Whatever the merits of the claims made about Fox News by Obama’s communications team, it can be good strategy to pick a fight with your critics. To the very long list of reasons, add this one. If you can make them so angry that they lose the will to say anything at all nice about you, then you have won a major victory. For then they will have lost all (remaining) credibility.
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October 18, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Todd
That doesn’t make any sense at all. Since when is being nice necessary for being honest? And isn’t credibility about honesty? I think the phrase “brutally honest” would suggest that some of the most trusted sources are often some of the harshest critics.
October 18, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Bill
If your critics say bad things about your policies all the time, then they lose credibility as they say bad things even when the truth is not so bad and they should be saying nice things. You have to be honest about the nice thing some of the time to have credibility when you are nasty when you know you should be nice.
October 19, 2009 at 2:56 am
Jim
…unless the truth is always bad, so nice things are never warranted.