White House Hits Back at Drudge in Video

In the video, which you can watch at left, Douglass, who is now the communications director for the White House Office of Health Reform, says "one of my jobs is to keep track of all the disinformation that's out there about health insurance reform."

"And there are a lot of very deceiving headlines out there right now, such as this one — take a look at this one," she says, putting on her glasses as she turns to her computer screen. The Drudge headline is then shown. (Here's the video that Drudge linked to. In it, the president is shown advocating a single-payer health care plan and suggesting that employer coverage could be eliminated in 15 or 20 years.)

"Well, nothing can be farther from the truth," Douglass says of the headline. "You know the people who always try to scare people whenever you try to bring them health insurance reform are at it again. And they're taking sentences and phrases out of context, and cobbling them together to leave a very false impression. The truth is that the president has been talking to the American people a lot about health-insurance reform and what is at stake for them."

Douglass goes on to say that "people out there with a computer and a lot of free time" take the president's statements out of context to "make it sound like he's saying something that he didn't really say."

She then shows video of President Obama saying "if you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance."

Mr. Obama is then shown saying "the public plan, I think, is a important tool to discipline insurance companies."

White House deputy communications director Dan Pfeiffer told Politico that the White House plans "to use a lot of the grassroots viral Internet techniques from the campaign to beat back the campaign of misstatements and outright falsehoods about the president's efforts to reform health insurance."