Word: blago
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...context"--Blago repeated the phrases like Hail Marys on a rosary. Of course, he was not at liberty to give the context. But like a flailing Idol candidate, he insisted he couldn't be judged by his lines. His throat was dry! The judges hated him! If only he could start over, sing it all--the whole song!--Americans would see why he was their Idol...
Like a singer egged on by Simon and Randy, Blago had his own enablers goading him to take one more stab at "Bohemian Rhapsody." When he fled his Springfield impeachment for Manhattan, TV producers had only to book him, mike him and watch their good fortune unfold...
...political media, Blago has been a gift, an outlet for every brand of cynicism that we are otherwise not allowed to express in the Era of Hope. You can lecture Blagojevich, hound him, mock him without offense. He is America's most unifying politician: a figure we can all get behind (to kick), in a good old-fashioned influence-peddling scandal...
...fashioned. Blago seems less an old Chicago-machine boss than a distinct 21st century character: the American with Too Much Self-Esteem...
...lonely certainty, especially when reality and prosecutors' audiotapes insist on contradicting it. And puncturing it makes compelling, if excruciating, TV. Thus CNN's Larry King capped off his interview by showing Blago a reel of late-night comics making fun of his deeds and his hair. Blagojevich watched, a grin frozen on his face, as SNL's Amy Poehler taunted, "The first time I saw you, I thought you were walking away...