This Ain’t David Mamet, This Is Real Life

lowlife:

The Blago-Rahm Emanuel phone call transcripts:

BLAGO: I’ll put someone in the senate who will fucking fuck you. I might even put myself in there, how you like that Rahm? How you gonna explain that to fucking Barack, every time he’s gotta call me up for my fucking vote. He’d have to take my calls then, wouldn’t he?

EMANUEL: [Screaming] I said pick up the FUCKING phone!

BLAGO: [Picks up phone, speakerphone off] I got your attention now, didn’t I?

EMANUEL: Shut the fuck up and listen to me for one second Rod. And I want you to listen carefully, because this is the last time I’m ever going to talk to you. You are fucking dead to me. You been fucking dead to Barack since ‘06, now you’re dead to me. Know what that means? That means you’re dead to my people in Chicago, Daley on down, and all these friends you think you have aren’t gonna touch you with a ten foot fucking pole.

BLAGO: Oh now you’re the fucking Godfather? Fuck you.

EMANUEL: No fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you.

Sadly, it’s neither real nor Mamet—but still a great read

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    Sadly, it’s neither real nor Mamet—but still
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