We are sad to see surrealist comedy news program “Rod Blagojevich Eternally On Trial For Being An Idiot” finally come to a close now that Rod has just been convicted on 17 of 20 counts of corruption. Has it really been eternity already? Seriously, we cannot remember anymore when we were not reading about this hairball goon’s ridiculous scheming. Terrible enemies of hilarity “the jury” took only ten days to decide that Rod is a hopeless piece of scum who will have to go away. We are hoping there are already plans for Rod to get a teevee show from jail? There Are No Hairbrushes in Prison can be its very tragic title, and Rod will teach troubled black inmate youth how to play harmonicas for a five-dollar donation to his imaginary come-back campaign when he gets out in 26,384 years.
Meanwhile, because it is always fun to observe the condemned completing menial tasks, the Chicago Tribune reporter breathlessly tweeted Rod’s final act of managing to go to the bathroom and then shake everyone’s hands, for grossness:
Thanks for that, Stacy St. Clair. This is how we will try to remember him. [Chicago Tribune]
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In prison, now his seat will be sold to the highest bidder. Coincidence? I think not!
His seat will go to the biggest brother.
I'm sure before he is taken to prison he will ask for 20 minutes alone with his family and 9 hours to brush his hair.
Does he use the same hairdresser as Calista?
I don't know who does the coifs at Madame Tussaud's House of Wax figures, no.
I have to believe that this is a chapter right out of "A Tale of Two Pretties". Rick Perry is actually going to do the time.
And then there's Breck Boy, Johnny Edwards.
The Cubs win the pennant! The Cubs win the pennant! The Cubs win the pennant! Oops, sorry wrong Chicago dream. I meant to say Blago goes to prison! Blago goes to prison! Blago goes to prison!
Wait till next year.
I, for one, would love to hear a drunken Harry Caray trying to pronounce "Blagojevich." He always sounded like he was about to to hawk up a loogie when the Cubs played the Expos and he'd have to try and say "Andres Gallaraga."
He tried to do a lot of that backwards, too, also, when the Flubs really got boring.
He is now demanding that his hair be given an orange jumpsuit of its own, 'cause it's a crime to look that good.
Hey Rod, don't drop the shampoo, if ya know what I mean. If you don't, you soon will.
Was Sarah Palin on the jury?
She quit half way through the trial.
She voted for conviction on 20 of 17 counts.
Her special counts 18-20 stemmed from him serving in office too long. Fruit of the poison tree.
"She voted for conviction on 20 of 17 counts."
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I will be there in Joliet 5 years from now to pick him up in an old Dodge cop car. Full tank of gas, a pack of cigarettes, and we will be wearing sunglasses at night. Hit it Blago!
Hup! Hup! Hup! Hup! Hup! Hup! Hup! Hup! Hup! Hup! Hup! Hup!
We're on a mission from Obama.
The only mission Obama would give Rod would be to drive stright to the bottom of Lake Michigan.
He WAS a little bitch in office and now he WILL BE little bitch in orifice.
Did he have glory-hole sexy time in there?
Well, at least that takes care of corruption in Illinois.
How's Rahm doing?
corrupt as ever
Well, I certainly hope he washed his hands.
Thank you. What he was doing is called "politics." Prig asshole prosecutor's delicate ears were offended.
Funny thing, prosecutor's engage full time in something called "plea-bargaining." Dealmaking. In which they haggle, trade back and forth. Paging Alanis Morrisette.
In all fairness, prommie, he shook down a lot of people. But basically, like many criminals, he got convicted for being a moran in plain view of the beat-cops.
jeebus, he shook down a childrens hospital!
And if Rod hadn't been an unrepentent self-aggrandizing asshole, he never would have been arrested.
He had charm and knew how to position himself as the people's champion, but he was so greedy/short sighted that he burned every bridge he could, and took every opportunity to squeeze people for money.
The fundamental problem was that he, and the inner circle that did his bidding, thought that since all politics was a corrupt game at some level, they could be open about it. He really thought there was nothing wrong with overtly getting someone to lay 25k on the table in front of him (as part of 50k total) for a state job, or holding up approval of legislation until he got a particular contribution, or overtly telling guys like Andy Stern they'd have to take care of him if they wanted Valerie Jarrett (or anyone else) to get the Senate seat. He didn't understand that a whole lot more would flow his way if he just played nice and accumulated favors.
The truth shall set you… Wait! Whut?
Guilty or innocent, the right wing nutz will still believe it was Mr. Obama's fault that this scumbag tried to sell his Senate seat.
Progressives, of course, deal in facts and not beliefs. But that's another story…
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For it's next act, our Department of Justice™ will throw NYT reporter James Risen in jail for not ratting out a Bush-era whistle-blower.
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What?! Was there no Twinkie, no Chewbacca Defense that could keep Blago's helmet out of the slammer? Oh, well, hair today and gone to dinner.
"no Chewbacca Defense?"
You might want to fact-check that by asking Say it with Wookies.
Blago, better start texting Otto Kerner, George Ryan, and Dan Walker. Youse guyz are now the Four Whoresmen. Of the Apocalypse, Highlander, Notre Dame, or pro wrestling?
Nah. Canal Street is more like it.
