Obama Campaign's 'Attack Watch' Becomes Victim of Conservative Mockery

Fox News ^ | 9-15-11 | unattributed

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Attack Watch, website started by President Obama's campaign organization, was intended to be a repository for supporters to report "attacks" on Obama's record and get the facts. But its rollout has been met with scathing mockery by conservatives, who call it a second-rate version of previous Big Brother sites created by Team Obama.

The onslaught of hilarity was fed first by a brutal parody created by an outfit called Misfit Politics. The mock ad repeats the name "Attack Watch" in a voice mimicking the Budweiser "Whassup" ad of Super Bowl yore and then goes on to offer examples of the types of misinformation readers can report.

Conservative critic Mark Steyn, a native of the U.K., then cheered that he was the only foreigner with a designation on AttackWatch.com.

[Interesting Times]

Here’s a clue, Fox. It isn’t just conservatives.

[cardinal4]

I spent hours on the twitter feed. Some of the comments had me laughing so hard my wife thought i was nuts..

[BAW]

I’ve already reported myself.

Excellent. Me too. But don't stop there - - keep reporting everyone else too!!!

#attackwatch is a major time suck - mockery is great stress relief!

[maine-iac7]

Seriously, our best weapon, now that it's got a foot hold, it humorous derision from now to election day.

Not only does it destroy the enemy like nothing else, but a narcissist cannot take it. I imagine he's coming unglued in private by now - but if we keep it up through the next few months, he'll implode in public.

[Blackhawk73]

Saw this one on twitter. “Just saw six ATMs in an alley killing a job.”

[upchuck]

I turned myself in for being a conservative, wanting smaller government, wanting to close the EPA and Dept of Ed and for harboring dark thoughts about nobama.

Gotta go the black helicopters are circling.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Hehehehehehe!

I just saw this one:

MEEchelleO
#AttackWatch No names, but someone in WH keeps leavin the toilet seat up! OK-Pretty sure it’s Napolitano. MaO #p1 #p2 #p21 #cspj #tcot
19 minutes ago

LMAO!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

LOL! I bet she’s goin’ all ‘Ashtray’ on ‘im.

[ilovesarah2012]

I was trying to read some to my 24 year old daughter last night but was laughing so hard that I couldn’t. Cheap entertainment!

[wzlboy]

I find it odd that #attackwatch is not showing on Twitter “Trends”. The number of incoming #attackwatch tweets is huge. It may be that the folks at Twitter are excluding these from the trend algorithm. I see that “Glen Rice” shows as a trend.

http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23attackwatch

[EasySt]

Yup, I’m hoping for a narcissistic public breakdown...

Here are my latest contributions:

EasyStreet4 Easy Street
I give $100 a month to the Boy Scouts of America. Should I pass the #AttackWatch Re-Education Camps and report directly to the Gas Chambers?

EasyStreet4 Easy Street
#AttackWatch Reporting self; I could not think of anything Obama would have done differently if he really WAS trying to destroy the economy.

EasyStreet4 Easy Street
#AttackWatch Reporting self; I could not think of anything Obama would have done differently if it was true that he really does hate America.

[HollyB]

Hilarious

[Mariner]

Classic FR terminology. Classic.

[COBOL2Java]

I imagine he's coming unglued in private by now - but if we keep it up through the next few months, he'll implode in public.

What would be really sweet is if this whole thing was HIS idea.

[ilovesarah2012]

DaggettBeaverDaggett D Beaver

#attackwatch I want to report my co-worker, who doubts your divinity because you need a teleprompter to speak coherently.

TheWrightWingv2JWWright

RT #attackwatch I just parked my private jet in a handicap space, left it running & bought lemonade from little girls in yard w/o a permit!

[NonValueAdded]

It smacks of this:

Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (Spanish: Comités de Defensa de la Revolución), or CDR, is a network of neighborhood committees across Cuba. The organizations, described as the "eyes and ears of the Revolution", exist to promote social welfare and report on "counter-revolutionary" activity.

and that has no place in America.

[catnipman]

“More fun with AttaaaaaackWaaaatch. “

You too? Can’t get that phrase out of my head. I’d advise people that watching that fake attack watch ad could be hazardous to their mental health. The ad repeats that phrase so much that it’ll stick like glue.

[luvbach1]

I loved Hitler saying “Snakebit again!”

[HollyB]

Ping to 7...you should take a look at the tweets on the attack watch twitter site, not going so well for the WH. Should give you a little laugh for the day.

[prairiebreeze]

Conservatives aren’t the only ones mocking it, not by a long shot.