A recent column in the Chicago Daily Herald turns to some old tropes to make light of the impending Blagojevich impeachment. Looking to the general atmosphere of chaos surrounding the proceedings, author Chuck Goudie calls to mind the immortal kangaroo court in Animal House (1978), and burgeoning attorney Eric "Otter" Stratton's effervescent oratory in defense of his fellow brothers at the Faber College Delta Tau Chi.
Yet Blagojevich's (alleged) pecadillos include money-grubbing peddling of high national office, a sin not fairly relegable to the ranks of mere youthful indiscretions such as were committed by the Delta boys in cinema. The distinction is well represented by another classic of modern cinema, Super Troopers (2002):
Thorny: What? They can't lump us in with that fuckin' Martian.
O'Hagen: We're all in the same boat, fellas.
Mac: But our shenanigans are cheeky and fun.
Thorny: Yeah, his shenanigans are cruel and tragic.
Foster: Which wouldn't make them shenanigans, at all, really.
Mac: (Irish voice) Evil shenanigans!
Sage words. Leave the Deltas alone and let Blagojevich flap alone in the wind just like he (allegedly) deserves.
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