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Fox just interviewed Linda Douglass, WH spokesdroid for ObamaCare. Trace Gallagher tried to ask her questions regarding ObamaCare's cost and shortcomings. Douglass launched into a glassy-eyed, pre-programmed, four minute rant giving (without taking a breath!) every Obama talking point and blaming all problems on Republicans and we conservatives who want to light a cigar as we watch the poor die. Gallagher tried to get her to answer questions to no avail. She talked non-stop until she was done. Gallagher had to give up. The wheels are coming off the Obama Wagon.

A couple follow ups on ABC's health care reform special at the White House next week. • It turns out the Director of Communications for the White House Office of Health Reform, since last month, is former ABC News correspondent Linda Douglass, who left journalism last year to join the Obama campaign. This is leading some to wonder whether ABC News had the upper hand in landing the president for the primetime special as well as an interview on GMA and allowing two ABC News broadcasts to originate from the White House next week.

WH Communications Director for Health Care Linda Douglass told MSNBC's Ed Schultz that she would not give him a "yes or no answer" on whether the administration plans on raising taxes for Obama's program.

We now know the official Obama talking point on Lipstick-gate. In the course of her Morning Joe appearance today, Obama spokeswoman Linda Douglass used the word "ridiculous" no fewer than six times to dismiss the controversy that has arisen since Obama said yesterday that you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig. View edited clip here.

Brack Obama launched his week-long world tour with a brief stop in Kuwait and then began a longer visit to Afghanistan, ahead of planned stops in Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and England. The highly anticipated trip was launched in secrecy, with Obama’s campaign refusing to confirm that he had left the country, citing security reasons. The campaign announced early Saturday morning that Obama was on the ground in Kabul, Afghanistan. The U.S. military later said Obama was greeting U.S. troops at Jalalabad airfield in eastern Afghanistan. Obama made a secret stop in Kuwait and visited U.S. service members, then...

Temper Tantrums and ABC News  10/13/2003 Refuse to vote the way ABC News instructed you to vote and you must be having a temper tantrum! The obnoxious elitists at ABC are very sure they know what's best for all of us.Here is how Linda Douglass, apparently piqued by the outcome of the California recall, began the first news update of Good Morning America, 10/08/2003: "Schwarzenegger acknowledged that the recall campaign was the result of a statewide temper tantrum, that Democrats who run the legislature must be in shock and itching for revenge." Interestingly, Douglass offered no actual quote and none...