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United states is the moment when they first use american military. that is a decisive use of american power. we not only took out a syrian air force pace base, we took out a terrorist air strip. that montage from media matters was just a small sampling of the media s fawning praise of donald trump s air strikes in syria. joining me now, eric bolart and joe conson. thank you for beinger who. dan rather had some worst and thoughts about this whole thing. and he wrote in part, the number of members of the press who have lauded the actions last night as presidential s concerning, war must never be considered a public relations operation. its full impact is impossible to predict, especially in the wake of the first strike. isn t the reality back to the first gulf war, the first time we saw embeds, reporters put into the mission so that they almost felt like a part of it. it is a way for an
As the greatest threat to national security. 87% of americans say it s a serious threat. you re doing an entire special on how isis really blind sided the world. that poll is a fascinating one because it shows that isis has won in one of its most important realms which is the publicity campaign the pr front. they want you to think they are the scariest baddest terrorist organization in the world. it s working, though, apparently fareed. they ve killed a handful of americans. yet, they have managed to scare the hell out of everyone. and that is partly you know that s largely a product of a very sophisticated media operation, public relations operation, social media operation, and we get into that in the special. but look the reality of isis and the ability of it to portray itself in this way are two