The family of Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s wife said her profanity-laced comments recorded by federal prosecutors don’t reflect who Patti Blagojevich really is.
“That is absolutely not my sister,” Deborah Mell told the Chicago Sun-Times and NBC5 in an exclusive interview Wednesday. “Patti is a mother, a sister and a devoted wife. She is particularly protective of her family
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Political spouses should never read newspaper editorials. I can’t condone her reaction, and her desire for retribution against the Tribune, but I can empathize.
Well, com’on, guys. Everybody, including a little lady whose husband is running into trouble and who herself might do a little time, is entitled to express a few vulgarisms…even obscenities…without the august, sanctimonious mainstream media raising their eyes to heaven. After all, we know that journalists don’t swear, don’t take the name of the Lord in vain and never-ever make un-fastidious allusions to the male-female reproductive process.
I think the “Sun-Times” headline yesterday that gasps at the surreptitiously tape-recorded exclamations of Patti Blagojevich…gasps!…presses its fingers to its eyes so as to ward off a cerebral hemorrhage in astonishment…is really overdone.