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"Mr. Blagojevich, you are a convicted liar, correct?"Prosecutor Reid Schar opened his cross examination by calling Rod Blagojevich a liar. This is the first time Rod Blagojevich has been called a liar to his face. Blago had no choice but to give a straight answer. "Yes."
From all reports, it was the only straight answer he gave all day. The trial unravelled from there. Blagojevich dissembled, and evaded. Like a greased pig, Blago tried to slip away from Mr. Schar's pursuit of the truth.
Blago squealed like a petrolated porcine when Schar tried to get his hands on him. Blagojevich became combative. He tried to force Mr. Schar to chase him around the pen. Each time Schar got his arms around him with a question, Blago slid through. Running through the muck.
Blago slipped and slid through his own lawyers objections. Judge James Zagel, patient as ever, tried to guide the trial in the realm of sanity. A federal trial that turned into a greased pig contest. A court room turned into a pig pen of mud and muck.
Rod Blagojevich is a greasy, slippery, oily character. He lubricated his way twice into the governor's office. That was the easy part. Voters in Illinois are easily fooled.
The prosecution probed. Blagojevich debated. It was a battle of professionals. A professional attorney versus a professional politician. A prosecutor seeking answers. A snake oil salesman pitching elixir.
Each time the prosecution pressed for a straight answer, Blago debated the truth according to Blago. The only truth that matters. Truth is a slippery concept. Slipperier than a greased pig or a slimy politician.
Truth has nothing to do with facts, evidence, tapes, or character. At the end of the day, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, boils down to one thing. Truth is what people believe. Truth is not told. It is perceived. Blagojevich knows this. It's how he got elected.
Blagojevich believes his combativeness on the stand will lend him credibility in the eyes of the jury. He wants them to see the prosecutors as his persecutors. He is the populist fighter; fighting for truth, justice, and the American way.
Blago needs to convince only one juror that he is the victim. He is being truthful. The government is lying; trying to turn him into sausage and lard. He is slipping and sliding for his life.
Blagojevich needs to cast reasonable doubt in the mind of one person to walk away from his self inflicted circus. No matter what his lawyers do or say, no matter what the judge does, says, or wants in his courtroom. Rod Blagojevich is going to keep fighting, squealing, slipping, squirming, and slithering. He will be the cute little greased pig chased by a butcher.
He must plant the seed of sympathy. He is chased purely for entertainment, amusement, and laughter. He did nothing wrong.
Blago needs them to believe he is the cute greased pig that gets unfairly slaughtered in the end.
03 Jun, 2011
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Source: http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/middle-class-guy/2011/06/governor-greased-pig.html
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