Time Will Tell

Was there a method to Rod Blagojevich's PR madness?

"I refused to accept what some of these people want me to do, and that is to quit, hide in a corner, adopt a fetal position and act like I did something wrong," Blagojevich told The New Republic yesterday in an interview. Though he was widely mocked for the aggressiveness of his media appearances--David Letterman: "Why exactly are you here? Honest to God ..."--Blagojevich's spokesman, Glenn Selig, says there was a method to his madness: "Public opinion is very important. The jurors are members of the public ... The public barely knew the guy. I think their minds are now open."