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Emanuel: I'm Getting Death Threats Over Blagojevich Scandal [Refuses to Go to Work]
ABC News ^ | December 12, 2008 | Matthew Jaffe

Posted on 12/12/2008 10:58:37 AM PST by Zakeet

Obama's Chief of Staff Refuses to Go to Work Because of Media Stakeout

The President-elect's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said today he won't go to the Chicago Presidential transition offices in order to avoid reporters seeking to ask him whether he had contact with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich about the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama's election.

Emanuel appeared "beet-red," according to an ABC News cameraman who was invited inside by Emmanuel to use his bathroom this morning.

"I'm getting regular death threats. You've put my home address on national television. I'm pissed at the networks. You've intruded too much, " Emanuel said, according to the cameraman.

Emanuel has refused to comment as to whether he is the un-named Presidential advisor cited in the FBI affidavit filed in the Blagojevich case.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blagojevich; bleepgate; deaththreats; emanuel; obama; obamatransitionfile; rahm; rahmrod; waa
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Emanuel: This unwanted media attention is killing me.

1 posted on 12/12/2008 10:58:38 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Tough. Deal with it.


2 posted on 12/12/2008 10:59:47 AM PST by varina davis (Life is not a dress rehearsal)
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To: Zakeet

Hmmm..., somehow he looks like he could be the Antichrist... :-)


3 posted on 12/12/2008 11:00:36 AM PST by Star Traveler
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To: Zakeet
Threats must be coming from Chicago thugs.

Republicans are laughing our arses off, lol!

4 posted on 12/12/2008 11:00:43 AM PST by roses of sharon ("No socialist system can be established without a political police.", Churchill -1945)
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To: Zakeet

Someone call a waaaaaaahmbulance!


5 posted on 12/12/2008 11:00:50 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (God helps those who help themselves. The government helps those who don't.)
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To: Zakeet

AAAAWWWWWW! Poor little Rahmy.


6 posted on 12/12/2008 11:01:16 AM PST by Taichi (Certe, toto, sentio nos in kansate non iam adesse)
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To: Zakeet

“I’m getting regular death threats. You’ve put my home address on national television. I’m pissed at the networks. You’ve intruded too much, “ Emanuel said, according to the cameraman.

Well, Mr. Emanual, if you don’t know how to handle it, perhaps you can talk to Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber for pointers on handling personal privacy invasions. Remember them?


7 posted on 12/12/2008 11:01:21 AM PST by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: Zakeet
Aw...that's a shame.

You reap what you sow.

8 posted on 12/12/2008 11:01:34 AM PST by TomServo
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To: Zakeet
He did it to Joe the Plummer.
Payback.
9 posted on 12/12/2008 11:01:46 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Zakeet

From Blagojevich ?................


10 posted on 12/12/2008 11:01:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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To: Zakeet

1. “I’m not being permitted to be a father, and so I’m a victim”

2. “I’m getting death threats, and so I’m a victim”


11 posted on 12/12/2008 11:02:23 AM PST by gaijin
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To: varina davis

Can’t stand the heat, get your tukas in a tutu out of the kitchen.............


12 posted on 12/12/2008 11:02:57 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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“I’m getting regular death threats. You’ve put my home address on national television. I’m pissed at the networks. You’ve intruded too much, “ Emanuel said, according to the cameraman.

Poor Rambo.

Lets all do something nice for him, just to cheer him up!

Send Rahm a dead fish, I hear he’s fond of such things....


13 posted on 12/12/2008 11:02:58 AM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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lol

This is funny. The msm are really making Rahm mad. Wait ‘til he breaks out his knife and starts stabbing it in the air saying “kill”, “kill”, “kill”.

Of course, the news media could also be stalking the Pres Elect but they wouldn’t dare ask their Messiah a question about this.


14 posted on 12/12/2008 11:03:28 AM PST by ync1994
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To: varina davis

My money’s on he’s lying to get sympathy.


15 posted on 12/12/2008 11:03:37 AM PST by Red Steel
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hahahahaha!

Hey Rahm those *cough* threats *cough* are coming from YOUR party!

If any threats were actually made, check the Obama sheep who are waiting for gas in their tank and their mortgage to get paid.


16 posted on 12/12/2008 11:03:42 AM PST by Kitten1 (12/23/1898; 12/25/1901; 3/6/36; 6/25/39; 9/11/55 -- Your sacrifice is not forgotten.)
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To: Zakeet

If it’s your boss telling you not to talk or else, is it a death threat? What if it’s your former boss and his wife telling you to squeal on your new boss or else?

Start dancing ballerina boy.


17 posted on 12/12/2008 11:03:51 AM PST by Lou Budvis ("I did not have sex with that woman..." = "I did not have contact with the governor..")
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To: Zakeet

Boo hoo. Little boy needs a hug?


18 posted on 12/12/2008 11:04:16 AM PST by Melinda
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To: Zakeet

Oh, poor Rahm.. Frankly, the whole scandal appears that it could have been generated if Rahm had his eye on getting the senate seat for himself and all of this is payback for being spurned. My sense is that Rahm is testing his boundaries by seeing how much mischief he can generate and how far he can go to control the Senate and soon-to-be Governor positions for Illinois.


19 posted on 12/12/2008 11:04:17 AM PST by purplelobster
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To: Zakeet

Who’s he getting death threats from? Michelle Obama?


20 posted on 12/12/2008 11:04:28 AM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade, There are only two sides. Pick one.)
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