The White House tells you to become a government informant on your email buddies, forum groups, social network friends, and favorite blogs. I kid you not. From the White House website:

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.

It would seem that The Drudge Report is the first victim of this latest Obama crackdown on free speech. From Fox News we have this:

White House Battles Drudge Over Health Care Video Clips

The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting that claims to show President Obama explaining how his health care reform plans eventually would eliminate private insurance.

The 3-minute White House video features Linda Douglass, a former network television correspondent and now White House Office of Health Reform communications director, sitting in front of a computer screen showing the Drudge Report Web site. That site carries a series of video clips from another blogger who strings together selected Obama statements on health care to make it appear he wants to eliminate the private health insurance business.

In the video Douglass says the site is “taking sentences and phrases out of context, and they’re cobbling them together to leave a very false impression.”

Well, no. What that blogger did was to parse through Obama’s “loose lips” moments and expose his Freudian slips. Like during the campaign when Obama revealed that he didn’t really know how many states there are in the US, that he was really a Muslim, that he would really like to take our guns away but didn’t have the votes in Congress, that he was unfamiliar with American history, and that he wanted to redistribute the wealth.

Here’s Obama, in his own words. You decide. Perhaps he should “recalibrate” what he said.

Related:

RedState — Call For Informants: If You Oppose Obamacare, Even in ‘Casual Conversation,’ the White House Wants to Know About It

Conservative Compendium — Wherein I Snitch To The White House

Dear White House,

It has come to my attention that you are on the lookout for disinformation about health care. Judging by the examples given in your post, disinformation seems to include anything that contradicts the statements of Dear Leader. As such, I submit the following sources of disinformation:

Thomas: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:h3200:
Govtrack.us: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-3200

These tools of the insurance industry have dared to contradict the edicts of Dear Leader by posting the actual text of the health care legislation. Please deal with them accordingly.

Your humble servant,

Brian Garst

Stop the ACLU — White House Website Asking for Informants on Anti-Healthcare Advocates

Stop the ACLU — Obligatory “Obama’s Fighting Against Obama’s Own Words” Post

Michelle Malkin — Help out the Internet snitch brigade

…feel free to snitch on yourselves and let the health care czar know you openly oppose socialized medicine.

Michelle Malkin — The smell of desperation: White House unleashes on Internet critics

The White House is using your tax dollars to go after the Drudge Report for linking to the Naked Emperor News video compilation of Obama and other Dems telegraphing how their “health care reforms” will lead to single payer.

Take a whiff of the White House bashing of Internet opponents: This is the smell of desperation.

Their lead attack dog? Former ABC News correspondent Linda Douglass.

Conserv-a-rant (added 8/6) — White House Gestapo Tactics May Make it Much Harder for Dems in 2010

…Obama thinking we are so far away from Hitler’s time we won’t recognize Gestapo tactics…