{"id":1106,"date":"2009-08-19T13:25:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2009-08-19T13:25:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T13:25:01","slug":"news_that_will_be_ignored_by_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"News That Will Be Ignored By The Major Media Outlets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hugh Hewitt<\/a> reported on his blog at Townhall.com yesterday about a conflict of interest controversy brewing around David Axelrod.  The story was originally reported at Bloomberg.com<\/a> on Saturday.  <\/p>\n

According to Bloomberg:<\/p>\n

“Two firms that received $343.3 million to handle advertising for Barack Obama<\/a>‘s White House run last year have profited from his top priority as president by taking on his push for health-care overhaul. <\/i><\/p>\n

“One is AKPD Message and Media<\/a>, the Chicago-based firm headed by David Axelrod<\/a> until he left last Dec. 31 to serve as a senior adviser to the president. Axelrod was Obama’s top campaign strategist and is now helping sell the health-care plan. The other firm is Washington-based GMMB Campaign Group<\/a>, where partner Jim Margolis<\/a> was also an Obama strategist.”<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The problem here is that David Axelrod’s firm still owes him money and is continuing to pay him that money.  I am not a lawyer and do not understand the technicalities of the law here, but these are the same type of ties Dick Cheney was constantly criticized for by the Democrats even after Dick Cheney had totally broken ties with the company.<\/p>\n

I have no idea what the outcome of this story will be, but I do hope the media will hold David Axelrod to the same standards that they have used on previous administrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hugh Hewitt reported on his blog at Townhall.com yesterday about a conflict of interest controversy brewing around David Axelrod.  The story was originally reported at Bloomberg.com on Saturday.  According to Bloomberg: “Two firms that received $343.3 million to handle advertising … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}