Chasing rabbits rather than whales by the media

[Value Buy]

Watch this clip for some giggles. 

insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/06/liberal-media-trump-white-house-chasing-rabbits-missing-whales-gutfeld

[Tennesseer]

Ho hum.

In other news, a Fox male host seems to be sending pictures of his woodpecker.

The decline of Fox news.

[Value Buy]

Joe Scarborough must have gotten pissed off when he realized Trump would not nominate him or Mika for a Cabinet seat when they politiced for him on their show for a year!                               
 www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/scarborough-to-jared-and-ivanka-move-back-to-new-york/ar-AApq3xT

[Opti]

Where is the RW media on these alleged whales? The economy is basically the continuation of Obama policies. It appears the ISIS strategy is mostly a continuation of Obama policies with the addition of Trump letting the generals do what they want without his input.

nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/trump-rejected-isis-plan-because-it-was-similar-to-obamas.html

Or, perhaps, the president just has little interest in telling the public what his military plans are, and says “that’s coming in two weeks” to literally any policy proposal he’s ever asked about.

But the Daily Beast suggests an alternative answer. The outlet notes that U.S. forces have removed 50 top ISIS leaders from the battlefield since Trump took office — down from 80, in the last six months of Obama’s tenure. Further, the militants killed on Trump’s watch have generally been lower-ranking than those targeted by the previous administration.

These facts don’t reflect the inferiority of the Trump administration’s anti-ISIS strategy so much as the sufficiency of the strategy it inherited: The military is simply running out of high-value ISIS targets to kill. Under Obama, the U.S. military was effectively wiping out ISIS’s leadership.

To review, the Trump administration’s vision for fighting ISIS differs from its predecessor’s in two key ways:

1) This White House believes in giving greater autonomy to its military commanders, thereby enabling them to make the best tactical decisions, unencumbered by petty political concerns.

2) It also believes in asking its generals to alter their strategic plans, not because the administration doubts their military efficacy, but solely because it finds them difficult to “brand.”

[Value Buy]

Aug 7, 2017 13:26:58 GMT -5 Opti said:

Where is the RW media on these alleged whales? The economy is basically the continuation of Obama policies. It appears the ISIS strategy is mostly a continuation of Obama policies with the addition of Trump letting the generals do what they want without his input.

nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/trump-rejected-isis-plan-because-it-was-similar-to-obamas.html

Or, perhaps, the president just has little interest in telling the public what his military plans are, and says “that’s coming in two weeks” to literally any policy proposal he’s ever asked about.

But the Daily Beast suggests an alternative answer. The outlet notes that U.S. forces have removed 50 top ISIS leaders from the battlefield since Trump took office — down from 80, in the last six months of Obama’s tenure. Further, the militants killed on Trump’s watch have generally been lower-ranking than those targeted by the previous administration.

These facts don’t reflect the inferiority of the Trump administration’s anti-ISIS strategy so much as the sufficiency of the strategy it inherited: The military is simply running out of high-value ISIS targets to kill. Under Obama, the U.S. military was effectively wiping out ISIS’s leadership.

To review, the Trump administration’s vision for fighting ISIS differs from its predecessor’s in two key ways:

1) This White House believes in giving greater autonomy to its military commanders, thereby enabling them to make the best tactical decisions, unencumbered by petty political concerns.

2) It also believes in asking its generals to alter their strategic plans, not because the administration doubts their military efficacy, but solely because it finds them difficult to “brand.”

Bolded is mine.
A continuation? you have to be kidding. Even msm is giving Trump kudos for doing something over there. Letting generals run a war effort makes some sense. If only Obama would have thought of that......