Marathon Pundit: Blago's influence at the $%&*(=^ and f!$*&-+ Golden Globes

Monday, January 12, 2009

Blago's influence at the $%&(=^ and f!$&-+ Golden Globes

Our governor, courtesy of Jason Sudeikis' impersonation, made another appearance on "Saturday Night Live" two days ago.

Last night the Los Angeles Times' Andrew Malcolm spotted Rod Blagojevich's influence at the Golden Globes.

Usually it's pop culture rubbing off on politics.

But Sunday night it sounded like the other %#$&+* way around.

As our LATimes.com colleagues Rachel Abramovitz and Tom O'Neil note elsewhere on this site and elsewhere here, this year's Golden Globe Awards by the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. had acceptance speeches that were full of words like $%&*(=^ and f!$*&-+. Also, balls, suck and suck it. So if you were among a majority of Americans who didn't watch it, you might have missed something.

Apparently, some were surprised by the profanity production of the culture crowd.

But clearly the actors have been studying Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was caught on FBI wiretaps and not quoted publicly by that bleeping federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. This was after Blago's December arrest for, among other things, allegedly auctioning off his "<<&*%$# golden" nomination to fill the vacant Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama, who'll be inaugurated in just 8 days.