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My Weird Week on Blago’s Bad Side

I woke up to find the governor allegedly wanted me fired.

By John Mccormick | NEWSWEEK
Published Dec 13, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Dec 22, 2008

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  • Posted By: parlophone @ 12/14/2008 11:23:21 AM

    Has anybody seen his wife's spoof website? How can you be so dumb to not own your own domain name? www.PattiBlagojevich.com

    • Posted By: jimbo3800 @ 12/16/2008 10:17:56 PM

      She should capitilize on her notoriety and do a Playboy pictorial. She better do it quick, though, she isn't getting any younger.

  • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 12/15/2008 11:52:15 AM

    "If my Northwestern University journalism professors ever lectured on how to respond to this sort of thing, I slept in that day."

    You didn't miss your professor's lecture, because there wasn't one. Your professor didn't bother to raise the topic, because there is no appropriate response to paranoia, unfiltered emotion, or pouting.

    As a psychiatric nurse, and the mother of former teenagers, please hear this accumulated wisdom: don't take it personally, you are just doing your job. You are supposed to be the adult, the one with the objectivity - do not allow the ramblings of the emotionally challenged affect you in any way.

    In fact, the more the emotion, the more you can take solace that you are doing a damn good job.

  • Posted By: user7 @ 12/15/2008 11:13:06 AM

    i think it's great, its the whore politicians at their best, i wonder if they tapped n.y gov.paterson's phone on getting the seat for caroline kennedy, she has a whopping amount of experience, great to be a democrate

  • Posted By: Ron Paul For Pope @ 12/15/2008 6:43:00 AM

    I don't like movies about Hollywood, and I don't like articles about the news.

    No one's interested in what it means to be me. Mr. McCormick, the same just might be true about you, too.

  • Posted By: zeth006 @ 12/15/2008 2:41:43 AM

    Wow...classic example of government clamping down of the news media to replace them with new people who will act as their obedient mouthpieces. Just classic.

  • Posted By: sebotnik @ 12/14/2008 9:52:14 PM

    Did this fella go to Northwestern? Perhaps?

  • Posted By: sebotnik @ 12/14/2008 9:51:38 PM

    Did you go to Northwestern??? Perhaps?

  • Posted By: cementshoesof1939 @ 12/14/2008 3:15:48 AM

    Poor Blags, this is a classic case of' LOST IN TRANSMISSION'. The Blags were discussing 'ballpark field' and the Feds' heard 'ballpark figures'. . The Feds' should get good bugs, stop blaming the Bags!!!!

  • Posted By: ianigorit @ 12/13/2008 8:21:13 PM

    " You are fired ! " - www.DonaldTrump.us

  • Posted By: reddy7356 @ 12/13/2008 7:54:33 PM

    indian news reports that two indian americans are involved indeal making between Mr.jackson and the governor .it really interesting and unbelievable

  • Posted By: OrionCA @ 12/13/2008 4:43:49 PM

    Of course, he should wonder why his management never saw fit to mention to him that Gov. Blagojevich was trying to get him fired. And what else that concerns him they haven't told him about.

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