With support for ObamaCare dwindling, White House does what it does best: creates a new website
August 10th, 2009 by Rightwing Czar at 12:32 pmIn an attempt to keep things business as usual for Team Barry, it looks like the White House has launched another website so that they can “combat misinformation about [healthcare reform].”
Citing what it calls “a troubling trend” of “wild rumors and scare tactics,” the White House Monday announced the launch of http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/, a new Web page which “focuses on what reform really means for you and your family” and “debunks some common myths along the way,” White House New Media Director Macon Phillips wrote on the official White House blog.
In keeping with President Obama’s use of social networking sites to engage and utilize his network of supporters during his presidential campaign, the new page also provides users with a number of ways to notify their own networks of contacts about the page and its content.
The Web page features half a dozen videos from Obama aides who discuss various aspects of health care reform and it also has a set of “faq’s” or frequently asked questions about health care reform.
I think the only thing Obama has done as frequently as appoint a new czar is create a new website. I mean seriously – is this the best that The Most Intellectual Cabinet Ever can come up with every time there is a problem? How do we give people more faith in the stimulus? Start a website! How can we find out who is dissing healthcare? Post a blog entry! How can we stop healthcare from turning into our Waterloo? Uh.. how about we… uhh.. start a website!
We get it Team Barry: You guys are like, the most, tech-savvy administration ever. You even had your own iPhone app! Wow! You uber-tech trendiness makes me really feel like I can relate to my government. I’m so glad we didn’t elect John McCain because I heard he didn’t even use e-mail or something.
But do the Democrats really think they are going to turn this mess around with a website that repeats the same lies, over and over? If you go to the new “Reality Check” website, it’s a collection of videos defending ObamaCare. And do you know what these super-persuasive videos are? People working for the Obama Administration (or former Obama cronies) saying that what everyone else says about healthcare reform is wrong.
Now tell me, how convincing do you think this is really going to be? Obama has had more than one prime time press conference to defend his attempt to socialize medicine, and the more people hear about it, the more they don’t like it. What good do Obama and his fellow Democrats really think they can do talking about it more and more?
One dominant theme we’ve seen in these exploding town halls is that Americans feel like they are being lied to by supporters of ObamaCare. Don’t get me wrong – people are furious about what’s in the bill – but they’re even more furious about their congressmen lying about it. What’s the logical conclusion here that Obama and crew are missing? The more you say things that people now know are lies, the bigger the whole you are digging. You doubt that’s the case? Try and convince me that people like this guy are going to see the light just because they watched a video where people working for the White House put up a video online.
So good luck, Team Barry. I’m sure your new website is going to work flawlessly. Or, at least as well as Pelosi calling grassroots opponents of the bill Nazis and “un-American” has.