David Axelrod is a smart guy who knows a heck of a lot about politics and the press. Robert Gibbs is also a smart guy who knows a heck of a lot about politics and the press. They will now be dispensing their wisdom as paid contributors at MSNBC, and I'll be interested in what they have to say. But I have to ask: Is NBC's cable channel turning into an Obama administration in exile? It's hardly a news flash that MSNBC long ago decided to be cable's liberal bastion, a left-wing counterweight to Fox News. But the more the studios are populated with people who worked for the president, the more the network may seem like an off-campus adjunct of the West Wing.
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David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs will become pundits for MSNBC
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Howard Kurtz: Is NBC's cable channel turning into an Obama administration in exile?
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He says MSNBC didn't start this, Fox News did when it served as a platform for Bush officials
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Kurtz: As advocates for Obama, it might be tough for Axelrod and Gibbs to show independence
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