Check this out:

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.

Think it’s a joke? It isn’t. It’s a direct quote from whitehouse.gov. I promise. It’s here (as of this writing).

OK, so y’all Obama apologists all right with that? Is that just a sensible and prudent measure against the radical right-wing menace? Or is it, you know, something like…I don’t know…an increasingly powerful central state seeking to chill the free flow of information, and inviting you to report your fellow comrade American?

Who’s on board? Who’s behind this 100%? Who thinks this is a really neat thing to appear on the web site of the President of the United States? Speak up. Let me hear from you. Tell me it’s all right with you for you to read on an official U.S. government web site, essentially: “yeah, if you see anything that doesn’t sound quite right to you, maybe you just better let us know about it, and we’ll get it all straightened out for you.”

Can’t you feel that comforting arm, which would never hurt you because it is the arm of Your Benevolent Government, slide around you as those words flow into your ear?

Do you even have a “too much government” threshold? If so, how close are you to it?

You want to babble to me some more about how afraid you were of the Bush administration?

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