How Counter-Narratives Emerge

[Dill]

(07-13-2017, 11:28 AM)xxlt Wrote: I think you are giving the WH way to much credit to think they would said SH talking points. Far more likely, Sarah and the Queen watch Hannity's show and decide what they wish to repeat. So someone is giving someone talking points, just the other way around.

I think Hannity, Rush, Levin and a few others on the job 24/7 countering MSM stories. The WH then follows the counters. There may be some direct communication between staff as well. But I was not describing the WH as the source of the strategy necessarily. 

Also, part of my point is that, despite the few commentators who say Trump and Republicans should "own up" to what is happening, prominent individuals and programs continue to react to the news like a White House news team. That is, they are not behaving like journalists, but rather WH's own press team, always in damage control mode.

I don't recall the degree of whataboutery in previous administrations that we are seeing with Trump's. That's one reason why I think it has become a conscious, deliberate tactic. Also it works for the Trumpsters in a way that it does not for those outside that bubble.