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Obama Met Privately With Top Journalists Before ISIS War Speech
Huffington Post ^ | September 13, 2014 | by Michael Calderone

Posted on 09/14/2014 5:13:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

President Barack Obama met with over a dozen prominent columnists and magazine writers Wednesday afternoon before calling for an escalation of the war against the Islamic State, or ISIS, in a primetime address that same night.

The group, which met in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in an off-the-record session, included New York Times columnists David Brooks, Tom Friedman and Frank Bruni and editorial writer Carol Giacomo; The Washington Post's David Ignatius, Eugene Robinson and Ruth Marcus; The New Yorker's Dexter Filkins and George Packer; The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Beinart; The New Republic's Julia Ioffe; Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll; The Wall Street Journal's Jerry Seib; and The Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky, a source familiar with the meeting told The Huffington Post.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: collusion; failure; journalism; media; obama; shuckandjive; spin; theobamashow
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The event is right out of the Goebbel’s playbook......

GOEBBELS’ PRINCIPLES OF PROPAGANDA
Based upon Goebbels’ Principles of Propaganda by Leonard W. Doob, published in Public Opinion and Propaganda; A Book of Readings edited for The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.

2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives.

b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.

c. It must oversee other agencies’ activities which have propaganda consequences

3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.

4. Propaganda must affect the enemy’s policy and action.
a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence

b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions

c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself

d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity

5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign

6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.

7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.

8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.

9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.

10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy’s prestige or lends support to the propagandist’s own objective.

11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.

12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.

13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.

b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment

c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness

14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses

b. They must be capable of being easily learned

c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations

d. They must be boomerang-proof

15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.

16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat

b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves

17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated

b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective

18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both.
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The single greatest enemy of America is Barack Obama


21 posted on 09/14/2014 5:42:54 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

22 posted on 09/14/2014 5:47:05 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

23 posted on 09/14/2014 5:59:10 AM PDT by McGruff (I'm thinkin.)
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To: Ann Archy; Jane Long

Gingrich didn’t like the speech. He dissected the whole thing, point by point. All that he said was that Obama’s delivery was meant to seem sincere and remind people of Reagan or somebody they could trust, but that the speech was as usual content-free rhetoric.


24 posted on 09/14/2014 6:09:03 AM PDT by livius
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To: Jane Long

I’m sorry but I beg to differ. Someone poste Newt’s comments here and they weren’t glowing.


25 posted on 09/14/2014 6:19:05 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: nikos1121

I thought cheerleading camps were held during the summer when the kids were out of school.


26 posted on 09/14/2014 6:20:49 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...Obama met with over a dozen prominent columnists and magazine writers ...

The PRIMO liberal elite butt kissers...

27 posted on 09/14/2014 7:13:24 AM PDT by GOPJ ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Every one of those ‘journalists’ listed should have their press passes revoked. No, we no longer have a ‘free press’ in this country. These are the ones who only write the ‘news’ that’s approved by this Admin. Poor America.......being destroyed bit by bit. No conscience on the Left at all.


28 posted on 09/14/2014 7:14:21 AM PDT by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: rovenstinez
The 'press' is waking up to the ugly truth - ISIS knows to get big 'bangs for their buck' - they're beheading liberal elites. Beheading two members of the press has had more impact than killing 10,000 'boots'... It's a game changer. Same in Britain - taking out one elite has more impact than having thousands of young children raped and sold.. Elites care about themselves...
29 posted on 09/14/2014 7:18:52 AM PDT by GOPJ ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: rovenstinez; sickoflibs; Liz; LucyT
The 'press' is waking up to the ugly truth - ISIS knows to get big 'bangs for their buck' - they're beheading liberal elites. Beheading two members of the press has had more impact than killing 10,000 'boots'... It's a game changer. Same in Britain - taking out one elite has more impact than having thousands of young children raped and sold.. Elites care about themselves... They're not going to put up with this crap....
30 posted on 09/14/2014 7:19:48 AM PDT by GOPJ ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Obama foreign policy and military advisors. We're doomed.

New York Times columnists David Brooks, Tom Friedman and Frank Bruni and editorial writer Carol Giacomo; The Washington Post's David Ignatius, Eugene Robinson and Ruth Marcus; The New Yorker's Dexter Filkins and George Packer; The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and Peter Beinart; The New Republic's Julia Ioffe; Columbia Journalism School Dean Steve Coll; The Wall Street Journal's Jerry Seib; and The Daily Beast's Michael Tomasky

31 posted on 09/14/2014 7:34:35 AM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

One of them should have asked the enemy islamist, “Why are you such a sniveling dog?”


32 posted on 09/14/2014 7:47:57 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: ronnie raygun

At least we got some names this time. Huff Po must be mad that they didn’t get invited.


33 posted on 09/14/2014 8:13:24 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Foreign policy by committee. If I was one of those journalists I wouldn’t want to be associated with the debacle that is emerging.


34 posted on 09/14/2014 1:14:42 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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