Jake Tapper takes David Axelrod to the woodshed over the Chambers of Commerce fiasco

axelrodA lot of people like Jake Tapper. I’m not one of them. But I must give credit where credit is due. Catching up with White House senior adviser David Axelrod today Tapper had a nice little chat about the current controversy about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and whether any of its ads are being funded with foreign money. Nobody seems to care or ask where all the money is coming from that unions use like the SEIU, AFL-CIO that back Democrats. No one ever brings up the fact that all those donations to the George Soros organizations and blogs like Moveon or Center for America progress are coming from. So Tapper laid into Axelrod today about this whole so called “controversy.”

TAPPER: But you’re asking the Chamber to prove a negative. “Prove that you’re not doing such and such accusation.”

AXELROD: It’s not proving a negative, Jake, because all you have to do to clear up the questions is reveal who your donors are from. The question back to them is why don’t they want to reveal where their money is coming from? I think the answer is, I think if the American people knew where their money was coming from they’d be a lot less apt to listen to the advertising, to read the mail, to respond to the kind of negative campaigns that the Chamber and some of these other organizations are underwriting.

Tapper undoubtably angered the progressive liberal Democrats today. Some of which will probably start calling him a birther after this question:

TAPPER: Isn’t that like the whackjobs that tell the president he needs to show them his full long-form birth certificate so he can put to rest the questions that have been raised?

AXELROD: The president’s birth certificate has been available to people.

TAPPER: The long form?

AXELROD: Someone once in the course of this debate about whether we should have a law to force these organizations to disclose where they’re money is coming from in the campaigns, someone said, and I think they’re right – “the only people who want to keep things secret are folks who have something to hide.” If the Chamber doesn’t have anything to hide about these contributions, and I take them at their word that they don’t, then why not disclose? Why not let people see where their money is coming from?

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October 11, 2010 · Filed Under David Axelrod


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