White House Plays Games, Sets Trap With Web Site

Think Progress is quick to bash the Right for claiming certain names were on the WH visitor's list that were not the people they appear to be. I neither know nor care what was released to the media. But I know for a fact the disclaimer below was nowhere to be seen when I clicked in before I did my post. And the list was embedded, which it is not now.

I scrolled completely to the bottom of the original post, not simply the list. This is BS, as I read every word there before posting. And that's a fact.

A lot of people visit the White House, up to 100,000 each month, with many of those folks coming to tour the buildings. Given this large amount of data, the records we are publishing today include a few “false positives” – names that make you think of a well-known person, but are actually someone else. In September, requests were submitted for the names of some famous or controversial figures (for example Michael Jordan, William Ayers, Michael Moore, Jeremiah Wright, Robert Kelly ("R. Kelly"), and Malik Shabazz). The well-known individuals with those names never actually came to the White House. Nevertheless, we were asked for those names and so we have included records for those individuals who were here and share the same names.

Comments

[Meadow]

And are you surprised? Just add it to the list *sigh*

[del norvin]

LOL. you're pissed off because they caught you jumping to conclusions and coming out with a silly post? Again, LOL

[tjproudamerican]

Look. You are not a reporter and you never claimed to be. You want to stick Obama with anything, so the truth is hardly a concern to you.

You are a propagandist writing for an echo chamber of conformists. If you can repeat a lie often enough it will become the truth.

You should only be embarrassed if you had any integrity. Leave moral values to progressives and just claim "Fair and Balanced" and when you show yourself to be a self-deceiving fool, call Obama a socialist and claim "It's not my job, madre dio!" in a funny accent.

Riehl World View is a fact-free environment where conformists come to get talking points. You proved that quite well old sport!!!!

[Carolynp]

It kind of shocks me that the left has become a group of serious jerks. The commenters here aren't interested in the truth, they are just creeps looking for self assurance. I would actually like to know if they changed the site after the fact. Is there a way to check this?

[Carolynp]

Actually, doesn't this bring up a different set of issues? Does this mean the White House has no idea who is visiting? Is there no attempt to match name and id?

[BogusDems]

It floors me that this administration has proven itself to be the most corrupt in modern history yet self proclaimed progressives still march in lockstep. The independents have woken up and realized that the "change" that the media screamed was needed in the country is not the type of change they expected. Liberal politicians should be afraid now, conservatives are the majority and even the republican politicos cannot escape their wrath. Strange but interesting times, can't wait for the special elections across the country next week, incumbents beware...we are coming after you.

[Rhonda]

Wow, tjproudamerican. What a sheeple you are. You state that if one repeats a lie often enough perhaps it will be true......HA! Obama does that in every speech he's made. "If you like your health plan you can......" or this one, " the stimulous bill has created or saved....."
or this gem, "We will have transparency in this administration" Really? Would you like to recant your accusation regarding this blogger? I used to be a sheeple like you until I was challenged to look up the facts that support the accusation of corruption in this administartion. Step out of the darkness and into the light. He is not the second coming, he's a socialist who has made speaches that should give you a clue about his plan. He wants to "fundamentally change America". On several occasions he's spoken of "social injustice" and the "collective" which is Marxist speak for redistribution of wealth. If you would take the time to read som e history and read about socialism/Marxism you just might see the connections. I challenge YOU. Look up who these people are that he surrounds himself with; their information is public record. Research their political beliefs. Finally, read the Constitution. It's clear what our founders intended and his policies and agenda are unconstitutionl. And if you still have a problem, read the Federalists Papers which our founders wrote to explain more fully the meaning of their words in the Constitution. If you're so proud, show it by reading about this nations founding fathers in , "The 5000 Year Leap". I'm married to a black man and believe me, he is completely opposed to his agenda; it was he who opened MY eyes. WAKE UP SHEEPLES!!!!!

[Lala]

I think the "repeat a lie" statement coming from a leftie is hysterically funny.

[daveinboca]

tjp-a is a silly useful idiot of the type Lenin despised so correctly. And Del also is a simple credulous tool of a moronic administration which depends on simpletons like del and tjproudamerican to advance their dishonest agenda.

[Dennis D]

I have not seen where the White House has proven that these names were not visits by the famous people known by those names.

[tjproudamerican]

It is not logical that a person like Obama would work his way literally to the very top and then have any desire to destroy the very thing he has worked so hard achieving.

Obama's children will be part of what people rightly called The Establishment for years to come. Obama is as committed to the survival of the present system as any of you, and us really since we all want the United States to keep generating the powerful & wonderful life you and I live.

You have dithered and stimulated yourself into a state of moral exhaustion over a 1% change in the tax rate. We have some socialism, Social Security and Medicare and Farm and Industry Subsidies, etc.

