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    Rod Blagojevich, Media Joker

    Exclusive: How the Press Pandered to Blagojevich after His Arrest

    TV Pharisees Doubt Blago of Nazareth

    Nevada Brothel Offers Blago an Internship

    Hero Judge Blocks Blago's Bid to Flee the Country

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    Image of CaseyPraetextatus CaseyPraetextatus
    09/04/09

    In reply to Exclusive: How the Press Pandered to Blagojevich after His Arrest
    I think Gawker got this almost exactly wrong. I think the least pathetic, and most graceful letter of all, came from the only man, apparently, who still has a producing job in television, Pat Curry of WGN.

    Yes, he's sympathetic (perhaps even syncophantic), but still seems, to me, to be genuine, caring, and professional.

    The Oprah crowd has been exposed to so much "look at me" empathy, that they can't distinguish it from a sincere, polite, declaration of caring.
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    Image of BaldwinPeriphetes BaldwinPeriphetes
    09/03/09

    In reply to Exclusive: How the Press Pandered to Blagojevich after His Arrest
    John, you didn't get Fox News because you asked for e-mails from representatives of the media. Next time try "representatives of the media, and crazy people", and the Glenn Beck e-mails will pop right up.
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    Image of maryn maryn
    09/03/09

    In reply to Exclusive: How the Press Pandered to Blagojevich after His Arrest
    Andy Shaw quit right after this to run the Better Government Association. I think we just witnessed the tipping point.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    09/03/09

    In reply to Exclusive: How the Press Pandered to Blagojevich after His Arrest
    I am a scholar in the Signoff Sciences and I have to say: this is a satisfying smorgasboard of farewells.

    We've got a handful of Bests and Thanks, a Warm Regards and a Sincerely, the simpering Humbly and the bubbly Hope you're hanging in there!

    And then there's my personal favorite:

    Thank you and please respond at your earliest convenience.

    Wham, bam, thank you ma'am.
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    Image of SurinaMelampus SurinaMelampus
    09/03/09

    In reply to Exclusive: How the Press Pandered to Blagojevich after His Arrest
    The incredible offer from Don and Roma was for Blago to guest host their show. He went ahead and took that offer of course. It was radio GOLD.
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    Image of MatthewMalleolus MatthewMalleolus
    09/03/09

    In reply to Exclusive: How the Press Pandered to Blagojevich after His Arrest
    All of this is ironic, in that, if the media had waited just a few more hours, Blago undoubtedly would have been hounding them to let him come in for an interview.
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    Image of John Cook John Cook
    09/03/09

    @MatthewMalleolus: True, but it was more like a month.
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    Image of simplicissimus simplicissimus
    09/03/09

    In reply to Exclusive: How the Press Pandered to Blagojevich after His Arrest
    The lack of sycophantic correspondence from Fox News is intriguing. Usually, they "accidentally" label whichever disgraced Republican pol as "D-" to keep their reportage on-message, but then they completely dropped the ball when a bona-fide D-Scumsylvania appeared on the horizon.
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    Image of John Cook John Cook
    09/03/09

    @simplicissimus: It is weird, but I suspect that somehow e-mails from Fox News escaped our FOIA through an administrative error.
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    Image of TriedandTrue TriedandTrue
    09/03/09

    In reply to Exclusive: How the Press Pandered to Blagojevich after His Arrest
    Blago has been hosting his own show on WLS the past couple of weekends so I'm guessing their incredible offer involved a lot of free air time to use as he sees fit.
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    Image of gusgorman gusgorman
    09/03/09

    In reply to Exclusive: How the Press Pandered to Blagojevich after His Arrest
    From someone whose job it was to send all these e-mails and make all these calls and buy all those dinners ... it sucks. But it's your job, suck it up, suck up and some how score that interview.

    It's the interviewer's job to be the fair & balanced journo. A better story would be to pair the pitch with the story that resulted.

    Just saying ... thanks for making me cry Gawker Meanie-a
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/29/09

    In reply to Nevada Brothel Offers Blago an Internship
    You know what deer ticks call people dressed like Spencer and Heidi?


    A buffet.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/29/09

    @Smitros: do such ticks carry anything unpleasant, or are you just teasing me again?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/29/09

    @Hydroceph:


    They carry Lyme Disease. Fun!

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    Image of HenryLovesFonzie HenryLovesFonzie
    04/29/09

    In reply to Nevada Brothel Offers Blago an Internship
    Heidi said, "Where are we going? The woods? Okay, I have the perfect outfit."
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/29/09

    @HenryLovesFonzie: You're right, because nothing says swampwear like gold high-heeled shoesm and hot pants. Come to think of it, though Crazyeye's loafers and Blago's suit (complete with black wingtips!) don't really cut it, either.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    04/29/09

    In reply to Nevada Brothel Offers Blago an Internship
    Wow. Who has the craziest eyes in the bayou?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/29/09

    In reply to Nevada Brothel Offers Blago an Internship
    This raises the crucial distinction between sex workers and whores.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/29/09

    @Smitros: Sex worker: working gal (or guy) trying to make a buck. Whore: former gov of IL...that what you're getting at?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/29/09

    @Hydroceph:


    Yupper. Of course, I wouldn't restrict the latter group to former governors of my native state. Especially since I live in DC.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/29/09

    @Smitros: I know we're on thin ice with this thread, as the Divine Bookish has no sense of humor for talks of whores, but as i suspect you'd agree, the whores in your city do more damage than those at the Bunny Hutch or whatever it was called, and yes, i'm too lazy to scroll up.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/29/09

    @Hydroceph:


    I would agree, alas.


    The existence of sex work is symptomatic of an imperfect world, but political corruption based on greed rather than day-to-day necessity is a cause of making things far worse than they need to be.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/29/09

    @Smitros: Maybe it's because i used to teach this stuff to bored, apathetic, and frankly rather stupid college students, but i keep thinking about the adoption of the Constitution of 1787 and the Federal era. Why does it seem like the Republic was governed by better people 200 years ago? To say that where we were once governed by giants we're now ruled by midgets is to slander little people.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    04/29/09

    @Hydroceph:


    I can't overidealize the Founding Fathers, slaveowners that some of them were, but they were a unique group at a unique time. The present looks a lot like regression to the mean.

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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/29/09

    @Smitros: No, it doesn't do to idealize anyone, but the sheer cerebral wattage coming out of that generation beggars the Capitol these days.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    04/29/09

    In reply to Nevada Brothel Offers Blago an Internship
    Speaking as one of the geighs, i do not want to see any of those people naked, let alone spread-eagled and moaning.
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    Image of TriedandTrue TriedandTrue
    04/21/09

    In reply to Hero Judge Blocks Blago's Bid to Flee the Country
    Great - now he will have to result to becoming a pirate on the Great Lakes to raise his defense funds.
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