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Reality Check is the new Obama health care reform website. It has been set up to provide the public with the information that the Obama Administration wants us to have regarding the unwieldy health care proposals and apparently to counter the public outrage about the contents of this massive initiative. Read about it below and see some photos and a video.

Barack Obama - Reality Check

First the facts. The Obama health care reform website, Reality Check, is up and running. It has been designed to counter what the Obama administration calls ‘wild rumors’ and ‘disinformation’ about his health care proposals. The website has shareable video clips and a section of FAQ about the proposals. The videos feature Obama’s political aides giving their version of the truth to counter six ‘myths’ about what they call Obama’s health insurance program.

That’s so Orwellian it boggles the imagination. New words for things so we, the People, won’t know what’s going on. Instead of ’socialized medicine’, it’s being called a ‘health insurance program’. They even took out the ‘health care’ part, you know, so we wouldn’t know what they are trying to impose on us.

Sorry, I was going to stick to the nuts and bolts first. So the White House solicited people to turn in contribute information on friends and neighbors who have ‘disinformation’ or believe the ‘rumors’ about what in included in the yet to be completed bill or bills that are at least 1,000 pages long. As we all know, at least those of us who pay attention, the White House got a lot of grief from We the People for this thinly veiled attempt to intimidate people. So there is no indication on the website as to how much of the talking points came from any feedback from the public.

There are plenty of ways to give them the information they are looking for and its displayed prominently on the site. They claim they want to hear from us, yet they use terms and methods that make it pretty clear that they only want to hear from those who agree with them and their plans. For instance, the concerns of The People are addressed with terms like ‘malicious’ and ‘laughable’. The contempt is palpable.

Of course, The People aren’t buying this. The average American is getting angrier and angrier as our representatives ignore us and treat us with contempt. Union thugs in purple shirts have been called out to Town Hall meetings. I guess it’s purple shirts rather than brown shirts this time around. There wasn’t any violence at the meetings until the attempts to quiet The People started, but to listen to the news, one would think the working people who have taken time from their jobs and lives to try to talk with their Senators and Congressmen were angry mobs. Oh, that’s right, they called them ‘angry mobs’.

The upside to all of this is that there is very real evidence that the intimidation tactics are not working. In fact, it seems to be backfiring and The People are getting more and more angry. I hope it doesn’t work. If it does, then we are done for. As it is, Representatives (using that term loosely) are canceling meetings with their constituents and using whatever tactics they can to keep The People silent. Perhaps the government is afraid of We the People.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States.

Check out the video below about Reality Check, the Obama health care reform website.

Barack Obama - Photos

Photos: www.wenn.com
Carrie Devorah / WENN.com