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Ben Rhodes Isn't a Master Manipulator, the Media Wants to be Manipulated
Front Page ^ | Daniel Greenfield | May 12, 2016

Posted on 05/13/2016 4:43:41 AM PDT by detective

The mediasphere is boiling after the New York Times ran a piece on Ben Rhodes, Obama's foreign policy guru, a failed writer who openly boasted about manipulating the media. It was full of quotes like this...

Rhodes singled out a key example to me one day, laced with the brutal contempt that is a hallmark of his private utterances. “All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus,” he said. “Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”..

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This is an excellent analysis of the relationship between the media and the Obama administration.

The author discusses the recent Ben Rhodes article in the NYT and how he said the media is easily manipulated and do whatever they are told.

1 posted on 05/13/2016 4:43:41 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective
The MSM are NOTHING but PAID flacks acting
as greedly, lying PR Reps for Soros, Clinton, and the UN.

There are less than a handful of truly
honest investigative journalists; the rest
like Steffi have one role:
PROTECT their PUPPETEERS.



2 posted on 05/13/2016 4:48:44 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: detective
The media doesn't NEED to be manipulated. They are, by and large, true believers and no better than the state organs of NAZI Germany, Soviet Russia or Red China.

I refuse to entertain the fallacious concept that the media are dunderheads who are duped by the powers that be.

3 posted on 05/13/2016 4:49:17 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: detective

Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.


4 posted on 05/13/2016 5:02:17 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Diogenesis

5 posted on 05/13/2016 5:13:44 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: detective
It's hard to sell crack to the average person. It's really easy to sell crack to crackheads.

If you're a crackhead, the crack sells itself. Ditto for the media and a left-wing narrative.

Short sweet and to the point...

6 posted on 05/13/2016 5:17:26 AM PDT by GOPJ (Trump wants to increase the size of the pie. Ryan wants everyone eat less.)
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To: detective

Ask a young reporter a question today and they will head for Google. The answers they get AND REPORT are other people’s ideas. In this case, they Google and get Obama’s talking points...then they report that as news. No initiative. And they become the mouthpiece of propaganda from a twisted administration. No wonder officials are laughing at them...they are a joke.


7 posted on 05/13/2016 5:19:44 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: GOPJ
The selling of the Iran deal was a circus in which we all pretended that there was an actual debate instead of a backroom arrangement for Obama to back Iran and Republicans to back Boeing.
Crony Capitalism alert!
8 posted on 05/13/2016 5:31:09 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: detective

Obama and his administration are not the only ones to take advantage of the media


9 posted on 05/13/2016 5:33:17 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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They’re like women. They enjoy being lied to.


10 posted on 05/13/2016 6:26:12 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: detective

Over several decades the media has morphed into what it is: A haven for semi-literates who exist only to forward their leftwing political agenda. They wouldn’t be able to comprehend anything more difficult than a John Grisham novel... and many of them would have trouble with that.


11 posted on 05/13/2016 6:29:04 AM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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To: detective

As a group journalism majors at most universities have some of the lowest SAT/ACT scores on campus. They are to dumb to think for themselves. They become programmed robots following the dictates of their liberal professors, bosses, party leaders or whomever.


12 posted on 05/13/2016 6:46:24 AM PDT by Saltmeat
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To: detective

It’s like having to “seduce” a prostitute.


13 posted on 05/13/2016 6:51:22 AM PDT by fungoking (40% share for a TV show is a hit; in the 2016 election it a loss in a landslide, hello Pres Hillary)
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To: detective

They’re like baby birds, sitting around with their mouths/news feed open, waiting to be fed and consuming anything that’s crammed down their throats.


14 posted on 05/13/2016 6:53:49 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: Bratch

If the MSM had any pride they would be embarrassed... but they don’t...


15 posted on 05/13/2016 12:07:37 PM PDT by GOPJ (Trump wants to increase the size of the pie. Ryan wants everyone eat less.)
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