StL Post-Dispatch: “On CNN, Blagojevich channels his inner boychik”

Aaron Keyak — January 28, 2009 – 11:12 am | Election 2008 Comments (0) Add a comment

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Gov. Rod Blagojevich added a new twist to his shtick Monday night as he continues his long-distance defense against impeachment.

Appearing on CNN’s Larry King Live Monday night — at least his third show of the day — Blagojevich explained to the host that he decided to finally make the U.S. Senate appointment after the state legislature declined to approve a special election.

“They didn’t do anything. As time went by, the choice for me was does Illinois not have a senator represented in Illinois because of all of this meshugass, which is a word you certainly understand,” Blagojevich told Larry King.

King, who is Jewish, probably knows that meshugass is Yiddish for craziness — you can have personal meshugass, like an idiosyncrasy, or meshugass around you, such as, say, an arrest on federal corruption charges for allegedly trying to sell-off the president’s former Senate seat.

Although, many others would probably use another popular Yiddish phrase to describe a governor who goes to New York to kibbutz with talk show hosts while lawmakers in Illinois prepare to remove him from office: Chutzpah.

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