Sell Out Your Friends And Lovers To The White House 'Enemies List'

Here's a rapid response Astroturfing e-mail your editors received this afternoon from a PR assistant named "Kevin McVicker." Kevin writes, "Citizens for the Republic, a national grassroots organization, is responding to the Whitehouse’s heavy handed tactic of trying to compile information on those that are critical of the President’s healthcare plan. This is a vital free speech issue. Please contact me to arrange an interview with one of our spokesmen." As we alluded to in the earlier post about that slobbery fart-bag Fred Thompson's Twitter, this notion of the "enemies list" has become the hot new well-funded wingnut con-job from Republican operatives over the last 24 hours. Use it or lose it!

This stems from the Democrats' recent pushback against the anti-health care reform movement's operation to (a) shout violent nonsense at town hall meetings and (b) spread lies to America's stupid old people about how the government will first "take over their Medicare" and then murder each of them, for pleasure, well before that first sniffle becomes a full-blown cold or pancreatic cancer. On Tuesday, a writer for the "White House blog" wrote the following about how to keep tabs on all the misinformation ("disinformation") constantly landing in the inboxes of America's stupidest and most selfish specimens:

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.

Add some flour, three eggs, and a teaspoon of vanilla extract, wait one day, and we have this:  

Texas Sen. John Cornyn, accusing the White House of compiling an "enemies list," has asked President Barack Obama to stop an effort to collect "fishy" information Americans see about a health care overhaul.

Cornyn, who leads the Republicans' Senate campaign effort, said Wednesday in a letter to Obama that he's concerned that citizen engagement on the issue could be "chilled." He also expressed alarm that the White House could end up collecting electronic information on its critics.

Wait another few hours, and we get Kevin McVicker's e-mail:

“In true Nixonian style, President Barack Obama cannot tolerate criticism or even the notion that his cherished Government Health Care Plan may go down to defeat,” said Stephen Manfredi, Executive Director of Citizens for the Republic. “By urging citizens to turn in those who oppose the Administration’s healthcare plan, he is summoning the tactics of Richard Nixon, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and the paranoia of Oliver Stone.

“Imagine, the very idea of dropping a dime on fellow citizens dredges up some of the most bleak episodes in American history, from Colonial times when King George III’s rule was absolute to George Orwell’s 1984, where citizens were monitored by Big Brother.

Oh my god.

Well, if there's going to be an Enemies List, might as well use it!

It's a start.

 Cornyn accuses White House of compiling 'enemies list' [Dallas Morning News]

 Facts Are Stubborn Things [White House Blog]