Reading through the highlights of the released excerpts of the wiretaps carried out on the office of the Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich, it seemed that no matter how corrupt, a politician would not possibly be so careless with the words he speaks over the phone.

Picturing Blago in his office was impossible for me to do.  I kept seeing a well-coiffed Darrell Hammond performing the opening skit of Saturday Night Live (SNL), just waiting for him to look directly into the camera and declare, well, that, “Live, from New York, it’s Saturday Night.”