Linda Douglas: The Snitch B**ch
I think that’s an original coinage, btw.
They say if you stand up to a bully, he’ll back down. I think we’re about to find out:
“By requesting citizens send ‘fishy’ emails to the White House, it is inevitable that the names, email, addresses, IP addresses and private speech of U.S. citizens will be reported to the White House,” Cornyn wrote in a letter to Obama. “You should not be surprised that these actions taken by your White House staff raise the specter of a data collection program.”
Cornyn asked Obama to cease the program immediately, or at the very least explain what the White House would do with the information it collects.
President Obama is in a when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife position (not literally—she could kick his a** across the National Mall). I can’t imagine any of his image doctors would be happy to see him stammering and stumbling in front of the Pekineses and Shih-Tzus of the Washington press corps about how he does not intend to spy on Americans exercising that highest patriotic right: dissent.
Lots of bloggers are taking part in Operation Go Flag Yourself — flooding the Internet Snitch Brigade with e-mails turning themselves in for health care hate crimes or turning Team Obama in for “fishy” misinformation. I did my part yesterday. How about you?
Email flag@whitehouse.gov
I haven’t reported myself—that’s what you’re for, dear readers. Besides, if we aren’t already high on Obama’s “enemies list” (and not just alphabetically) then I don’t know what we’re doing.
Dave said,
August 5, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
I turned myself in as well. This is what I sent:
Help.
I’m having impure thoughts about the President’s health insurance reform initiatives.
Please send the men in white coats to escort me to the nearest “health insurance reform initiative re-education facility”, forthwith!
Carol said,
August 5, 2009 @ 5:49 pm
I still get lots of emails from the never-ending Obama campaign so, since they contain false and misleading information, I am going to forward them to flag@whitehouse.gov . I think it’s my civic duty.
Carol said,
August 5, 2009 @ 8:24 pm
Dave, I did not read carefully before but “impure thoughts” is marvelous. I’m going to steal it and use it when I report BTL and Aunt Agatha. I bet they both think impure things about Barack Obama.
Also, I’m emailing a link to every page on barackobama.com to the address. One page at a time.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
August 5, 2009 @ 9:39 pm
Carol,
I DO NOT have impure thoughts about Barack Obama. Eeewww…
- Aggie
Carol said,
August 5, 2009 @ 10:00 pm
Aggie, it’s all in the definition. I think just about any pastor or rabbi would think wishing a man’s head were permanently installed in his ass is kind of impure. I mean, it’s definitely NOT pure. It’s also weird but the two are not mutually exclusive.
PoliticalVentilation.com said,
August 6, 2009 @ 12:22 am
Uncle Barack Wants You! ….. To Be a Rat Fink! …..
If I were a Russian immigrant to this country, shivers would be running down my spine about now. But I’m not from Russia. As an American, that grew up knowing only freedom, it’s hard to wrap my brain around this latest and very Progressive idea. Uncle Barack like Uncle Joe, Uncle Fidel and Uncle Hugo lust for control and he has learned their lessons well. Bring the hammer down, pit one neighbor against another, preserve the Party line at all costs. If this were a sports analogy one would notice that the Obama administration is not trying to defeat their opponents with the “superiority” of their ideas but seek victory by silencing their adversaries and from keeping them from even walking onto the field. A victory by “forced forfeit” is still a victory. And one to be proud of! One would be tempted to call this KGB like Obama tactic “neo fascist”, but that would imply that he was a new convert to this way of thinking. These seeds have been festering for many years in Obama, his mentors, his associates and in what would probably be a majority of his Cabinet. (especially the “czars”). As Americans, we can appreciate new ideas put forth by our elected leaders. But these leaders must realize that ultimately they are in D.C. to “represent” us,the people. In other words, do as “we” say, represent our way of thinking, not the other way round. Being from the “Chicago Machine” a place rich in anti “rat fink” sentiment, this break from tradition seems a little odd. But with Obama “political expediency” will always win out. To paraphrase, “my lies won’t work if the truth gets out”. “Please help me, be a snitch, a rat fink”. “As a citizen, being a tattletale is your highest calling”. Da, Uncle Barack, da!
Che said,
August 6, 2009 @ 2:30 am
Ok, let’s be logical here.
I read the piece as well, and we need to take a breath here and keep a cool head. First, let’s think about it…the White House nor the U.S. Government have the manpower nor the will, nor the inclination to persecute or black list everybody who is against the Obama administration’s policies proposed, enacted or otherwise.
It’s comical to even try to take it seriously.
What the Dems want to know is what kind of misinformation or counter information is out there so they can look at it, analyze it, and work to stop ugly rumors (i.e. damage control) before they get out of hand. Example being, exactly like this kind of fear mongering that says the Obama admin wants to turn us into a nation of informants. Unfortunately we had Reagan and Bush do that, and Clinton to some degree, i.e. the failed drug war.
So let’s keep our heads on our shoulders, take a deep breath and have another beer.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
August 6, 2009 @ 6:16 am
Sage advice, Che.
“…the White House nor the U.S. Government have the manpower nor the will, nor the inclination to persecute or black list everybody who is against the Obama administration’s policies proposed, enacted or otherwise.
It’s comical to even try to take it seriously.”
I take it you mean private citizens, because the Obamans have intimidated (if not exactly persecuted) politicians who criticized the stimulus bill as wasteful and reckless by threatening to withhold future funds from their states.
Oh,wait. You must mean poor private citizens, because Obama has threatened business leaders with mobs and pitchforks, and tossed a few CEOs out on their ears.
No, that’s not right, either. Obama’s campaign treated Joe the Plummer like the LA police treated Rodney King, and Joe was private and poor until he had the audacity to question His Oneness about something as impertinent as his proposed policies.
But you’re right. It’s not all bad. Obama plucked weary little Henrietta Hughes and squirmy Julio Aceguedo from impoverished obscurity to co-star in his stage show. Hughes won temporary digs in a local Republican’s home, and Julio got to guest-announce an inning of minor league baseball. So, he’s not above exploiting people in a number of ways.
What you lay on Reagan and Bush didn’t happen then (do please cite an example if you have one)—but is happening now. From the Black Panthers at polling booths in Philly to ACORN seizing private property (and counting heads in the next census) to any of the examples filed under our category Liberal Fascism. Feel free to have a search; it’s free and educational.
BTL
Carol said,
August 6, 2009 @ 7:52 am
We are talking about a man who has always done everything he could to avoid a fair fight: look at how he manipulated circumstances in all of his state elections. And now he has rewarded Black Panthers for voter intimidation - do you think we will see more or less of that behavior in the next national election?
I think Obama would dearly love to be Hugo Chavez. I think Obama has never met a thuggish dictator he didn’t immediately want to be. I think Obama is a really wrong guy and we ignore him at our peril.
Alinsky said ridicule is the strongest weapon, and he also said to keep the pressure on. I think we should take Dear Leader’s mentor’s advice.
Martino said,
August 6, 2009 @ 9:53 am
Che, you say yhtat the government has neither the resources nor inclination to monitor all Americans, and then go right into how Reagan and Bush did just that. Which is it?
509th Bob said,
August 6, 2009 @ 11:39 am
Dear Frau Blucher, at flag@whitehouse, etc.,
I am the Thought Criminal you are looking for.