I am not a connoisseur of profanity, but the Blagojevich transcripts seem almost parodically foul-mouthed, as if he’s learned his swearing from bad mob movies and figures this is how you’re obliged to talk if you want to sound tough. The use of the m-f word is particularly revealing in this regard. It invariably comes over like a second-tier Vegas lounge act complaining about his dressing room. Still, I enjoyed this helpful bit of annotation by Patrick Fitzgerald:

ROD BLAGOJEVICH said that the consultants (Advisor B and another consultant are believed to be on the call at that time) are telling him that he has to “suck it up” for two years and do nothing and give this “motherf***er [the President-elect] his senator. F*** him. For nothing? F*** him.”

Shouldn’t that be “the motherf***er-elect”?