107 Comments - GoBearsss - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:00 pm: obviously was going to mention pollution from carbon dioxide, but someone reminded him to mention deforestation. - Lefty Lefty - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:01 pm: It sounded like he was going to say something that started with “carbon” like carbon tax/emission credits/sequestration and then his “aide” threw deforestation at him. Fiddling while Rome burns. - Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:01 pm: Someone missed the hand signal for “Give me a buzzword!” - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:04 pm: GoBearsss, was he sitting in the bathtub because there seems to be a lot of splashing sounds at the end. - GoBearsss - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:05 pm: I wondered why he was on the phone at the beginning of the sponge bath I was giving him. - GoBearsss - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:07 pm: Actually, I think it was the sound of the Governor’s ladle dipping into the Kool-aid. Ahhhh, refreshing that Kool-aid is. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:07 pm: Oof. TMI - BandCamp - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:07 pm: He knows about as much global environmental going-ons as the Cubs do about winning a World Series. Embarassing for the “leader” of a state. uh, uh, uh…dufor…dofor… - archpundit - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:10 pm: Mercury? LOL–he wasn’t in the tub, he was throwing in a kitchen sink. - Irish - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:10 pm: I wonder if he menat carbon trading. The proposal to allow countries to offset their carbon dioxide emissions by reducing deforestation or reforesting cleared areas. He must have heard this from someone else because given his record with DNR he isn’t a tree lover. - Downstate weed chewing hick - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:11 pm: Another powerful leader once said, “Pay no attention to that man behind the Curtain!” - Thomas Westgard - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:11 pm: Funny - even 30 seconds of preparation would have solved this problem. He must have come straight from something else with no chance to review his talking points. Shoot, he’s Palin-like! - GoBearsss - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:11 pm: Oof, maybe it wasn’t Kool-aid after all. - kimsch - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:13 pm: GoBearsss - today is the 30th anniversary of Jonestown… - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:14 pm: ===Shoot, he’s Palin-like! === Yeah. I thought the same thing back in September. - GoBearsss - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:16 pm: Much to Rich’s chagrin, Rod never looked as good in a red pantsuit. - Kevin Fanning - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:21 pm: That Jonestown piece was pretty interesting. - Greg - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:22 pm: Was that Hedley Lamarr whispering in the background? - ChiGal - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:22 pm: No, he isn’t Palin-like - his state is bankrupt, her’s isn’t! Did anyone else hear a toilet flushing about a 1/3 of the way into the clip? - BandCamp - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:25 pm: ===Was that Hedley Lamarr whispering in the background?=== Keyser Söze - Truth - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:31 pm: The toilet flushed at the 2:19 mark. I’m now predicting he’ll be indicted on February 19th. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:31 pm: ===Much to Rich’s chagrin, Rod never looked as good in a red pantsuit.=== He’s still quite the snappy dresser. - wordslinger - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:35 pm: You try giving a telephone interview sitting on a dude’s lap who’s got his hand up your back and is drinking a glass of water! His time as a body-builder? Mr. World? I think someone has a serious man-crush on Ahnald. - ChiGal - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:38 pm: Palin may look beter in a red pantsuite but Rod probably spends more time on his hair! - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:42 pm: === pantsuite=== C’mon. She’s not a large person at all. She doesn’t need an entire suite. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:44 pm: Still, that’s not nearly as funny as Denny Hastert’s quote today about Hillary Clinton. - wndycty - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:48 pm: If that was a flush someone needs to make a a clever testicular virility joke. - ChiGal - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:51 pm: I especially liked the fact that Hastert pointed out that Hillary had intercourse with leaders everywhere. And I thought that was Bill’s specialty! - wordslinger - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:52 pm: Hastert mixed up his Clintons there, I think. - fan of capfax - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:52 pm: No wonder she’s getting that Sec of State position! - Marco - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:56 pm: Secretary of Sumt’n — oh, yeah. - Irish - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 2:59 pm: The flush must mean that Blago’s aide must be Al Bundy. - Black Ivy - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:01 pm: Rich, I’m glad Governor Blagojevich’s insignificant gaffes offer you so much joy. Let’s not forget the President-Elect whom so many of you supported (I believe you did too, Rich) is from Illinois. Any personal gaffes expressed by our sitting gubernatorial leader reflect poorly on the President-Elect. In other words, exercise your liberal media bias and lay off the Governor! - Black Ivy - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:01 pm: And lay off Hillary Rodham Clinton too while you’re at it! - How Ironic - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:02 pm: That flushing sound was the emperor arising from his throne. “Off to do the peoples business” - A Citizen - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:02 pm: “Intercourse” huh? No wonder Hastert & edgar the blink are for her. Maybe it’s time for them to just become the randy dems they seem to be. