White House uses Web against Drudge attack

[babsbunny]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090804/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_health_care

1 hr 45 mins ago
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.

The three-minute White House video features Linda Douglass, a former network television correspondent and now White House Office of Health Reform communications director, sitting in front of a computer screen showing the Drudge Report Web site. That site carries a series of video clips from another blogger who strings together selected Obama statements on health care to make it appear he wants to eliminate the private health insurance business

[Cha]

1. Brilliant..Team Obama is not messing around..

Fight fire with fire or in this case ..the internet with the internet.:bounce:

[Native]

3. It's about time they started to fight back. Excellent!

[Lifelong Protester]

2. good work.

I think these attacks of misinformation need to be answered, and swiftly! IMHO, there should have been immediate pushback on the Swift Boat attacks. I realize some believe you shouldn't get 'down in the dirt' with the attackers, but well thought-out responses like this are a GREAT idea.

[timeforpeace]

4. It might bring huge numbers to Drudge but it's the right tactic.

[NYC_SKP]

5. Yep, and RW websites are posting it for us, call it backpeddling. I love it.

I love Linda Douglass, too!

http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/08/white-house-tries-to-respond-to-video.html

:applause:

[chaplainM]

6. Gettysburg Address, Drudge-style

"...government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall (click!) perish from the earth."

[donheld]

7. k & R