Rod Blagojevich Hints That Feds Were After Barack Obama
According to ABC News, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has hinted that Barack Obama is under federal investigation.
It is not unusual for the Feds to have a secret dossier on the sitting president of the United States — just ask former president Bill Clinton, who was impeached in 1998.
Blagojevich sat down with ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross today (Aug. 20) to discuss his possible return to politics. A jury this week found him guilty of only one count out of 24: lying to federal agents.
Blagojevich said that after he was arrested for corruption in 2008, federal agents visited with him in his Chicago jail cell.
He said they pressed him for information on certain higher ups in government. Blago — as he is fondly referred to by the media — noted that, at the time, there was no one higher up in government than himself — except for the President of the United States.
“When they had me in custody they were very clear about they wanted me to cooperate and talk about people in higher places, and with all due respect to Mayor Daley, there’s no one higher than Governor,” he said.
“You’re talking about then president-elect Obama?” Ross asked.
“I’m not saying that right now.” Asked who else he could mean, Blagojevich shifted uncomfortably in his seat.
“Is it your impression they were thinking about Obama?” Ross pressed.
“I have my own personal opinion but from where I’m sitting right now it’s probably better for me not to talk about it.” He then grinned, “If I’m guilty of anything it’s that I talk too much.”
For decades a clandestine arm of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has operated in secret, collecting documents and cataloguing evidence to bring down members of Congress who got too happy with federal funds.
Reps. Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters have both been indicted on dozens of federal charges by the House Ethics Committee. Though both Rangel and Waters vigorously deny the charges, their political futures look bleak.
Celebrity Seed: Usher
Usher is a good dad. The R&B crooner was spotted arriving at Early Show Plaza for his live performance on the CBS Early Show in New York this morning. He was accompanied by his sons, Usher ‘Cinco’ Raymond V, 3, and Naviyd Ely Raymond, 2.
Like father like son: Cinco is the spitting image of his daddy.
Celebs Out & About: Lil Romeo and Meagan Good
Music mogul Master P’s son, Lil Romeo Miller, celebrated his 21st birthday with family and friends, including and actress Meagan Good, yesterday. Is it safe to assume that they’re knockin’ the boots? The former rapper and USC basketball player, held his birthday celebration at Millions of Milkshakes in W. Hollywood.
A crowd of about 100 screaming fans sang “Happy Birthday” to Romeo as he walked the red carpet.
In addition to helping raise money for charity, Romeo also had some sympathetic words for actress Lindsay Lohan, who was reportedly diagnosed with a personality disorder by docs at UCLA.
fanMAIL: Little Jayson Gives Us All Hope
Loyal reader Marteeta C. sent in this video of her adorable 3-year-old son, Jayson, after watching this disgraceful video of a child being videotaped “riding it” to Ciara’s song.
Jayson gives us all inspiration, and gives me hope that all is not lost in our community as long as we have parents like Marteeta who instills values and importance of education in our children!
Hi Sandra,
Just watched that video of that little girl and I weep for my people! We should be educating our youth not destroying them with all of the graphic sexual images on TV, videos, video games etc.
This is my son, Jayson in the attached video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atM9T0YOvy4
he was 3 years old in the video and he better not ever bring a little “heffa” like that to our home. My husband and I believe in training our children to be assets to this society and not liabilities.Have a great day Sandra!
Sincerely,
MarteetaPS(I know that the word is heifer…I can spell and I happen to be a college grad)
Another reader emailed me to say she knows the father — yes, the father — who videotaped his daughter performing sexually suggestive dance moves. Apparently the child’s mother is in prison.
I urged the reader to call her local child welfare authorities to report the father for uploading that video to the Internet and exploiting a minor child.
Celebs Out & About: Usher, Rihanna, LaLa, Sam Ronson, Khloe, Ochocinco
R&B singer Usher performed on ABC’s “Good Morning America” in Central Park this morning. Can Usher, chris brown, Mario, Trey Songz, et al, find new dance steps to do and stop biting Michael Jackson?
Pop singer Rihanna was spotted out and about with her younger brother, Rajad, in New York City last night.
EDIT:
Usher also performed live on the CBS Morning Show this morning in NYC.
More Proof that Hip Hop is a bad influence on our children
I stopped this video after only 10 seconds in. It is disgraceful what some parents think is funny and cute when it comes to their children. The incidences of violence among teens and teenage pregnancy is spiraling out of control in the black community.
You only have to look as far as MTV and BET’s 106 & Park to see why: music videos by the likes of Ciara and Nicki Minaj that portray women as sex objects.
Though in BET’s defense, they did ban Ciara’s “Ride” video from the airwaves for its graphic, sexualized imagery. Kudos to them.
Still, we must do better as a people!
Blame it on: MJ
Montana Fishburne threatens to sue Brian Pumper for sale of unauthorized sex scenes
Fledgling porn star Montana Fishburne once said she got into making sex films because she wanted to be famous like Kim Kardashian.
If you recall, Kim’s ex-boyfriend, Ray J, sold the personal sex tape he made with Kardashian to a porn distributor. A judge later slapped Ray J and the distributor with a cease and desist order. But Kardashian rocketed to fame as a result.
And now it looks like the same will happen to Montana, who is the daughter of humiliated Matrix star, Laurence Fishburn.
TMZ has obtained several letters that Fishburne’s legal team fired off to a porn star named Brian Pumper — demanding that his production company immediately stop all sales of “Phattys Rhymes & Dimes 14” … which features a scene between Montana and Brian.
According to the letters, Montana never signed a release for Brian to use the X-rated material in his video.
As for why Montana agreed to engage in coitus in front of Pumper’s cameras in the first place — Fishburne tells us Brian offered to help her “practice” for her big debut with Vivid Entertainment … and the footage wasn’t supposed to be sold.
So far, we’re told Pumper has not responded to the letters. Read More…
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