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:05 pm: BI, bite me. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:07 pm: ===Any personal gaffes expressed by our sitting gubernatorial leader reflect poorly on the President-Elect=== LOL. Perhaps in your mind. - GoBearsss - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:11 pm: Rich, I think you need to take down the flush comment. That was obviously just me scooting my chair closer to the tub. (In all honesty, it sounds like he did the interview in a car - very audible highway sounds). - ChiGal - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:12 pm: BI, keep drinkin’ that Kool Aid! If Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, etc., haven’t stuck to the “chosen one” Blago gaffes certainly aren’t going to hurt him! - Boscobud - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:13 pm: That is a democrat in pure form. - OneMan - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:14 pm: The flush is an all time classic… - OneMan - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:15 pm: Wonder if the daily show will pick this up - Carbon Deforestation - formerly known as Soy Milk - Formerly Known As Napoleon has left the building - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:16 pm: clearly that was a toilet flush clearly he was distracted and needed help Did he bring an adviser with him while he was using the toilet? - A Citizen - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:17 pm: Maybe guv’s California funder didn’t go well and the flush is his tickets going awaaaay! - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:17 pm: GoBearsss, I have a call into Lucio. If he calls back and explains it, I’ll update the post. - Black Ivy - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:17 pm: Rich, I’m just saying. Enough is enough, you know? ChiGal, buyer’s remorse is already settling in. The breadth of this economic repression/depression is being sorely felt my each and every one of us. No amount of Obama-mania can deaden the pain. My spirits were uplifted a bit by talk of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s SOS appointment. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:18 pm: BI, take a breath. - GoBearsss - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:20 pm: Innocent until proven sanitary? - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:21 pm: LOL. I listened to it twice more. Sure sounds like a flush to me. Lucio, where are you??? - A Citizen - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:22 pm: I’m rethinking this “Flush” question - there is such a thing as Too much information. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:22 pm: ===buyer’s remorse is already settling in=== You have any evidence for that? Seems to me Bush’s numbers are tanking further and Obama’s are rising. If you persist with these sorts of posts, you’re gonna get called on them. - wordslinger - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:24 pm: Definitely a flush. LBJ used to make his aides follow him into the can. Has Rod adopted a new role model? - A Citizen - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:26 pm: Wasn’t it Ross Perot who used the “Flushing Sound” metaphor? Maybe guv is channeling Perot. - GoBearsss - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:26 pm: I think reader’s remorse has set in for anyone who has read this far down this thread today… - Undercover - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:27 pm: Oh.My.God. The Governor has just reached a new level of Midwestern down-to-earthiness. Hysterical!!! - Mad Brown - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:36 pm: He’s always on the go doing the people’s work, so I’m sure since it was the composting toilet in his deluxe suv. - Anon from BB - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:37 pm: I believe that flushing sound was the rest of G-Rods abysmal approval rating heading straight down the toilet. - Levois - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:38 pm: I really want to hear it now. Just not able to right now. lol This sound so bad. - soccermom - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:38 pm: Not to spoil anyone’s fun, but if the Governor was calling from his home, the flush in the background could have been one of his children using the bathroom. Teehee — the Governor’s children go to the bathroom… - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:39 pm: soccermom, the governor is in Hollywood at the enviro summit. - GoBearsss - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 3:47 pm: Then it was probably Arnold flushing. You can hear that a mile away… - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:03 pm: So, he was in the car. Must be one of them fancy cars with a bathroom. Whatever. I’ll believe them. - GoBearsss - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:08 