Blagojevich On “The View” (VIDEO)

Posted on January 26, 2009

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich made an appearance on ABC’s “The View” Monday. See the video of Rod Blagojevich’s interview on “The View” below.

Joy Behar asked Blagojevich to do his “fantastic Nixon impression” by saying, “I’m not a crook.”

When Blagojevich said he is innocent of all wrongdoing and would not do the Nixon impression, Behar proceeded to tussle Rod Blagojevich’s hair.

“I’m an innocent man. For me to resign would be to admit I did something wrong, which I did not do,” Blagojevich said.

The Illinois governor is accused of trying to sell President Obama’s U.S. Senate seat in a pay-for-play scheme, and he took to television to lash out at his accusers.

A very interesting part of Blagojevich’s appearance was him saying that he had considered naming talk show host Oprah Winfrey to Obama’s vacated seat.

“She seemed to be someone who would help Barack Obama in a significant way become president,” he said. “She was obviously someone with a much broader bully pulpit than other senators.”

The governor worried, though, that the appointment of Winfrey might come across as a gimmick and that the talk show host was unlikely to accept.

Winfrey told long-time friend and radio talk show host Gayle King Monday that she was surprised to hear she had been considered for the seat.

“If I had been watching as I — as I watch from the treadmill — I’d probably fallen off the treadmill,” Winfrey told King on King’s Sirius satellite radio program.

“I didn’t know till the Gayle King show called and told me,” Winfrey said.

She added that she was “pretty amused by the whole thing,” though she said, “I think I can be senator too, I’m just not interested.”

Blagojevich ultimately appointed former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris to the vacant seat.

See video of Rod Blagojevich on “The View” below: