BlagoFunny

Wheeee! Corruption in our government! Hahahahah!
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Michael-Did you watch the "Wire" when it was on HBO? Senator Clay Davis was Blago. At any rate I recommend that any one who not seen the "Wire" rent it from Netflix it will be well worth your while. That show was most certainly the best drama ever on tv because it is so true to life in depicting how good people with honest intentions are frustrated and foiled most of the time by greed and incompetence with in the system.

BTW, did you see Sprinkles flip out on all this today? What a lazy, gossipy, terrible journalist she is.

Blago can't sling it like Clay Davis. No one can.

How come no posts on Jesse Jackson Jr., MS? There is an appearance of impropriety. Are you gonna cover it?

I can't trust anyone with hair like that. And I can't laugh at a scandal unless hookers and blow are involved.

ElvisE- who's Sprinkles?

I'm guessing MSNBC Mika.

Re-elect Clay Davis. Sheeeeeeeeit. $5 from each sale goes right into my own damn pocket.

Here's a really long one from Clay.

Don't bother MS. He was contemplating how 'some people' would react to the Blago news and then how 'some journalists' would be compelled to pressure Obama to explain his connection when it occurred to him that he is a person and a journalist and he got himself caught in a self-reference vortex.

I suspect he will recover but in the meantime:
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2008/12/08/i-am-the-medium-you-are-the-message/
I would add my own thoughts to this, but I have to sit down first. The room is spinning. The world is not as I thought it to be. Who am I anyway? Why do I exist?

Not sure who Sprinkles is either, but the AP report by Liz Sidoti is a terrible example of journalism. It sounds like a story that began with an idea: "Boy, this is going to hurt Obama." And grew from there.
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Unfortunately, the facts get in the way.My favorite part is when Sidoti writes there are "signs the continuing investigation could still involve Obama." And then gives no evidence this is the case.
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Wishing doesn't make it so, Liz.

I wouldn't so much mind the speculation about how this is going to dog Obama (is that better or worse than being haunted by it), if the same people had paid any attention at all to the lies of the last 8 years. I think Bush's successful strategy was to flood the market with so much deception that there was cognitive overload, and it was all ignored. too involved.

Sprinkles is Liz Sidoti, I believe. Context here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402633_pf.html

Blagojevich is the deadly combination of ignorant and arrogant. One or the other is survivable. But not both.

"I think Bush's successful strategy was to flood the market with so much deception that there was cognitive overload, and it was all ignored. too involved."
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I've been a long proponent of the sh*tstorm theory of the Bush Administration (along with the media's pro-Republican establishment bias, authoritarian tendencies and the general vacuousness of top journos, of course). Remember this?:
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"The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''"
-- Ron Suskind

@Shepherd, who is Suskind quoting? Cheney, anonymous WH aide, the Lord of the Sith?

Suskind:
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"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency."

How dumb do you have to be to think that you can just fire an entire newspaper editorial staff and have them replaced with new writers, without any consequences? I mean, in the History of American Newspapers, has that ever happened? (Obv, not in conjunction with a bankruptcy or meta-company reorg.) Blagojevich isn't drunk on power, he's just a mor-on, plain and simple.

Michael Scherer = the guy who made up the homeless serial killer story on the last season of The Wire