pm: hurts… I can tell. - Rich Miller - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:09 pm: LOL. Naw. I always believe every word out of that office. - Big Mama T - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:09 pm: Oh goody. Rod has finally learned to use the potty. But obviously not by himself. - Vote Quimby! - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:11 pm: They were just watching Married With Children re-runs in the limo…. - Big Mama T - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:12 pm: Black Ivy. What’s an economic repression? New to me. - soccermom - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:13 pm: sorry — i forgot the Governor had left the bunker. my bad. - Truth - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:13 pm: They have not earned your trust, Rich. Make them earn it back. - just ducky - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:16 pm: would have been icing on the cake if he would have dropped the phone into the toilet! just picture it… hahahaha! - Downstate weed chewing hick - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:17 pm: For sale on Ebay, Governor’s Limo, complete with seeting for official buzzword supplier and toilet. That has got to fetch more than the Alaskan Governor’s Plane. Funding crisis solved. Someone call back all those laid-off DNR employees. - S. Illinois - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:18 pm: A limo so big it has its own loo? That’s not too environmentally friendly now, is it? So does the trooper on hairbrush duty also have to hold the tp? - sal says: - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:21 pm: Was Gov. Goofy saying “State” government? Sounded a lot more like “FAKE” government. Would have to agree there. - 618er - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:26 pm: He was probably still in the bathroom and the Democratic Convention, where he said they would let him speak, waiting for the audience to arrive…. - Crystal Clear - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:27 pm: Apparently the Guv was using an old style water guzzling toilet, because if it were the new 1.6 gal per flush, he would have had to have flushed twice. - Wonderboy - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:41 pm: Wow, this entire thread went from amusing to silly to belabored all the way back to sublime. You can trust us, Rich. : ) - ChiGal - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 4:53 pm: The thread was so enticing that I went from a longtime reader to a first time commentator! How could you pass on this one? - Tidy Bowl Man - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 5:01 pm: The flushing sound was the Guv’s career going down the toilet! - Bill - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 5:47 pm: What is so funny about the govwernor using the toilet? Everyone has to go once in a while. At least he flushed. - Whatever - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 5:51 pm: Bill, I didn’t hear the water from the sink running afterwards. - Six Degrees of Separation - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 5:52 pm: First you circle the wagons, then you circle the drain… - Bill - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 5:53 pm: lol. It could have been the sound of Illinois going down the toilet. Oops, Sorry Rod! - A Citizen - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 5:58 pm: Bill, spoken like a true Senator Select. - Ahem - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 6:09 pm: The governor was in a [private suite] with his [top aides] while he was [presiding at a staff meeting] and he took a phone interview while [putting the finishing touches on a quick little matter] when he inadvertantly [activated a sophisticated piece of hydraulic equipment] which resulted in [some unfortunate background noise]. - wordslinger - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 6:30 pm: He’s at an environmental conference and he’s in a automobile with a bathroom? What’s the MPG? Did he fly commercial, or state plane? I don’t know from global warming. Weathermen call any forecast over ten days a WAG (Wild — Guess), but computer models see the future? My ancestors sailed their Dragon Ships from Rogaland (western Norway) to Greenland, and not Florida, because it was pretty sweet there at the time. Later, it got really cold. But I’m in favor of cleaner air, water, all the good environmental stuff. So I drive much less than the average bear (a sweet Dodge Caravan with LOTS of cupholders), take the bus and the el, and walk. But these global-warming absolutists drive me nuts. If you talk the talk, walk the walk. The hypocrisy from Rod is not surprising, but it goes all the way up the ladder through the Hollywood phonies all the way to the Nobel Big Al Gore, he of the private planes, Escalades and Oxy Petroleum. You want to save the planet? Support the universal emancipation of women and children. Give them their rights, and the planet will get a lot less crowded. - Sophie G - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 7:01 pm: Looks like Hastert said Hillary had “interaction” with many world leaders, not “intercourse.” Truth not nearly as amusing. - Little Egypt - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 7:04 pm: This is the first time I have heard that utilities must get 25% of their power from wind by the year 2025 - that’s 2025. Whoa. And 145 State buildings are using 100% wind power. Double Whoa. And that Illinois has a fleet of vehicles that are hybrid flex fuel. Can that be? Well