Patti Blagojevich In the News (or: Kill the Witch!)
I really thought that women politicians had provided the media with enough fodder during the unending election cycle.
But now, with Thanksgiving over, the media have nothing to look forward to until Sarah Palin’s inevitable mangling of the Christmas season.
Luckily, one scrappy woman has stepped in to plug the gap in the news hole - Patti Blagojevich.
Let me state - again - that it appears the Mrs Blagojevich was part of the criminal conspiracy her husband is alleged to have masterminded.
But let’s take a trip through the last 24 hours of Patti in the media, shall we?
The Chicago Sun Times skipped the insinuation and just got straight to the point:
My three dailies - NYT, Chicago Tribune and The Age - ran various permutations of the same Lady Macbeth story, along with flattering photos:
I like that last one from the Trib especially. It’s a nice companion to the Blago Rats! photo from the Sun Times.
There are, of course, nuggets from all the stories. What I really love is that, aside from the AP story where the author is unclear - women journo’s were assigned the task of gender-ripping Mrs Blagojevich.
The NYT:
In the 76-page federal complaint, Ms. Blagojevich appears to be an influential and demanding partner to her husband’s schemes…
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And, in a blast of vulgar language, Ms. Blagojevich eggs on her husband when he reportedly threatens to prevent the Tribune Company from selling the Chicago Cubs…
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The Web site for the governor’s office says that in addition to raising the couple’s two daughters, Ms. Blagojevich occupies herself with typical first lady issues: raising awareness on children’s health, food allergies and literacy, and starting the State Beautification Initiative, which planted native wildflowers along state roads.
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Ms. Mell’s spokeswoman, Leah Cunningham Pouw, said her own impression of Ms. Blagojevich was that “she is extremely dedicated to her kids,” adding: “I’ve seen her laughing and playing with them. She’s funny; she’s light. When you go in their house, there’s pictures of their drawings posted on the stairwell.”
So, instead of being a typical first lady; she’s a schemer and a corrupter. Does this really come as a surprise? Her husband was supposed to be occupying himself with typical gubernatorial issues: governing and not engaging in corrupt fuckwittery.
That didn’t work out so well, so why are we holding Patti to a different standard? Isn’t it enough that she’s corrupt? Why does she have to be lady-corrupt?
And the only method of defending her alleged co-corruption is, of course, to talk about how good she is with her kids.
Right.
And from The Age (AP):
And in the 78-page criminal complaint against him, his 43-year-old wife emerged as a woman who schemed to cash in on her husband’s job and punish those who got in her way
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Patti Blagojevich appeared to be a woman who knew her priorities and would not let working at her real estate brokerage firm interfere with raising the couple’s two small daughters.
She apparently was not that kind of woman, though. [The bold and italics are mine - the only way I could convey my reaction to that word, which consisted of nearly spitting up.]
Though I do start to understand how hard it is to capture the full background in crisis reporting. Check out this random nugget of reporting from the AP (printed in The Age):
[Dick Mell] was a powerful Chicago alderman who held a fundraiser in the late 1980s. Hoping to drum up business for his practice, Rod Blagojevich - then a young lawyer - attended and met Patti Mell. The two married in 1990.
What? Dick Mell is still a powerful Chicago alderman. I saw him crapping on and on at the Council meeting just last week. I guess that’s the three sentence history of the situation, but it makes about zero sense.
Anyway, by the time all this is said and done it will be all Patti’s fault. And it will be revealed that she killed some lady’s cats.
Cuz that’s how bitches do.
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