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Dec

Did He or Didn’t He? (Only the U.S. Attorney May Know For Sure)

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Categories: U.S. Left-wing Politicos

Here’s Barack Obama senior advisor David Axelrod on November 23, talking with Fox News Chicago about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s impending pick of someone to replace Obama in the U.S. Senate::

I know he’s talked to the governor and, you know, he’s — there are a whole range of names, many of which have surfaced, and that, and he’s, uh, I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.

Here’s Barack Obama today:

I had no contact with the governor or his office, uh, and so we were not — I was not aware of, uh, what was happening.

And now Axelrod throws himself under the bus in a written statement:

I was mistaken when I told an interviewer last month that the president-elect has spoken directly to governor Blagojevich about the Senate vacancy. They did not then or at any time discuss the subject.

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Dec

“Prisoner 4617278″ is Actually Easier to Pronounce Than “Blagojevich”

By The Oversneer 17 Comments

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I just knew this kid would be trouble someday …

1975 -- Foreman High School (vol. 36), Chicago

Sometimes we have to dig through old archives to really nail someone for hypocrisy, so I really do appreciate Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s thoughtfulness in providing incredibly damning quotes one day before his arrest by the FBI for corruption.

Here’s the future former guv at a press conference yesterday:

“If anyone wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it…”

Really? Even your phone calls with union officials, and your discussions of the sale of Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat?

To his credit, the governor was refreshingly honest with “Advisor B” (identified only as a DC-based consultant), when he came right out and said, “I want to make money.”

Also on that call was John Harris, Blago’s chief of staff and future cellmate, who helpfully suggested a “three-way deal” between the governor, über-union SEIU, and President-elect Obama. I wish there were a joke in here somewhere about a “three-way,” but politics is just so dry, you know?

The official FBI complaint, released by the feds this morning, is 76 pages of future routines for The Capital Steps.

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Dec

Oprah’s Mea Gulpa

By Holly Won't 23 Comments

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Categories: Activists, Television Stars and Writers

Oprah pulled a Carnie Wilson and regained a ton of weight after pushing countless fad diets and dietary pseudo-experts on the American housewife. (She’s also to blame for Crocs and Dr. Phil’s miserable fame trajectory, neither of which is a forgivable offense in my book.)

In the new issue of O magazine, she gets candid about how she ended up at 200 pounds again:

“I’m mad at myself,” Winfrey writes in an article provided early to The Associated Press by Harpo Productions.

“I’m embarrassed,” she writes. “I can’t believe that after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I’m still talking about my weight. I look at my thinner self and think, ‘How did I let this happen again?’”
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Winfrey, an admitted food addict, sounds almost apologetic in her article.

“I definitely wasn’t setting an example,” she writes. “I was talking the talk, but I wasn’t walking the walk. And that was very disappointing to me.”

I have to give her kudos for being honest about it, and I’m not going to rag on her when she’s clearly hard enough on herself. But let this be a lesson to everyone: Never take dieting advice from a woman who’s been on something called a “liquid protein diet.” Gag.