I’m sure somewhere in this big state there is a fleet of hybrid flex fuel vehicles. Blago didn’t say they were state owned. And we now can claim a 90% reduction in mercury in Lake Michigan. Could that be the ENTIRE Lake Michigan. Whoa again. He has that kind of power over the other states that border Lake Michigan? I’m thinking I’m about to be impressed here. Oh, but wait a minute. Blago was asked what he has done in HIS state. He says the earth temp is rising. Is that just in Illinois? The snows of Kilimanjaro are melting. What county would that be in Guvna? He talks of the ocean temp warming. And exactly what part of the state is that ocean located? Oh and the polar ice cap is melting. Would that be in Cook County? He talks about working with the governors of FL, WS, KS, and CA and noted this is being done under the leadership of the CA governor. Well, at least he recognizes leadership - and it ain’t him. But here’s a great revelation. IT’S ALL GEORGE BUSH’S FAULT. - A Citizen - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 7:25 pm: Shuuuush, don’t wake him - he’s thinking “globally”. California has some of the best drugs known to man. - Loop Lady - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 7:32 pm: The Guv at an environmental summit? I’m sure he had to look up both words in the dictionary before deciding to attend…how trendy!! Everyone knows how concerned he is about the quality of our environment and natural resources, just look at how he has funded IDNR, I mean, oh never mind…CARBON DEFORESTATION??? - wordslinger - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 7:50 pm: Little E, I was wondering about the governor’s claims, too, especially the 145 buildings and the hybrid fleet. Anyone know what he’s talking about? - A Citizen - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 8:04 pm: - wordslinger - Does anyone ever know what he is talking about, including himself? And more importantly, does it really matter? - pro - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 8:05 pm: Actually, Illinois has done a lot more than just about every other state when it comes to environmental issues.Like wind power, like the big mercury reductions, like the flex fuel fleets, like the carbon reduction goals, like the lake michigan compact, like the CO2 sequestration, etc. It mostly happens behind the scenes. Out of the spotlight because it isn’t sexy enough for reporters to care about, and the governor to tout. - Levois - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 8:19 pm: Oh man if he had to be coached while actually being interviewed that was horrible and bizarre. - Judgment Day Is On The Way - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 8:28 pm: Maybe he was on his way to the conference. After all, it’s possible… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8Z2iNwtwEY&feature=related Introducing the jet powered porta-potty. http://www.smashsworld.com/2005/01/man-builds-jet-powered-port-potty.php - stop me now - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 8:43 pm: Pro - The only one you hear talking about environmental issues and the mercury in the lake is Quinn. Since the guv doesn’t talk to Quinn, there isn’t much for the guv to tout! - Anonymous - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 8:43 pm: it was a toilet… unfortunately the flushing was the sound of blago’s career and freedom disappearing … - pro - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 9:00 pm: I don’t know anyone who takes Quinn seriously. He may be talking about stuff, but he isn’t actually DOING anything… Like I said, it isn’t sexy, so nobody covers that stuff, and thus the governor doesn’t do anything press-wise on it. But his people have done a lot of good stuff, like I mentioned above. - anon - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 9:00 pm: i can’t believe you guys act like your so smart when some of you actually read all of those comments…pick up a book…let me recommend An American Lion about Andrew Jackson… - A Citizen - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 9:55 pm: - anon - I think you’ve got it. guv needs to write a book! Obama, Gore, Clinton - all wrote books and made the big bucks and got the big jobs. Why has guv been silent? - Heartless Libertarian - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 10:15 pm: This entire forum is my kind of insanity. I am sorry I took the day off and missed the greatest thing ever… but I had to fix the Guv’s limo toilet. - Little Egypt - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 10:39 pm: I don’t think he was in a limo. He was in Illinois Air Farce One. - Bob Dernier - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 10:44 pm: is there a way to find out what time the governor’s plane took off? this would be the sweetest lie ever to expose. - Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Nov 18, 08 @ 10:52 pm: LE-you might have it right there. The sound of a Beechcraft crapper flushing makes a good, robust noise, unlike a wimpy Al Gore hotel toilet or the glorified Porta-Potty one would find in an RV. - Pot calling kettle - Wednesday, Nov 19, 08 @ 12:08 am: I just wanted to hear this: Contessa: “Governor, why not just put your buddy on the phone so he can answer the questions directly.” Gov: “I would, but he’s indisposed at the moment.” - anon - Wednesday, Nov 19, 08 @ 7:51 am: Great environmental work in Illinois. I am impressed. - Deep South - Wednesday, Nov 19, 08 @ 8:49 am: Can anyone name 10 of the 145 state buildings that are 100 percent wind powered? Just ten? Sorry, comments for this post are now closed.