Here’s something I find a little troubling. The White House is encouraging people to report those who send e-mails they claim are false.

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.

My goodness. Now, you are to report your friends and neighbors to the government. How 1930s Germany…

Jon Henke asks a good question at The Next Right:

What, exactly, does the White House plan to do with this information?

That is the aspect that should worry you. However, you have to love the e-mail that Andrew deRenzy sent in:

I came across this site http://whitehouse.gov it’s spreading a lot of misinformation about healthcare

Now that’s funny. The government encouraging you to turn in your neighbors for speaking out against the government, not so much.

Hat Tip: Red State

The picture of President Barack Obama as Heath Ledger’s Joker is the hottest Internet meme right now, but some on the left are upset by the comparison. First, let’s show how this all got started. Recently, this picture started showing up around Los Angeles:

Photo Credit: Newsbusters

Since it started, it has gone viral.

Here’s the picture I’m using as the wallpaper on my iPhone:

Now one Obama supporter says this goes beyond political spoofery and is “dangerous“:

Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson is calling the depiction, politically mean spirited and dangerous.

Hutchinson is challenging the group or individual that put up the poster to have the courage and decency to publicly identify themselves.

“Depicting the president as demonic and a socialist goes beyond political spoofery,” says Hutchinson, “it is mean-spirited and dangerous.”

“We have issued a public challenge to the person or group that put up the poster to come forth and publicly tell why they have used this offensive depiction to ridicule President Obama.”

Right. Like this was dangerous:

Or this:

Yes, I’m sure there was outrage when these hit the Internet…I just can’t remember it. Like Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters said:

In reality, if I wanted to, I could likely produce hundreds of disgusting drawings of Bush, Cheney, and others in their Administration plastered at publications across the fruited plain the last eight years.

That was acceptable commentary and political satire back then.

Now that Obama is in the White House, it’s called “mean-spirited and dangerous.”

What exactly is dangerous about this? While we are issuing public challenges, I issue one to you, President Hutchinson. Explain what is dangerous about the First Amendment. How is it dangerous to exercise that right? Or is the picture simply erroneous and you are the real clown?

Oh yeah, it’s Bible-rific. Because when I think of the Bible, I think of Barack Obama:

Get your own here…if you want to…and why wouldn’t you?

Hat Tip: Boortz