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Dec. 9, 2008 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 9, 2008, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
By the way, also keep audio soundbite number 11 standing by.
Mike.
Hey, folks, it looks uh looks like uh the Obama pardon list is starting early.
The office of the president select can already start putting names on that pardon list.
I'm sure that Rod Blagoyovich is somebody that Obama barely knew, and he probably never knew this.
Rod Blagoyovich, greetings.
Uh, my friends Rush Limboy in the middle of an Ayn Rand novel.
Uh I mean we are living, folks.
This sitcom just gets better and better every day.
It's just unbelievable.
Except that it's all too believable.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh, the excellence in broadcasting.
By the way, I have to tell you, it's a shame, it's a shame because it's gonna happen.
But I'm afraid we're gonna lose our uh Chicago affiliate when the press conference starts.
Uh the U.S. attorney for Chicago's Patrick Fitzgerald, who has delivered somebody fitzmas today.
I don't know exactly who this is this is really deep, and I'm afraid we're gonna lose WLS Chicago.
They'll have to cover the press conference live.
It's happening in their backyard.
Uh but those of you in Chicago, if you haven't, uh if if LS has not dumped us yet to go to their uh press conference, uh check Rushlinbaugh.com later this afternoon we update the site to reflect the contents of the program for today's EIB take on the version of events.
Here's the phone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882.
The email address is L Rushbow at EIB net.com.
Remember what Chuck Schumer said, Senator Chuck Schumer, October 26, 2008, two days before Scooter Libby was indicted.
Chuck Schumer, quote, Mr. Fitzgerald is a prosecutor's prosecutor.
He does not have a political bone in his body.
Let's keep that in mind.
Because it uh is by the way, this is really nothing new for Chicago.
Practically every former governor is in jail or has been in jail, doesn't matter what party.
What was going on here with BLEGO is that he was trying to sell the uh appointment for Barack Obama's Senate seat, and one of the people he might have been trying to sell it to, excuse me, the son of the uh Reverend Daxon.
And I don't know that there are any tapes of that conversation that the uh the uh U.S. attorney might have, but I can just hear that shakedown.
Uh, Jesse Jackson Jr. goes in there, wants the Senate seat, and Blogoyevitch says, Well, what are you gonna pay me?
What are you gonna give me?
What can you do for me?
And Jesse Jackson Jr. says, hey, I know how this works, pal.
You're not going there with me.
Who do you think you are?
My dad.
Shaking me down like this?
Democrat Governor Blagoyovich was gonna name a senator to replace Barack Obama.
Democrat Governor Elliott Spitzer was gonna name a senator to replace Hillary Clinton, but for a pay-per-view call girl.
Democrat Governor Jim McGreevy named Frank Lautenberg to replace the torch.
By the way, let's go back in time.
And let's let's not forget what's the do you have a date on this mic, or do you just have the soundbite for number 11?
This has this, I don't know about the date of this either, but we let's let's never forget this.
Bob Torricelli and his and a lawyer prosecutor uh montage together as Torricelli is proclaiming his innocence.
The challenge my integrity is beneath contempt.
I do not deserve this treatment.
Two watches, a Rolex watch, diamond earrings for his girlfriend.
I have never television set.
Ever.
Oriental rug, grandfather clock, other antique items.
Done anything.
Suits at any time.
Approximately 14 deliveries of uh envelopes or cashed to Torcelli's house.
To betray the trust of the people of the state of New Jersey.
Never.
That's Bob Torricelli.
Uh That was April 18th of 2001, ladies and gentlemen, when Torricelli was defending himself against charges of corruption.
You know, the air b both parties engage in this stuff.
But corruption is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party, always has been always will be.
We root out, we throw out our corrupt officials.
We we we we make tracks to do it.
The Democrats circle the wagons for their so here.
We have we have Blogojevich, we have Rezco, we have Obama.
This is quite a triangle here, folks.
And Patrick Fitzgerald, who is now speaking at the press conference.
The corruption is so deep.
It is hard to quickly summarize it between all of these people.
It's gonna take a while to to to figure all of this out.
But we've got we've got the uh the complaint, and it's it's it's hilarious.
It is just hilarious to listen to this and to read these things.
Rezco now being investigated with the Obama land deal.
Blogoyevitch arrested at 6.15 this morning along with his chief of staff, Rezco and Blego and Obama go back together for a long, long time, and now they're back together again.
We got subpoenas, we got dot connecting, we got land deals, we got cronies, we have corruption.
