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Blagojevich Appears At Chicago Comic Con
theodp writes "Earlier this week, a federal jury convicted Former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich of lying to the FBI and deadlocked on 23 other charges. Still, that didn't stop Blago from connecting with his 'loyal supporters' Saturday at the Chicago Comic Con, where the ex-Gov charged $80 for each photo taken with him and $50 for autographs. He even hob-knobbed with celebrities like Adam West and Richard Roundtree. 'I met Batman. I met Shaft, and I know something about getting the shaft,' Blagojevich said."
Bullshit, perhaps in Illinois, Florida and Louisiana that's politics as usual, but quite frankly for people in the rest of the country it really isn't. Sure they tend to look more favorably on companies and individuals that donate to their campaign coffers, but rarely is it linked the way that Blago was linking them. In fact that's the main reason why he ended up being prosecuted. It was shocking in the bald faced nature of the corruption and it really only took one obtuse juror with no understanding of US politics to tip things to a mistrial. He would've been convicted on at least a few of the other charges had he not had the benefit of an apologist on the jury. One with apparent ties to his political machine.
Perhaps the parts of Illinois where they'd convict Jesus and Gandhi if you told them they were Chicago Democrats?
FTFY
The only thing that can come up with that explains Michael Steele's continued tenure at the helm of the GOP after strippergate and all the other scandals is that he's got the key to a closet full of skeletons.
You're forgetting the heyday the NAACP/Democrat Party's cronies in the mainstream broadcast media would have with the headline "GOP fires black guy."