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The notorious federal wiretaps with which prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald claims to have incriminated Rod Blagojevich have still not been published. So the impeachment trial of the Governor of Illinois had to make do with more mundane evidence than purported shakedowns of would-be senators. It is no surprise then, that ABC and CBS did not bother to assign a reporter to cover the charges of trying to extort campaign contributions from a racetrack. NBC's Lee Cowan manfully tried to turn Illinois sleaze into national headlines. He was helped by Rachel Maddow at NBC's sibling cable news channel MSNBC. When Blagojevich had his sitdown with her as part of his national media tour "he came as close as he has to suggesting that he did use influence in filling Barack Obama's Senate seat," as Cowan put it. The soundbite is far from a confession of corruption, however: "There are political negotiations and leveraging, which is all very much part of the process."
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