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Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web..........(Hello MoonBats, meet the enemy..FREEPERS !!)
Chicago Tribune ^ | September 17, 2008 | John McCormick

Posted on 09/17/2008 9:30:37 AM PDT by IrishMike

Much of Barack Obama's political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network.

Now Obama's presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows.

It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago when the radio station hosted author David Freddoso, who has written a controversial book about the Illinois Democrat.

The latest use of the database, called the Obama Action Wire, is proving yet another new and potentially powerful tactic in the closing weeks of a campaign that has already been dominated by Internet-based messages and media.

The aggressive rebuttals are very much informed by Obama's determination to avoid being victimized by the sort of attacks leveled against Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee stung by TV ads run by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

"The Action Wire serves as a means of arming our supporters with the facts to take on those who spread lies about Barack Obama and respond forcefully with the truth, whether it's an author passing off fiction as biography, a Web site spreading baseless conspiracy theories or a TV station airing an ad that makes demonstrably false claims," said Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt.

Sen. John McCain's campaign uses the Internet for fundraising and organization but does not have anything like Obama's alert system to bombard a specific media outlet in real time.

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


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1 posted on 09/17/2008 9:30:37 AM PDT by IrishMike
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To: IrishMike

We should start an Action Wire ping list to counter them and FReep any news articles they hit. If Action Wire posts a link to Obama it, we counter by FReeping it.

Count me in.


2 posted on 09/17/2008 9:32:22 AM PDT by mnehring (Maverick/Barracuda 2008)
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To: mnehrling

Sign me up! I’m loaded for bear, or whatever they are serving up.

God Bless McCain & Palin


3 posted on 09/17/2008 9:34:42 AM PDT by lildoc511 (USAF pilot vet / retired airline pilot and longtime lurker!)
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To: IrishMike

Here I thought Hillary was the Evil Empire but she was nothing compared to Obama.


4 posted on 09/17/2008 9:36:29 AM PDT by Aria ("An America that could elect Sarah Palin might still save itself." Vin Suprynowicz)
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To: mnehrling
We should start an Action Wire ping list to counter them

The problem is most of us on the right have jobs!

5 posted on 09/17/2008 9:36:36 AM PDT by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: IrishMike
The aggressive rebuttals are very much informed by Obama's determination to avoid being victimized by the truth sort of attacks leveled against Sen. John Kerry.

There, corrected for accuracy...

6 posted on 09/17/2008 9:36:39 AM PDT by piytar
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To: lildoc511

Ditto, baby!!


7 posted on 09/17/2008 9:36:41 AM PDT by McKayopectate
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To: mnehrling

me too...I’ve been asking for this for a while- we should have access via a password to a list of e-mails to all media outlets and outlines of letters to fire off to the SOB’s in the lib media....


8 posted on 09/17/2008 9:36:47 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: IrishMike
The Action Wire serves as a means of arming our supporters with the facts to take on those who spread lies about Barack Obama and respond forcefully with the "CLARIFICATION" that we want them to use, so that the truth is obscured.
9 posted on 09/17/2008 9:37:27 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: mnehrling

Count me in, too. Who wants to set up the ping list? That’s all it will take...


10 posted on 09/17/2008 9:37:27 AM PDT by piytar
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To: mnehrling

You can count me in as well!


11 posted on 09/17/2008 9:37:48 AM PDT by mainestategop (MAINE: The way communism should be)
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To: lildoc511
I’m loaded for bear, or whatever they are serving up.
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SarahCuda, bring the moose and caribou.
Time to have a bar-b-q, smoke out this dRAT infestation that grips 1/2 the country.
12 posted on 09/17/2008 9:37:48 AM PDT by IrishMike (Gov Sarah Palin - Gun control is hitting what you shoot at)
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To: piytar

I am sooooooooooo there!


13 posted on 09/17/2008 9:39:24 AM PDT by JFC (The libs fear us Republicans.. wait until JUDGEMENT DAY!!)
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To: mnehrling

I’m with ya!!


14 posted on 09/17/2008 9:40:24 AM PDT by mmanager (What a mess we are in.)
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To: IrishMike

Don’t forget the kitties...


15 posted on 09/17/2008 9:40:48 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: piytar
“While I am encouraged by the senator’s evolution, I must also appeal to him to issue a “cease and desist” plea to the battalions of his sympathizers - who have been threatening me with death and worse in the days since my article appeared.”

Amir Taheri,
Author of NY Post article where Hussein NoBama
sand bagged the troops.

16 posted on 09/17/2008 9:40:49 AM PDT by IrishMike (Gov Sarah Palin - Gun control is hitting what you shoot at)
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To: IrishMike; mnehrling
These Communists are trying to shut down any oppostion.

What a bunch of whining lighweights.

17 posted on 09/17/2008 9:41:16 AM PDT by Allegra (Hang in there, Houston. I love ya.)
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To: IrishMike
The Action Wire serves as a means of arming our supporters with the facts to take on those who spread lies about Barack Obama and respond forcefully with the truth, whether it's an author passing off fiction as biography...

What about authors who pass off fiction as autobiography, Barry?

18 posted on 09/17/2008 9:41:36 AM PDT by taraytarah (If your only strategy is attacking the life choices of 17-year-old females, you got nothin'.)
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To: IrishMike

If anyone is setting up that ping list, please put me on it.


19 posted on 09/17/2008 9:42:10 AM PDT by lovesdogs (yw)
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To: mnehrling

Are you on the Obama Action Wire list? It’d be very useful to post them as threads as soon as they’re received. People in the media would also have a clearer idea of the fact that Obama is behind the “protests”. They are not spontaneous, individual actions.


20 posted on 09/17/2008 9:42:45 AM PDT by RedRover (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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