The White House web site recently posted a blog entry on the difficulty the White House is having with rumors and misinformation spreading on the internet about Heath Care Reform efforts.\u00a0 It’s evidently hindering the effort so much, that the blog entry provided an email address to report misinformation to the White House.<\/p>\n
What ?!?!<\/p>\n
Obviously everyone concerned about Big Brother behavior in the current administration is jumping all over the post and, no offense, all the criticism is justified.\u00a0 But, I’d like to point out a few things to everyone jumping all over this post.<\/p>\n
But the request on the web site is really laughable: this is not a connected administration when it comes to common sense.\u00a0 If they think they have a tough time sorting through the masses of misinformation on the net, now numerous people will report the same thing via an “email” message. How long do you think it will take until that mailbox gets saturated and also becomes too much to sort through?\u00a0 Yeah, THAT will help! We can only hope its all goes directly to an account on Obama’s Blackberry.<\/p>\n
So that brings me to this point for you, the White House staff… Why are you asking for this information?\u00a0 It really makes you look like goofs for two reasons.\u00a0 First, asking for leads to misinformation is a very defensive step.\u00a0 Could it be that your offense is exhausted?\u00a0 It wouldn’t surprise me: you didn’t have much to begin with.\u00a0 Second, you clearly admit that you’re overwhelmed by the amount of “mis”-information, just like the country is overwhelmed by the volume and scope of this bill, and its outrageous deadline and high-pressure tactics that you’ve imposed to push it through.\u00a0 You’re now a victim of your own tactics.<\/p>\n
One final thing… I do believe that it is important to help the government determine where misinformation is occurring.\u00a0 So I am recommending that everyone who sees it send you an email when they see it…<\/p>\n