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ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: Flag at WhiteHouse dot Gov - Very Troubling (8/8/2009 8:40:04 AM)
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
I have a problem with this. I have a great big fucking problem with the idea that the White House wants to "keep track" of people who question what the President says. The government is asking us to report our friends, neighbors and co-workers.
I say "Oh, HELL no!"
"Hell no" is right, because the way you're describing that webpage is 100% pure, absolute bullshit. There is nothing in there - not one fucking word - that asks people to "report our friends, neighbors, and co-workers." Not one word. You're just making that up. What the paragraph says, in excruciatingly clear English, is that there are so many people out there spreading idiotic and hysterical lies about health care reform (and, obviously, so many people gullible enough to believe them), they need a little help in getting the word out. And they're asking people who hear these idiotic rumors to pass the rumors on so the Administration can publically counter these lies and misconceptions. Not one word about "keeping track of people who question what the president says." That's just complete fantasy.
They could not possibly have been more clear about what they were asking. I mean, for christ's sake, that page was written at about the 5th-grade comprehension level. The fact that a grown man could read that "see Jane run" language and still completely misinterpret it as something so far removed from what it really says (and then spread that total bullshit on the internet, as you're doing) speaks volumes about the problem they're up against. You can only dumb something down so much; as long as there are people out there who insist on completely distorting it and misrepresenting it, these stupid, paranoid rumors are never going to stop.
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