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Breaking News. The Real Deal has discovered that the man who has been appearing in front of cameras as Gov. Blagojevich (blah-go’-ya-bitch) of Illinois is actually a Saturday Night Live (SNL) actor masquerading as the Governor.

Gov. Blagojevich

The actor’s identity was revealed after a reporter spontaneously cracked up during yesterday’s press conference. The reporter stated, “after he started reading that poem I just lost it. I mean nothing he said had anything to do with the charges against the Governor, and then the random poem… I couldn’t help it anymore.”

It turned out that the reporter was part of a SNL crew that put together all of the recent press conferences. “Nobody outside of Chicago actually knew what the Governor looked like, so we just floated an actor and sold it to the public, and it even fooled the mainstream media. It’s over now, but we gave the public a good laugh.”

The Governor has actually been in jail pending indictment for the duration of the press conferences, and has not even had a chance to comment in public. But in an arrangement between SNL and the local Chicago media, who knew the Governor was inaccessible, they were able to put together solid entertainment during the news hour and heighten viewership.

Many began to wonder why the Governor would come on stage smiling with his 1980’s Chia pet hairdo and not address any of the questions that were asked of him, instead telling people of his greatness, and reading poetry. Speculations about the Governor were widely varied, some claiming he was on drugs, others that he was in a post-nervous-breakdown stage.

The local Chicago media outfits involved offered no apology. “With Obama stealing the spotlight, and the major networks getting all of that action, we really had nothing exciting,” said one local reporter. “All we had was another corrupt governor, but that’s nothing new around here. So we did what we had to do. We created entertainment and sold it as news.”

Most public viewers were not offended by the action either. Said one couch potato, “I have no problem with it. We’ve had such a great time watching and laughing at this character, who cares if he’s real or not? I was telling my buddy, ‘you can’t make this stuff up,’ but it turns out that’s exactly what they did. Whatever, it’s better than the real story I’m sure.”

The Real Deal even dispatched a reporter to the jail where Gov Blagojevich is being held, where the Governor remarked, “I couldn’t have done a better job myself. I mean, he successfully deflected all accusations and turned it around into some kind of self-glorification seminar with poetry. I never would have thought of that. It was brilliant.”

In fact, nobody interviewed seemed to care that the whole press conference series was a fraud, and seemed to prefer the comedy series instead.