Nancy Snyderman, host of MSNBC’s Dr. Nancy, today repeated a day-old GOP talking point accusing the Obama administration of compiling an “enemies list” of health care reform opponents.
“There have been some rumors this morning that the White House is in fact collecting names, which certainly hearkens back to the Nixon era of having an enemies list. Has the White House responded?” she asked an MSNBC reporter, Mike Viqueira.
The White House, of course, responded yesterday when Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said, very clearly, “”Nobody is collecting names.”
Viqueira corrected his colleague for the most part, but said some people were worried about the “Orwellian overtones” of a new White House strategy for fighting health care reform opponents.
The meme started when Linda Douglass, the communications director for the Health Care Reform office, appeared in a video asking people to flag misinformation on health care to a White House email address.
Sen. John Cornyn took issue with that request and wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to stop the flagging program. “Citizen engagement must not be chilled by fear of government monitoring the exercise of free speech rights,” he wrote.
