Linda Douglass and John Adams are right, facts are stubborn things. The principal difference between them is Adams actually believed it.

The bone of contention was a video posted on Drudge of Obama at an SEIU forum in 2003 (available in uncut form) in which BHO clearly states his support for, and desire to implement, a single payer system. I have watched this video about a dozen times and there is no other rational interpretation.

So when I heard that Douglass (communications director for the White House’s Health Reform Office) had decided to go on offense with a little video of her own I was curious as to what artful legerdemain she would engage in to somehow make us doubt our lying eyes. I needn't have gotten all worked up; Douglass is clearly no Houdini, she isn't even my Uncle Ed (who could do a marvelous trick when you pulled his finger, but I digress).

Douglass' sophisticated counter-attack consisted of asserting that the 2003 video had been spliced to give a false impression, providing no evidence for this claim, then presenting some of BHO's recent videos (which she claims, in a break from reality that rates an entry in the DSM, conservatives have never seen) as proof-positive, I guess, that at least it was the same guy in all of them. No that's unfair, she did demonstrate that in at least one of the videos BHO had to have been lying a priori.

Having proven exactly nothing she concluded with an exhortation for the faithful to forward any "fishy" e-mails to whitehouse.gov, somehow avoiding the urge to pop in a monocle and fire up a cigarette as she asked for "ze names".

Barak, it's one thing to run a sweatshop, quite another to run a sweatshop badly. This is what you get when you put an MSM-toadie into the job and not one of Chicago guys. Send Douglass down to the minors (can Michelle use another PR flack, just asking) and get someone in the position who can at least lie in an entertaining fashion. Not insulting our collective intelligence would be a boon as well.