The Blago Chutzpah Meter

Tuesday, Jan 27, 2009 2:13pm | COMMENTS (26)

The shaggy-haired governor of Illinois has been taking his case to the people the past few days, with appearances on just about every show in New York. So we’re calling it as a local story. We were most fascinated by some comparisons Blagojevich made during his interview today with the AP. (You can hear the radio version of the interview here.) “Blagojevich apologized for comparing himself to Gandhi and Martin Luther King,” reported our favorite AP correspondent, “in an interview in which he compared himself to Daniel in the lion’s den, Lincoln, Elvis Presley and the newly unemployed.” Well, the nerve! We think this demands an immediate vote.

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26 Comments

POSTED BY jerseygurl | January 27, 2009 @ 2:38 pm
Either he is completely delusional, or he has an incredible PR person directing him to go out there and deflect the issue. Keeping saying it isn’t so enough and people will believe it. I vote for delusional.
POSTED BY violet | January 27, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
this guy is a complete schmuck.
POSTED BY Nellie | January 27, 2009 @ 2:47 pm
He is delusional if- he thinks people are going to fall for what he’s doing..
POSTED BY Mrs. Martta | January 27, 2009 @ 2:52 pm
I just see him as a big clown.
POSTED BY jerseygurl | January 27, 2009 @ 3:05 pm
I’m waiting for the problem to call him a douchebag.
POSTED BY Iceman | January 27, 2009 @ 3:09 pm
Our new President must cringe everytime he hears ‘Blago’. Nutcase.
POSTED BY Nellie | January 27, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
As Jay Leno says: Blago-Son-of-a-Bitch
POSTED BY profwilliams | January 27, 2009 @ 3:15 pm
I saw his press conference two weeks ago and was impressed.
The guy is a great Politician.
That Patrick Fitzgerald has poisoned us with his grandstanding is not new.
It’s a shame because Blago has a high approval rating, has moved his state forward and seems much more alive than our bearded-wonder Gov.
So good for him that he has decided to speak for himself (and unlike Kennedy), Blago makes a good impression when he speaks– and shame on the media and the Barista’s for misquoting him on the comparison.
He was expressly saying that thinking of those men gave him perspective, not that he was like them.
But like everyone who does not make Chris Matthew’s leg quiver (Palin, Kennedy, etc.), Blago will get the back hand and be a joke.
Why anyone would want to be involved in politics is beyond me……
POSTED BY profwilliams | January 27, 2009 @ 3:15 pm
I saw his press conference two weeks ago and was impressed.
The guy is a great Politician.
That Patrick Fitzgerald has poisoned us with his grandstanding is not new.
It’s a shame because Blago has a high approval rating, has moved his state forward and seems much more alive than our bearded-wonder Gov.
So good for him that he has decided to speak for himself (and unlike Kennedy), Blago makes a good impression when he speaks– and shame on the media and the Barista’s for misquoting him on the comparison.
He was expressly saying that thinking of those men gave him perspective, not that he was like them.
But like everyone who does not make Chris Matthew’s leg quiver (Palin, Kennedy, etc.), Blago will get the back hand and be a joke.
Why anyone would want to be involved in politics is beyond me……
POSTED BY MellonBrush | January 27, 2009 @ 3:21 pm
He spends way too much time in front of mirrors. The guy is obviously enamored of himself – megalomaniac. Kind of reminds me of a Bill Clinton trying to convince everyone that he “did not have sex with that woman.”.
POSTED BY Spot The Looney | January 27, 2009 @ 3:23 pm
He has Beatle hair.
POSTED BY Overtaxed | January 27, 2009 @ 3:37 pm
What is up with baristanet? If we want to read/chat about this we will go to cnn, msnbc, cbsnews, etc…
Give us the local news. Give us updates on the 24 hour quite zone, upcoming road paving and curb work, any projects for the spring, budget information, etc…
I come back to this site day after day looking for something of local worth..and I get either stuff that no one cares about or stuff I can get on any other news site.
C’mon!
POSTED BY profwilliams | January 27, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
Overtaxed,
There is a cat stuck in a tree on Midland and Claremont….
Likewise, tomorrow is recycling in Section D of town…..
POSTED BY Overtaxed | January 27, 2009 @ 3:51 pm
