Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda: White House announces "truth police"

Fitting for someone who first wrapped his campaign--and then his presidency--inside a personality cult, President Obama now has a Director of Progressive Media & Online Response to advance his cause and his version of "the truth." The director is Jesse Lee, who announced his elevation on Twitter accompanied by a picture of The Terminator.

Hope and change.

Even the Huffington Post thinks the position is unusual:

The post is a new one for this White House. Rapid response has usually been outsourced to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), if not done on an ad-hoc basis by administration officials. And it signals that the White House will be adopting a more aggressive defense of the president and his policies as his re-election campaign gears up.

On Fox News this morning, Karl Rove called the position "troubling." It's also part of a troubling pattern. During the 2008 campaign, there was a de facto Obama "truth squad" operating in Missouri. During the unhappy run-up to passing ObamaCare, the White House asked Americans to inform them of any "fishy" information regarding government run health care. Amazingly, the White House blog post asking seeking informants is still online.

Something is terribly wrong here.

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Obama's "Ministry of Truth" operating in Missouri

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