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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321059-fox-anchor-baier-rips-white-house-for-barring-outlets-from-briefing

 

Bret Baier joins Kent Brockman in welcoming our Ant Overlords and couldn't find an inside-the-beltway opinion that Brit Hume couldn't convince him to adopt.

 

Now that Ailes is gone, the history of Fox bosses giving money Democrats will start clarifying.

 

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000000227&cycle=2016

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/toprecips.php?id=D000000227&cycle=2012

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There is a strategy wherein you send out a small force to draw out a large force - to probe.  It would appear Trump has used this strategy with immigration, and is now using this strategy with excluding CNN.  In this case, the small force is a non-briefing meeting exclusion.  And, if CNN gets overly upset about this, like with the immigration scenario, two things happen:
1.    the oppositions reaction is seen as an overreaction (since the reaction is actually intended as a response to a large force instead of a scout force)
2. the reaction is probed
And, there is, perhaps, a 3rd element partially affected by #1, and, that is, if the full force is used the next time around, for instance, CNN is banned from a briefing, the fuel for a reaction is already partially spent.

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There is a strategy wherein you send out a small force to draw out a large force - to probe.  It would appear Trump has used this strategy with immigration, and is now using this strategy with excluding CNN.  In this case, the small force is a non-briefing meeting exclusion.  And, if CNN gets overly upset about this, like with the immigration scenario, two things happen:

1.    the oppositions reaction is seen as an overreaction (since the reaction is actually intended as a response to a large force instead of a scout force)

2. the reaction is probed

And, there is, perhaps, a 3rd element partially affected by #1, and, that is, if the full force is used the next time around, for instance, CNN is banned from a briefing, the fuel for a reaction is already partially spent.

Smart analysis, well done.

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Even more delicious, Trump will not attend the White House Press Correspondence Dinner.

I found this totally amusing as well :-)

Nobody cared about his executive orders about the Wall, instead they all focused on the temp-ban on international refugees.  Create a big symbol for the symbol minded to protest against.  While they do that, he is free to continue what he promised to his electorate.

Probably true :-)  Good call !

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