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THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG THE BLOG TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2009 AT 6:55 AM Facts Are Stubborn Things Posted by Macon Phillips Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, "facts are stubborn things." Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to "uncover" the truth about the President’s health insurance reform positions. In this video, Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, addresses one example that makes it look like the President intends to...

Here is video of Fox News' Megyn Kelly today talking to White House Spokesperson for Health Care, Linda Douglass. Kelly pressed her on the issue of "Tort Reform," asking what Obama is going to do about the frivolous lawsuits that are a huge factor in driving up the costs of Health Care. When Douglass refused to address the question, Megyn Kelly said "with all due respect, talk is cheap." Later, after Douglass gave another non-answer, Kelly said "I didn't hear an answer there." She also called Douglass on her assertion that the majority of Americans support the Democrats' plan for...

By Mark Finkelstein | August 18, 2009 - 21:09 If Napoleon was right about not interfering with an [in this case political] enemy in the process of destroying itself, this could be a time for Republicans to lay low. According to Ed Schultz, the left could be on the verge of an anti-Obama crack-up. On his MSNBC show this evening, Schultz said to the face of a senior admin official that the left is seriously considering dumping support for the president. Schultz's guest was reporter-turned-Obama-spokesman Linda Douglass. The point of Schultz's exercise was to hold Obama's feet to the fire...

Are you wary of the federal government using taxpayer dollars to advise senior citizens on "end-of-life" issues? If so, you're just "cruel," according to former ABC reporter Linda Douglass, now the communications director for the White House Office of Health Reform. Douglass appeared on MSNBC's Aug. 12 "Dr. Nancy," with host Nancy Snyderman. Snyderman pointed out that some of the discussion about end-of-life care is just craziness and these "rumors" are difficult to combat (even though there is precedent for governments involved heavily in health care to take such measures, as Michelle Malkin pointed out.) ...more (w/video)...

The White House's Linda Douglass says it is cruel to prevent seniors from making end of life decisions.

And the Arthur Sylvester Award for Lying in Service to the Government goes to…Linda Douglass, the Obama communications director for the White House Office of Health Care Reform. Who was Arthur Sylvester and for what did Ms. Douglass, a former ABC News reporter, win this dubious award? Arthur Sylvester was once the one-man Washington bureau for the Newark Evening News, a prominent New Jersey newspaper that folded in the early 1970s. He had the good fortune to be one of a handful of journalists covering an underdog presidential candidate in the early stages of a presidential race, when access to...

White House 'Reality Check’ Web Site Claims Health Care Reform ‘Would Not Add One Penny to Deficit’ Despite CBO Reports to Contrary CNSNews.com) – A new Web site launched Monday by the Obama administration to rebut alleged disinformation about the administration's efforts to reform the health care system claims that reform “would not add one penny to the deficit"--despite the fact that the two health care reform bills that have been analyzed by the Congressional Budget Office are predicted by the CBO to increase the national debt by $239 billion and $1.042 trillion respectively. The administration, meanwhile, has not produced...

"...There is no list being compiled...the information is not being retained..the sources are not being tracked..." Federal Law requires the White House to save and archive all of its communications.

LInda Douglass is a former ABC journalist who is now spreading propaganda for socialized medicine.

Battle of health care videos 8:01Reliable Sources: W.H. wades into war of YouTube videos about health care. Howard Kurtz talks to Linda Douglass.

Douglass stands by W.H. effort to gather 'fishy' health information @ 4:49 pm by Jordan Fabian Obama administration official Linda Douglass on Sunday dismissed claims that the White House has tried to compile an "enemies list" and censor debate on healthcare reform legislation. Last week, the White House made a blog post accusing opponents of spreading "disinformation" on healthcare and encouraged supporters to submit "fishy" information floating around the internet. "We don't have a list we're not keeping any of the sources of information those are all crazy charges," said Douglass, who is Communications Director of the White House Office...

