Make-believe "political" strategists of TV

[Cosmic Kitten]

[font size="18"][font color="red"]H[/font][/font]ere's what it looks like when the "manipulators"
are out manipulated by the MSM.

A 2006 article at Politico illustrates the absurdity
and blatant manipulation of voters perceptions
through the use of perceived authority.

MSM frequently presents people as "authorities"
or "insiders" using the term "analyst" or "strategist".
Truth be known, even the supposed "analysts" don't believe their own hype!
However, the "real" manure shoveler are upset that the MSM's
BS shovelers are injecting their own spin before the
"bona fide" strategists can spread their talking points.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=BC9D1553-3048-5C12-00F5BE5F28096DD0

Jane Fleming Kleeb went on “The O’Reilly Factor” two weeks ago to talk about global warming, a topic on which, by her own admission, she’s hardly an expert. So who, then, is Jane Fleming Kleeb? Well, according to the Chyron that flashed across the screen after Bill O’Reilly introduced her, she is a “Democratic strategist.” But she’s hardly that, either.

“The first time they called me a strategist,” Fleming Kleeb recalls, “I literally laughed on TV.”

Interesting? How did that happen?

She kept a straight face this time, however, because she has grown accustomed to the misbegotten label. It all started in 2006, when Fleming Kleeb, the deputy director of Young Voter PAC, was asked to appear on MSNBC and Fox to talk about young voters. She did well enough in those early forays that she was soon brought back on the air to discuss a wider range of political matters.

Thus, Fleming Kleeb was anointed a “Democratic strategist” and made regular appearances on cable news shows as such, before decamping from Washington for Nebraska, where her husband is running for a U.S. Senate seat. She now makes about one appearance per week via satellite feed from the heartland.

Oh, that makes sense in a disingenuous manipulative way
But what do "real" strategists think about all that??

“I think it’s absurd,” says Ed Rollins, a bona fide strategist who has held high-ranking positions in numerous Republican presidential campaigns. “Everyone calls themselves a strategist. I have been doing this for 40 years, I know most of the players, and I go on these shows and think, ‘Who are these people?’”

“It’s like Noah’s ark. There are a couple of these people, a couple of those people, with no skill and no real analytical ability.”

Yeah Ed, that's right!
Who are these people?
Well Ed, they are people who look good AND....
will say EXACTLY what the MSM expects them to say!
You know, spout talking points favorable to their paymaster.

Of course, the very benefit of bringing a strategist on the air is to break through the echo chamber of talking points.
“If you are a professional political strategist,” says CNN Political Director Sam Feist, “this is what you’ve done for your career. You have worked on a campaign or been a significant member of a campaign team.”

Aparently the problem the "bona fide strategists" have with
"fake" strategists is that they are in competition for talking points.
The paid political, bona fide strategist, want to frame the issues
and control the narrative while the fake strategists are hired guns
for the MSM that undercut the party narrative. Interesting.

Meanwhile, we are awash in electronic media propaganda...