The Blago coverage this week neatly sums up the idiocy of the media, local and national. As if we needed another reminder after this political season. Not one Chicago station had the guts to give it a two minute hit and move on. It was newsgasm to the end.
Our former governor is a sociopath at best, a psychopath at worst. A flaccid charmer without the ability to feel anything except for himself. Blogger Rob Feder's use of the word "pathological" just scrapes the surface. We seldom give the correct definition to Evil but Blago surely comes close. He may care for his kids, but in the way some people do about their relatives' pets.
Goudie's question to Blago's wife ("Do you plan to stay with him?")outraged many but probably reveals insider knowledge and illustrates a given about Blago's future. Patty will stick with him about as long as a cowboy with a hobbled horse.
It's tough on the kids, yes. For awhile. Best they're away from him.
What makes me the most ill about the whole disgusting affair, however, are the people who still worship and support this bastard.
More than anything else, Blago's backers illustrate why Illinois government is in such a shambles: we are a state and nation of mindless sheep who believe only what we hear in the latest and best served soundbite.
What's terrifying is that there are others . . . many, many, others . . . holding, or aspiring to, public office whose rapacious lust for power overwhelms that of our former Governor.
They don't have goofy hairjobs. They don't dance for the cameras. And you won't see them coming until they have you by the throat.
Showing posts with label Rod Blagojevich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rod Blagojevich. Show all posts
Friday, March 16, 2012
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Blago and the Kids Killed In Drive-Bys
It doesn't surprise me that many people are ready to put the Blagojevich case behind them.
"IL is short on money and 12 year olds are getting shot in Chicago by gangs, but there is money to keep spending on a victimless crime like the Blago case," says one Facebookian. "Why are we wasting money on this? It's pointless. We give him too much press. If you want to hurt him, ignore him," says another. Yet a third says, "Let it go. He's been kicked out of office, and found guilty of a felony. Send him off to do his time and get on with other more important things."
It's no wonder we continue to have corruption in Illinois government. Folks like these don't see cause and effect.
Let me put it in terms they might be able to understand.
Say your parents leave all their money, every dollar, in cash hidden in their mattress. That's the money they use to feed and clothe you, to take you to Six Flags, to buy you Christmas presents.
On a regular basis, your big brother steals money from the mattress to buy games for his computer. Your dad goes into the mattress to pay for a few hookers. Your mom steals just because she knows the cash is there.
Pretty soon, your parents start telling you, you can't have new clothes for school this year. No more Cap'n Crunch for breakfast. No extra cash for the rides at Six Flags. And come Christmas, well, you get a nice orange in your stocking but not much else.
Let's make it even more personal. Your brother then takes your computer and sells it. He gives your bike to one of his friends.
Pretty soon, your parents tell you they have to move to a tiny apartment and you can't have your own room. In fact, you have to share a bed with your brother.
Think that's a silly comparison? You think Illinois politicians don't work like that?
Wait 'til after the fall elections when your "parents" show you their plan for taking back some of that money you earned working at the drugstore, L'il Tommy. Money they "need" because their mattress is getting empty.
"Why's the mattress empty, Mom and Dad?" Gosh, son, we don't know. But if you want to keep living here, you have to turn your paycheck over to us every month.
We'll keep taking care of you, son. Trust us.
Wake up, Illinois.
Governor Rod may try to cover himself with the bodies of dead kids so you don't notice, but he committed crimes that affect every single one of us. He tried to SELL a bleeping U.S. Senate seat for crying out loud.
Sure that kind of thing gets done under the table all the time. But THIS time, there's evidence. THIS time the Feds almost nailed him.
I say retry the mope until he's convicted and put him away until those thousand- dollar suits of his turn to rags.
"IL is short on money and 12 year olds are getting shot in Chicago by gangs, but there is money to keep spending on a victimless crime like the Blago case," says one Facebookian. "Why are we wasting money on this? It's pointless. We give him too much press. If you want to hurt him, ignore him," says another. Yet a third says, "Let it go. He's been kicked out of office, and found guilty of a felony. Send him off to do his time and get on with other more important things."
It's no wonder we continue to have corruption in Illinois government. Folks like these don't see cause and effect.
Let me put it in terms they might be able to understand.
Say your parents leave all their money, every dollar, in cash hidden in their mattress. That's the money they use to feed and clothe you, to take you to Six Flags, to buy you Christmas presents.
