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White House uses Web against Drudge attack (Healthcare scare)
AP via Yahoo ^ | Aug 4, 2009 | AP

Posted on 08/04/2009 6:24:38 AM PDT by Islander7

WASHINGTON – The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting that claims to show President Barack Obama explaining how his health care reform plans eventually would eliminate private insurance.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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In the video Douglas says the site is "taking sentences and phrases out of context, and they're cobbling them together to leave a very false impression."


1 posted on 08/04/2009 6:24:39 AM PDT by Islander7
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To: Islander7
I saw that video before the election last year.

People just do not pay attention.

2 posted on 08/04/2009 6:25:56 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: Islander7

Ha ha! Except in this case, any White House success might just highlight the video—which does well expose Obama on the issue.


3 posted on 08/04/2009 6:26:36 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Islander7

What a conspiracy theorist. Next thing you know she will be asking the one to show her his birth certificate.

Where does he find these people?


4 posted on 08/04/2009 6:27:25 AM PDT by vg0va3 (I don't plan to quit the fight until it is finally over.)
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To: Islander7

Obama’s useful idiots have been posting this all over the Web.

They are such liars. Everyone, excluding those with their heads in their rear-ends, knew Obama wanted a single payor nationalized system.


5 posted on 08/04/2009 6:27:28 AM PDT by KansasGirl ( Obama's heroes have always been left-wing radicals.)
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To: Islander7

That’s what they always say, whether it’s Pastor Wright or whatever. Usually if you hear the entire context it’s even worse then first shown.


6 posted on 08/04/2009 6:28:01 AM PDT by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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To: Islander7

Nice try, Zero. FAIL! You said what you said. Period. You can’t spin this one.


7 posted on 08/04/2009 6:28:49 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: Islander7

It is the way of the left.
“Lie first, and if that fails, tell a bigger lie”


8 posted on 08/04/2009 6:29:10 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Islander7

The Obama Propaganda Machine is in full cover mode. It is a powerful machine, being aided by network “news” organizations and print press.

We are in for the fight of our lives.


9 posted on 08/04/2009 6:31:04 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Islander7

Druge should post the entire clip if it is available.


10 posted on 08/04/2009 6:32:36 AM PDT by Crooked Constituent
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To: SoFloFreeper

Michelle Malkin has a list of the Healthcare Townhalls:

http://teapartypatriots.org/TownHalls.aspx


11 posted on 08/04/2009 6:32:59 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: BunnySlippers

More here...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2009/08/grassroots-uprising.html


12 posted on 08/04/2009 6:36:25 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: mware; All

I find rather strange that Drudge was targeted. Don’t these morons know Drudge is nothing more than a news aggregator?


13 posted on 08/04/2009 6:38:26 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7

White House to America: Don’t believe your lying ears.


14 posted on 08/04/2009 6:39:07 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Islander7

Whenever the Whitehouse goes on the offensive... everyone present should chant, “LIAR... LIAR... LIAR”

LLS


15 posted on 08/04/2009 6:39:19 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: Islander7

16 posted on 08/04/2009 6:42:49 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs.)
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To: Islander7

Watch more of the propaganda from this morning with BILL ADAIR PolitiFact Editor, talk about his ‘truth-o-meter’ toward the end of the program.

Topic: Bill Adair talked about PolitiFact’s efforts to fact-check Congress, the Obama Administration, politics, and as the media. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications.

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=288224-1


17 posted on 08/04/2009 6:43:54 AM PDT by anglian (0bama's Stealth Reparations: "Mouthfulls of 'Gimme' and handfulls of 'Much 0bliged'")
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To: traderrob6

I didn’t see any list of Townhalls on your link. Do you have a more direct link?


18 posted on 08/04/2009 6:45:28 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Islander7

How exactly is the White House spinning Obama’s statement about eliminating employer coverage? I know they say it was out of context.....but what context do they claim?


19 posted on 08/04/2009 6:46:08 AM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: Islander7

Ahh, the old “cherry-picking” defense.

Unfortunately, with the Internet the old adage “who you gonna believe me, or your own lying eyes” has never been more relevant


20 posted on 08/04/2009 6:47:10 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: Islander7

I am so amused (mostly angry though) by this phrase that so many pols use to excuse what the heck ever “out of context”. But here I have to ask, context of what???


