Recall that early on the whitehouse set up its internal press corp styled organization. It was like a filter between the press (HA), and the public. They sifted the info and put out their own news. Rhodes is saying exactly what happened i.e. the Obama News Agency simply puts out press releases to the various fellow travelers and they print it as gospel. No one dare asks, nor has the intellect to question, anything. Right out of the 1984.
Now, while the media is made up of a bunch of liberal simpletons, we SUPPOSEDLY have a branch of government that is supposed to oppose or at least question what the Executive is doing. Crickets. Worse, rubber stamps.
Liars lie that is what they do. We have a government of criminals and other lawless neer-do-wells.