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Dos Equis-pert Opinion – POLITICO

If it is working so wonderfully, how is this possible?!

Okay now, they have gone ahead and done it: the press relies on this tactic so often that they have required us to create a new category. We now will have to tabulate the times journalists weave a narrative by finding “experts” who will back up their slant on a particular news item.

The trick here, if it is not already known, is for a reporter to go “expert shopping,” and find a couple of self-described authorities on a topic. They may contact any number of these elevated thinkers, but so long as they find a pair who agree with the premise that is sufficient for the use of “experts say,” and then their claims are ironclad.

For the latest, we have criticism of the Affordable Care Act expenses exploding — in complete defiance of its name and the claims made about it. Since this failed-from-the-start policy bears Barack Obama’s name, the need is to spin this as something President Trump has caused. 

Enter “the policy experts” that Kelly Hooper and Robert King tracked down, as they dutifully lay the blame in the lap of our current president, and NOT the one who created the fiasco.

Obamacare could collapse under Trump’s new plan, policy experts say

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