How the White House manipulated the media to sell
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Posted On: 05/08/2016 10:59:20 AM
How the White House manipulated the media to sell the Iran deal
The New York Times Magazine published a profile of White House adviser Ben Rhodes Thursday. The profile devotes a lot of ink to Rhodes role as a manipulator of the media both new and old.
The story frames Rhodes as “the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself.” The conceit here is that Rhodes is not Barack’s Brain but only because the two are said to be utterly simpatico. As Rhodes puts it, “I don’t know anymore where I begin and Obama ends.”
Ewww.
But that’s not the creepiest part of this story. The really creepy part is how Rhodes “ventriloquizes” friendly reporters into carrying water for the White House on whatever issue is at hand:
The New York Times Magazine published a profile of White House adviser Ben Rhodes Thursday. The profile devotes a lot of ink to Rhodes role as a manipulator of the media both new and old.
The story frames Rhodes as “the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself.” The conceit here is that Rhodes is not Barack’s Brain but only because the two are said to be utterly simpatico. As Rhodes puts it, “I don’t know anymore where I begin and Obama ends.”
Ewww.
But that’s not the creepiest part of this story. The really creepy part is how Rhodes “ventriloquizes” friendly reporters into carrying water for the White House on whatever issue is at hand:
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