by Frank James
The Washington Post has an animated interpretation of a Gov. Rod Blagojevich telephone conversation which uses verbatim excerpts from the federal criminal complaint.
They get an A for effort though the animation doesn't really advance the story or its comic value at all. It's no Jib Jab. Still, it beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.











Comments
Why did Obama LIE about discussing the seat with Blago? Three news outlets + Axelrod on are on the record saying he did talk to him the day after the election.
Who from Team Obama offered Blago a corporate BOD position for his wife? It's on the tapes that Obama's crew could provide that.
Is that Emanuel on the conf. call with Blago? He's getting pretty testy with the press lately (when they can find him)... and is untypically and suddenly absent from PEBO's press-conferences.
What did they mean on the FBI wiretap when Blago's advisers said Obama had to "suck it up" for the next couple years? Temporarily refrain from cheating, bribing, and stealing... Chicago-style?
Blago's (convicted) bagman was Rezko... you know, the guy that helped Barack buy that nice house by overpaying for an attached lot (in a package deal).... so Obama could get a hidden pay-off? And the real estate agent was...? None other than Patti Blagojevich- Hot Rod's obnoxious wife.
Obama has now bus-chucked former allies Blago, Rezko, Ayers, Wright, Pfleger, and Khalidi the minute they got into hot water... not a speck of loyalty.
Any one of them probably has five things on Barack that could get him impeached... or at minimum, exposed as a blatant liar (Rezko's already singing now).
Have you noticed how The One seems all nervous and stuttering lately? What happened to the swagger?
Now that they've all been made enemies, it's just a matter of time for WHEN critical mass is reached... then "ObamaMania" goes >pooof<
Let the truth be told... the de-programming of the Obama Cult is as desperately needed as it is seriously overdue.
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Posted by: Reaganite Republican | December 17, 2008 7:52 AM
Yes, who needs a trial for a small time pol thrown under the bus.
Would that the cartoonists and the journalists would go after real criminals like bush, cheney, wolfowitz, rummy, rice, powell, and all those bankers who stole 100 billion with congress' corrupt acquiescence.
Posted by: Where's my shoe? | December 17, 2008 8:01 AM
Reaganite Republican forgets that 64,000,000 people voted for The One and he did smear grandpa McCain all over the map on 11/04/08. Your comments are false and inaccurate and sound like something you'd pick up on Limp-baugh or FoxLies. You want to talk about cheating and lying and corruption, look no further than the Supreme Court appointed Bush and his foul reeking ilk. Bush has been lying to the American people since the day he took office. Obama will be a President much greater than the person currently in office. If yo can't deal with it, leave the country. Move to India or China or Iceland. Whiny loser.
Posted by: Doug R. | December 17, 2008 9:36 AM
Reagan Republican, you are no Reagan Republican. Reagan was a man of ideas. You are a Hannity Republican who is a man of innuendos, smears and character assassination. Most of your post consists of questions. David Brooks, a real Republican, put it best. The Republican party will continue to lose until it gets back to being a party of ideas. He calls people like you, Hannity Republicans.
Posted by: pd | December 17, 2008 10:42 AM
Repugs are lost in the political wilderness. While Rome is burning the "country first" party is working 24/7 to try and link Obama to the corrupt Blago. They have learned nothing from the past two elections. Even one of the original proponents of "slash and burn" politics, Newt G., says the RNC is on a fools errand. The "Party of Lincoln" is now the party of Hate Radio and Faux News.
Posted by: dt | December 17, 2008 11:09 AM
Meanwhile, the Sun Times does the reporting the jib-jab loving Swamp reporters don't do:
"Before Eric Holder was President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be attorney general, he was Gov. Blagojevich's pick to sort out a mess involving Illinois' long-dormant casino license.
Blagojevich and Holder appeared together at a March 24, 2004, news conference to announce Holder's role as "special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board" -- a post that was to pay Holder and his Washington, D.C. law firm up to $300,000.
Holder, however, omitted that event from his 47-page response to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire made public this week -- an oversight he plans to correct after a Chicago Sun-Times inquiry, Obama's transition team indicated late Tuesday.
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In an interview Tuesday, the Gaming Board's chief investigator in 2004 said the timing of Blagojevich's appointment of Holder raised the staff's suspicions.
"The concern was Holder had a bias to do whatever Blagojevich wanted, which was to give the casino to Rosemont," said Jim Wagner, who was a top Chicago FBI agent before he joined the Gaming Board, from which he retired in December 2005. "We all believed the only reason Holder was coming in was to fashion an investigation that would manipulate the casino into Rosemont.""
Yet another Blago-Obama connection, yet another corrupt IL deal, with yet another "memory lapse" by an Obama appointee.
Posted by: HopeNChange | December 17, 2008 12:53 PM
HopeNChange - Your post is a non story. It states that Blago hired Holder and some unnamed source was concerned that Holder would do what the Governor wanted. Holder was brought in four years ago and Rosemont still does not have a casino. I guess the unnamed source was wrongly concerned. A better final statement - weak connection, no corruption and “logical lapse” by you.
Posted by: pd | December 17, 2008 4:34 PM
All those dancing with glee at Blago's arrest and trial by prosecutors before they went to court for a REAL trial need to pause here and remember that Fitz is the one who did not prosecute Karl Rove for the Valerie Plame treason case which runs all the way into the oval office.
Reaganite Repugnican---you are so wrong. blago and any other dems possibly related to this corruption are mere PIKERS compared to the Reagans and the Bushes. In fact, Reagan and the Biushes make Nixon look tame.
Posted by: untwist thy knickers | December 18, 2008 9:27 AM