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On the Media

Out Like Flynn

On the Media

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4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Has this week's resignation of General Flynn from his position as National Security Adviser thrown the White House media machine (momentarily) off its axis?

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0:00.0

Ever been to the ocean?

0:08.0

A wave comes at you poised and powerful doing its all to knock you off your feet, and then it breaks.

0:19.4

Immediately dissipating its energy as the very next wave gathers behind it.

0:25.0

One after another, after another.

0:28.3

Who remembers wave number six?

0:31.1

Nobody.

0:32.8

I've just described the Trump administration strategy for controlling the media narrative.

0:39.1

From Mexican rapists to groping women to voter fraud to the bloody but non-existent Bowling Green massacre,

0:46.6

one forceful lie or outrage is washed over by the next and the next.

0:53.0

Repeal and replace all day, every day.

0:57.1

But not this time.

0:58.8

All right, we're back now with our breaking news, and this is big breaking news, because

1:02.7

according to two sources, they're telling CNN that Michael Flynn has resigned.

1:08.9

The Trump administration faces a high-level shake-up after less than a month in office.

1:12.6

The president's national security advisor, General Michael Flynn, suddenly resigned late last night.

1:17.6

This follows questions about his conversations with Russian officials during the presidential transition.

1:23.6

When a month ago, now ex-national security advisor Michael Flynn,

1:28.3

was revealed to have conversed before inauguration

1:31.8

with the Russian ambassador to Washington

1:34.4

and possibly discussed U.S. sanctions,

1:38.0

the Trump team issued a series of flat denials

1:40.7

that anything untoward had taken place.

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