Man catches 124 pound catfish in the Mississippi.
In the two weeks since Tim Pruitt hauled in a world-record, 124-pound blue catfish, he has been on ESPN and the “Today” show, set up his own Web site and been to Springfield, Ill., to promote fishing with the lieutenant governor.
I think I’d pay to see Pat Quinn try and hold a conversation about 124 pound catfish.
Do you think Pat Quinn knew that he would become a running joke when he ran for Lt. Gov., but didn’t care because he thought: 1) Blago would be indicted or 2) He needed a steady gig.
2) and he thought
3) he can use it to jump in the Senate race in 2004. But he forgot that Blago was dependent on a certain other candidate’s cash and wasn’t about to let that happen. How stupid is that–worse than getting inbetween a camera and Blago, he got in between cash and the Governor.
There is a certain irony—-for a guy who insulted downstate with his Pinkneyville Bugle crack to the Trib’s Public Editor, having to chat up a guy about his big polluted fish is pretty fucking funny.
At least Quinn didn’t fly down to Alton on a state plane for the press conference, wasting our money and polluting the air. I hope he didn’t fly from Chicago to Springfield just for the press conference to “chat up a guy about his big polluted fish”.