Pat Dollard | Young Americans

Don’t say I didn’t warn you from day one that this guy was an overall piece of work, not just the manic, lunatic liar that we see in the Politico and ABC reports below.

According to Politico: Emanuel turned testy and declined to talk with a reporter who approached him Thursday at Chicago City Hall, where he was watching his children perform in a concert. The Chicago Sun-Times reporter pressed him to comment about whether he was the emissary named in the criminal complaint.

“You’re wasting your time!” Emanuel said. “I’m not going to say a word to you. I’m going to do this with my children. Don’t do that! I’m a father. I have two kids. I’m not going to do it!”

When pressed for comment, he said, “I’m not as capable as you. I’m going to be a father. I’m allowed to be a father,” and he pushed the reporter’s digital recorder away.

And then the Big Meltdown with a psycho, desperate and weasely play for sympathy and to guilt reporters out of doing their job. From ABC: The president-elect’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said today he wouldn’t go to the Chicago presidential transition offices in order to avoid reporters trying to ask him whether he had contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich about the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama’s election.

Back at his home, Emanuel appeared “beet-red,” according to an ABC News cameraman who was invited inside by Emanuel to use his bathroom this morning.

“I’m getting regular death threats. You’ve put my home address on national television. I’m pissed at the networks. You’ve intruded too much, ” Emanuel said, according to the cameraman.

Probably realizing he would be pressed for evidence of the threats by both law enforcement and the media, things took a turn, again as reported by ABC:

An aide for Emanuel said late Friday afternoon that Emanuel did not make any remarks about receiving death threats. “While we appreciate this camera man’s active imagination, this report is inaccurate,” said Sarah Feinberg. Responding to Emanuel’s comments, ABC News went back and double-checked with the camera man and we stand by the story.

Emanuel has refused to comment as to whether he is the un-named “presidential adviser” cited in the FBI affidavit filed in the Blagojevich case.

Sounds to me like someone’s going a little bit crazy, because they’ve got some very big things to hide.

“No one, I think, is in my tree
I mean, it must be high or low
That is, you can’t, you know, tune in
But it’s all right
That is, I think it’s not too bad”