Posted on 02/13/2025 6:43:13 PM PST by nickcarraway
The veteran Obama and Biden official will serve as senior political and global affairs commentator.
Rahm Emanuel, who last served as ambassador to Japan in Joe Biden’s administration, has found a media gig at CNN.
The veteran politician will join the cable news outlet as senior political and global affairs commentator, the network said on Thursday. Emanuel, who grew his national stature as White House chief of staff to President Obama, served as mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019.
The hire adds another staunch Democrat voice on global affairs to a pundit and anchor roster that is retooling in the second Trump administration. The official, the brother of Endeavor mogul Ari Emanuel, stepped down from the ambassadorship on January 14 a week ahead of the presidential transition.
Emanuel has already been appearing on CNN’s programming recently, including with Cristiane Amanpour in December and on State of the Union with Dana Bash after wrapping his diplomatic role in Tokyo. He’s also been keeping busy by writing Washington Post opinion columns, including one in January headlined, “Trump is Nobel Prize shopping. Here’s what it will take to win one.”
In late January, the network shook up its daytime schedule, with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown moving to the 10 a.m. time slot to host The Situation Room as Jim Acosta exited the network. Meanwhile, Jake Tapper’s The Lead landed at the 5-7 p.m. spot while Audie Cornish was added to CNN This Morning at 6 a.m. and Rahel Solomon was named host of 5 Things at 5 a.m.
Snicker.
“Rahm Emanuel, who last served as ambassador to Japan in Joe Biden’s administration”
Japan has to be SO THANKFUL to have that asshole gone. Now, at least they can get rid the migrants that Biden’s people forced on them, as well as the LGBT crap that they pushed on the Japanese people, and, finally, MJGA!!!
Death wish.
lol
It’s like hiring me to raise the rating of a dieting show :)
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POS has been Ambassador to Japan until January 2025. CNN taking care of another Obama and Biden appointee, in between which he destroyed Chicago a little bit more.
Frodo got a new job
If I were him I ask to be paid in cash.
CNN is in crisis and Rahm is not letting it go to waste.
So this is their master counter-move.
Hmm.
That’ll finish off CNN.
Rahm is 65 so we only have to put up with him for 10 more years (his brother, Ezekiel, advocates for no medical care for anyone after age 75).
LOL! Throwing good money at bad.
As Mayor of Chicago, he asked the gangs and thugs to only shoot and kill each other, leave the civilians alone.
Will CNN install a steam bath for hosting an interview between Rahm and Bathhouse Barry?
They are already dead. Oddly CNN and the rest of the main stream media are dying. In the past they were extremely powerful due to the lack of conservative media except Fox, and I have my problems with Fox also. Today most people get their information from the internet. It can be left or right or down the middle. The choice is there for the reader. In days of old there were no choices. The main stream media is dying by self inflicted wounds. Fox is now main stream media with a difference. The majority of their talk shows are conservative and they do not pretend to anything other than that. Their evening news is pretty much down the middle. As a result Fox is thriving as the main stream media is dying.
Those two are so evil and creepy. I had forgotten how scary those times were.
Ran into him in the Chicago airport once, he’s VERY short.
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