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Daily Dish

The Gibbs Doctrine

The Daily Dish
April 2, 2010

"They want 'blow jobs' first [in the press sense]. Then you have to be on good behavior for a bit or be willing to deal, and then you get access," - a White House reporter on how the Obama press operation works.

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