Posted on 02/13/2017 12:35:33 PM PST by Kaslin
For anyone not in the tank for the Democrats, the far-left, or the Nanny-State who would like to witness the absolute gold-standard of how to deal with the biased and increasingly rage-filled anti-Trump media, I urge you to run, not walk, to watch the video of White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller eviscerating George Stephanopoulos from the ABC News “This Week” broadcast this Sunday.
The tape should become required viewing for any Republican, conservative, or faith-based communicators hoping to inject some sanity back into policy debates hijacked by the dishonest, hate-filled, and increasingly inflammatory rhetoric of a growing part of the mainstream media, the “entertainment” industry, and academia.
In full disclosure, in the past, I had a number of pleasant communications with Mr. Stephanopoulos. He in fact could not have been more professional at the time.
That said, like an exponentially growing number of mainstream “journalists,” the election of Donald J. Trump as president has seemingly caused Mr. Stephanopoulos to come completely unhinged as he casts away any pretense of being anything other than anti-Trump.
On election night when it was clear that Mr. Trump was going to win, I honestly thought that Mr. Stephanopoulos was on the verge of tears.
During the just completed interview with Mr. Miller, it was fascinating to see the face of Mr. Stephanopoulos get darker and darker with anger as he realized the senior policy adviser was undressing him item by item on his own national show until he had nothing left to shield his bias and anger against President Trump and his policies.
As one who has interacted with all of these Sunday shows in the past and even appeared on “This Week,” I was actually amazed that they even aired the interview with Mr. Miller which was taped earlier in the morning. Given the embarrassment-factor, it would not have surprised me if ABC News had chosen to delete the interview and melt any devices it existed upon.
Also years ago, as someone who had the honor to work in the Reagan and Bush 41 White Houses and serve as director of communications for former Senator Bob Dole, I used to plead on a regular basis with certain Republican communicators to fight back tooth and nail with the mainstream media when through commission or omission, they purposely twisted conservative or Republican policy, words, or actions to put them in the worst light possible for the American voters.
I was honestly told time and again: “We can’t do that. If we do, they will be even worse to us.”
To that, I would answer: “Are you kidding me? Do you actually watch their broadcasts or read the lies they are spreading? How much worse can it get?”
Back in the day, Bob Dole used to joke to me that, “If World War Three were breaking out tomorrow, the media would still try to ask me about abortion.”
Meaning of course, that no matter what real policy issues had to be instantly dealt with to help the vast majority of Americans, biased “journalists” trying to carry as much water for the Democrats or their utopian visions of a Nanny-State, would always ask questions pre-selected to try damage the Republican or conservative cause.
To his great credit, White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller calls out George Stephanopoulos on this exact point as he suggests the host might want to get back to the pressing issues most cared about by the American people.
As the Trump White House and administration continues to rightfully push back against the “fake news” being created by faux-journalists or even networks, I would offer one piece of advice. That being, as much as possible, only do live interviews.
If not, as evidenced by the orchestrated smearing of then Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in 2008 – and in my opinion, that very good person and governor, was thrown to the wolves by the McCain 2008 communicators – the networks and cable networks can and will slice and dice any interview to delegitimize President Trump and his administration.
Stephen Miller not only defended his boss, but defended “sanity” in the process.
Now that is “Must See TV.”
I watched three interviews by Miller on the Sunday shows.
He was better than anybody else I’ve seen from this White House save Trump himself.
He was a machine gun against pistols.
It will be worth your while to watch him after work.
Kinda small.
He knows his stuff, but he comes off as a wooden-faced automaton reading from a script. After five minutes, I was ready to doze off.
Wow, George really got his panties twisted in a knot!
These questions and answers are clearly scripted from the Democrat playbook set up many years ago and using the same tactics and the same words. very few people push back as well as Miller did in the video.
But he does have a lot of gall.
Well - she's a democrat.
He sure was. How does he do that in a live interview? Someone queuing up the scripts for him based on Stephawhatever's questions?
Bkmk
I prefer Blood-Eagling someone to eviscerating them
Eviscerate is a stupid and non applicable term to this interview. Stephanopoulos is a tough interviewer with the hide of a rhino. Being thick skinned and impervious to criticism is a requirement for being a talking head. Miller did well in stating policy clearly, BUT he appeared mechanical, expressionless and reactive. We have simply got to get it through our heads that the MSM talking heads are the freaking enemy and they deserve nothing but contempt, satire, irony, mockery, humor. Job 1 for any of us being interviewed is to question the legitimacy of the interviewer’s question by preceeding any comment of the substance of the question with an analysis of the question itself, the reasons it is being asked, it’s legitimacy as topical, its undercurrent of carping bias, its habituality, its banality and suggest a better way the question could have been asked The objective is to do what Trump so masterfully does- ATTACK the questioner and the question, delegitimize his techniques attack the ethics of the question, Say straight up in his face “that’s a stupid question” and then “for the following reasons” and enumerate them until the interviewer’s head explodes. Never be on the defensive in an interview, but also don’t express an angry face. Be smiley, superior, professorial, chiding, mocking but never angry. Make the interviewer angry and mention that he seems a little angry or flutered as you answer his quesiont. Be able to talk over his interruptions or bring attention to the fact that being interrupted is bigoted journalism, an attempt at stage managing sound bite. The overarching objective here is to make the MSM news AFRAID to interview Trump’s people because they will get a shovel upside the head every time. ATTACK.
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