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Top Obama Aide Axelrod Hired By…MSNBC

Feb. 19, 2013 12:39pm Jonathon M. Seidl

In this Oct. 7, 2012, photo provided by CBS News, David Axelrod, adviser to the Obama campaign, talks on CBS’s “Face the Nation” in Washington. Credit: AP

NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — David Axelrod, former strategist and aide to President Obama, has landed a new job at NBC News.

The network said Tuesday that Axelrod is joining as a senior political analyst. He’ll contribute to broadcasts on both NBC News and the cable network MSNBC.

Axelrod helped run Obama’s successful campaigns in 2008 and 2012 and worked as an adviser to the president during his first term. The former political writer and columnist for the Chicago Tribune started his own political and media consulting firm in 1984.

NBC already employs Steve Schmidt, a top adviser to Obama’s 2008 opponent John McCain, as an analyst.

But given Axelrod’s coziness to the White House, TheAtlantic Wire put out a story with the headline, “How Much Is Obama Controlling the Message on MSNBC?”

Here’s what writer Connor Simpson wrote:

And while the news funneling out of the White House might be heavy on spin, the spin zone is increasingly populated by guys who used to work in the White House. The administration couldn’t control the timing of the announcement, on the same morning that the Politico report was boiling over, that David Axelrod will join NBC and MSNBC as a “senior political analyst.” Axelrod, a longtime Obama advisor and MSNBC favorite, officially left his Senior Advisor job at the White House in 2011 to work on the 2012 campaign, but he’s been a vocal supporter of his old boss from the political pasture every since. He’s supported the President, on television or on Twitter, on guns, on immigration reform promises, and on that whole skeet-shooting controversy that’s at the center of how the Obama administration beats off-message messages with its own message. (Flickr photo + Axelrod tweet = end of controversy, goes the thinking.) Axelrod he did say that the immigration bill leak was a dumb idea — on MSNBC, no less!

“…[T]he administration certainly knows its message, its people, its social media, and its fading need for a White House press corps when it has guys like Axe and Gibbs to unofficially lean the right way on a left-leaning network,” he concluded.

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PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:03pm
Here comes the crack down on the internet…….0 does not have enough POWER as it is?

http://www.beforeitsnews.com/2013/02/obama-lays-framework-for-purge-of-online-opponents-2447920.html

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:25pm
  David Axelrod is another culture changing, tradition destroying, I want to rule your life, Jewish progressive. The all too common theme.
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:15pm
  No this is another one of those radical jihadist Muslim brotherhood backers of Obama right?
  
  lol
  
  Who do these rats think we are? Who believes this garbage?
  
  How many Radical Marxist Jews do you have to see come out from behind Obama to understand Blaze readers? Seriously are you really that dumb? Please tell me that you have brains. Your ignorance is really beginning to scare me..
  
  My faith rides in the good conservative people of America understanding the truth but I’m gettting closer and closer to the point of thinking it may be time to get the hell out before these evildoers actually do to America like they did to Russia and attempted in Germany.
  
  Not gonna be pleasant especially when you don’t even understand who your enemy is…
  
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- pdw
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:22pm
  The media always seems to find jobs for those out of power in our government. They are just one more extension of the Democrat party
  
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term limits for congress
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:01pm
I sure hope they do a better job with his make-up. I will not be watching to find out.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:19pm
  I find myself drawn to the opening Martin Bashir’s show just about every weekday. Mainly to catch whatever absurd crap that narcissistic bastard comes up with though. I also spot check CNN and BSNBC during the day also.
  
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- dwilco77
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:23pm
  Like I needed another reason not to watch MSNBC
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 11:15am
  Seems-like BS-MSNBC LOVES TO HELP CRASH THEIR ALREADY [MINUS] CREDIT-RATING BY HIRING THIS THUG!!
  
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Xanderson
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:58pm
Thank God! Now I know I’ll never see him again :D

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neverending
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:32pm
Maybe he can sit next to S.E. Cupp since it sounds like they might have something in common.

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- poorrichard09
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:39pm
  Jos. Goebbels would be proud.
  
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righthanddrive
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:32pm
I guess we have now become a GRANMA state…and it only took 4 years.

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truthnstuff
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:31pm
FOX..I’ll raise you a Kucinich
MSLSD….I’ll raise you an Axlerod and call.

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FiscalBill
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:25pm
So…the number of people who will watch him on TV hasnt really changed then.

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biohazard23
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:24pm
Wanna see my shocked face?

http://themacadvocate.com/Home/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/shocked.jpg

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:34pm
  BIOHAZARD, Classic!
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:18pm
  RJ, heh heh heh. :)
  
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TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:21pm
BSNBC…bunch of dookie spreading goin’ on throughout the kingdom…

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karencole
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:21pm
LOL….ahhh ahhh ahhh ahhh Axelrod. That guy drive me insane, I find myself screaming….”spit it out!”

