Thread: How the Open Government Dialogue got slimed

How the Open Government Dialogue got slimed

Jun 04, 2009

Let’s cut to the chase: The Open Government Dialogue — the Obama administration’s much-ballyhooed initiative to engage with the public in an online forum — got slimed.

The brainstorming forum, managed by the National Academy of Public Administration, was designed to allow the public to provide input on how to make government operations and information more transparent.

Participants were invited to submit ideas and rate other people’s ideas with a thumbs up or thumbs down. The system would tally the votes and assign a score to each suggestion. This mechanism would make it possible for the public at large to identify the most important issues and police the site for off-point or abusive content.

That was the theory anyway, and it worked for nearly a week, but then WorldNet Daily’s editors got wind of it.

The folks at WorldNet Daily, an online political publication, have been trying to drum up national interest in a topic that the mainstream media generally ignores: Was the president born in the Unites States, and does he have the birth certificate to prove it?

The Open Government Dialogue provided WorldNet Daily’s editors with a perfect forum, one that was highly visible and only lightly moderated.

Go get 'em, they told their readers. And it worked.

“Hours after [WorldNet Daily] alerted the public to a White House Web site on ‘open government dialogue,’ most participants are calling on Barack Obama to release his elusive ‘long-form’ birth certificate to establish his constitutional eligibility to serve as president,â€

Editor's note: We will not post any comments regarding Obama's birth certificate.





LOL......oh well.

As obama said when he refused to close the borders during the swine flu crisis "That's equivalant to closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out"

And so it goes with them refusing to print comments about the BC. The horse has gotten out, now it's time to out the jackass too