While I believe that sometimes or even most of the time, the best answer to a fool is silence, I think Drudge, whom I think is a fool should be checkmated whenever he could became a distraction. On healthcare we can’t leave any stone unturned. With that said,
The White House on Tuesday posted a three-minute video punching back at an old clip of President Barack Obama that was featured on the Drudge Report with the headline "Uncovered Video: Obama Explains How His Health Care Plan Will 'Eliminate' Private Insurance.........
Dan Pfeiffer, the White House deputy communications director, said: "We intend to use a lot of the grassroots viral Internet techniques from the campaign to beat back the campaign of misstatements and outright falsehoods about the president’s efforts to reform health insurance."
The video the White House seeks to rebut, labeled "SHOCK UNCOVERED," was linked by Andrew Breitbart on his video site, Breitbart.tv, after a blogger who calls herself the Naked Empress brought it to his attention.
Dan Pfeiffer, the White House deputy communications director, said: "We intend to use a lot of the grassroots viral Internet techniques from the campaign to beat back the campaign of misstatements and outright falsehoods about the president’s efforts to reform health insurance."
This rapid response was missing in 1994 when Clinton tried it. Then we did not have the DKos, the Grassroots support mechanism and an administration that is disciplined and principled. But we all need to work as hard if not harder than the Rethugs to defeat them.