Commenting on the wave of terrorist attacks in the New York region, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest described the fight against the Islamic State terrorist group Monday as "in some ways just a war of narratives."
"We know that a lot of this radical ideology that ISIL is trying to propagate is being spread online," Earnest said on MSNBC's Morning Joe. "And so we want to make sure that we're getting out our counter-narrative against ISIL, and we're having some progress, we're making some progress."
Earnest employed the word "narrative" seven times in the interview to describe White House policy toward ISIS.