Blago Attorney Says He’s Not Guilty, Not Resigning

Why is it that whenever there are more posters that disagree with the left than those that agree, ABC takes the page down? I’ve noticed this several times. Whatever story was just in this spot on the homepage is now relegated to the “find it if you can” section. The overwhelming majority of posters on that article were not towing the liberal party line and ABC decides to take it down, and leave up an article about Madonna, which has been up for nearly 6 hours.

What defense can the lawyers use to defend Blago’s actions? Insanity? What a waste of Illinois’ tax dollars…

All this means is that he came up with a way to get his attorneys paid.

I think the media is starving for more funds
in order to keep up with the lavish income
they have been accustom to for the past 15
months doing the elections. Let the games
begin with their sensationalism.

Blago is sooooooooo cute in that picture. :) Go Rod! Hang in there.

The level to which the unethical attorney will stoop never ceases to amaze me. They will, without hesitation, accept any case regardless of how revolting, untenable, and unscrupulous the case may be, just as long as they can make a name for themselves.

Republican need to stop IL.Govt. story to give empty vacant (Obama) seat to a highest beater,where Governor alone is blamed.These Republicans are trying to President OBAMA,who won Landslide and got almost Billion Dollar donation from ordinary people to run and win Landslide.Instead they need to talk about BUSH”s SHOE TREATMENT for his LEGACY ?? on time,where whole world is watching and enjoying. At least no body Shoot him.Bush is lucky probably.Let them talk BUSH’S SHOE TRAETMENT instead of vacant senate seat of Obama.Who cares about these people.We have removed them from White House,Senate and Congress and now Bush’s shoe treatment what most probably he deserve.These people needs to shut up.

JD: I noticed that also especially before the election. I would track the time it took them to keep negative articles about Palin on the front page compared to Obama and it was surprising how quickly anything negative about Obama was removed while negative stories about Palin were kept on the front page for hours.
Maybe all those “volunteers” for Obama call and email sites that have anything negative about him so that they remove them.
I also noticed that the media is focusing on stories calling the governor “crazy” and a “whacko” so that if he ever implicates anyone from Obama’s campaign they can just say he is crazy and nobody should listen to him. Blagojevich is not crazy – he was simply conducting politics the same way almost all politicians in his state do, that doesn’t mean I think it’s right, only that he isn’t a “whacko” just because he was caught.
Also it’s shocking how the Fitzgerald said in public that he is guilty before even giving him a trial and making predjudicial remarks about someone “rolling in their grave” at what he did, as if Fitzgerald is SHOCKED, just SHOCKED, that a politician in Il did anything corrupt.
If the case ever goes to trial they will lose because lawyers are not supposed to say those things in public.

the RNC is one of the most unpatriotic
organizations in the usa.
if they can’t run things and steal everything for themselves,
they will try to cause trouble.
but it will not work this time.
this country is in such bad shape,
there are more people of good will trying to make things work than the rnc type people trying to continue bushes work of tearing the country down.
rnc ways will not work this time around.
this country is in for better days.
we had eight good years of prosperity
with bill clinton,
and we have had eight bad years with bush.
the usa is in for better this time around.

i just love him soooo much:
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Since you do not have a law degree in common sense or the law!!!
Or never learn how to read the criminal complaint!!
Any reasonable intellectural human being could see that President-elect Obama had nothing to do with this stupid mess!!!
Only uncouth, foul mouth people causes their own demised!!!
It’s not who you know but how well you play the GAME!!!!

Hey GOP, Republicans. talk about how Iraqi jaurnalist Throw his both size 10 SHOE AT BUSH’S FACE ,who is still a sitting president of US.what a shame,what a appropriate treatment for him,although Bush is saying his Legacy or whatever. You guy stop talking about IL empty “senate seat” rather talk about BUSH’S SHOE TREATMNT. Let us laugh and all of you shut-up. Whole world is watching and making fun of Bush.

how did the secret service let two shoes get past bushie head?
jpt why haven’t you written a story about the shoes?
and who, after having a shoe thrown at them, would duck and then come back up.
I would have gone down and stayed down.

secret service prepared to take a bullet,
but not a shoe.

I said it once and I’ll said it again.
The media thinks they are the Judge, Jury, and Executioner. I believe Gov. Blogo made some dealings, and yes he is guilty of making the most dumb decision a Gov. could make that was not politically correct, therefore, he should be tried. But to include the Pres-Elect is just another way of making the $$ and getting sensationalism from the American people. Now if you just don’t like Pres – Elect Obama, this is right up your ally – YOU WILL BELIEVE JUST ABOUT ANYTHING THE MEDIA TELLS YOU. IT FEEDS YOUR ANGRY SOUL! Oh well, you’ll get over it or die trying.