It's no wonder that Obama bought off Hillary with this Secretary of State appointment.
I now understand why he's putting all these Clinton people in his administration.
It was a brilliant stroke, and even more so today.
Now, Ben Smith at the Politico is speculating Obama knew all about this corruption investigation going down.
Not that he was tainted by it himself.
The drive-bys are making it clear.
In fact, that without even knowing anything, the drive by audio somebody's coming and making it clear.
Obama had no knowledge.
He had nothing to do with this.
He no, no, no.
No, no, no, no.
Some of them are even ripping on Fitzgerald now for overreaching.
Obama has recruited all the Clintons.
He has insulated himself politically from uh a number of these things.
It's brilliant.
Hillary has now been compromised for 2020.
Can you imagine how she must feel?
She has accepted the Secretary of State.
She's taken herself out of the presidential running in 2012.
Obama knew all this was coming down.
He knew that there was going to be all kinds of taint associated with his hometown political machine.
Bunch of thugs up there in Chicago, folks.
I mean, we said it.
We quoted President Clinton, and here it is the culture of uh of the Chicago political thugs, and it's gone down right before our very eyes.
So we uh we're gonna get into this in much greater detail with audio sound bites as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
I'm just wondering if Obama's lighting up about now.
You know, he said he's fallen off the wagon when he tried to quit smoking, but he was not gonna smoke in the White House.
Out back, maybe the Rose Garden.
But I wonder if he's lighting up about now.
Because a cold man just got a chill today.
But at least he's compromised Hillary.
There is some comfort there.
Uh speaking of um falling off the wagon, Oprah Winfrey.
Oprah Winfrey sounds like an automobile executive in the latest issue of O Magazine.
She has admitted gaining 40 pounds, and she has apologized.
She's now up to 200.
She said she was so distraught over a bunch of things that she was just eating anything she wanted.
What is it with our culture?
Why does she have to tell people?
They can see it.
She goes on TV, she's gained 40 pounds, big whoop.
She has to go out there and apologize.
Everybody's apologizing for everything.
Um, this is just it's amazing here to watch all of this transpire before our very eyes.
And especially if you're like me, and you knew that this was the kind of thing coming down the pike.
Um, I mean, they have the the the the the feds were listening to Blogoyevitch's phone calls as recently as Friday and yesterday when he's out putting pressure On the Bank of America to make sure that the window company gets its line of credit.
He's saying, Go ahead and tape me.
You'll find nothing but love and honesty.
And so tape me all you want.
And Durban joined the act now, leaning on Bank of America as well.
We'll get to the sound bites and a little bit of analysis of this right after the break.
Sit tight coming right back on the EIB network.
Don't go away.
This is just too great.
Everything associated with the Democrat parties involved in this Blogoevich thing.
Just listen to a little bit of Patrick Fitzgerald.
And he went out of his way to say Obama, the president-elect, is not involved in this.
He's not mentioned in a complaint.
He had nothing to do with this.
He was totally ignorant.
All this was going on around him, just like in the Clinton days.
All this stuff, the Chinese funny money and all that was happening, and he didn't know a thing about it.
He had no clue.
Now, Ben Smith at the Politico says that the transition team, that's Obama, was aware of this investigation.
As I say, they were taping Bogoyovich as recently as Friday.
They hand down their arrest and indictment today.
They wanted to make their move before Obama's Senate seat could be sold, and Blagoyovich was he was trying to get a cushy union job out of this.
Once he left the governorship, it's clear that he was trying to score big time by selling the seat.
Listen to this from the complaint that uh the the publish here at the political, Rod Blogoevich said that he knows the president-elect wants Senate candidate won for the Senate seat, but they're not willing to give me anything except appreciation.
F them, says the complaint.
Apparently uh Blogoyovich dropped the F-bomb a lot on these tapes.
He was angry that he was unable to secure the price that he wanted for appointing somebody to this uh to the Senate seat.
The transition team hasn't yet responded to questions about the indictment, but the key question is whether the transition was talking to prosecutors, and whether Obama and Valerie Jarrett knew that Blago had offered her the Senate seat in exchange for a uh a labor job, and uh how she and the transition of the service employees International Union handled the solicitation of a uh of a bribe.
Andy Stern, the president of SEIU, had met with Bolgoyovich just before the election on the subject, though nobody is identified in the complaint.
Uh and so we we're uh continuing to learn about all of this as it unfolds before our very eyes.
