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Rod Blagojevich waded into the national media spotlight in an effort, as CBS' Cynthia Bowers put it, to upstage the beginning of his impeachment trial before the Illinois Senate in Springfield. "An empty chair stood where the governor was invited to take part," ABC's Chris Bury (embargoed link) pointed out. Sure enough, he garnered the desired publicity as he skipped from Today to Good Morning America to The View, where Blagojevich refused to be goaded into repeating the Nixonian phrase: "I am not a crook." His administration "is now a road show," smirked NBC's Lee Cowan. "At times his media blitz seemed more shtick than statesmanlike." Quoting this fatalistic soundbite--"I know the fix is in. I will soon join, unfortunately, the legions of others who are losing their jobs in our country"--CBS' Bowers mused that the underlying motive for all that airtime "is not about trying to keep his job; it is about trying to keep out of jail, an attempt to influence potential jurors."
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