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Cavallo
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:02pm
From the same network that wants to ban firearm and associated advertising.. hahahaha.. Anyone who gets their news from MSNBC is a tool, their audience is miniscule. I would hazard a guess that the GBTV has more viewers than MSNBC.

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Uechi
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:02pm
He will fit right in with all the other Progressive pieces of excrement.

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tonypro
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:02pm
LOL, and this is going to help their tanked ratings how???

Good for them, the pig sty now has another pig to root around. Next will be the love affair between him, and missy chrissy.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:37pm
  Good evening, this is David Axlerod, and I am not Keith Olberman….
  
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leasecommander
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:56pm
Good fit, they are both intolerable !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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doomytram
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:55pm
What a gross communist pig. Next thing you know Jarrett will have a show on al jazeera. Nobody watches either channel. But Soros owns pig whipple axel and jarrett. Boycott all Commie media.

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jackact
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:54pm
GE Crony capitalism.
Do not buy GE products.
We still control the free markets.
Let’s show them.

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- Ghandi was a Republican
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:00pm
  Boycott anything john ‘ketchup boy’ Heinz-kerry too. Talk about a corporate jet flying capitalist.
  In the 80s ‘heinz’ tried to get ketchup designated a vegetable for the purposes of school lunch programs. In the process the Democrats sang the sang the tired chorus ‘Ronald Reagan?” was trying to starve black babies. RR had nothing to do with it. Heinz just wanted schools to quadruple their ketchup output at the hands of the jackbooted thug.
  
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walnutportconservative
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:52pm
Who cares? Why is this news on the blaze?

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- IndyGuy
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:00pm
  Just a question….Did you click on this article???
  
  There’s your answer…
  
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- 48Straights
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:30pm
  Because The SNLBlaze is run by the liberal Betsy Morgan of The Huffington Post. This is not news it is an advertisement piece.
  
  That is why you constantly see things like this and the four links to Saturday Night live this week.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:48pm
Mr.Whipple goes to MSNBC huh? makes sense because MSNBC and 99.9999999% of the so called ‘media’ in this country has been nothing but a mouthpiece for this regime since they subverted the constitution. Mr.Whipple can continue his BS lies to the drones who eagerly lap it up and believe every word of it.

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- OldSurfRat
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:56pm
  Hi There Progressive
  
  Not to sound like the left but to me he has always had the Adolf look.
  I little trim here and there, put on the hat and you got Hitler.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:48pm
This has no effect on 99% of the population, have fun MSNBC.

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OldSurfRat
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:47pm
Wow so Axelhole is now getting paid by MSNBC instead of paying them?
Guess one way of getting your money back.

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- Cronpolis
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:04pm
  I often think about how taxpayers ultimately pay for a majority of these industries through different Ponzi schemes. Either through taxes or social payments. I think if more people thought like that then more people would care about what the government is actually putting the taxpayers money to use on.
  
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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:46pm
Well, it could have been worse. He could have been hired by a channel with viewers.

He’ll fit right in there with the anti-American swine.

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cdn1979
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:46pm
no different than carl rove being hired by fox. wait fox also had palin on the payroll, stil has huckabee on the payroll, Geraldo is on the payroll and wants to run as republican. Sean hannity is as right wing as you can get. 4 of the five on The Five are right wing. thr three stooges on fox and friends are all right wing. megan kelly is once of the most right wing and racist people who is on fox news. not so fair and balanced are they? MSNBC is no different. just the other side of the fence. far left extreme crap. but don’t call out one while ignoring the other. msnbc has no viewers. who cares who they hire.

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- The_Woofster
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 1:03pm
  And just how many leftist TV news outlets are there out there, as compared to Fox?
  
  Just wondering…..
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:32pm
  THE_WOOFSTER, That just reminds me of Greg Gutfield’s comment on The Five a few weeks ago after 0bama had given a few speeches where he had complained about Fox News in each. He said “0bama complaining about Fox, is like a football player complaining about the only cheerleader that will not put out for him.” That statement still stands true.
  
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Mandors
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:45pm
I guess they’re finally consummating their relationship.

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Ron Staiger
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:44pm
Another Marxist pig-in-a-poke on MSNBC.

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IndyGuy
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:43pm
Oh Lord…..Just how much farther can they sink???

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- The_Woofster
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 12:46pm
  I would imagine as far as the rest of the turds in the bowl.
  
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- Psychosis
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:03pm
  not everyone can be FLOATERS
  
  deservedly so he sinks to the bottom of the bowl
  
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