Just follow these easy steps!
- Create AKPD Message & Media, a public relations company that specializes in astroturfing.
- Attach yourself to the campaign of the candidate that eventually wins the 2008 Presidential election.
- Disengage yourself from AKPD Media, but under circumstances where the company ‘owes’ you 2 million dollars, which it will then pay back over time (we call this ‘income’).
- Become a Senior Advisor to the President.
- Have the President negotiate a tone-deaf deal between the White House and lobbyist group PhRMA to get the pharmaceutical industry to support health care rationing.
- ‘Discover’ one fine summer day that AKPD Media, the company that you created and which is still paying you money, has been given a fat advertising contract by PhRMA to astroturf health care rationing.
- Profit!
See The Conservatives, Michelle Malkin, Protein Wisdom, Bloomberg, & Hugh Hewitt for more.
Speaking objectively, it’s a great scam: all Axelrod has to do is shrug and there’s no immediately obvious way to prove that PhRMA hired AKPD to eventually put money in Axelrod’s pocket. Ah, for the days when they merely had private Swiss bank accounts…
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*Many things that are unethical, immoral, or just plain wrong are also ‘legal.’
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
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This is why I love Michelle.
NeoKong (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 8:23AM EST (link)If only she would lift the restraining order.
I always get a kick out of how smug those in the old media get when someone mentions a blog or website like they just don’t understand the complexities of reporting the news.
Michelle Malkin has just embarrassed the whole industry by exposing Axelrod’s link to the very industry his boss wants to regulate. She reports on the huge conflict of interest while they close their eyes to it.
Cha ching ain’t the name of my acupuncturist.
Let’s see if at least they have some shame and pick up on this story.
Remember the way the media always reminded us of Cheney’s link to Haliburton every chance they got ?
Axelrod…eh… not so much.
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Major Garrett and Jake Tapper,
WarEagle01 (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 8:34AM EST (link)Please bird-dog this.
“A wise, doughy leg with rich tingly experiences will always reach better conclusions than will a more tanned, muscular leg that hasn’t felt those thrills.” –Chris Matthews’ Leg
“The alternative to the awful extremity of abortion is the indispensable joy of introducing this flawed world to someone who might make it better.”–John Hayward (AKA Dr. Zero)
This is classic Chicago politics
cookcountyconservative (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 9:03AM EST (link)mastered by David Axlerod. Even if they can’t get their stinking programs through they’ll find a way to line their pockets just making the effort.
All so
djemi (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 9:30AM EST (link)they can avoid the government option that they are ramming down everybody elses throat
“If I can’t shoot rabbits,then I can’t shoot fascist”
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This is all just a coincidence
bk (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 9:58AM EST (link)I thought you wingnuts were all in favor of capitalism. What’s wrong with someone putting in an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay? Is it suddenly illegal for a guy to have a job? C’mon!
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I agree.
twobeers Wednesday, August 19th at 10:40AM EST (link)It has to be a coincidence because the mainstream media repeatedly told me during the campaign that President Obama managed to emerge from the Chicago political scene as pure as the driven snow. So surely, he would not surround himself with a bunch of corrupt political players.
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What corruption? This is the most transparent administration ever!
nessa (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 1:44PM EST (link)nt
“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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If only Axelrod had thought to trademark the term "astroturf"
JustLeaveMeAlone (Diary) Wednesday, August 19th at 3:35PM EST (link)Think of the profit opportunities lost. Poor David.
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson
Per MSM, legality goes to whether Axelrod "profited"
SoFiMil (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 8:39AM EST (link)Hugh Hewitt has this story:
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/0331484b-5a40-4562-a96a-85ef678ee313
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Axelrod is just benefitting from the 'government option'
Old_Crow (Diary) Thursday, August 20th at 9:34AM EST (link)I.E. getting a government job (Presidential Adviser) that can funnel money to your family business.
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison