disinterested party is an attempt to undermine Fitzgerald’s case that he was willing to sell Obama’s vacated seat. The fact that he didn’t sell it (at least for more money than he’d already received from Burris) serves as exculpatory evidence to counter all those taped conversations where he talked about selling it.
How far he’ll get with that is anybody’s guess — but then again, Scooter Libby was the only person Fitz charged in a case that should’ve involved impeachment. Just sayin’.
Well, I have to hand it to the Blagger, his defense team is doing everything right. Of course the other possibilities are that he’s figured out a new foolproof way to get his pay off, or the Zombie Senator really does control him
Boiling that 16 minutes down to one line:
“Made it Ma! Top of the World!”
[re=207325]GivingForehead[/re]: [re=207294]obfuscator[/re]: I’m also a downstate Illinois Libtard. (though I’m currently in Chicago) UNITE!
Seriously folks, no surprises here. Next week, expect the State of Illinois to announce that we are purchasing wrigley field. Rod Blagojevich’s hair will become the new mascot, with a statue of Elvis to be erected opposite the Ernie Banks statue.
[re=207323]lawchic[/re]: I hate the phrase “play the race card.” It’s sooo 1994 and oj simpson trial? Oh, and racists. I prefer to think the pandering of these Black politicians as landing them on Illinois’s Most Wanted for Demagoguery Trading Cards. Bobby Rush is a Jack, Jesse Jackson is the Queen. Rev. Wright is a two or something. And for establishing legal residency in Illinois months before an election then calling an opponent’s views “the slaveholder’s position,” Alan Keyes is still an Ace. They are all spades, of course.
Actually, as a native Chicagoan, the real Chicago way is to pick the new Senator by Bozo’s magic electronic arrows and then play the Grand Prize Game. Blago’s Circus is on the air!!!
That Bobby sure isn’t in any rush to say what he means; i.e. five minutes to say “Black man for senate.” At least Blags is kinda eloquent, in his own way.
And did I really hear Burris very sarcastically say “Wow. Thatsa lotta money, folks,” when someone mentioned the $14k campaign donation? I love this guy already.
The old machine pols didn’t blow-dry.
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