Let's go to the audio sound bites to give you a flavor.
This morning on CNN, the anchor Heidi Collins talked to the FBI spokesman Ross Rice on the phone.
She said, I'm I'm wondering if you can give us sort of the overall scenario as to how all this happened.
About 6 30 this morning, Illinois Governor Rod Blogoevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested without incident by FBI agents here in Chicago.
Both men were charged in a criminal complaint that was filed in U.S. district court here in Chicago on Sunday.
With uh two violations of federal law.
One solicitation of a bribe, and the second is mail fraud.
The uh complaint alleges three separate and distinct areas of uh corruption that the two were allegedly involved in.
One, as you mentioned, was the uh selling of uh President-elect uh Obama's Senate feat.
The second was uh financial dealings involving the Chicago Tribune.
They were gonna try and get uh assistance to them from the state in the sale of Wrigley Field in exchange for a purge of their editorial board.
The third was the solicitation of campaign funds from people that wanted to do business with the state of Illinois.
That's just hilarious.
I'm sitting here, folks, in the middle of our sitcom.
They were going to try to offer some assistance to the Tribune Company in exchange for getting rid of the editorial board because Blogoyovich didn't like the criticism that he was getting from the uh from the Chicago Tribune.
Uh if you read there's an AP story here by Mike Robinson that was published this morning.
He's the legal affairs editor.
I guarantee if you read this, it is the funniest story without anybody trying to make it funny that you may have ever seen.
Illegally threatening to withhold state assistance to the Tribune Company, the owner of the Chicago Tribune, and the sale of Wrigley Field.
In return for state assistance, Blego allegedly wanted members of the paper's editorial board who had been critical of him, fired.
So the drive-by's get even here.
Somebody take trying to take them out.
Uh is in turn hoisted on his own petard.
Here is Blago just yesterday, very defiant in Chicago outside the window factory.
I don't believe there's any cloud in there.
So I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.
I should say if anybody wants to take my conversations, go right ahead.
Feel free to do it.
I appreciate anybody who wants to take me openly and notoriously.
And those who uh feel like they want to sneakily and uh wear uh taping devices.
Uh I would remind them that it kind of smells like uh Nixon and Water.
Uh and he said this.
Whether you take me privately or publicly, I can tell you that whatever I say is always lawful.
Uh and the things I'm interested in doing are always lawful.
And if uh there are any uh things like that out there with Jules here is a governor who tirelessly and endlessly figures out ways to help average ordinary working people.
Including himself trying to sell a Senate seat for a big paying labor job.
Guess he's just an average ordinary guy, Rod Blagoyovich, governor of Illinois.
I mean, this is this is psychopathic.
This guy knew what was coming.
He's trying to flavor it.
Yep, yep, but this is this uh right out of the uh right off the pages of Bob Torcelli.
Here, let's go back.
One more time, April 18th, 2001.
Torreselli denying the charges and cut ins of David Chang's attorney, Brad Simon.
To challenge my integrity is beneath contempt.
I do not deserve this treatment.
Two watches, a Rolex watch, diamond earrings for his girlfriend.
I have never a television set ever.
Oriental rug, grandfather clock, other antique items.
Done anything.
Suits at any time.
Approximately 14 deliveries of uh envelopes of cash to Torcelli's house to betray the trust of the people of the state of New Jersey.
Never.
And this Bogoyovich from yesterday.
Whether you take me privately or publicly, I can tell you that whatever I say is always lawful.
Uh, and the things I'm interested in doing are always lawful.
And if uh there are any uh things like that out there with Jules here is a governor who tirelessly and endlessly figures out ways to help average ordinary working people.
And it's a sad day in Chicago.
Mayor Daly today uh has just thrown the governor under the bus.
Well, for first of all, just like you, he just found out this morning, and uh it's a sad day, and you have to wait for the press conference to find out uh the information uh that why he was arrested.
If it's true, it's a very, very sad comment.
Uh, because the selection of the U.S. Senator uh is vitally important to the future uh of this state and of this country.
Uh and uh if it's true, it's a very, very sad day, a very sad comment about Harry.
Yeah.
Everybody knew this was going on.
This is, I mean, if I had no idea this was happening, it's found out this morning.
It's a very sad day.
Folks, there's a subpoena that out for on on the land deal records between Obama and Tony Rezco and Rezco's wife.
Uh and the only paper that had that story prior to the election was the Washington Times.
