WH Hires "Negative Story" Squasher

Townhall ^ | May 23, 2011 | Katie Pavlich

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Welcome to the latest use of taxpayer dollars to shove Obama propaganda down your throat, on your dime. The White House has moved a staffer from the White House New Media Department into a position of "rapid media response," with a goal of squashing, or cleaning up negative stories about President Obama on the internet.

The Obama administration has created and staffed a new position tucked inside their communications shop for helping coordinate rapid response to unfavorable stories and fostering and improving relations with the progressive online community.

"This week, Jesse Lee will move from the new media department into a role in the communications department as Director of Progressive Media & Online Response," read an internal memo from Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, provided to The Huffington Post. "For the last two years, Jesse has often worn two hats working in new media and serving as the White House's liaison with the progressive media and online community. Starting this week, Jesse will take on the second role full time working on outreach, strategy and response."

The post is a new one for this White House. Rapid response has been the purview of the Democratic National Committee (and will continue to be). Lee's hire, however, suggests that a portion of it will now be handled from within the administration. It also signals that the White House will be adopting a more aggressive engagement in the online world in the months ahead.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

More transparency at work.

Just a warning that the original story referenced is from the dreaded HP, so you may not want to click on the internal link.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Isn’t this what Josef Goebbels was hired to do?

[Old Sarge]

And behold the official Memory Hole.

[SumProVita]

WH Hires “Truth” Squasher

[rollo tomasi]

Boehner is content with his condition of impotence and wanting to be loved = bad news for the Republic.

[DBrow]

At HP, many comments about how this is ANTI-propaganda, a valiant effort to get the Truth out in the face of almost overwhelming lies. Pretty funny.

[Dahoser]

Boy are CBSNBCABCCNNMSNBCNYTWAPOLAT gonna be pissed!

[Hotlanta Mike]

Calypso Louie???.............

[TennesseeGirl]

Note. He's to handle unfavorable stories, not necessarily inaccurate stories. It's all about perception, lol.

[AppyPappy]

What next? An enemies list?

[SpaceBar]

It is only a small step from vigorous online policing of politically embarrassing opinions, to unmarked vans of armed hoodlums “protecting the president's honor” in the larger scheme of things. Big things generally start small.

[AU72]

Fight back. Create ‘blog poster cells’ and spread totally bogus stories about Obama around the Internet and force the ‘Squasher’ into overwork.

[andy58-in-nh]

There has never been, in my memory, an Administration whose political operation was so thoroughly dominant a force within the White House. They have essentially removed the line between the office of the President (the Chief Executive) and the Democrat Party.

This does not normally happen in constitutional republics, or even democracies. It does however, routinely characterize governments dominated by a centralized cult of personality.

[scooby321]

His Jimmy Carter economically and Foregin Policy.

He is Nixon on dirty tricks.

[null and void]

Maybe if we vote out the Negative Story Generator this wouldn’t be necessary...

[Texas Fossil]

Does this mean the Troll and Obot count will increase here?

[nascarnation]

He is Nixon on dirty tricks.

Maybe much worse IMHO. The Baraqqis have brought the "Chicago way" to the WH.

[null and void]

Boy are CBSNBCABCCNNMSNBCNYTWAPOLAT gonna be pissed!

Only because they thought that was their job...

[jersey117]

They have essentially removed the line between the office of the President (the Chief Executive) and the Democrat Party.

And not one Democrat congressperson or senator will speak out or vote against ANYTHING he does or says -- NOT ONE! Sometimes I think the government has been taken over by outside hostile forces and the people in congress and the media are powerless to do anything about it. It's all just surreal. Doesn't feel like America any more.

[caver]

What’s his screen name here on FR?