Lib outlets want the opportunity to show what good dogs they are. They would set up the finest office for their FCC Obamaton master.
In the film noir classic, "Gaslight", Charles Boyer's character was a glib con artist, a murderer and a thief---
He ingratiated himself w/ Ingrid Bergman, and married her, in order to move into her house----a house she inherited from her murdered aunt (murdered by Boyer).
Later the term "gaslighting" became a term to describe patterns of psychological abuse in which victims are gradually manipulated into doubting his/her own reality---involves the pepetrator using emotional gimmicks (w/ the perp often acting the victim himself so as to dupe the victim WRT his abusive behavior).
The effect is to maintain the abuser's image as a sympathetic person, while simultaneously priming the disoriented victim to believe that he/she is to blame for the ruinous effects of the calculated mistreatment.