So the media is reporting Obama says its all ok there was nothing innapropriate done! Like you could actually believe a word that comes out of a Chicago Politicians Mouth ! Blago has to spill all the beans about Nobama! Dont get mad Rod get EVEN. Theres a pair of handcuffs with BHO’s name on them just waiting!

I’d say the whole political scene is sad. It mirrors the financial landscape.
Selling a senate seat is traitorous. It is spitting in the face of the people. Hang him! We need a new standard. If you think you’re bigger then the Constitution then you deserve death. Politicians, democrat and republican think they are all powerful. They forget that they are powerless. The people are the power.
The people are pissed! Let’s scare the devil out of these politicians. Let’s set the bar. Demand Death! Write your congressman and say enough is enough! If the court wants to go easy on this sorry excuse for a Governor then they are part of the problem. They’re afraid of singing canary’s.

/So the media is reporting Obama says its all ok there was nothing innapropriate done! Like you could actually believe a word that comes out of a Chicago Politicians Mouth ! Blago has to spill all the beans about Nobama! Dont get mad Rod get EVEN. Theres a pair of handcuffs with BHO’s name on them just waiting!/
No the media needs to report on the righ-wing nutjobs who love nothing better than to hamper and shutdown BHO. Time for some serious payback from the last eight years of fraud, waste, and corruption from the allegedly conservative republican party (definitely not Lincoln’s party.) Incarcerate the lot of them!

duck…
you have it all figured out!
booorrrring

Could it be that Mr. Fitzerald preempts the corruption to reach Mr. Obama. Even though he said that Mr. Obama’s camp is not initially guilty, had Mr. Fitzerald just wait for more deals and be patient with the wiretapping, Mr. Obama camp would have shown up eventually.

bye

I agree damien…
there are too many corrupt politicians on BOTH sides…
This weekend on the cable political shows, I heard over and over again that this pay for play game is routine in politics and it is legal as long and you play discreetly…I want to know why. Our government needs a major overhall and the American people deserve a government that works.
I’ve always gone about my business and never paid any attention to what politicians were doing. But they were digging the grave for our country and we did not see it coming (at least I didn’t). Never again will I be silent and all of us should be fighting back against this corruption.

If Blago Attorney Ed Genson say Blago is not guilty,maybe he is not guilty. But why The Office Of The President Elect thinks he is guilty, How would they know?

wouldn’t be someone need to ask obama about the proposition for him to say no?

Oh no…
The Bush is back..the broken record who is always stuck on Bush war crimes.
Good night

The U.S. Attorney and his crew
of wiretapping G-men are guilty
of defamation of character. They deserve prison time which they
can use to study basic criminal
law.

Obama, The DNC, The media all Had Blago convicted and found Guilty before all the Facts were out, before he had had trial and before he had his side of the story out.
They Do not Care wether he is Innocent or Guilty, They want him gone, and Gone Fast for some reason.
Axelrod who had bragging rights on How they were working with Blago to fill the seat.
Want to bet Blago was not going to put pbama Chosen people in the seat. Now Blago will Eliminated Fast to make it possible to fill the seat with the Obama Chosen person.
That would be the only reason for the Demands on the Resignation to be Immediately.
How many Democrats have made deals with the Authorities to keep their names out of it?
Innocent until proven Guilty.

Now that this guy is under attack from his own party for being dirty, republican minded types here seem determined to rally to his defense. I don’t get it. Is it the apparent fact that he is a crook that you guys like, or that he is now an enemy of your enemy–and therefore your friend.

of course he is going to say he is not guilty, and he will fight,
but i wonder who still wants this guy as gov?
with that telling reporters he has a lot to tell them, only made his look worse.
get him off the stage.

