Right now - I’m watching and it’s the most uncomfortable thing I’ve ever seen or heard on TV. Letterman’s killing him and Blogo sounds like a bigger idiot than can be imagined. God help me - has anyone else seen this - AAARGGH
Oddly appropriate user name. 
Yeah, I was watching it and had pretty much the same reaction. I loved Letterman’s line (paraphrased): “So, what you’re saying is, all of the counts- there were, what, 13 of them? You’re saying that everyone who voted to impeach is wrong on all 13 counts and every one of them, each of the 13 counts, can simply be explained by a misunderstanding- that’s what you want us to believe?”
<dies of embarrassment to be from IL>
He keeps going on about how all the tapes were taken out of context, but has he yet explained what the supposed contexts were?
Why the hell is he still doing his publicity blitz? It’s OVER dude, let it go. Go home and enjoy time with your shrew of a wife before the feds get around to indicting you.
Nope! At one point when he addressed the Senate, the closest he came was when he basically said something about that’s how politics gets done, which is just bad since he ran on a “reforming government” platform. :smack:
It’s also laughable when he talks about all the good stuff he implemented - and many times yes, they were good programs but now I wonder what he did to get them in place - and seems to imply that the other politicians are just jealous or don’t want good things for their constituents.
<hijack>He also doesn’t mention the bad side effects of his “do-gooder” acts when he reels off that list of stuff he did - or skips mentioning a few that go horribly wrong. Like the year when there were problems getting influenza vaccines, so he tried to illegally import them from overseas, and the FDA stopped them at the border, so the taxpayers paid for vaccines we couldn’t use. And then those vaccines were in storage until he donated them to some country that had just been hit by a natural disaster, but the vaccines had expired by then and their government rejected them.
Or his “free rides on mass transit for senior citizens” - yeah, that was a doozy. The regional transit groups had finally hammered out barely-functional budgets, and he slapped that requirement on or (and this was done out in public, not behind closed doors) else the state wouldn’t contribute their usual portion to the budgets. The transit groups panicked, then finally slashed their new equipment and maintenance budgets, and raised fares more than had been planned. Thanks, jerk. Seniors already got big discounts, and IIRC the disabled rode free; this wasn’t something that people had been screaming for. Frankly, after a series of CTA breakdowns, I think people wanted equipment upgrades a whole lot more.</hijack>
Ichini, I think he just desperately needs people to pay attention to him. Some newswriter kind of “called it” a long time ago - he pats himself on the back way too hard for the stuff he’s done, and he had intended all along to run for the US Senate or President. Now that he’s barred from running for office in Illinois, for life (not to mention his wife getting fired for sucking at her job), he’s desperate for attention and a way to make more money/get more power.
He flat out told Dave that one of his jokes wasn’t as funny as he thought it was. I thought I was going to fall out of bed laughing at that one, but other than that the entire thing was cringeworthy.
Not I. I never voted for him, never thought he was particularly competent, and I don’t consider his idiocies to be any reflection on me personally or on my home town (there was never any love between Blago and Springfield).
Watch it here. Note the band’s choice of intro music. 
Dave starts with the killer zingers right out of the gate. Then it gets really funny.
I am so happy this guy is hanging onto the publicity machine by his fingernails. I want him to never go away.
I’m honestly curious about just how he plans to support his wife and kids in the future, especially if, as Ferret Herder mentions, she’s jobless as well. Obviously he’ll never be elected again anywhere, not just in Illinois. But also who in the hell would ever hire him? Not only is he tainted PR-wise but he’s clearly unethical. I can’t imagine any company seeing any redeeming factor, any upside to bringing him on. I’m sure he and his wife have come to enjoy a pretty comfortable, expensive lifestyle. It’s like a whole second trainwreck is looming just around the corner. He’s in freefall and his life isn’t even as screwed now as it’s going to be. What a complete and utter disaster.
Why doesn’t he become a lobbyist?
You mean the guy that’s there after hours… with the mop?
Zing.
I don’t recognize the intro music. I wholeheartedly agree with you about how entertaining Blago is, though. He’s so delightfully oblivious and self-serving.
You’d be surprised. I’ll bet he’s got a new gig before you know it. I’m guessing on TV somewhere. (Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice?)
Plus I’m sure some publisher will throw a book deal his way…
Not so much here. I couldn’t stand the hack long before he even ran for governor, and no one could pronounce his name. First time he ran I didn’t like the other guy, so I left that spot blank. Last time, I voted for Judy-Baar Ronald MacDonald, but that didn’t work.
I feel oddly vindicated now.
I’m with Ferret Herder on this, all the crap he pulled along the way trying to make himself the people’s hero? He’s pulling it all out now, thinking it will save him somehow, instead it’s forming the very noose he’s using to hang himself.
“My Way,” most popularly performed by Frank Sinatra. (The song itself is French, and the lyrics are Paul Anka, just for complete credit’s sake.)
Extra juiciness about this - a breakdown of that article is she was terminated from her job, which she’d only started last September, for a charity group because her fundraising efforts hadn’t improved over their previous efforts. They needed to repay a $10 million loan they used to build a $25 million “state-of-the-art” homeless shelter. They got help getting this loan via a state agency which was created by our most-recently-ex governor, her husband. :dubious:
(More possible dirt - the organization’s new shelter was financed with $13.5 million from taxpayers, and Mayor Daley helped push it through, but surely not to benefit his friends - who built a luxury condo development on the old shelter’s site. Both projects are tanking, as the condo has only sold half their units and the shelter can’t even afford to keep running.)
I really liked Judy Baar Topinka. 
Pity she picked Birkett as her running mate or else she would have been my pick for governor; I thought at the time that Mr. “Hang 'Em All” was more politically dangerous than our seemingly-just-bumbling do-gooder governor.
I love the part at the end of the interview when Blago mentions that he’s doing the talk-show circuit for his kids, to show them that the squeaky wheel gets the grease and that he’ll be vindicated.
I would like to point it out as an example of how whining doesn’t work. So you see, he does provide a positive example for The Children!