21 posted on 08/04/2009 6:47:46 AM PDT by SaintDismas
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To: BunnySlippers

Those were a few new ones that MM didn’t have. She’s got 4 on her site.


22 posted on 08/04/2009 6:48:17 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: xcamel

The SEIU rent-a-mobs will be on overtime this month.


23 posted on 08/04/2009 6:48:22 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Islander7
"claims to show" (per the story)

It DOES show Obama touting nationalized, single-payer, government-run health care.
24 posted on 08/04/2009 6:50:31 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Islander7

Douglass confirmed her new position when I walked up to the ninth floor, knocked on her door, and asked her about it. She informed National Journal President Suzanne Clark this morning of her impending departure. “I see this as a moment of transformational change in the country and I have spent my lifetime sitting on the sidelines watching people attempt to make change. I just decided that I can’t sit on the sidelines anymore.”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/05/21/douglass-joins-obamas-campaign-reported-left-abc-cbs


25 posted on 08/04/2009 6:54:47 AM PDT by maggief
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To: St. Louis Conservative

That the man speaking was only following the orders of the totus


26 posted on 08/04/2009 6:55:24 AM PDT by italianquaker (“Every inch of this Administration is rife with corruption and cronyism.” --- Michelle Malkin)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

That the man speaking was only following the orders of the totus


27 posted on 08/04/2009 6:55:26 AM PDT by italianquaker (“Every inch of this Administration is rife with corruption and cronyism.” --- Michelle Malkin)
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To: Islander7

Typical AP, carrying water for Osama again.

This article isn’t even an article. It’s a press statement put out by the White House and regurgitated by the AP.

Nothing about the original video showing Osama saying how private insurance will go out of business, it’s simply states it is all a sham to harm Osama.


28 posted on 08/04/2009 6:58:20 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
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To: VeniVidiVici; All

I am sure glad to see my tax dollars used to attack a citizen who linked to a web video made by another citizen.

“Chilling” is the minimum I can use to describe this.


29 posted on 08/04/2009 7:07:26 AM PDT by KRyanJames
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To: mware; All

This was just addressed on FOX. They played the videos of 0bama and the ‘denial’ from Douglas. LOL! 0bama is on video so how can they deny it. LOL!!


30 posted on 08/04/2009 7:10:12 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7

Too late Obama. I sent the link to the video to Glenn Beck.


31 posted on 08/04/2009 7:13:48 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Islander7

It is pretty hard to refute an actual video of Obama saying that his goal is a socialized health care system on not one but at least two occasions. The White House spin doctors and media managers do not yet control all of the media and it is very easy to find irrefutable proof of what Obama said and get it to the public. I think some in the MSM are jealous of how they are being scooped by the new media, but cannot do anything because the higher ups are under Rahm Emmanual’s thumb.


32 posted on 08/04/2009 7:32:26 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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To: Islander7

Obviously, it’s all about Obama. Good to know that my tax dollars are being used to prop up Obama instead of supporting our nation.


33 posted on 08/04/2009 7:41:44 AM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

For such an articulate man, he sure spends a lot of time trying to tell us what he REALLY meant to say.


34 posted on 08/04/2009 7:42:19 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: vg0va3

The “healthers” won’t be questioned in the media. There won’t be idiotorials saying how stupid they make the Democrat party look.


35 posted on 08/04/2009 7:43:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: Islander7
Meanwhile....

Snooping for clunkers: Government trades car credits for access to computer files

36 posted on 08/04/2009 7:45:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: a fool in paradise

Good point!


37 posted on 08/04/2009 7:46:51 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

zero always says “i should have phrased it this way” as if we’re never to take his first statement at face. Hes a walking talking do over machine.


38 posted on 08/04/2009 7:52:31 AM PDT by wiggen
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To: Islander7; All

This was just the lead item on FOX!

Drudge has linked directly to the videos. Things are about to get very interesting.


39 posted on 08/04/2009 11:26:05 AM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Islander7

Remember the “wither on the vine” ads the rats launched against the Republicans where they edited out the entire context of Newt’s speech about medicare reform? Screw the rats. It’s about time the Republicans got the spine to finally abandon the Marquis of Queensbury rules and fight dirty.


40 posted on 08/04/2009 11:34:57 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

“....It’s about time the Republicans got the spine to finally abandon the Marquis of Queensbury rules and fight dirty....”

Amen! They set the rules, we can and should use their own methods against them.


41 posted on 08/04/2009 12:04:20 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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