Dats a good one! Poor cat! Hmm I was looking to find out the latest news on the Japanese Economy but couldn’t find it on the BBC website..OH DUH..let me just go to baristanet. Of course!
POSTED BY Nellie | January 27, 2009 @ 3:57 pm
Yay for Section D!!!!!!!!!!!!
POSTED BY theproblem | January 27, 2009 @ 6:43 pm
Great Politician? Yes indeed he is a douchebag, and like the sociopathic women abusing ex douchebag-in-chief he has no concept of shame or guilt. Logical result of the “do your own thing” regardless of consequences values that so permeated the disastrous douchebag generation of boomers. Thank God they like the shameless swimmer from taxachusetts and KKKbyrd will soon be room temperature. I just hope the country outlasts these moral, fiscal, and political detructoids for the sake of the coming generation.
Food and tax riots by 2012.
POSTED BY Mrs. Martta | January 27, 2009 @ 6:52 pm
The world will end in 2012. Don’t you read The NY Post?
POSTED BY teller | January 27, 2009 @ 6:59 pm
chutzpa?
It’s nice to see the selective “outrage” exhibited by the -streamers. They didn’t even have to lift a finger to get the get and yet they fell all over themselves.
ABC Nightline host Ms. Mcfadden is still trying to get her g-string un-bunched after her Blago go-round. If only she conducted every interview like this, we could then call her with a straight face, a journalist. http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=6735060&page=1
We know more about Palin, The Plumber and Blago, in their two weeks of fame, than we got from two years of Wright, Ayers, Alinsky and Obama combined.
CHARLIE ROSE SHOW PBS 10/30/08
CHARLIE ROSE:I don’t know what Barack Obama’s worldview is.
TOM BROKAW: No, I don’t, either.
ROSE: I don’t know how he really sees where China is.
BROKAW: We don’t know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
ROSE: I don’t really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?
BROKAW: Yeah, it’s an interesting question.
ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very inspirational (sic) speeches.
BROKAW: Two of them! I don’t know what books he’s read.
ROSE: What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
BROKAW: There’s a lot about him we don’t know.
“The One” reached out to the Muslims last night.. I wonder when they will extend their hands to us? Again.
POSTED BY jimmyp | January 27, 2009 @ 7:06 pm
Wait a sec. I’m a baby boomer, a child of the 60′s a veteran, a 9/11 volunteer, always worked and paid taxes. Will I have a place at the table after the food riots of 2012 (which is the year I plan to retire, by the way) ?
POSTED BY hs neighbor | January 27, 2009 @ 8:07 pm
Teller,
Many Muslims are part of this country too! They pay taxes and vote just like you.
POSTED BY hs neighbor | January 27, 2009 @ 8:14 pm
And not all Muslims living here or not are responsible for extending that hand you are talking about…….
POSTED BY theproblem | January 27, 2009 @ 8:43 pm
Mrs M, It’s not the post it’s Peter Shiff and Gerald Celente, both of whom have been quite prescient for years before all this current stuff. Check ‘em out if you want.
JimmyP, you are the exception but unfortunately the politicians the nihilistic culture ignore(d) you.
POSTED BY dj120 | January 27, 2009 @ 9:31 pm
He’s very entertaining—the new media curiosity–but he’s just an Illinois Gov but I love how he is obsessed with taking his story so national and dragging Oprah into his convoluted story—hilarious! He is friggin’ looney, but at least he can’t hurt the country—but, my gosh, he keeps dragging his daughters into his pleas and THAT is so incredibly sad! He is clearly delusional! Why aren’t the news networks dragging in the shrink experts like they do forensics??? Sadly, I think this guy is on an odyssey to a tragic end—he really needs help—instead he has EVERYONE just shaking their heads.
POSTED BY dj120 | January 27, 2009 @ 9:39 pm
Oh yeah, it’s so clear he is looking for $$$buck$$$—has been and is still in desperation with these series of NYC interviews—he isn’t doing them for free!
POSTED BY jimmyp | January 27, 2009 @ 10:18 pm
Dear Mr Problem,
I’ve always been the exception, but I’ve learned the hard way that “understanding something is only the booby prize.” I can accept with great grace whatever transpires, whether food riots, unemployment or the 12/21/2012 the Mayans et al predicted.
POSTED BY complainerpuss | January 27, 2009 @ 11:50 pm
Ran into Blagojevich this afternoon. Not only was he very, very polite, but he also had a gorgeous head of hair. I don’t quite see what the uproar is all about.

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