August 11, 2009 05:44 AM UTC

Reality Check

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• by: Go Blue

With so much crazy out there being manufactured by entrenched DC lobbyists like Dick Armey and the $1.7 Billion Fraud Rick Scott, cheerlead by the “mobfather” himself Boss Limbaugh, and other right wingers like Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Glenn Beck, it seems the White House has seen fit to give them all a good dose of reality.

This morning the White House launched Reality Check:

Anyone that’s watched the news in the past few days knows that health insurance reform is a hot topic – and that rumors and scare tactics have only increased as more people engage with the issue. Given a lot of the outrageous claims floating around, it’s time to make sure everyone knows the facts about the security and stability you get with health insurance reform.

That’s why we’ve launched a new online resource – WhiteHouse.gov/RealityCheck – to help you separate fact from fiction and share the truth about health insurance reform.

Videos have been posted on the website debunking several of the right-wing talking points against health insurance reform such as Sarah Palin’s recent claim (stolen from the always credible Michelle Bachmann) that the President’s health insurance reform would create “death panels” to kill your grandmother.

Melody Barnes, the President’s Director of the Domestic Policy Council, debunks the malicious myth that reform would encourage or even require euthanasia for seniors.

This is only the beginning folks. We still have several more rounds to go. As for the thugs on the right who are throwing everything they got right now, “you ain’t so bad!”