Mr. District Attorney, I'm not sure if they told you: I'm on TV every day...

By Jonathan Bradley in Seattle, WA
15 March 2010

Let's be positive about this and say that NBC has an admirable respect for the principle of innocent-until-proven-guilty. Because that's the only reason I can think they may have for their casting on the current season of The Apprentice, which debuted this evening. I'll save you from speculating as to whether the above video is a fake: it's not. The line-up for this season's apprentice includes a pre-trial Rod Blagojevich. You know, the former Governor of Illinois who was caught on tape trying to sell a Senate seat, and whose lawyers are currently trying to convince Federal Court to put off his court date until November because they don't have his brand of shampoo in prison Democrats don't want to be testifying against one of their own while campaigning simply have so much paperwork.

But even if NBC is fine with helping Blago rehabilitate his image, the rest of us don't even need to fall back on a distaste for Donald Trump's bloviating to spend our Sunday evenings watching something else. (I tried The Lizzie McGuire Movie, then realised that no stand against government corruption could justify watching The Lizzie McGuire Movie.)

After the jump, the only brand of Blagojevich-related entertainment I feel comfortable endorsing: Spencer Ackerman's remix of Shawty Lo's "Dey Know," titled "Dey Know (Blago)":

Tags: Blagojevich, Court Cases, Television, The Apprentice