Posted on 09/14/2011 8:10:50 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A new Twitter hashtag designed to help fight misinformation against President Obama appears to have backfired in early use on Wednesday.
President Obama's Twitter feed, which is run by his campaign staff, on Tuesday evening started promoting the new website AttackWatch.com and hashtag #AttackWatch, designed to fight misinformation against the president.
The hashtag was already in heavy rotation by Twitter users by Wednesday morning, but many users are conservatives such as columnist Michelle Malkin, who offered up her own daily column as an example of an Obama "attack."
The website is meant to be "the first line of defense against a barrage of misinformation," according to an email from Obama's campaign manager announcing the launch on Tuesday.
Businessman Herman Cain, a Republican presidential hopeful, also responded to the announcement of the website on Wednesday.
"Seriously?" he tweeted.
Remember flag@WhiteHouse.Gov?
Someone tell me how to participate. I have a twitter account, but don’t know how to use the “hash tag”...what do I do?
Some of the tweets to AttackWatch:
New Black Panthers were “ never “charged in voter intimidation? Did u know we have a racist attorney General?
somebody I know keeps calling POTUS dumb! Please release his college transcripts so I can prove him wrong!
Hey #attackwatch, I saw 6 ATM’s in an alley, killing a Job. It looked like a hate crime!
Drawing a blank here.... What do you call a leader who encourages people to inform on neighbors, co-workers... Don’t tell me...
People are calling our President the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers, that’s not allowed is it?
I heard those evil Koch Bros started a new hashtag called #attackwatch
My co-worker keeps making fun of Obama’s ears. Do I get to pick which reeducation camp you send him to?
Help me #attackwatch, someone is trying to force feed his peas to me!
How about that . . . a Brownshirt website, Brownshirts at the voting booths, a DOJ that won’t prosecute “black” crimes against Americans, an illegal alien muslim in our White House . . . We’ve come a long way, America!
The responses on the twitter feed are awesome, with a few Obama-bots sprinkled in here or there.
The WH made a hash of it? Again?
@attackwars I heard that the evil tea party people were suppressing voters in NY9 please investigate!!! #AttackWatch
Just write your post on twitter, then put #attackwatch on the end of your tweet.
Then your tweet shows up on everybody’s #attackwatch searches and timelines.
Now the actual "rat out your neighbor" page is openly at http://my.barackobama.com/page/signup/o2012-attackwatch-report-an-attack
He can't just brush it off as "overenthusiastic supporters" now.
More tweets To AttackWatch:
Dear #attackwatch the White House press corpse laughed when Carney said that Obama was indeed campaigning, but only for jobs.
Hey @Attackwatch, some bicycle messenger snotted on me as he rode past. Can you do something about that immediately?
Keith Olbermann needs to be investigated for his attacks on reason.
The head of Obama’s Jobs council, Jeffrey Immelt, is sending lots of jobs to China. Please stop him @attackwatch
Ok @attackwatch there’s something that’s been bugging me for years—can you *really* put lipstick on a pig? Which end is recommended?
#attackwatch: there is a Communist in the Oval Office!
Hey #attackwatch, some group named Attackwatch is making Obama look like a fool..
I saw a 400 lb woman at the store buying a giant tub of ice cream w/ food stamps. I thought we were all supposed to eat peas? #attackwatch
Those are all great. That one is just killer! :-)
This would be a gold mine for the late night talkers, if they weren’t all democrat functionaries.
eg: People are calling our President the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers, that’s not allowed is it? #Attackwatch @AttackWatch
Go to Twitter and under search type #AttackWatch
If you can't figure it out FReepmail me and I'll give you my twitter account and help you that way.
hashtag - someone please explain this to an old goat FReeper. I monitor twitter mainly to follow some news tweets. I see a lot of @’s and #’s but don’t really know what it represents.
LOL! Never heard that one.
Can I ask a stupid question?
Of course all politicians do opposition research. But has any president ever taken what sounds like a paranoia about what is being said about them to this level?
I’ve never heard of this sort of situation before, in which the White House wants you to report what is being said about the president or Democrats.
It makes me think that this president is overly concerned about political back and forth, and overly concerned about negative things that are said about him. If he spends too much time worrying about what people are saying about him, how does he have time to do his job?
And of course his staff and campaign workers will end up spending big amounts of time simply reviewing all of this information of what people are saying about Obama, rather than doing other things.
More Tweets:
Dear #AttackWatch I’d like to report the Dos Equis guy. He’s claiming to be the most interesting man in the world. You told me Obama was!
Who was the rocket scientist genius on the Obama Election team that thought Attack Watch is a good idea?
Dear #AttackWatch I’m still trying to understand why anyone wants to attack watches.
#AttackWatch I noticed my neighbor doesn’t have Obama’s official portrait hanging on her living room wall.
#attackwatch is an example of how a social media strategy can backfire on you inside of 24 hours #fail
Someone accused the president of using intimidation tactics to stifle free speech.
the @barackobama chart claimed that passing the “stimulus” would have us at 6.5% unemployment today. You’d better investigate.
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