Obama campaign readies spin, misdirection effort for 2012

Four years ago, Barack Obama's campaign publicly confected its campaign Kool-Aide through an ironically-named "truth page," which served as a convenient means to distort the truth when it became convenient.

As chairman of a committee in the Illinois Senate, Obama had been instrumental in killing a bill which would have required doctors to obtain a second opinion on the viability of a fetus which had been born alive before allowing it to be ignored to death. The "truth page" claimed- as did Mr. Obama himself- that he would have favored the bill had it included language making it clear that its provisions did not conflict with Roe v. Wade.

The trouble is that before killing the bill, Mr. Obama and his fellow Democrats had amended it in committee to include even stronger language to that effect. Nevertheless, the whopper remained a key Democratic talking point, nor was the "truth page" corrected when the falsehood was pointed out.

Mr. Obama and his "truth page" also maintained that the point was moot, because Illinois already had a law on the books which had the same intent, and cited this as an additional reason for voting against the Born Alive Act. This time, he was technically correct.

But there is one thing he didn't mention: that then-Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris (the man who eventually replaced Mr. Obama in the U.S. Senate had ruled that the existing law was unenforcable, and obtained a consent decree with in effect rendered it null and void.

More misdirection from the "truth page!"

Now the Obama re-election campaign is seeking to recruit 2 million Kool Aide vendors to form a network to help its spin effort this cycle.

Meanwhile, Alex Pappas and Will Rahn report evidence of coordination between the White House and leftist spinmeister David Brock's Media Matters organization to influence media coverage of the campaign.