I don't know if you find this series of blogs interesting or not, but I am going to add another one. Have you noticed that when ever there is a press conference and the news people ask a question about some point where they are trying to get "new" information that there is a pattern to the response.
I noticed this with Obama and most of those who work for him. What they do is to lecture the person who asked the question by going on and on explaining the problem. The person asking the question wants "new" information, but what they get is this lecture about what every one already knows. The fact that they keep doing it makes me think that most of the listeners have no idea what is really going on. Did you notice this pattern? The fact that they go on and on telling you what you already know is part of another plan that they have and that is to run out the clock. I know that when you are watching a football game and the team ahead has the ball in the last few minutes or second that they go into a "rope-a-dope" to run out the clock.
What I can't understand is they the person does not pop in and remind the person giving the lecture that they already know all those facts and what they want to know is what the person is going to do or what their opinion is. Frequently the person makes reference to some unknown person to the affect of "this is what they thing". We already know what the average or typical person thinks and what we want to know is what the person thinks. They never seem to want to draw back the curtain and let the questioner really look in. Most of these people work for us so we have a right to know what they are doing.
Keep you eyes open for this "trick" and when it happens try to look behind the "trick" to what they are trying to hide.
