[Robert A Cook PE]

Original thread, as requested.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568460/posts?q=1&&page=1#1

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"Any time they are yelling, preaching, lecturing, and you are cool and calm and breathing deep, you are winning," the administration official said the White House team told Judge Alito. "What that means on television sets where the American people are watching this is, you look good and they look bad. It was the central operating premise."

I don't see the problem.

In the first sentence the speaker is relaying what someone else said. In the second & third sentences, he is speaking for himself and explaining the strategy.