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Do Rod Blagojevich's troubles taint Barack Obama? "There is not a close relationship," Chicago politicos told NBC's Savannah Guthrie, "never has been." Yet in her brief biographical sketch of Blagojevich, CBS anchor Katie Couric did name one backer that the two had in common "real estate developer Tony Rezko."
CBS' Dean Reynolds quoted senior Obama aide David Axelrod as saying that he knew that the two had talked about the appointment, before backtracking later, saying that "he had misspoken." ABC's Jake Tapper repeated official Republican demands that Obama "should disclose any names of anyone on his team talking to anybody on Blagojevich's team" although Tapper did not define the word "team" nor did he explain what was the problem with "talking." CBS' Reynolds found "no hint from the prosecutors of any wrongdoing by Obama. Indeed Blagojevich was heard on the tapes repeatedly disparaging and even cursing the President-elect for not playing politics his way." But how did the governor know that the President-elect was not "playing politics" if the two teams were not talking?
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