Rod Blagojevich Would Have Totally Killed Bin Laden Himself If He'd Only Been Given A Senate Seat

Anyone who's followed the latter-day activities of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich knows that his public appearances are a festival of utter randomness. There's poetry and talk of cowboys and calls for the interrogation of Rahm Emanuel and sudden cameo appearances from a rambling Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) and, of course, his seamless embrace of Celebrity Apprenticehood.

But oh my, his fifth day on the witness stand in his own corruption trial has trumped them all! As Natasha Korecki reports in the Chicago Sun-Times, Blago, had he been appointed to the United States Senate, would have happily returned the favor by transforming himself into Rod Blagojevich: Bin Laden Hunter.

His lawyer, Aaron Goldstein, asked if Blagojevich talked about appointing himself to the Senate "in exchange for going to Afghanistan and hunting down Osama bin Laden."

"Yes," A straight-faced Blagojevich replied, bringing yet another prosecution objection, hushed snickers and head-scratching in the courtroom.

Ha, ha: Blago's own lawyer brought this up because he wanted everyone to know that his client would have been willing to decamp from the U.S. Senate to spend his time bumbling around -- in the wrong country, mind you -- on a mission to kill bin Laden with his own hands.

I'm sure someone can work up a pretty good sitcom pitch from this, so have at it.

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Comments

[Exey]

05:52 PM on 06/06/2011

Clearly a ninja.

Blago? Nah. His hair.

[dsbathome]

06:18 PM on 06/04/2011

Is this part of an insanity defense?

[Lisette]

04:55 PM on 06/04/2011

Well, This 2nd triali a joke---leave the man alone!
He has already suffered enough!

[samuraifrog37]

12:13 AM on 06/05/2011

He should have left Illinois alone...We have already suffered enough.

[General Public]

04:24 PM on 06/04/2011

Wasn't Blago a member of Seal Team Six? He shouldn't be on trial... he's a national hero! The greatest statesman in American history! Effing golden!

[gfs5541]

04:07 PM on 06/04/2011

No need Blago. Obama took care of that issue nicely.

[Weeweed Up]

03:25 PM on 06/04/2011

For more "Pie in the Sky" politics tune into the GOP contenders. YES Blago is a Dem but his delusions really technically qualify him as a repub.

[Zoica]

03:20 PM on 06/04/2011

IF... If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.

[MAH999]

02:32 PM on 06/04/2011

Oh well, if he was going to get Osama if he got the Senate seat, then let's totally give him credit for that. Along with that other guy who was president but decided he didn't care about Osama. There's plenty of credit to go around. And, of course, let's drop all charges against Blago because his heart was in the right place. If we'd only understood what was in his heart about the seat, we would have begged for him to get it.

[Pembrokelib]

02:23 PM on 06/04/2011

What is the matter with the people who voted for him. He is certifiably nuts.

[marecek]

02:57 PM on 06/04/2011

That is what I am really dying to know. How do people like him, and Walker, and that utter clown in Florida, get elected in the first place. Has the electorate just collectively taken leave of their senses?

[Pembrokelib]

03:37 PM on 06/04/2011

I am afraid so. Some would vote for Trump or Palin or probably Micky Mouse!

[marecek]

02:02 PM on 06/04/2011

If he is such a great guy and fearless patriot (undoubtedly what his mindless tripe was meant to convey to his listeners), they why exactly would he stipulate getting a Senate seat is a quid pro quo to his willingness to do the heroic deed?

[Escalonz]

01:54 PM on 06/04/2011

Chicago, a developing Detroit under liberal Democrat miss-direction via decades of Daley political machine corrupt politics? Blagojevich is nothing more than a shameful footnote to what Chicago politics is all about and an embarrassment to the state and nation. How long can we stand as a great nation when we have fools for leaders and one party blind voters who continue to vote these fools into office. The city faces a very possible bankruptcy as the monstrous financial problem worsens each day and what is really disturbing is the fact that the voters would continue voting one party politics regardless how bad conditions get.

[marecek]

02:59 PM on 06/04/2011

"How long can we stand as a great nation when we have fools for leaders and one party blind voters who continue to vote these fools into office." This is where you are mistaken. Blagojevich is not a Republican.

[Puzzlr]

01:43 PM on 06/04/2011

He should think before he speaks.

[marecek]

01:58 PM on 06/04/2011

You are assuming that would be possible.

[Zoica]

03:22 PM on 06/04/2011

Sawah doesn't think before she speaks, and Republicans love her.

[Ed Hammer]

12:38 PM on 06/04/2011

A psychiatric evaluation is called for!

[LiberalLee]

12:31 PM on 06/04/2011

Yeah right Rod. you and your trusty can of hairspray would've waded in and taken him out.. if only you had...
A brain.
A heart.
A home.
The nerve.
A clue.

[pissedmichael]

12:13 PM on 06/04/2011

Do we really have to have this joke?