White House uses Web Against The Drudge Report Attack on Health Care Reform Misstatements

The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting on The Drudge Report 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. The right wing 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. It is quite obvious, as Douglass states, that the site is "taking sentences and phrases out of context, and they're cobbling them together to leave a very false impression."

The right wing is deliberately twisting the truth in so many ways. According to White House Briefing Room blog, the President has consistently said that if you like your insurance plan, your doctor, or both, you will be able to keep them.  He has even proposed eight consumer protections relating specifically to the health insurance industry. If you don't agree with the proposal that's one thing, but to deliberately misstate the statements of the president is another.