A Star No Longer
By Mitch Berg
Passing all that “fishy” dissent about Obamacare. Dishing all those facts at all those kool-aid-sotted neo-socs. All those blog posts, talk shows, tea parties. All that dissent.
All for nothing, as the White House shuts down “flag@whitehous.gov”:
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.”
Well, at least America’s party informers still have an outlet.
August 18th, 2009 at 7:46 am
You wouldn’t want anybody to disturb your fantasies about death panels and whatnot.
August 18th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Of all the constants in the universe, it’s comforting to know AC will always be around to cast about his “unique” ideas of what constitutes the minds of Mitch Berg and his readers.
August 18th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Don’t forget, Obama can never delete those emails. They’re now official government records and can never be deleted, so if you flagged yourself you’re a part of a permanent historical record.
August 18th, 2009 at 9:07 am
I reported Clownie to Flag. I said he was a gun nut who hates black folk and poor people.
Just trying to help.
August 18th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Palin really got to AC, didn’t she? Death panel here, death panel on another thread. I picture the Clown in his apartment, storming around like Kenneth Mars in The Producers, tending to his pigeons while he spends his days muttering “death panels” in same way Mars was muttering “Churchill.”
August 18th, 2009 at 9:31 am
The real reason they shut it down was the WH staffer in charge of reading all those emails found out about a great way to pay for Obama-care through a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to bail-out the family of a deceased Nigerian billionaire. Even though the staffer, as instructed, didn’t tell anyone about the plan the whole thing came to light when he gave the Nigerian attorney the account number of the “lockbox” – and the Nigerians discovered there was nothing in there but IOUs. They are now filing a class action suit against the U.S.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:04 am
When Dennis Kucinich starts talking about big corporate media & their right wing slant, he’s roundly ignored by the opposition. Why? Because he is of no consequence, why bother?
When Palin coins the term “death panel” to describe the various forms of rationing, (some which are laid out in this bill, some that are not but will inevitably be instituted as resources become more rare) The Neo-Socs & the “corporate” media goes into an apoplectic seizure.
Why? Because Palin is a threat.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:34 am
“Why? Because Palin is a threat. ”
It really is amazing to see somebody rule the entire free world through a facebook account.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Imagine you bring a plate of cookies to work and leave them in the break room with a sign saying “$1.00 each.” Assuming scrupulously honest co-workers, how many cookies are left on the plate at day’s end?
If the sign said “Free Cookies,” what result?
If the sign said “Free Cookies upon Cookie Committee approval” but the Cookie Committee was all Risk Management legal staff?
In every situation where there are limited goods but potentially unlimited demand, there must be a mechanism to decide who gets the goods, whether it’s rationing by price, by fiat, by lottery, etc. All the Hope in the world can’t Change the laws of economics.
Alter the hypothetical: instead of cookies, they’re doctors appointments, or prescriptions, or MRIs, or surgeries. Which method of rationing would you prefer to see employed?
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August 18th, 2009 at 11:42 am
I sure hope my name got in the database before they shut it down!
I never got my confrimation that I became a member of the enemies list!
August 18th, 2009 at 11:43 am
To insure some reduction in desirability (albeit a small reduction), we could make sure some of the MRIs are not chocolate MRIs… or prescriptions without chocolate filling.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
What is this “neo-soc” of which you speak, Mitch? Methinks it be a new cudgel with which one might work about the head and shoulders of yesterday’s moonbats.
Me thinks we like it.
August 18th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Personally, I think I used it a few times against Peeve’s incoherent rants on the neo-cons in his closet. I hope the term goes viral!
August 18th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
It should be obvious by now that if we had had a Democrat president and congress on 9/11, and they had decided to go to war against Afghanistan and Iraq, they would have rammed the war resolutions through on a party line vote and immediately began to demonize Republicans for ‘standing in the way’ and being the party of ‘no’.
August 18th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
And there is this:
Obama Campaign Ad Firms Signed On to Push Health-Care Overhaul
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By Timothy J. Burger
Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) — Two firms that received $343.3 million to handle advertising for Barack Obama’s White House run last year have profited from his top priority as president by taking on his push for health-care overhaul.
One is AKPD Message and Media, the Chicago-based firm headed by David Axelrod until he left last Dec. 31 to serve as a senior adviser to the president. Axelrod was Obama’s top campaign strategist and is now helping sell the health-care plan. The other firm is Washington-based GMMB Campaign Group, where partner Jim Margolis was also an Obama strategist.
This year, AKPD and GMMB received $12 million in advertising business from Healthy Economy Now, a coalition that includes the Washington-based Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA, that is seeking to build support for a health-care overhaul, said the coalition’s spokesman, Jeremy Van Ess.
Hiring Obama’s campaign advisers makes sense, said Julius Hobson, a senior policy adviser in the Washington office of the St. Louis-based law firm, Bryan Cave LLP.
“If you’re in support of the president, then you use the people he used,” said Hobson, 61, who teaches a graduate course in lobbying at George Washington University in Washington.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aV3dLt6wmZH4
343 million is real chunk of change. Most people would consider themselves blessed if, through hard work and sacrifice, they accumulated a million bucks for their retirement.
I gotta give the clown credit. Most of the other lefty commenters at SITD have given up since they discovered that what they thought was prime rib was, in fact, dog turds.
Howzabout tendering AC a co-blogging spot, Mitch? Or maybe Penigma or Dog Gone? I’d love to see these true believers defend some of President Obama’s the way you have defended some of W’s.
August 20th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
“Alter the hypothetical: instead of cookies, they’re doctors appointments, or prescriptions, or MRIs, or surgeries. Which method of rationing would you prefer to see employed?”
Duuuuhhh. Inner Party membership would be dispositive.