Rahm, What's the Frequency?

Shortly after Dan Rather took over for the retiring Walter Cronkite at CBS News in the early 1980s, Rather was accosted by an assailant near his home in New York City.

Rather reported that as he neared his Manhattan home, a man approached him and asked, 'Kenneth, what's the frequency?,' upon which the man proceeded to beat Rather to a pulp.

The CBS anchorman sustained some minor injuries from the encounter, as I recall.

The Barack Obama team has been sitting on a special report into alleged improper contacts between the Obama camp and the beleaguered Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Supposedly at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, the Obama team has delayed the release of the report until just prior to Christmas--at the very time when Obama himself is out of Washington on holiday in Hawaii and the D.C. political establishment has vacated the premises for Christmas.

It is widely expected that the report, scheduled for release today, will receive the Obama spin, claiming no improper contact between the 2 camps. But the devil will be in the details.

The Wall Street Journal speculates that the report will raise more questions than it answers, sending reporters scattering off to chase down dozens of tangents.

In the end, however, someone is gonna get slammed.

At present my tendency is to believe that Rahm Emanuel will be thrown under the bus when this entire mess is finally unraveled.

It is entirely unrealistic to believe that Obama's staff had no contact with Blagojevich's office concerning Obama's vacated Senate seat, which Blago had placed for sale to the highest bidder. These are all Chicago political establishment pros. And we all know the scoop on the nature of the Chicago political machine.

Obama is not about to take any responsibility for any improper contact with Blago as the Governor faces an uphill battle in the corruption probe that surrounds him.

Thus, the next logical choice is Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff and Chicago political insider.

Whether Rahm realizes it or not, he may be very very close to being politically pulverized. The next voice he hears may well be, 'Hey, bub, what's the frequency?'