David Axelrod's "Joke"

... a Miss California joke, on NPR:

When Axelrod was asked if he had weighed in on the Obama family’s dog choice, "the Rasputin in this kingdom" (as Sagal jokingly refered to him) sassed back, “I was only called in for the final three, and one was Miss California.”

Per Ben Smith, Politico.

It's no use asking what if a Republican had said something like this.