Blagojevich Yesterday: "Tape My Conversations" (video) (flag)

www.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

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Careful What You ASk For
Talking Points Memo — This is Gov. Blagojevich yesterday, responding to reports that he was being wiretapped by the feds:

Just yesterday...
Political Animal — JUST YESTERDAY.... Rod Blagojevich's (D) press conference yesterday is pretty hilarious in retrospect. For those of you who can't watch clips from your work computer, the governor told reports, "I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.... And by the way, I should say that if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go ahead. Feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly and notoriously. And those who feel like they want to sneakily and wear a taping devices, I would remind them that it kind of smells like Nixon and Watergate." He knew he was under investigation, knew ...

Blago on Monday: Nothing But Sunshine Over Me
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room — Blago on Monday: Nothing But Sunshine Over Me Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) sounded an optimistic tone just hours before he was arrested Tuesday on federal corruption charges. "I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me," he said Monday at a news conference. "I believe there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me." Blagojevich was responding to a report from last weekend that one of his advisers wore a wiretap to tape their conversations for investigators. On Tuesday, Blagojevich was arrested on federal charges that he tried to sell the state's open U.S. Senate seat for personal benefits. He also allegedly sought to receive benefits in ...

Gov. Blagojevich's Big Mouth: 'Go Ahead Tape My Conversations' (Video)
Tennessee Guerilla Women — Here's the Illinois Governor shooting off his mouth, daring the feds to wiretap him -- only yesterday, one day before being busted, thanks to taped conversations! What an arrogant dummy. "I can tell you one thing: If (Illinois) isn’t the most corrupt state in the United States, its certainly one hell of a competitor." ...

“Prisoner 4617278″ is Actually Easier to Pronounce Than “Blagojevich”
Deceiver.com — I just knew this kid would be trouble someday … Sometimes we have to dig through old archives to really nail someone for hypocrisy, so I really do appreciate Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s thoughtfulness in providing incredibly damning quotes one day before his arrest by the FBI for corruption. Here’s the future former guv at a press conference yesterday: “If anyone wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it…” Really? Even your phone calls with union ...

BlagoFunny
Swampland - TIME.com — Who can resist a little laugh when the governor of a major state is caught by the FBI acting like a mobster seeking personal gain? Some of the best: 1. Who (Allegedly) Said It. Rod Blago v. Tony Soprano, via The Daily Beast. 2. Glengarry Rod Blagojevich (a Mamet tribute), via Salon. 3. "Tape my conversations ... openly and ...

Giving Illinois What It Deserves (Good and Hard)
Six Meat Buffet — Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his perpetually pottymouth princess went about their bribery and expletive-laced business today as the State of Illinois applauded his strong union work ethic despite naysayers demanding he step down. Gov. Blagojevich:  “I didn’t f^@*#!*% quit when Je$$e Junior only offered me $500,000 and I ain’t gonna quit now on the 16 percent of the people that still believes in me,” an incredulous and difficult to pronounce Blagojevich explained. “Aint’ that right, Patty?” Patricia Blagojevich:  “$^@#*&#@!” Gov. Blagojevich:  “That’s my girl.   So ...

William Bradley: Obama Floats Through Teapot Tempests
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich boasted that anybody should go ahead and tape his conversations, a day before his arrest by the FBI. With the fastest Cabinet appointments in 40 years completed, Barack Obama is off to a working vacation in his native Hawaii. It increasingly looks like he's rolled through two teapot tempests. One in which the far right flipped out, and another in which some on the left, frustrated at an avoidable defeat on same-sex marriage, forgot about the center part of center/left. The far right flipping out about Obama is nothing new. Nor, I suppose, is a lot of the media going ...