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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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Comments (64)

hades3
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:21pm
Incest between Axelrod and NSNBC !

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jessieH
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:53am
Good luck with that, NBC. I wouldn’t be turning my back on this guy.

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Watcher1952
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:53am
Well if they would get Axelrod, Bashir, Mathews and the like all in one building, someone could push the red button and make them disappear.. :)

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calebjim
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 7:42am
How about that! It is about time they hired him. Now they can claim themselves as official extension of the Democratic “Socialist” Party. From this man you will get the true distorted truth. He will be in competition with Ed and Chris and they will not like this because they now hold the title of chief liar of MSNBC.

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MCLOVINIT
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:30pm
He has been appointed by the Emperor of the
Planet of the Apes as the Planet of the Apes new
Propaganda Minister.

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TheAlamoLives
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:00pm
Who knows, MSNBC may have to let P. Morgan, and Rev. Sharpton go so they can afford his salary!
When the network goes broke, it can be aquired by Al Jezeera. Axlerod will feel right at home. It would be like going home…again!

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Kathleen3
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:17pm
The only change now is Axelrod will receive a weekly paycheck vs the kickbacks he previously enjoyed. My bet is this is yet one more venue for Comcast to reimburse an Obama-ite for their participation in facilitating the sale of MSNBC/NBC to Comcast.

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msjoe43
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:55pm
David Axelrod (Adolf Hitler look-a-like), former strategist and aide to President Obama, has landed a new job at NBC (Nazi / Socialist / Communist Broadcast Central) News. . . Obama’s News propaganda. . . he should fit right at home. . .

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American-first
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:10pm
Axelrod should fit right in at MSNBC. Deer in the headlight look that can look one straight in the eye and spout the liberal crap. When is Obama taking over MSNBC?.

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ECOMCON
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:02pm
The Koch Brothers should spend a few mil and hire up a crack team of experts to DNA clone William F. Buckley and resurrect him for us.

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marmond
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:29pm
Lies and deception are this guy’s expertise. This guy is the US version of the Reich Minister of Propaganda. Another slimy weasel that when called before the court will say, “I was just following orders”.

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The_Fifth_Column
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:57pm
Can you see the surprised look on my face? Who else would hire him!

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dave88
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:55pm
I don’t know why this is news. MSNBC only hires mental midgets and this is another one.

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blackfeather
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:51pm
and we are supposed to be surprised?

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hapedog
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:47pm
I’m glad Axle Nut is going to work for nbc and mslsd. Nobody watches them anyway.

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Newone
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 3:06pm
C ontrolled N ews N etwork equals C ensored N ews N etwork, ABC,NBC,CBS,PBS, White House Controlled!

Have you noticed these news agencies are saying very little to nothing about the price of gasoline and diesel.

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PlanetReality
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:53pm
Well look it here pa SHOCKING!!!
More reason to avoid that channel!!!!!

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garbagecanlogic
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:50pm
Lordy, I cannot wait to listen and watch him………………………..on second thot, I think I can, right after I finish remodeling the Grand Canyon.

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.

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spirited
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:20pm
Ah yes, keep hold of the well-informed intellectual base for the mid-term.
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elosogrande
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 2:07pm
Is anyone naive enough to believe that The White House will have more control over content at NBC & MSNBC, because of Axelrod? It appears to me that left-wing, socialist lunatics have been calling the shots at NBC for for years. It can’t get worse, just more flagrant, and they won’t even try to make excuses for their pandering.

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