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Blago To FBI: "Is This A Joke?"
An FBI agent just said at a press conference that when Blagojevich was woken by a phone call from the FBI this morning, informing him that agents were coming to arrest him, he asked: "Is this a joke?"
Here's the video:
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Some people just think they are in charge of the world and are so amazed when that doesn't go well! Didn't he have a clue when it became known that he'd been bugged? What, he thought all those discussions of how he could benefit from a Senate appointment were the way all governors do the job and the feds wouldn't have a problem with it? The FBI should have just showed up at the door and hauled his butt out of bed.
December 9, 2008 12:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dear Gov. Blagojevich:
The FBI is not known for its sense of humor.
December 9, 2008 12:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
"No ma'am. We at the Bureau do not have a sense of humor that we're aware of..."
Tommy Lee Jones, MIB
December 9, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Stupidity and narcissism are a very bad combination.
December 10, 2008 3:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
The MSM doesn't deserve a story this juicy. I was starting to enjoy watching the talking heads spin their wheels these last few weeks.
Now Wolf has a Situation for his Situation Room. Awesome.
December 9, 2008 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Governor and Mrs. Expletive won't have any sense of humor when this is all over, either.
December 9, 2008 12:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
soooo... ya think those Chicago Trib editors whom Blago wanted fired, are bullet-proof now?
December 9, 2008 1:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Having given this 3 more seconds of thought, I guess Blagojevich's reaction wasn't all that unreasonable. Remember Sarah's red face over being punked by the Canadian radio guys and the FL lady hanging up on Obama thinking it was a punk? Could have been the same here.
I still like the idea of B. hauled out in his jammies-or lack thereof.
December 9, 2008 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Blago: (Answering phone) Hello?
Feds: Governor, this is Special Agent David Bryson with the Federal Bureau of Investigations. I am calling to advise you that within five minutes we are going to be arriving at your house. You will be placed under arrest. You will come quietly.
Blago: Who is this? Is this the Morning Zoo over at Zee One Hundred? You guys are nuts!
Feds: Governor, I assure you that a couple of disc jockeys we are not. This is the real deal, fella. This is where, as they say, the fucking rubber hits the fucking road. As they say.
Blago: Okay, you sound like Mamet. Is this David Mamet? You prankster you!
Feds: The fuck you say? Mamet? This is not Mamet. Fucking Mamet. They always think we're Mamet. Fucking guys.
Blago: Ashton? Ashton is that you? Is that you Punkin' me? Am I being Punk'd? I love being Punk'd!
Feds: We are coming through the front door now. Surrender. (Phone disconnects; loud crashing coming from the foyer is heard)
Blago: Is this the pilot for Howie Do It? Is that what this is? Is this a joke? I get jokes.
December 9, 2008 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
But you forgot the jammies part!
December 9, 2008 1:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ahahahahahaha.
December 10, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmm . . . I wonder who maintains the list that the FBI uses to decide who to warn they are going to be arrested, and who gets to be on that list? Maybe someone should pursue a FOIA request on the matter, should be an interesting list . . .
December 9, 2008 1:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
See, corruption is bipartisan. And justice should also be in a Real Democracy.
Bush/Cheney -Nuremburg '09
December 9, 2008 2:17 PM | Reply | Permalink