Illinois Governor Rod “NPD” Blagojevich played hooky from the first day of his impeachment trial today, taking his case to the nation with appearances on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox News, and I don’t even know where else. It sounds like he was a big hit:
Talk show host Oprah Winfrey said this morning she was “pretty amused” by Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s comment this morning that he had considered appointing her to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.She had intended to watch his appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” but decided to spend an extra half [hour? day?] in bed, she said in an interview on Sirius XM radio’s “Gayle King Show.”
“If I had been watching as I normally watch from the treadmill, I probably would have fallen off the treadmill,” she said.
That might actually be a good tactic if we ever go to war with China. Just go on TV and say something Oprah isn’t expecting — like maybe, “Doritos actually rev up your metabolism” — and she’ll fall off her poor treadmill, plummet through the earth’s crust, and explode up through Chinese soil, triggering the nuclear device tucked into her dewlap. Victory!
Anyway:
Asked what she would have said to such an offer, she responded. “Where would I fit it in with my day job, my midday job, my night job, my radio job….”
On the other hand, she said she felt fully capable to represent the people of Illinois in the U.S. Senate.
“I think I could be senator, too,” she said. “I’m just not interested.”
Why not, Ope? You’ve already got the perfect, time-tested logo just waiting for you:
Now that you’ve gotten the hang of buying an election for somebody else, why not get some of that action for yourself?
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Take that China!
Then all we gotta do is figure out how to get rid of those frigin’ Australians.
I thought Oprah was ashamed of her weight gain and had decided to do “something” about it. I wish I would have known that sleeping in an extra 1/2 hour works wonders, I could have gotten extra years of sleep by now.
blago is a sneaky effer isn’t he….must be that fantastic hair…
You BAD, Simon! Keep it up.
Oprah is just full of herself.
“Then all we gotta do is figure out how to get rid of those frigin’ Australians.”
Oi! I’m Australian!
“I think I could be senator, too,” she said. “I’m just not interested.”
Yes, if an buffoon like Barney Frank is qualified to head the House Financial Services Committee then anybody could be a senator.
Yes, his hair is pretty epic. It is the most glorious head of hair I have seen in quite some time.
Well Oprah has other people work out for her so perhaps she had them do extra workouts to make up for sleeping late?
Pasta-According to some cleric, Aussies are hooked on booze and ‘ho’s. I thought you would be the first in line to move there. Right after me of course.
I think pay-for-view ought to schedule a fight between Blago’s hair and Trumps hair. Would that be a battle or what?
True Brian Macker, also most are unaware that Barney Frank’s lover Herb Moses, whom he brought as his guest to several senate dinners, was simultaneously a Fannie Mae Executive when Frank was supposed to be regulating them.
The fox watching the hen house with the largest financial meltdown in the history of the United States resulting.
How Barney Frank avoided being removed and criminally censored is the biggest mystery of the Obama administration.
No Senator Oprah?
Damn.
‘Cuz I wanted balcony tickets for C-Span’s first Favorite Things Episode.
“It’s a trillion dollar stimulus! Yeah! But not just one trillion! That’s a trillion for you, and a trillion for you, and a trillion for you… trillions for EVERYONE!!!!!”
“Blagojevich’s comment this morning that he had considered appointing her to the U.S. Senate seat…”
Of course he considered her. If you want a big pile of cash for a favor, you go where the money is.
If what Swede said is true, I’m there! Besides that, I love Laughing Kookaburras, and what could be cooler than a place where just the insects could kill you?
And I only slammed Australia because when I wrote that I was crankin’ AC/DC.
Who does not want Oprah in their corner? She just helped land Obama in the White House. The worshipping of Oprah is just as bad as the worshipping of Obama. People say and do what she says cause she said it.
It looks as though John Edwards finally has some competition in the hair department. Does Blago get $450 haircuts as well?
Every time I watch one of this guy’s press conferences on TV (I’m in Indianapolis, so Chicago politics pollutes a lot of our local TV here) I find myself waiting for Ashton Kutcher to jump out and tell us we’ve all just been punked. The man is either certifiably insane, or so damned smart that the rest of us just can’t keep up with his thought processes.
I used to think he was insane, but after outflanking the entire Democratic party in the US Senate and making them look like chumps, I’m starting to wonder.
You almost have to admire this guy’s chutzpah. Right up there with his hair.
Somehow I don’t buy that she even owns a treadmill….
Scott F., I think he’s crazy…like a fox. Maybe he and Hugo Chavez went to the same seminar.
Lisa – she probably figures that a half-hour sleeping is a half-hour she’s not eating.
“Aleric – Well Oprah has other people work out for her so perhaps she had them do extra workouts to make up for sleeping late?”
What is sleeping “late” for you anyway? She’s getting an extra 1/2 hour of sleep! HOW DARE SHE! How many hours do you get a night? Do people publicly criticize you if you sleep 1/2 more than usual? Is it your opinion that someone must be a lazy sloth if you don’t actually try to cut your hours of sleep? Obviously you get plenty of sleep and can’t imagine anyone who works so much they can’t.
By the way, studies do show that lack of sleep is a major factor in weight gain. The more exhausted you are, the more you tend to eat high fat, high calorie foods just to keep going. Americans get less sleep than almost any other nation because the corporations now own us and expect us to work 24/7, always to be available by email or phone.
Whoa, Julie! Take a couple breaths there. We aren’t talking about normal people who pull another 30 minutes in the morning and quietly go about their day . . . we’re talking about Oh-Oh-Oh-Oprah, drenched in insincerity, making a point that anybody in the world who’s listening can hear how wonderful and righteous she is.
Normal person: “Oh, yeah, I slept in another half hour this morning. I was just really beat.”
Oprah: “Well, now, NORMALLY I’m up EVERY MORNING to get on the treadmill, but THIS morning I just let myself SLEEP an extra HALF HOUR.”
See the difference? We’re not picking on people sleeping in . . . we’re picking on Oprah being a self-righteous moron.
I’m disappointed deceiver. What does anyones weight have to do with selling a senate seat.
Nothing, it’s just funny.
LOL, Simon!
If we’re going to let murderers, tax evaders, bribery accepters, former KKK members, bathroom sex seekers, idiotic “comedians”, etc. in the senate, we might as well have let Oprah in.
I just had to see if anyone said “Where is Jrod?”. I would have not been happy! Oprah is not on my list of “things to do”.
On a more serious note, holy crap, this guy is going on a media blitz about his innocense…and there are recordings of him that to most people say “guilty”. I admire his Brass big ones, but it is hard to gather sympathy for another Illinois politico…
But Hey, at least he didn’t smoke crack with prostitutes, the democrats would never re-elect a guy like that!
Too true, Kristine. Especially since Ms. O could buy the entire Senate and have it shipped wholesale to her estate in Chicago.