How Obama Manipulates The News

jshafer@politico.com (Jack Shafer), Politico
Fri, 05/06/2016 - 4:44pm

For a timely refresher on how political spin works in Washington you can do no better than read David Samuels’ much talked about profile of Ben Rhodes, the Obama administration’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. Although much of the early commentary about the piece is directed at Rhodes personally, with Thomas E.

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