Just days after the White House officially launched “Health Insurance Reform – Reality Check,” a new website designed specifically to combat the wave of ‘disinformation’ being spread by the right concerning the president’s health care proposal, the GOP has introduced their own take on the site called “Healthcare Takeover – Reality Check.”
The site’s basic design and its built-in web tools are very much the same as the White House’s. Visitors can e-mail every page and video to their friends and families and they are encouraged to spread the content around the web through the use of social networks like facebook and twitter. The blogger who maintains the site, Captain Long Bottom, replaces the ‘mis-information’ videos posted on the White House site – the ones where officials of the Obama administration tackled specific ‘myths’ within the health care debate – with opposing views and updates them with new videos hitting YouTube.
Many of the videos included on the site have already been covered extensively here on Healthcare Horserace. These include the RNC advertisement ‘Reforma’ and the 60 Plus Association commercial, ‘Sacrifice.’ However, there are some new ones such as Republican Whip Eric Cantor’s ‘Reckless’ advertisement and a new video from the House of Representatives – Republican Conference highlighting President Obama’s own ‘disinformation.’
There is also a link on the page that directs readers to report the ‘fishy’ site to flag@whitehouse.gov and the White House snitch brigade.