Pretty sure Kerner's dead. Although that does feed the four horseman meme, assuming we can assign the other roles.
He goes to jail for trying to sell a senate seat, yet the Koch bros trade in these full time and they are right wing heros. Blago phoned the wrong guys…
Otherwise, I completely agree, T_Dog.
ISWYDT. Heh.
Perfect for HBO.
I see a Pulitzer candidate!
How does this conviction get included in Roland Burris's crypt?
"Brought down corrupt governor Rod Blagojevich," as if it was purely his own doing.
That is 85%, which isn't too bad for not studying or nuthin.
The GOP is pissed they couldn't slow-walk this prosecution even more, so that they could have hung it around Obama next year. But with American attention spans how they are, we won't remember this by el Dia de la Raza, this year, let alone by Election Day, next.
In Fitzgerald's defense, he hasn't done anything in this case on the GOP's timetable. He could easily have indicted Blago before the 2008 election on a ton of stuff – locals were basically counting the days. The Senate seat ridiculousness, as important as it became, was sort of an unexpected bonus.
Yes, we just need/want money and power. Heartlanders get a little shy around the sexy-time.
Always tryin' to keep a brother down!
100% of Rod Blagojeviches are in prison. This oppression is unheard of.
(blushes).
you are too kind.
gives new meaning to "i've got this thing and it's fucking golden".
It's soon going to be blue.
I think Democrat Rod will be the one doing the bluing.
also: is 'stacystclair' a man?
We should send him a case of Vaseline. Celebrity sphincter has to be a jealously prized commodity behind bars.
No vaseline!
Blagojevich, being a good liberal, NEVER uses anything made from petroleum, lest he be labeled a complete hypocrite.
By the end of the year, santorum will be on the lips of Rod Blagojevich.
like Dr Tobias Funke?
You are so Wonkettecentric and I love you for it.
Mmmm…
Meloni, naked in solitary.
… and he Could have been Trumps apprentice.
With good behavior he'll be out in 24,500 years max.
Scott Walker used it as his campaign slogan.
p stands for pooper? Who knew?
"The jury took multiple votes at times during the 10 days of deliberations."
Multiple votes? Richard Daley the Elder would be proud.
Since this is a Chicago jury of 12, they kept getting total vote counts between 24 and 48.
Those cutie-pie bangs are going to go over real good in prison, boy.
"Governor Graybar, up next, right after Rachel Maddow."
Nawww. He's going to one of those places where the Dons import their own capicola … that they will feed him after the post-coital cigarettes.
Only ten days to render a verdict? Chicago has some pretty good restaurants, so I'd grade this jury deliberation a FAIL.
The catering was pretty nice, but they realized it just wasn't worth having to think about Blagojevich.
RUN BAMBI RUN
Since most Illinois governors go to prison at some point after their term in office (beginning, I think, with Otto Kerner although it may go back farther than that) they should get a special deal–maybe one year in the slammer for every 18 months grazing at the public trough while running the state.
StacyStClair's reporting leaves a little to be desired, though. Clearly Blago was "sitting in the waiting room". But tell us why, SSC, because he can't get up?
I rather free Blago than see Sarah run.
His wife was overheard whispering in his ear after the verdict was read, "Well, now you'll know how it feels."
I'll bet you they cuss less in prison than she does on the outside.
She is the balls in that family, but he'll do the time. Smart little cunt, ain't she?
Another case of the perpetration by the Austrian-Ottoman Man keeping the Serbian brother down!
"I wish I could have ordained more anal rapists.'
- A pope
fixed.
How is Clarence Thomas any different from Blago?
They are brothers separated at birth!
Well, technically, only one of them is a brother.
Exactly. That is my question too….how these fuckers are exactly alike.
Blago did say those things out loud, not just think them.
or he was high or something
I'd rather watch him than Paula Deen.
"They're going to have to build a special wing"
It's very early here, and I'm insufficiently caffeinated, so I read this as, "They're going to have to build a special wig".
I agree it wasn't the scale of his actions but the transparency that got Rod in trouble. Also why he got impeached – he just couldn't play well with others.
I agree from a moral standpoint he's small fry, but GWB's handlers were at least smart enough to implicate so many other people in the Iraq clusterfuck as to essentially make themselves untouchable, as well as making the Plame/torture/fucking the economy over somehow collective issues with at most low level scapegoats. I'd fucking love to see the Hague get their paws on Cheney and George, but that's about the only hope we have.
Thinking about it is one thing. Having your chief of staff research it, then pitching it to people in a position to act on it – that's another. And he was going down with or without the Senate seat stuff – half of his closest advisors had already been convicted or struck deals with prosecutors before Obama was elected.
Clarence and Antonin's defense is that they were tremendous right wing assholes before they ever took the bench, so no amount of inducements would change their rulings. Sadly, it is probably true, but the appearance of impropriety would be enough to remove judges from cases in any other court in the country.
I quite like this guy. I'm hoping he gets very little time or even no time. Especially when every goddamn Republican is guilty of far worse malfeasance and should be spending the rest of their days in a Vladimir Putin style dungeon in six inches of ice water, infected with AIDS and radioactive substances, half a mile underground for the rest of their miserable filthy existence.
Would ya' like to see my wiener now?
Peace… God bless…
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