Blagojevich Impeached, Gives Another Astounding Press Conference

If you are a fan of The Wire, you might remember the fifth season episode "Took," which prominently features the corruption trial of Maryland State Senator Clay Davis, during which Davis takes the stand in his own melodramatic defense. I actually watched that episode just last night. Today, I watched the newly impeached Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich walk out on stage in front of the press, and, for all intents and purposes, mount the same damn defense. If you thought you saw a bulge in Blago's pockets, just know that he's given every dime and every ounce of his being to The People. And how dare anyone say otherwise! David Simon and Richard Price foresaw all of this.

I knew that this press conference was going to rival the one where Roland Burris accepted his mission from Rod, God, and the Holy Race Card when Blago's arrival was delayed so that some random clutch of poor and downtrodden-looking citizens could troop onstage and arrange themselves, like a sad, droopy Choir of the Misbegotten. Within moments of their assembly, Blagojevich burst into the room and starting speaking, VERY QUICKLY, quoting the Golden Rule and launching into an extended harangue over health care policy and quality of life issues. Blago fought the good fight, and now the State House wants to take all of those pretty effing valuable things away from the citizenry!

Shorter Blagojevich, to the citizens of Illinois:

Those people in the House, who impeached me today, WILL KILL YOU IF THEY GET A CHANCE. I, Rod Blagojevich, must stop them.

And then it was time for ROD BLAGOJEVICH'S DEF POETRY SLAM, featuring Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson:

Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Of course, it seemed like he was trying to say this:

It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

"I think we have just seen what can be characterized as a bizarre press conference," said MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell. Indeed.

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Comments

[lewisnclark]

Well, I live in California, so I don't really have any room to talk, but this is what happens when you elect a freakin' mook as Governor.

Somebody above nailed it by commenting that Blago is a flim flam man. Exactly.

Note to voters: when a politician looks and sounds exactly like a weasly little guy trying to sell you a used Ford Explorer, do NOT vote for him.

[orianna]

This man clearly will have to pay his dues for corruption... but that doesn't mean we should ridicule him while turning a deaf ear to reports of corruption in pharmaceuticals! If anyone has read the piece about how the 'pirates' was a media blitz propaganda story on the desperately starving Somalians trying to guard their fast diminishing seafood..... Nobody cares that millions are starving in that country, or the human rights of these poor folks... certainly not with the indignation we've expressed over the middle eastern countries human rights and rights to ownership... thus, when industries want to keep pilging from these poor folks, they've created media stories.

We all know that pharmaceuticals are big industries that use corrupt tactics like the automobile industries have. So if Blago boy is pointing his finger at them, why my thought is that he's been more of an insider than we have been... and, that we haven't been hearing the battle to keep profits high by private industry because the media has protected it.... like the rights to pilge the poor Somalians.... thank Godness we have news sources couragious enough to speak up and report, like Huff...... but, we also shouldn't be so happy to ridicule Blago to miss something he can be sharing, albeit the intent may be self-serving.

[brklynivn]

Just when I thought delusion was exclusively for the GOP, Blago shows them up....

[frant52]

Oh please Rod, just stop talking!
Seriously, you can't unsay what is on the tapes, any good that you once did or intended to do is now overshadowed by your own words.

[apoyo]

Why is he called bizarre? He is a smooth talking con artist, a flimflam man, what is bizarre about that?

What is bizarre is that the people were gullible enough to be hoodwinked into voting him into office twice.

[not going2take it]

Impeached for helping people? hmmm

Impeached for helping himself to a big dose of the pie.
The delusional idiot is also caught up in
rampant SELF DECEPTION.

D I S G U S T I N G !

[jeffp26]

I believe his hair has cut off the flow of oxygen to his brain.

[SENATORCALLENBOWE]

WERE STILL WAITING FOR OUR HELP....

[mmgbizgirl]

Blago

You got caught ! Be a man and admit it. You don't have the integrity to ever hold office again.

Concede that.

[deepfreezevideo]

It just goes to show you the inner mental workings of the people we elect.
Stop, next time and think, people.
When you see the average politician running for office, they are anything but average.
With few exceptions people who run for office have a raging GOD COMPLEX.
Put simply, Blago really does feel as if he is a god.

From now on when I see a candidate running for any kind of elected office I will first try to imagine what they would act like if they were accused of a crime.

[Whinger]

The hunter, caught in his own snare!

[hortonhearsawho2]

More like Rat in the Trap...

[hortonhearsawho2]

FrostoVich!

[LoRiseAntlers]

Meet the next Budd Dwyer.

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Budd_Dwyer

[Nicotone]

An incarnate of audacity!

He is unbelievable, Rachel Maddow did a very good segment on this guy and his reaction to having been impeached.

Essentially he is saying "f ck you" and going to go on doing what he is doing and blaming everyone else for his demise. No accountability.

It is some brilliant political posturing. Too bad he is so despicable and even worse, he commits acts that seem all too Rovian.

[drummer4]

Doesn't Blago look like Alfred E. Newman, the little Mad Magazine guy from years ago???

[DB55]

LOL!! My God, you are right!! What, him worry??