Even though Obama sources denied direct conversations, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Emanuel pushed Blagojevich to appoint Obama insider Valerie Jarrett to Obama’s Senate seat.  Emanuel also requested Blagojevich make the appointment by a certain time, althought he report didn’t give the date.

Details on this story coming out in bits and pieces at a time doesn’t look very good for Obama’s team.  I know he’s using the excuse of “Fitzgerald made me do it,” but after denials and corrections and wait a minutes, this is starting to really look bad, even though I don’t believe that Emanuel promised anything to Blago for the appointment.

Update: Hot Air’s Ed surmises that Blagojevich’s side is leaking conversation information as a mob-style threat to Obama — take me down, and you’re going with me.