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AttackWatch Twits
IBD Editorials ^ | September 16, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 09/16/2011 4:29:17 PM PDT by Kaslin

Election '12: You know a presidential campaign is going south when its detractors have more fun with its website than do its fans. That's the case with AttackWatch.com, the Obama site that's making him a parody.

According to the logic of AttackWatch.com — cue "Jaws" music — there's a vast, right-wing conspiracy out there determined to lie about the president and vote him out of office. Drastic steps are needed, and the comically menacing black-and-red AttackWatch website is the answer.

Calling on readers to "Get the facts. Fight the Smears," about President Obama's record, the site actually encourages all Americans to become snitches for Obama. That mimics the 2008 Obama campaign's "FightTheSmears.com" site, as well as the George Soros-funded MediaMatters.com. AttackWatch asks readers to "report" the "lies," presumably so the Obama team won't have to Google its own record.

On Twitter, this pompous, conspiracy-minded premise has managed only to attract an outburst of humor.

"I saw a kid eating fries with his happy meal yesterday," tweeted someone signing himself NostraSeamus.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

“mikeblakely RT @CelebrationsLLC: If there was ever any doubt in anyones mind that our President is clueless about how to lead a nation - #attackwatch just removed that doubt”


21 posted on 09/16/2011 5:32:13 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
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To: Kaslin
I particularly like it when people turn themselves in for disobeying da Bambi's commands of servitude.
22 posted on 09/16/2011 5:34:23 PM PDT by Shqipo (I am AttackWatch parolee #1,237.)
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To: mware
lol. sure did. It was retweeted a few hundred times ;)

And: Some tell Obama that 1984 was 27 years ago.

"mikeblakely RT @CelebrationsLLC: If there was ever any doubt in anyones mind that our President is clueless about how to lead a nation - #attackwatch just removed that doubt"

23 posted on 09/16/2011 5:34:34 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
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To: sockmonkey

LoL, I’m not going to admit publicly to the same thing.


24 posted on 09/16/2011 5:36:18 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: Right Cal Gal
Interesting column of Michelle Malkin last summer reported that the Obama WH had over 450 employees and 1/3 of them earned more than a hundred thou a year. Total payroll: $37 million! Average: >$82,000.

17 of these employees are in a section called "The Office of Public Engagement (OPE)". Valerie Jarrett oversees the group and gets a salary of $172,200. The director of OPE earns $150,000 three deputies are getting over $90,000 each. 14 of the 17 earn over $50,000.

And these are people who really should be on the payroll of a Campaign committee, not the Taxpayers of America.

Their mandate is to manage the message of the WH. I guess they will have to hire even more 'helpers' to manage AttackWatch.

25 posted on 09/16/2011 5:36:30 PM PDT by maica ( Multiculturalism is the smiley face of totalitarianism.)
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To: dawn53

My most favorite is that some reader of David Limbaugh’s column in today’s townhall.com. It went like: Hey @AttackWatch, some batty Orwellians created a website advocating snitching on peeps!


26 posted on 09/16/2011 5:38:31 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica
"JMOKC New York Fallout: President Obama Moving to Avoid Political Suicide; http://t.co/mKHQOdMi //GoodLuckWithThat! #attackwatch"

"What's the difference betwen #AttackWatch and BayWatch? One's full of gratuitous boobs and the other starred Pam Anderson"

"makTyme #AttackWatch staffed 100% by union thug veterans of the Battle of Madison, WI, the best $10 billion Obama ever "invested"."

27 posted on 09/16/2011 5:41:19 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
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To: Kaslin

-——American Idol-——

You are quite superficial in your assessment of this show and frankly do not know what you are talking about.


28 posted on 09/16/2011 5:42:47 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ....Rats carry plague)
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To: Kaslin
snitching on peeps!

One of the more memorable ones was: Snitches get stitches!

29 posted on 09/16/2011 5:43:57 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
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To: bert

What in the word are you rattling on about?? American Idol???


30 posted on 09/16/2011 5:46:14 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

“VFW91 RT @aheram: Hey, @AttackWatch, I heard a vicious smear that under Obama, poverty rates in the U.S. jumped 20%. HOW CAN I STOP THE LIES? #attackwatch”


31 posted on 09/16/2011 5:49:55 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
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To: Kaslin

my name is Jeremy bird and I am responsible for this idea

32 posted on 09/16/2011 5:50:32 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (welcome dies irae)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

“freeulysses Hey #attackwatch my friend says there’s a Texas voter registry that’s REQUIRING that voters have a heartbeat. They can’t do that, can they?”


33 posted on 09/16/2011 5:52:11 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica
I find it funny how easily it is to tell the Conservative from Liberal Tweets. The Conservative ones are funny, mocking, and include facts. The Liberal ones I can't repeat here on fear of getting zotted. They usually go like this: @______ I'm going to ***** and **** you**** *** ** **** *** **** ** ***** **** (censored)
34 posted on 09/16/2011 5:56:01 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

yes, Idol is the triumph of excellence after a very discriminating process of excluding chaff from grain. The show is about success for the best. This last year it was a triumph of conservative values over the popular immorality

Free Republic had two threads in excess of 10,000 posts this year. The posts were by those who watched and understood the process and the rational


35 posted on 09/16/2011 5:57:22 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ....Rats carry plague)
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

“JMOKC RT @KamaainaInOC: RT @ianessling: Someone should report @AttackWatch to #attackwatch since it is demolishing Obama’s reelection chances. Oh, the paradox!#tcot”


36 posted on 09/16/2011 5:59:53 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
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To: mnehring
lol. amen! Or the same endless 5-6 of them retweeted over and over and over and over.

You're right. the conservative ones are endlessly inventive!

37 posted on 09/16/2011 6:02:24 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
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To: bert
American Idol and it's ilk are shows by low-grade morons, for low-grade morons.

'nuff said.

38 posted on 09/16/2011 6:03:39 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica

The had one tweet that went something like: If you’re serious and everyone is laughing at you, hang it up. You’re done.


39 posted on 09/16/2011 6:05:32 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (Geithner: Taxes on 'Small Business' Must Rise So Government Doesn't 'Shrink')
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To: HeartlandOfAmerica
#AttackWatch, OK Libs, we are willing to compromise, we will only ridicule Obama 50% of the amount you ridiculed Bush. Fair?
40 posted on 09/16/2011 6:08:19 PM PDT by mnehring
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