Here is video of White House Aide Linda Douglass on Reliable Sources today defending her attack on a video showing President Obama in his own words saying he wants to move America to a single-payer system. Douglass called the video "disinformation," when actually it simply used Obama's own words against him. Even Reliable Sources Host Howard Kurtz said he was "skeptical" that using a person's own words could be called "disinformation." Kurtz also challenged Douglass on the White House's solicitation of citizens to send in examples of opposition to Government Health Care via email. She denied that the White House...

The White House is being blasted for asking supporters to send "fishy" information about the health care reform bill that they have received through rumors, chain e-mails and casual conversations to a White House e-mail address -- the now infamous flag@whitehouse.gov.I was all set to say -- ok, ok, we made our point. This is what liberals would have said if this had been tried during W's administration. No one seriously believes that this is going to create problems for any individual. There isn't going to be an "enemies list" or any such nonsense. There is no need to be paranoid.But then I recalled how...

The Web and the nets are agog with wonder today at the latest attempt at thought policing by a White House and a President that seems to be extraordinarily sensitive to even the appearance of criticism. The latest evidence of this is news that Linda Douglass, Mr. Obama's point person for communications on health care, and her video (posted on the WhiteHouse.gov website) urging all "concerned citizens" -- we assume she means those citizens who voted for Barack Obama -- to send her and the other party apparatchiks staffing what passes for the White House Communications Office these days so-called...

The White House request that members of the public report anyone who is spreading "disinformation" about the proposed national health care makeover could lead to a White House database of political opponents that will be both secret and permanent, according to Republican lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee who are examining the plan's possible implementation. On Monday, White House director of new media Macon Phillips posted a note on the White House web site complaining of "disinformation about health insurance reform." "These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation," Phillips wrote. "Since we...

Chicanery: On health care, taxes and grass-roots protests, the White House seems to be echoing Chico Marx's famous line in the film "Duck Soup": "Who you gonna believe — me or your own eyes?"We may see the video of President Obama telling one labor union that he wants to eliminate private health insurance, and telling another that he is "a proponent of single-payer universal health care coverage . . . that's what I'd like to see." We may hear liberal economists inside and outside the administration warn of the president having to break his middle-class tax pledge. We may behold...

Hello. It’s thirteen o’clock and I’m Linda Douglass speaking to you from the Ministry of Truth. (She holds four fingers up.) You see these fingers? You might think I am holding up four fingers but your lyin’ eyes are taking what you are seeing out of context since I am really holding up five fingers. In the same manner, the videos you have seen of our Glorious Leader stating that he wants single payer health insurance have been taken out of context. Do not believe what your eyes and ears have told you. Those videos that you think you’ve seen...

Here is video of Glenn Beck today spoofing Obama Aide Linda Douglass who accused opponents of ObamaCare of "disinformation." So, Beck unveiled a "disinformation czar" today, who seems to resemble Linda Douglass! . . . . . (Watch Video)

This has to be perhaps the most bizarre KOmmie THREAD I have ever DUFUed, "The White House Combats The Rightwing Crap." Yes, the KOmmies are jublilant that the White House is fighting back against the EVIL disinformation supposedly spread by the videos posted by the Drudge Report. After high fiving each other over the VIDEO response by Linda Douglass, they then let the dirty little not-so-secret out of the bag---That Barack Obama is really in favor of single payer just as the linked videos proved with his own words and that they support Obama because he favors single payer....

WOO! HOO!Your humble correspondent has just beaten Ruslan Chagaev in the ring to become the World Heavyweight Champion! Okay, so maybe Chagaev wasn't even in the ring with me because I was only shadow boxing. However, I can count on Peter Nicholas of the Los Angles Times to report my victory despite my lack of an opponent in the ring.That is pretty much how Nicholas reported the "victory" by Linda Douglass in his story, White House rebuts Drudge Report link. Instead of the non-existent Chagaev in the ring, there were the missing Drudge videos which appear neither via link nor...