But that's all percolating out there.
As I said at the top of the program, the Obama pardon list is getting a real early start here.
He may have some pardons to announce on the inauguration day, in order to get off to a clean start.
Now let's go to MSNBC Live today.
Chicago, Illinois, uh, or Illinois representative Jan Shaikowski said this about the charges against Blago.
I really think that the uh prosecutors um better have a really good reason for going into the governor's home and in front of his wife and children, taking him into to custody, which usually is the case if there's a flight risk or there's some serious crime.
Oh my, how times change.
This is Patrick Fitzgerald Who could do no wrong, not a political bone in his body, said Chuck Schumer.
And here is Chikowski, you better add a good reason for doing this.
Jeffrey Tubin this morning on CNN had this to say.
Wow, is the operative phrase here.
Keep in mind how unusual it is in a any kind of white collar investigation to have a suspect arrested in his home rather than allowed to surrender.
This guy is the sitting governor of one of the biggest states in the Union.
It's not like it would be easy for him to flee.
So the fact that they thought it was necessary to arrest him in his home rather than call his lawyer and ask him to surrender his client, which is the customary way in a white-collar investigation, shows that this is a very fast-moving investigation.
Does it sound to you like Tubin's not too happy with Fitzgerald there?
This is not done.
This isn't anything.
Why is Fitzgerald doing this?
Quick timeout, much more straight ahead beyond all this.
We got a great program coming up.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh and the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative studies in the middle of a sitcom.
Folks, I actually think I'm beginning, I'm beginning to think that we are about to be led, and in certain ways we are already being led by genuinely insane people.
Nancy Pelosi referred to the House of Representatives as the barbershop when talking about cutting auto execs down to size.
That's why they call us the barbershop.
You come in here and you get a trim.
And it could be a lot of people needing haircuts and maybe even some close shaves at the house.
Barber shop.
Woman is a lunatic.
We all know that Harry Reed's not all there.
He's uh just it's incredible.
And now this in Chicago.
These Chicago thugs, and now there's Fitzgerald.
I listened to him a little bit here during the break.
Fitzgerald's asking the public to report any corruption they find.
Hey, Pat, you have to expand your office to the entire hotel where the Obama transition team is.
You have that many people showing up to report correct.
He actually said if you hear somebody talking about paygo, meaning offering a bribe or demanding a bribe, you come tell us.
He said indictments and arrests and convictions, sure that can help a little bit, but we're not gonna we're not gonna wipe out all the corruption in this town simply in my office.
Or something like that.
And he said the the depth, the breadth of the corruption here is unimaginable.
No, it's totally imaginable.
This is it's happening right before our eyes in Washington, D.C. What the hell else would you call the nationalization of the auto industry for crying out loud?
What would you call all of it?
You know what?
Another joke today.
Henry Waxman conducting hearings on what went wrong at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the guilty culprits are up there, and they're being uh asked to explain things, and you know, softball questions, softball answers.
Nothing's gonna happen here, except that Waxman's gonna be able to say that he looked into it, and the mess is now cleaned up.
The dirty little secret is, in fact, I've got a story here from the Washington Post.
Internal warnings sounded on loans at Fanny and Freddie.
Executives were told of the subprime risk.
I was right.
I am right.
Risky loans offered by Fannie May uh were what would generate more risky loans throughout the industry is what senior executives were warned years ago that they were offering mortgages that could pose dangers to the firm, hurt borrowers, and generate more risky loans throughout the industry.
There's also a drive-by story today of shock and dismay that people who were bailed out when they were about to be foreclosed on are still not making their mortgage payments.
And they can't figure this out.
They are mystified as to how this is happening.
the bunch of people six months ago were bailed out against foreclosure.
They were allowed to stay in their house or their deals were reworked, so they had a lower monthly payment so they could stay in their house and they're still not making payments on the mortgages.
And the people who arranged the refinancing are scratching their heads trying to figure out why.
If they extended all this help, after they extended the hand of kindness, they can't figure out why people still refuse to pay.
We are in the middle of a sitcom.
Anyone who lends money knows that if people don't pay it, they're not gonna pay it.
And if they don't suffer any consequence for not paying it, why should they start paying when you make it easier for them to pay if they're not paying in the first place?
Lone sharks know this.
Lone sharks, that is this entire situation has led to a collapse, we're told, of the world financial system.
Although, my friends, are you aware that yesterday's stock market uh jump was credited to Obama and his plan to build roads and bridges and schools.
