Politico’s Mike Allen reported this morning that MSNBC has hired the Democratic National Committee’s director of video production to become a producer for one of the cable network’s weekend political talk shows.

DNC video production director Anne Thompson was reportedly given a farewell party at the DNC, replete with ice cream and refreshments, as she sets out to become segment producer on Up with Steve Kornacki, MSNBC’s new weekend show.

As Politico reported, Thompson was behind dozens of the DNC’s 2012 election videos and ads, notably including the parodic song, “Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan: That’s Amore.”

MSNBC has recently taken some heat from critics as being too closely aligned with the president and the Democratic Party — a charge which president Phil Griffin has sought to debunk, despite also hiring Democratic power-players David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs as network contributors.

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