OH FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! "Emanuel: I'm Getting Death Threats Over Blagojevich Scandal"

[Clio the Leo]

Remember one of the reasons he was hesitant about taking the job in the first place was that he didn't want to upset the lives of his family with a move to DC and to take a job that would require so much of his life. This is disgraceful!

Emanuel: I'm Getting Death Threats Over Blagojevich Scandal
Obama's Chief of Staff Refuses to Go to Work Because of Media Stakeout

By MATTHEW JAFFE
December 12, 2008

The President-elect's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said today he won't go to the Chicago Presidential transition offices in order to avoid reporters seeking to ask him whether he had contact with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich about the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama's election.

Emanuel appeared "beet-red," according to an ABC News cameraman who was invited inside by Emmanuel to use his bathroom this morning.

"I'm getting regular death threats. You've put my home address on national television. I'm pissed at the networks. You've intruded too much, " Emanuel said, according to the cameraman.

Emanuel has refused to comment as to whether he is the un-named Presidential advisor cited in the FBI affidavit filed in the Blagojevich case. "You're wasting your time," Emanuel told a Chicago Sun-Times reporter yesterday. "I'm not going to say a word to you. I'm going to do this with my children. Don't do that. I'm a father. I have two kids. I'm not going to do it."

Asked, "Can't you do both?" Emanuel replied, "I'm not as capable as you. I'm going to be a father. I'm allowed to be a father," and he pushed the reporter's digital recorder away, according to the Sun Times account.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald says there is "nothing in the complaint" that implicates President-elect Obama but the affidavit suggests someone from the Obama camp was in touch with Blagojevich or his aides, if only to tell the Governor that Obama would not offer anything but "appreciation" in exchange for the Senate appointment.

The President-elect said yesterday he would gather and make public a list of any aides or advisors who talked with Blagojevich on his behalf. Emanuel has not yet resigned his seat in Congress, the seat previously held by Blagojevich.



http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/ConductUnbecoming/story?id=6449745&page=1

[AspenRose]

1. I suggest the media not piss him off.

[11 Bravo]

2. He will fucking END them!

[mzmolly]

16. LOL

Which is why I love RahmE. :hi:

[RollWithIt]

19. First they will be there, and then POOF, DISAPPEARED...

He'll also send them home in boxes.

[camera obscura]

3. I read that and browsed over to Drudge...of course some BS about Rahm is his top story

No one has even the most basic respect for public figures these days.

[firedupdem]

4. I love that he has no problems letting people know how he feels!

I suggest they leave him alone!!

[autorank]

5. k*r Great find. Thank you.

I think they threatened the wrong person. I understand his response, any parent does, and the magnification of it
is exponential when you're on the national stage.

What's with the media and individual addresses? I'm thinking of Robbins and the idiots at the NYC board of elections. These people work for us. They're not allowed to put us at risk (of course, they dot it all the time).

Obama's totally clean, clearly, based on that great sequence of calls and the guv's own salty comments.

Emanuel will get his bearin and then make sure his family is save. Very bad idea to threaten him.

I think that the guv had some kind of strange personality shift and began to think he was a mob guy or something.
He just sounds ridiculous (but fascinating too;) in these calls. I mean, Chicago has real people who talk like that but that's who they are. He's not a mob guy, he's just a bit goofy about his power.

Jail will suck for him.

[mopinko]

13. i think he is crazy as a bedbug.

THAT is why he should be removed.

[formercia]

15. Rod "babyface" Blagojevich

The thugs will tenderize him in no time.

[EFerrari]

6. Today, I'm really glad Rahm is tough as hell. n/t

[firedupdem]

11. agree!

Don't let this nice smile fool ya!

[polichick]

7. The sooner the Obama camp makes its statement about contacts made, the better.

[LaydeeBug]

9. from your keyboard to the press sec's office. This 'trickle trickle' ain't helping. nt

[WeDidIt]

8. Best. Chief. Of. Staff. EVER! n/t

[Jennicut]

10. I used to really dislike him but he had grown on me immensely.

Give the MSM idiots hell Rahm.

[Clio the Leo]

12. As much as we love that cut throat image.....

.... that no doubt is there .... every Rahm "fan" should see an interview he did as he was leaving the Clinton administration ... and I'm sorry I cant find the Youtube anymore.

But he inadvertently hinted at being dissapointed in the President by all of the Lewinsky mess .... yet refused to answer why even when the interviewer badgered him over it.

The kid has a good heart.

[Beacool]

14. I would advise the media to tread carefully,

Rahm doesn't mess around.

Just saying.............

:scared:

[maxrandb]

17. Freakers have a thread on this that's approaching 200 posts!

They think they've found their new Whitewater.

I honestly believe that this story will be well over by innauguration time.

They still don't get the impact of the last election. They still think their "Right-Wing-Noise-Machine" is a Ferarri, but it's sputtering and lurching like a 1980's era Chrysler K-Car, or Renault.

[Hippo_Tron]

18. President Obama doesn't hold a grudge

That's what he pays me for...

[Vektor]

20. Man, you've gotta love Rahm. Paul Begala said it best...

Re, Rahm:

"He's got this big old pair of brass balls, and you can just hear 'em clanking when he walks down the halls of Congress."

:rofl: