Tag Archives: David Axelrod

Blago campaign chairman, transition director helps create train wreck then walks away unscathed

by admin on 28. Jul, 2010 in David Axelrod, David Wilhelm, Mainstream Media, Rahm Emanuel, Tony Rezko

“Rod realizes that he is being elected as a reformer. People in this state are fed up with corruption and broken promises. The Blagojevich administration will be one of honesty,” he said. —David Wilhelm Another member of the club that brought us Rod Blagojevich is David Wilhelm, the former DNC chairman and Clintonista who ran [...]

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Obama’s “you betcha” moment

by admin on 15. Jul, 2010 in David Axelrod, David Wilhelm, Rahm Emanuel

We’ve already established that David Axelrod played an important role in Rod Blagojevich’s career, once shielding him from a dangerous newspaper corruption investigation. Then, in 2002, according to Emanuel’s own words, he and Obama helped engineer’s Blagojevich’s disasterous reign as Illinois governor. Obama was so steadfast about his support he uttered a Palinesque “you betcha” [...]

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WGN-TV mangles Obama-Blago contacts

by admin on 12. Jul, 2010 in David Axelrod, Mainstream Media, Valerie Jarrett

Another example of the press falsely exonerating Obama from any Blagojevich entanglement. This was just posted on the WGN-TV website: Last month, the former governor’s chief of staff, John Harris, told a federal court that people close to President Obama approached him about appointing Obama’s friend Valerie Jarrett to fill the U.S. Senate vacancy left [...]

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Axelrod dissembles; Tapper fumbles

by admin on 11. Jul, 2010 in David Axelrod, Mainstream Media, Rahm Emanuel, SEIU, Senate Seat, Tom Balanoff, Valerie Jarrett

Usually, Obama administration spokesmen can count on dancing through national television interviews without being asked thorny questions like those pertaining to the Blagojevich trial. Give ABC’s Jake Tapper for trying to get an answer out of David Axelrod. TAPPER: Last question. It appears from the Blagojevich trial this week that the White House’s version of [...]

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When Axelrod bailed out Blagojevich

by admin on 08. Jul, 2010 in David Axelrod, Mainstream Media

Barack Obama and his coterie of top aides now act as if they barely know Rod Blagojevich. What isn’t widely absorbed is that David Axelrod played a key role in Blagojevich’s rise in politics. He guided his election to the U.S. Congress in 1996 and, at a critical juncture, deflected a Chicago Tribune investigation that [...]

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