You know that. We do not, and never have had either real socialism or real Free Market capitalism.

What is slightly insane is people on either side dithering themselves--and I long for the days in my past where people were ashamed to admit that they masturbated, either mentally or otherwise!--to such an extent where they think Obama could possibly have entertained either Rev. Wright or William Ayers in the White House and had them sign in.

That is what I hold against Dan Riehl. Not his views, but his willingness to suspend his "bullshit detector". If you think Obama is brave enough to just see whoever he wants to see, you are blinded by your own ideological prism. Obama is a very careful man.

But your willingness to jump on every conspiracy makes you the Code Pink of the right.

You do not have intellectual integrity. I read Daniel Larisson who is a great defender of Free Markets and a strong and complete critic of Obama. One way he differs from Riehl World and its coterie of echo-chamber conformist dittohead conspiratorialist "oh poor poor us!' weeping Glenn Beck teabaggers is that Larisson thinks and therefore he doesn't pour over White House Records expecting to find William Ayers a frequent and welcome visitor.

The Echo Chamber of Fox, right wing sites like this, Beck, Fatso the Drug Addict and your self pity has made a major hit on your ability to do anything except prop each other up and feel sorry for yourselves.

It is pathetic actually.

[Robohobo]

tjproudamerican - Warning, if you wish to keep any credibility at all stop using the term for TEA Party protesters you do use. Use words, not code words, troll. It is a demeaning and perverted sexual practice used by sodomites.

I call on all thinking persons to help remove this slur from public discourse.

[ChrisV82]

Actually, doesn't this bring up a different set of issues? Does this mean the White House has no idea who is visiting? Is there no attempt to match name and id?

Yes, actually, all you have to do to get inside the White House is ring the door bell. You can actually have dinner with Obama if you just say "hello, I am an American and I sure am hungry!"

[BogusDems]

It is not logical that a person like Obama would work his way literally to the very top and then have any desire to destroy the very thing he has worked so hard achieve.

You are right, but sorry, that is exactly what he and Pelosi are doing. No, we are not followers like you, if we were then Scuzzy would be supported as our candidate in NY-23. The stimulus is a failure and Obama signed it despite all of the empirical evidence showing that other countries who pumped made up money into their own economies all failed. People are screaming for this administration to create jobs (what the stimulus was supposed to do, but failed), but this administration is worried about reforming health care into a model that will ensure the collapse of private insurers and believe it or not, pumping more money into the economy in a government benefitted stimulus package that is going to push us into an inflation crisis.

As far as Obama working so hard to get where he is.... I doubt that. This man has no experience and is sophomoric at best on any given day on the job. He was put there (I think Soros). I remember the left was so upset that world leaders did not like Bush, maybe so, but it was probably due to the fact that Bush's administration would not let world leaders best them on the world stage. Rice was a steamroller and looked the part of no one f&c$ with the US. Cheney had no problem telling a limp wristed crying reporter that the purpose of our military is to kill the bad guys. The world is laughing at Obama, world leaders see him as a squishy man who can't get enough of kissing butt and apologizing for the country he is supposed to support. The commander of the strongest military in the world is a man child who would flinch at the word boo. Terrorists are taking notes and the reason why we have not been hit again is because they are waiting for the financial crisis we are headed to, with the Democrats at the healm, before a bad attack. CIA reports that Al Queda has ordered no attacks...yet.

The Conservative surge is badly needed for the country. Power needs to be taken away from these people who are dedicated to tearing down the USA to rebuild it in an image they see fit. That vision is flawed and will hurt so many.

[ignatov]

I heard the Obamas were just handing out free candy to any free-loader that showed up at their door yesterday!

[B-Rob]

I make three observations:

1) The conservatives inability to take at face value anything Obama says or does says more about them than it does about him.

2) Why not just admit that you jumped the gun, assumed the worst, and got punk’d because of it? In other words, admit the obvious and don’t try to blame the White House, or raise some ridiculous conspiracy theories.

3) Many of the problems with conservatives can be explained by simply knowing a little something about psychology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)#Splitting_as_a_defense_mechanism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealization_and_devaluation

You folks, I am afraid, are doing what psychologists call “splitting.” Obama is seen as purely evil/bad/manipulative, such that, from the outside, the “over the top” conservative conclusions from seemingly innocuous incidents looks like you are all nuts. Whether it is the reaction to him taking his wife out to dinner, the visit to Dover, or this . . . there is a constant drumbeat from the right of hysterical melodramatic hyperbole. You folks are, as one blogger observed, turning into “white noise” that moderates are tuning out — kinda like the guy on the street corner who screams, day after day, “The end is near!” No one is listening anymore . . . .