Tired of the Palin always coming up as having been destroyed by the media & on the front page (versus Obama NOT).
The Republican machine is responsible for having put a light weight on the ticket with McCain. Had he picked a woman of substance and intelligence she would have been on the front page for all the right reasons.
Palin’s arrogance for accepting the nomination (given her obvious lack of experience, and yes, intelligence) made her “eligible” for scrutiny.
The media never explained the Mayor’s duties (or lack thereof); the $1,200 “paid outs” (yes, I know…money from her “battle” with the oil companies) to every man, woman and child (child, why!); her dicey religious affliliations; her husband’s past; etc.
She brought nothing to the ticket but negativity, hostility and an ability to “energize” the most racist, intolerant and “un-intelligent” Republicans around.
So, kindly move on. Hopefully the Republican party has moved on and will reinvent itself as as party of all the people.
In this case, the media was Palin’s best friend.

i just love it when democrats try to change the subject to avoid their own scandal!
and no matter what you guys say, obama is no longer clean as a whistle, if he got away by closing his eyes and ears when he was a state senator and congress senator, he can no longer do that now! for goodness sake he is the PE, he needs to own up and face it, denying it won’t make this scandal go away!
and please mr. obama you can stop lying to yourself and comparing yourself to lincoln now, because people know that you are no longer an honest politician, but a lowly corrupt one i might add!

Please use the man’s actual name. Blago and Jacko are juvenile.

Now calm down everyone.
Maybe Blago conducted his own internal investigation and the result of it is that he and his staff have done nothing wrong! Which is exactly what he originally said- and now he has proven himself right!
In the interests of transparency he will release the relevant portions of the report to the public. When Fitzgerald says it is ok. Unfortunately at this particular time you’ll notice Fitzgerald hasnt said its ok.
Until that time the general public should remember that everyone is innocent of everything, and please stay on the message of the season, which is saving the environment through riding charted trains around in circles.

annoyed:
I know what you mean, after the last eight years, the three most dreaded words in the english lang. right now.
Bush is back.
the five words which will soon be music to everyones ears
Bush convicted for war crimes

cheney,
and bush is what?
the best thing that ever happened to this country.

All the ranting about Rezko and how he was going to “sing” and implicate Obama is a huge bust. He is in jail. He implicated no one but Blagojevich.

“All the ranting about Rezko and how he was going to “sing” and implicate Obama is a huge bust.”
The Washington Post and the Chicago Sun Times disagree with you. They report that he is ‘talking’ and that his sentencing date was just today ‘indefinitely delayed’ by the judge. His lawyers did not asked for a new date.
Thats code for he is talking and when the prosecutors have racked up a tally of inditements they will come back to the judge and tell him how helpful their boy has been and how he should just get probation.

“What’s not to believe!? The guy is obviously being wrongfully accused. Hey, only half of the last eight governors have now been charged with corruption, etc. He’s got a fighting chance!”
*chuckle*
Innocence by flip of the coin, Wade?

BertieW—you should write mysteries for a living.
“Thats code for he is talking and when the prosecutors have racked up a tally of inditements they will come back to the judge and tell him how helpful their boy has been and how he should just get probation.”
i think it’s code for it got delayed for every reason other than the one you propose, but seriously you write brilliantly, your conspiracy could almost sell!

Cheney says that ‘Obama and (Gorebull hot air) are the two biggest frauds ever.”
Should read “two of.”
For his throwaway leaves out the traitor, Roosevelt’s, new scam, (AKA “Deal”) his biggest in the history of our species Ponzi scheme, (AKA “social insecurity”) Lyndon Johnson’s Ten Trillion Dollar, “great” society and Jimmah Carter’s, Billy-Bubba Blythe’s, Andrew Cuomo’s, Chris Dodd’s, Bwarney’s Frank, Joe “The Bankers’” Biden’s and B Hussein bin B Hussayn bin Hussein Muhummad Ubama’s (Collectively: ‘the “Democrats”‘) 2008 monetary crisis.
All of which has left our nation Absolutely (to the tune of around an unfunded liability of around SIXTY TRILLION DOLLARS) insolvent.
Bust.
Broke.
Bankrupt.
Brian Richard Allen
Los Angeles – CalifUBAMAcated 90028

Too bad Obama (I voted for and support….) made the mistake (he is not perfect either…) of letting the “media” drag himself into this. He should have said NO COMMENT, or as Bloomberg (Mayor of NYC) would say – (something like) “let the judicial system handle this”… and not give HIS opinion or two cents. I guess in time President Elect Obama will learn he doesn’t have to give up his dear friends (pastor) or turn on others, to make NEW friends in politics. EXAMPLE comes from the TOP (to our kids…) and that is do NOT give the MEDIA too much rope (power), give it back to the JUDICIAL SYSTEM – and get rid of the corrupt in that system (ones that let VP Cheney off the hook when he was indicted by a jury for a CRIME…)!