And I haven’t been able to sum up why it is such bad news for Blagojevich until I read Carol Marin who gets to a big point at the end:
Even today’s reality TV junkies who feast on the sorrows of others, even hard-hearted cynical politicos, don’t want to learn that the governor’s wife and her Dad don’t talk much or that the grandchildren don’t go fishing with their grandfather anymore. Or that their very ill grandmother is heartbroken by all of this.
It’s a sad story. And it’s bad politics.
Politicians can have tough personal times, but don’t make them public. Really, the public doesn’t want to know. Smile and say it’s private. And when you get information that someone is trading on your name like this–call them, tell them to knock it off, and then call the EPA to make sure that nothing is going and then stay the hell out of it.
It’s one thing to be a media whore, but to do it with your family in the middle looks like rank opportunism.