PATTI BLAGOJEVICH: FEEL SORRY FOR HER OR NOT-SO-MUCH?
Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 09:00AM 
Patti Blagojevich - photo courtesy of NBC.comLast night, I finally broke down and watched "I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here" with friends. I must say, Mrs. Patti B appears to be a likeable lady. (Maybe that's because my friends kept me happy with M&M's and vino?) She was the only female team member to stick her hands in something icky to get an object and other members voted to keep her on the team. Her image on this show is quite different than what you hear on those FBI tapped calls of her screaming and dropping F-Bombs.
Patti is standing by her man & bringing home the bacon
A good wife sticks by her man's side. Shoot, many women bounce after their husband's arrest! (In fact, I think she got pretty lucky by not being slapped with some handcuffs herself.) Not that I'm suggesting she's a criminal, but, she was in the home all those hours that Blags was doing "business" on the bugged family phone while sitting on the couch in his jogging suit.
Go ahead, call Blags a scumbag criminal. As you know, I disagree. Gov. Blagojevich is not a Gov. Spitzer nor is he a member of the Gambino crime family. He does not have offshore accounts and he does not have cash tied up in real estate. Follow the paper trail...um, it doesn't exist! Blago is a wannabe criminal at best.
Like her or not, Patti is taking one for the Blags team by doing this silly show. Blago's defense attorneys need to be paid and her kids need to go to school. And, Patti needs to create an image separate from that of Mrs. Rod Blagojevich because, no matter how much Rod wants to be compared to Ghandi, it ain't happenin'.
Careful what you say, Patti
But do not think Patti is only on the show for the money; clearly, she has a plan: she wants use the national platform to attempt to sway the public opinion about her husband's case. As I suggested in my interview with the Today Show (when she announced her participation in the show), she has to be careful what she says about her hubby. Obviously Patti didn't listen to my advice because on the June 1 episode she says, "I can't really get into it too much, except that, yeah, they made a big hoopla about something that wasn't even the truth. My husband was governor for six years, and you know was always about doing the right thing for people." Keep your mouth shut, Patti. Play the jungle game and tell your fellow team members, "I would rather not talk about the case."
If Patti is really just doing the show soley for the money (and image makeover) then the "my poor hubby" pity party cannot be mixed in with chillin' with the Baldwin brothers while playing with tarantulas. Your job is to get some cash and fix the public's opinion of you. Leave the Gov. Blago persuasion up to his attorneys for their closing arguments before the jury.