Stop Snitchin!!
Flag@Whitehouse.gov is no more.
Earlier this month the White House enlisted the citizen “snitch brigade” to rat out fellow citizens about what the White House deemed as misinformation in the healthcare debate. Misinformation such as Sarah Palin’s characterization of the healthcare rationing plan as “death panels”...We have been told that there was nothing to this craziness put forward by Sarah Palin, until oddly enough the provision was removed from the bill late last week. Weird…misinformation? How could it be misinformation if it was promptly removed?
More of the misinformation included the obvious agenda of using the public option as a “foot in the door” towards a single payer, universal healthcare system. This is patently false according to the Great Obama, the government would never do such a thing. He says that he does not want the government meddling into the health affairs of everyday Americans. To imply such would be not only “fishy” but also a conservative Nazi scare tactic to strong arm Americans to not support his initiative. Yet strangely, after weeks of getting hammered in the debate, the administration now says that it does not need the public option. Weird. By the way, I have more to say on this issue, as I believe that backing off the public option is a temporary political move to gauge the leftist’s reaction.
But all this snitching must come to an end. The administration (who by the way never answered any of the tough questions from Senator Cornyn and others) have disabled the email address, which will bounce back a response if you try. You are not apparently supposed to just go to some other taxpayer funded website being used for political purposes.
E-mails to that address now bounce back with the message: “The e-mail address you just sent a message to is no longer in service. We are now accepting your feedback about health insurance reform via http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck.”
The “flag” service was introduced Aug. 4, with a White House blog post saying: “There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”
So for all of you tattle-tales on the left…unfortunately your fun is over. I must admit that I was sending my own stories in just as a small form of resistance to the idiocy of having fellow citizens rat on each other over legitimate dissent and debate. Strange that the wide-ranging list of government agencies started visiting my site shortly after. But I am sure the White House wasn’t keeping score…I mean, thats just more misinformation on my part!
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