On a regular basis, your big brother steals money from the mattress to buy games for his computer. Your dad goes into the mattress to pay for a few hookers. Your mom steals just because she knows the cash is there.
Pretty soon, your parents start telling you, you can't have new clothes for school this year. No more Cap'n Crunch for breakfast. No extra cash for the rides at Six Flags. And come Christmas, well, you get a nice orange in your stocking but not much else.
Let's make it even more personal. Your brother then takes your computer and sells it. He gives your bike to one of his friends.
Pretty soon, your parents tell you they have to move to a tiny apartment and you can't have your own room. In fact, you have to share a bed with your brother.
Think that's a silly comparison? You think Illinois politicians don't work like that?
Wait 'til after the fall elections when your "parents" show you their plan for taking back some of that money you earned working at the drugstore, L'il Tommy. Money they "need" because their mattress is getting empty.
"Why's the mattress empty, Mom and Dad?" Gosh, son, we don't know. But if you want to keep living here, you have to turn your paycheck over to us every month.
We'll keep taking care of you, son. Trust us.
Wake up, Illinois.
Governor Rod may try to cover himself with the bodies of dead kids so you don't notice, but he committed crimes that affect every single one of us. He tried to SELL a bleeping U.S. Senate seat for crying out loud.
Sure that kind of thing gets done under the table all the time. But THIS time, there's evidence. THIS time the Feds almost nailed him.
I say retry the mope until he's convicted and put him away until those thousand- dollar suits of his turn to rags.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Rods and Ends
Thanks to L.A. Wilson for the review of Every Secret Crime on Books are Pretty earlier this month.
And speaking of other bloggers, if you have ever wondered if you could marry a serial killer, Katherine Ramsland, PhD. discusses some who did on Lee Loffland's wonderful and incisive blog, The Graveyard Shift.
Speaking of marrying a serial killer, it's interesting to note that our local publicity-mongering ex police sergeant with one spouse technically missing, and another dead-in-the-bathtub, is on the matrimonial trail once more. After some confused denials, the happy couple recently officially announced their intent to betroth. Or he did. During an interview on Nightline.
That guy, I tell ya, is a publicity machine. Impressed at the job his flacks are doing for him, former governor Blago apparently used the same firm to arrange his whirlwind, last gasp media blitz last week. There's irony for ya.
Oh, that's right. News of the day is that we have a new governor and that the old one is finally and officially toast. I have to say Blago's final days were like watching the Extended Version of the famous O.J. Simpson pursuit. Having covered the state capi-tool back in my graduate school days, I was pleased to note that our new generation of state senators are just as windy as their predecessors. But when backed into a corner by the world media and public opinion, damn if they don't wield a heavy voting hammer. What courage it must have taken to come up with that unanimous vote.
My final take on the Blago Bust and followup?
The arrest and subsequent impeachment and ousting of our governor and all of the associated fallout could have been a wake-up call, not only to all elected officials but to all Illinoisans.
Unfortunately, most everyone will just hit the snooze button and go back to sleaze.
And speaking of other bloggers, if you have ever wondered if you could marry a serial killer, Katherine Ramsland, PhD. discusses some who did on Lee Loffland's wonderful and incisive blog, The Graveyard Shift.
Speaking of marrying a serial killer, it's interesting to note that our local publicity-mongering ex police sergeant with one spouse technically missing, and another dead-in-the-bathtub, is on the matrimonial trail once more. After some confused denials, the happy couple recently officially announced their intent to betroth. Or he did. During an interview on Nightline.
That guy, I tell ya, is a publicity machine. Impressed at the job his flacks are doing for him, former governor Blago apparently used the same firm to arrange his whirlwind, last gasp media blitz last week. There's irony for ya.
Oh, that's right. News of the day is that we have a new governor and that the old one is finally and officially toast. I have to say Blago's final days were like watching the Extended Version of the famous O.J. Simpson pursuit. Having covered the state capi-tool back in my graduate school days, I was pleased to note that our new generation of state senators are just as windy as their predecessors. But when backed into a corner by the world media and public opinion, damn if they don't wield a heavy voting hammer. What courage it must have taken to come up with that unanimous vote.
My final take on the Blago Bust and followup?
The arrest and subsequent impeachment and ousting of our governor and all of the associated fallout could have been a wake-up call, not only to all elected officials but to all Illinoisans.
Unfortunately, most everyone will just hit the snooze button and go back to sleaze.
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