Now, if that's the case, why is it down eighty-five points right now?
Why is it continuing to go uh up as it was yesterday?
Don't tell me it's down because Wall Street is shocked over what happened in Illinois with the governor.
Don't tell me this.
I don't want to hear it.
Don't tell me that Wall Street shocked at Oprah in an effort to sell sagging magazine sales, has admitted gaining 40 pounds.
Uh don't tell me that Wall Street is all upset here that Obama has not been inaugurated yet.
We just get we get nothing but BS out of the drive-by.
In fact, I I am convinced I'm becoming more and more certain that the only thing that keeps liberalism alive is the media.
Does anybody but the media take Nancy Pelosi seriously?
Remember when she took over the house, remember her first 100 days, her promise to America?
Shit was pay-go.
She said her Congress will not spend one cent of new money without paying for it.
Is one cent more than a trillion dollars?
Really uh you if if if I'm convinced if it weren't for the media, I don't think we'd have nearly as many people in this country who think they're liberal as we do.
All right, to the phones.
We have uh a guy from Effingham, Illinois up first today.
Brian, great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Mega Digos from uh Effingham, Illinois, man.
I've been listening to you for sixteen plus years.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate that.
I just want to say today in Effingham, it's a rainy day.
It's gloomy, it's windy, but today has got to be fantastic.
We're rid of hopefully we're rid of Rogaboy, Governor.
Uh I would uh love to share in your joy, but I um be rid of it.
How many ex-governors of Illinois are in jail uh and this one about to join them?
I think the number is three.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
But you know, the deal is though, you know, here he's been so anti-business, he's cost Illinois jobs.
I mean, he we can't get anything done in Springfield because he keeps holding up all this legislation and and you know, we got rid of M. L. Jones, but now, you know, hopefully we can get something done and help the people of Illinois.
Well, I look it, I don't want to throw cold water on things, but until you get rid of the Democrat Party and their union buddies, nothing's gonna change in that state, and nothing's gonna change in Chicago.
And what Bogoyevitch was doing is is is is is is fertile proof.
He's trying to sell the Senate seat that he can make an appointment to fill Obama seat to get a union job.
To get a union.
That to him is big money.
It's big money and it's forever.
And I guarantee you, he didn't want a job.
He wanted a position.
He didn't want to have to do any work.
He wanted power.
And he wanted power being on a board or some some silly position with the with some union.
You know, it's it's amazing.
Like I said yesterday, we support the workers.
We love employees.
We love people who make things happen in this country, but the union leaders we don't support.
And it seems like wherever you look, wherever you find corruption or wherever you find failing businesses, wherever you find things that are in trouble, you find union leadership with its fingers deep in the till somewhere.
You find their involvement somewhere somehow.
We love the workers.
We support the workers.
But we don't support the union leadership.
I mean, it's just every everywhere you uh and now we've got Obama and this uh and this card check deal, and there's a which is gonna allow uh unions to unionize your small business much easier than ever before.
There's a Washington Post story in the stack about that too.
So let me take a brief time out.
We'll come back and continue after this.
Don't go away, folks.
You remember Nancy Pelosi.
I can't keep a straight face today.
Nancy Pelosi, uh, November 8th, 2006, quoted in the Washington Post.
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open, most ethical Congress in history.
Nancy Pelosi contributing to the sitcom today.
Jan Shaikowski, by the way, who was upset.
Excuse me, and how Fitzgerald stormed in to Blago's house in front of his wife and kids.
August 31st, 2005, AP.
The husband of Illinois Congresswoman pleaded Wednesday to plead a guilty Wednesday to tax violations and bank fraud for writing rubber checks and failing to collect withholding tax from an employee Robert Creamer, political consultant married to four-term U.S. Representative Jan Shekowski, could face four years in prison on the two felony counts.
When he's sentenced December 21st, this is 05.
Jan Jukowski is a huge leftist, very close to Obama.
Kramer 58, prominent Chicago political consultant was accused of swindling nine financial institutions of at least 2.3 million dollars when he ran a public interest group in the 90s.
He was indicted by Patrick Fitzgerald.
Okay, Pat, now I hear, Pat can't hear me because he's still doing his presser up in Chicago.
I hear that in exchange for 400 million, because he wants, he wants news.
He wants people to tell him when he's hurt when they've heard of corruption, right?
He asks the people of Illinois, hey, you gotta call us.
You gotta tell us.
