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online.wsj.com - 12/10/2008

The Chicago Way, on Tape

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This wiretap was golden.

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suntimes.com - 12/16/2008

Rahm's calls on tape :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Michael Sneed

— suntimes.com — The Blago scandal . . . Sneed hears rumbles President-elect Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel,... is reportedly on 21 different taped conversations by the feds -- dealing with his boss' vacant Senate seat! A lot of chit-chat? Hot air? Or ... (more) Rahm's calls on tape :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Michael Sneed

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youtube.com - 12/9/2008

Blagojevich Yesterday: "Tape My Conversations" (video)

— youtube.com — Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) one day before arrest on corruption charges: "If anybody wants to tape my... conversations go right ahead." December 8, 2008 (more) Blagojevich Yesterday: "Tape My ...

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westernfrontamerica.com - 12/15/2008

Obama, Blago and ‘The Chicago Way’

— westernfrontamerica.com — The Chicago Way is any person, politician, businessman, children’s hospital or entity within the boundaries of the... state of Illinois that wants to do business in Chicagoland. You’ve got to: 1) know the right people, and 2) pay the right people. (more) Obama, Blago and ‘The Chicago Way’

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Blagojevich and Obama: Takes From the Right
The Caucus — ... to which it ultimately touches Barack Obama and his top aides. The prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, took pains to say that Mr. Obama was not implicated in the case. But some conservative commentators and right-leaning websites are using the scandal to highlight the president-elect’s ties to Chicago’s often-maligned political culture and to question the extent of contact between Mr. Obama’s team and Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his aides. Here’s a sampling of the commentary: Today, The Wall Street Journal editorializes :“Among the remarkable facts of the recent Presidential ...

Dissecting Leftism — ... They can't catch me. I'm the gingerbread man: "The list of crooked politicians is long, and the list of stupid politicians even longer. But if the criminal allegations made yesterday against Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich are proven in court, rarely will a politician have combined the two qualities with such efflorescence. The second-term Democrat knew that a grand jury probe was under way into corruption in Illinois politics, and that one of his fund raisers, Tony Rezko, had been convicted and is cooperating with prosecutors. Yet according to those prosecutors, Mr. ...