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BY MALLORY PERRYMAN

Rod Blagojevich has a future in politics — at least, that’s what he says. As part of his post-trial “vindication tour”, Blago sat down with Fox News’ Chris Wallace and made some comments that are grabbing headlines. Most notably — this one.

“But if you’re asking me do I believe in a potential political comeback in the future, when I’m vindicated in this case, absolutely I do.”

Chris Wallace later made an appearance on the Fox News network to share his reaction to the former governor’s comments. He says Blagojevich is looking for a political shake up.

“One of the problems with Blagojevich is that you just don’t know whether you can trust anything he says.”

“Is that he was saying to the White House and the Justice Department, ‘This retrial is going to take place right in the middle of the midterm elections... I can make it awfully messy and awfully embarassing and awfully tough for Democrats running for Congress in the midterms if you retry me.”

Blagojevich even took his media tour to the Comic Con convention, where NBC reports he handed out autographs at $50-bucks-a-pop, and photo-ops for $80.

While there, he sat down with a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and revealed — politics isn’t the only career path he’s considering. He’s got his eye on a reality TV show.

“I think there’s a convergence between entertainment and politics that’ll actually serve that public purpose. And that’s again why I think this idea of doing a reality TV show centered around the second trial and all the circumstances surrounding this case would be really interesting.”

Media analyst Phil Rosenthal appeared on CNN to say, reporters need to cut to the chase and ask Blago the obvious questions.

Phil Rosenthal: “At some point you back off and say, “OK look your own legal team called you an idiot. Said you weren’t smart enough to pull this off. And yet you’re still talking about having a public career? What are you talking about?”

Whether the impeached governor’s career path involves reality TV or politics remains to be seen, but the Chicago Tribune’s Steven Chapman says one thing about Blago’s future is certain.

“He has to also realize that, absent a deal, he's not likely to get off easy on his conviction for lying to the FBI. Having heard all the evidence, the judge may give him the maximum of five years. Bottom line: He's going to prison.”

So what do you think? Is Blagojevich headed to the political arena, the small screen... or the slammer?

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