<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/43962d99-cc09-482e-9112-c3e18196db26/0F6A8B4F-5D03-4B79-A82C-B69E49E79EE4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/18/axelrods-profits-uh-whos-on-the-take-from-the-drug-lobby-again/" href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/18/axelrods-profits-uh-whos-on-the-take-from-the-drug-lobby-again/" style="font-size: 11px;">michellemalkin.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/18/axelrods-profits-uh-whos-on-the-take-from-the-drug-lobby-again/">While White House press secretary Robert Gibbs <A href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/06/dear-white-house-whos-funded-by-the-health-care-industry/" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" linkindex="20">assails</A> the motives of grass-roots activists by falsely smearing the movement as corporate-funded shills, Barack Obama’s own senior adviser and chief Astroturfer raked in millions of dollars from <A href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aV3dLt6wmZH4" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" linkindex="21">Big Pharma.</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/18/axelrods-profits-uh-whos-on-the-take-from-the-drug-lobby-again/">Two firms that received $343.3 million to handle advertising for Barack Obama’s White House run last year have profited from his top priority as president</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/18/axelrods-profits-uh-whos-on-the-take-from-the-drug-lobby-again/">One is AKPD Message and Media, the Chicago-based firm headed by David Axelrod until he left last Dec. 31 to serve as a senior adviser to the president.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/18/axelrods-profits-uh-whos-on-the-take-from-the-drug-lobby-again/">This year, AKPD and GMMB received $12 million in advertising business from Healthy Economy Now, a coalition that includes the Washington-based Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/18/axelrods-profits-uh-whos-on-the-take-from-the-drug-lobby-again/">Axelrod was president and sole shareholder of AKPD from 1985 until he sold his interest after Obama’s victory</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/18/axelrods-profits-uh-whos-on-the-take-from-the-drug-lobby-again/">The firm owes Axelrod $2 million</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/08/18/axelrods-profits-uh-whos-on-the-take-from-the-drug-lobby-again/">Tell us again. 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