When you hear any corruption, okay, Pat, somebody send this tape.
We might do it ourselves to his office in Chicago.
I have heard, Pat, that in exchange for 400 million dollars in union campaign spending, Obama will be pushing for non-secret ballots to unionize non-union businesses.
I think this is somewhat corrupt, Pat, and I think you ought to look into it.
I think he got 450 million dollars from union thugs and leaders.
Of course, he had no knowledge of any of this.
No knowledge of Jeremiah Wright, no knowledge of uh of uh Rizco.
That's the Tony Rasco, he knew.
He had no knowledge of any of this.
So that's I think Pat Fitzgerald needs to know that Obama took 450 million dollars in union contributions and is now gonna be pushing for non-secret ballots to unionize non-union businesses.
So um, Pat Fitzgerald, I have given you a heads up.
I have given you a tip.
You can start to ferret out even more corruption.
Here is Fitzgerald, by the way, this morning, a portion of his press conference.
The most cynical behavior in all this, the most appalling, is the fact that Governor Blagoevich tried to sell the appointment to the Senate seat vacated by President elect Obama.
The conduct would make Lincoln roll over in his grave.
The governor's own words describing the Senate seat.
Quote, it's a bleeping valuable thing, thing you just don't give it away for nothing.
Close quote.
Another quote, I've got this thing, and it's bleeping golden.
I'm just not giving it up for bleeping nothing.
I'm not going to do it, and I can always use it.
I can parachute me there, quote.
Those are his words, not our characterization, other than with regard to the bleep.
Pastor Fitzgerald did not give us all the details.
Here is the transcript of the actual phone call in the tape featuring Blogo.
I've got this thing and it's effing golden, and I'm just not giving it up for effing nothing.
I'm not going to do it, and I can always use it.
I can parachute me there.
This is a secret phone call, or phone call secretly recorded by the FBI on November 5th, the day after the election.
The FBI affidavit said that Blogoevich had been told by an advisor the president-elect can get Blogoevich's wife on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect's pick to the Senate.
Told by two other advisors he has to suck it up for two years.
The FBI says it heard Blogoevich complain he has to give this mother effer, the president-elect he's talking about, Obama, his senators.
F him for nothing.
Give up this seat for nothing.
F him.
Called him an MF on the table.
Now, Pan Fitzgerald didn't tell you that.
My God, I thought Obama was this great unifier.
I mean, everybody around this guy is still enraged.
The governor is heard on the tape saying he will pick another candidate.
Before I just give effing Senate candidate a effing Senate seat, and I don't get anything.
Now, again, Blogoevich had been told, this according to the FBI affidavit, by an advisor, quote, Obama can get Blogoevich's wife on a paid corporate board or two in exchange for naming the president-elect's pick to the Senate.
Now, what's interesting about this is that Fitzgerald says Obama had nothing to do with this.
Nothing whatsoever.
Here's we here's that remark.
I should make clear the complaint makes no allegations about the president-elect whatsoever his conduct.
This part of the scheme lost steam when the person that the governor thought was the president-elect's choice of senator took herself out of the running.
But after the deal never happened, this is the governor's reaction, quote, they're not willing to give me anything but appreciation.
Bleep them.
All right, now the FBI affidavit says that Blago had been told by an advisor, quote, President elect.
That's Obama.
We only have one president-elect, right?
I cannot be confusing him with anybody.
Quote, the president-elect, this is a this is an advisor talking to Blago.
The President-elect can get Blagoevich's wife on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect's pick to the Senate.
But that wasn't good enough for Blago.
He wanted something for himself.
And he didn't want to have to wait two years for his term to expire, I guess, before his wife could be appointed to these boards.
And that's when he came out with the MFR on the tape.
So Obama has somebody in mind for this seat.
We just don't know who it is, and Blogoevich was not happy about it.
Here's one more bite from Fitzgerald.
We have a Senate seat that seemed to be as recently as days ago auctioned off to the, you know, to the highest bidder for campaign contributions.
And Governor Blagojevich's own words on the tape with a bug that set forth in the complaint, talked About selling this like a sports agent.
So we stepped in for a number of reasons.
Basically, as I said before, we're in the middle of a corruption crime spree and we wanted to stop it.
We are in the middle of a corruption crime spree and we wanted to stop it.
They made their move before the Senate seat could be sold.
And have you also noticed, ladies and gentlemen, the parade of daily Obama press conferences seems to have stopped.
This is just too hilarious.
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