Reply #203: The WH Office of Information IS the WH. And the "policies" he called silly don't exist.

[DirkGently]

It's a bit much to accurately capture in a headline. What the WH Office of Information head did was pretend that there are crazed, pro-regulation people out there somewhere, just as "silly" and "unserious" as Republicans chanting about "job-killing regulations." Environmentalists might assume he was talking about them, even though "the position that 'job-killing regulations' are an oxymoron' is both true, and not put forward with anything resembling the vehemence of the Republican position.

What he actually did was make up a lie about anyone opposed to the most extreme Republican position, to avoid pointing out that they're wrong, and to suggest that somehow people seeking regulations (like environmentalists) are "just as silly."

It was a nasty piece of calculated slander.