We'll Stop Talking about Impeachment if Blago Keeps Talking about Oprah
Rod Blagojevich continued his "if I keep talking they can't impeach me, right?" media tour today with a stop at Good Morning America this morning. What crazy things has he said so far?
On GMA the tiny criminal Illinois Governor told a stone-sober Diane Sawyer that he was totally going to appoint Oprah Winfrey to Barack Obama's Senate seat. Which would've been amazing.
She seemed to be someone who had helped Barack Obama in a significant way become president," he said. "She was obviously someone with a much broader bully pulpit than other senators."
Unfortunately he couldn't pick her, because he was pretty sure she wouldn't decline the offer, and also she refused to put him on the cover of O Magazine.
[Update: Oprah, calling into her buddy Gayle King's show on Sirius, responded, "If I had been watching from the treadmill I probably would have fallen off the treadmill."
Also he carefully calculated the most insanely deluded statement a corrupt politician could possibly make:
"I thought it was actually a friend of mine who was playing a practical joke," he said of his arrest. "Unfortunately it wasn't. And then the day unfolded and I had a whole bunch of thoughts — of course my children and my wife — and then I thought about Mandela, Dr. King, Gandhi and tried to put some perspective in all of this, and that's what I'm doing now."
Haha also he thought about Jesus, and Santa Claus, and Lou Gehrig, and George Clooney. He is pretty much just like all of those people!
Good news: within the hour, Blago hits The View, and he finishes the day on Larry King Live. It's America's Birthday!