Jon Stewart and Open Source Intelligence.

Robert Steele is a proponent of OSSINT.  Good recent link here.

Jon Stewart is an OSSINT practitioner.  Look at this recent clip.  It is an excellent example of what I describe next.

Jon is devastating targets with their own words.  Words that are Open Source.  All it takes is Intelligence mining of all that Open Source stuff to find the golden needle in the haystack and then stick that needle to the target so exquisitely.  I see it more and more often in what Jon is doing.  A targeted collection of video clips.  

Jon must have an intelligence gathering section or maybe they just call it "the unit"  backing him up with what they find and put together for him.  Targets hoist themselves on their own petard!  Elegant.

The best way to skin a cat is to have it jump out of its own skin.  It is so funny when cats do that.  Jon skins them without even touching them.

It is an effective model.  Look at the reader/viewer comments following Jon at the link.  For example:

"Robert Sloan · University of Washington

Excellent idea. The Dems should run these commercials all through the south, over and over again. Warfare Queens need to be cut off."

I speculate that in the media run up to the next election this model might become the most effective most often used political tool aimed at the opposition:  Their own words.

Always there to be found when they are talking out of both sides their mouths.

With the proliferation of business intelligence software spin off of the NSA to mine big data I wonder if there is a software package marketed to media to do OSSINT intelligence gathering from Big Data Media.

All media video is closed captioned to text and therefore key word searchable in a media Big Data base.  It is the same method that the NSA uses to convert speech to text for searching and linking back to the source meta data and content.  Easy for the Media Big Business to do the same thing.  I expect that what used to be the "Research Department" in big media probably has a new name and a lot of people at monitors using OSSINT sovtware.

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Change of that rule is one thing Republicans would vote for!