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Pro-Obama hashtag backfires on Twitter
By Alicia M. Cohn - 09/14/11 10:04 AM ET
www.thehill.com

A new Twitter hashtag designed to help fight misinformation against President Obama appears to have backfired in early use on Wednesday.

Some of these tweets are hilarious stuff.


thorninaz thorninaz
Hey #attackwatch, I saw 6 ATM’s in an alley, killing a Job. It looked like a hate crime!

WendyGAv WendyGav
#attackwatch Gibson Guitars are 100% American made..have DOJ raid them..oops u did that already
22 minutes ago

Torrey M. Spears
torreymspears Torrey M. Spears
#AttackWatch I’m missing about 500 million dollars invested in some sort of solar energy company that’s gone bankrupt. Help? #tcot #p2

crappleface Scott Ott
#AttackWatch Mr. Obama, someone’s trying to attack the economy to kill your reelection hopes. I think it’s an inside job. Be careful. #PJTV


People are calling our President the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers, that's not allowed is it? #Attackwatch @AttackWatch

Ragnar Danneskjold
@RaDanneskjold Ragnar Danneskjold
Hey #AttackWatch: my drug cartel neighbors are clinging bitterly to sophisticated weapons. What? Obama gave them those guns? Never mind.

@Oxco Cheri
#AttackWatch @AttackWatch I still have to work and pay taxes,THAT IS NOT FAIR!! PLZ HELP! #tcot

@tweetin009 Firstname Lastname
Hi #attackwatch my lawn care guy is hiring. Is that a green job ?

A dog just left a shovel ready job in my front yard. PLZ HELP.

ExJon Jon G.
#AttackWatch There’s a new Twitter account making President Obama look like a creepy, authoritarian nutjob: @AttackWatch
13 hours ago
Retweeted 100+ times

WendyGav
WendyGAv WendyGav
#attackwatch Gibson Guitars are 100% American made..have DOJ raid them..oops u did that already
34 minutes ago

Torrey M. Spears
torreymspears Torrey M. Spears
#AttackWatch I’m missing about 500 million dollars invested in some sort of solar energy company that’s gone bankrupt. Help? #tcot #p2

Festivus4All Art Vandelay
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

iowahawkblog David Burge
Dear #AttackWatch: you keep using that phrase “community organizing.” I do not think it means what you think it means.

@Luc256 Luc256
#AttackWatch my son would like to know where he can file a report for the theft of his future? #allyourObamabelongtous

@CHOWSTL Craig Lueschow
ATTN: #attackwatch There is a man at 1600 Penn. ave giving weapons to drug cartels so they can murder federal law enforcement agents.

@KRenner2 KRenner
Dear #AttackWatch, I heard that ‘lawmakers are looking for answers’ regarding Solyndra. Is that allowed?

charitystartsat carol
Hey #AttackWatch - There are marxists and communists taking over our Country - please help

Ben
@WyattBEarp Ben
Should we report Democratic pundits to #AttackWatch for not tweeting good things about Obama’s American Jobs Act?

@Pedlar7 CW
#attackwatch I’d like to report the US Senate for not passing a budget for 800+ days. #HarryReid

@gailtalk gailtalk
RT @onzone203 @imstudwell @texasps I saw criminals running down the street armed w guns NOT provided by the Justice Dept #attackwatch

Bryan McCarthy
@outofstyle Bryan McCarthy
RT @jacksmith007 #attackwatch. Reporting on my neighbor who said the war in Afghanistan has not ended per #Obama campaign promise #MockObama

@teh_Dede Dede
Dear @AttackWatch someone requested 23,000 pages of Barack Obama’s emails .... oh wait..nevermind. #attackwatch


yorkcoolj Jason York
Hey #attackwatch, all these damn American flags I see flying everywhere seem like an insult to our dear leader.
1 minute ago
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Stephen Johannsen
vegetaover9000 Stephen Johannsen
#attackwatch. Nancy Pelosi says that for every dollar spent on Food Stamps, 1.73 comes back. How come the ghettos aren’t rich?
1 minute ago
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heather
CFHeather heather
I hear they are FORCING innocent shrimp to run on treadmills paid for by our tax dollars. #attackwatch

fullmtlpatriot: #AttackWatch I would like to report the theft of NY’s 9th Congressional District (& the Democrat Party’s mojo) by the GOP. 5 hours ago23retweet

depresseddarth: Obama launched a program to track attack threats. We had a similar program on the Death Star, but that didn’t stop Luke. #AttackWatch 2 hours ago57retweet

bradthor: Drawing a blank here.... What do you call a leader who encourages people to inform on neighbors, co-workers... Don’t tell me... #attackwatch

dloesch: So glad #attackwatch is here to dispel those unfounded attacks involving Solyndra, Gibson, Fast and Furious, Gulf moratorium, NBPP, etc. 10 hours ago108retweet

thorninaz: RT @CybTekSol Hey #AttackWatch I would like to report 7 states missing... reason unknown at this time. 9 hours ago11retweet

southbel: 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! 3 hours ago18retweet

doc_0: If #AttackWatch goes down, please be patient! North Korean software takes a while to reboot! 2 hours ago11retweet

southbel southbel
Dear #AttackWatch We keep creating jobs in SC. They must be stopped. Oh wait, I forgot, you’re on top of that with the Boeing deal.


Democrat Party. The party of Misery, Violence and Hate.


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Seriously, Attack Watch?
By: Beldin in POPE
Fri, 16 Sep 11 7:59 PM 		Msg. 43408 of 65535

ROTFLMAO ... so, what else did you expect from a juvenile paranoid like Obamoron, eh?! BWHA HA HA HA!!! B. 

Seriously, Attack Watch?
By Alexandra Petri
ComPost
The Washington Post
Posted at 01:00 PM ET, 09/15/2011

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/post/seriously-attack-watch/2011/09/15/gIQAhIsrUK_blog.html

The Obama campaign has outdone itself again. First the creepy tapping e-mails. Now this — Attack Watch, a site designed to “Get the facts. Fight the smears . . . and help stop the attacks on the President before they start.”

This, like most features of the Obama reelection campaign, is a less appealing version of Something That Worked in 2008. In 2008, it was called Fight the Smears. The interface was friendly and hope-colored.

This time, it’s dark and angry and Web 1.0. It looks like the guy who designs 9/11 conspiracy Web sites finally got his big break.

Here’s a screenshot I took earlier.

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Nothing says, "Wow, we're feeling really good going into the election season” like “HERE IS AN ANGRY PREEMPTIVE WEBSITE WITH ATTACK IN ITS NAME.”

Who designed your page interface? George Orwell?

But seriously, 1998 sent an AOL Instant Message; it wants its page design back.

“Join Attack Wire – and help stop the attacks on the President before they start."

Before they start?

I'm fine with stopping them after they start.

Terror threats and fires and M. Night Shyamalan films, for instance, should be stopped before they start.

But this is like telling your audience not to think about elephants. “Especially do not think of voting for elephants,” Attack Watch adds.

Who thought this was a good idea?

I would just like to see the committee meeting where this happened.

“Hey,” someone said. “Remember how awkward it was when people claimed the President wasn’t born in the United States, and we had to go door to door with copies of his birth certificate patiently explaining things?”

“Yeah!” Everyone nods. “Donald Trump was especially obdurate.”

“People will probably make more scurrilous attacks! And sometimes those attacks sway people! But if people know that attacks are going to be made, we can cut them off at the pass!”

Or something.

This is patently silly. The group of people most likely to sign up for Attack Wire is by far the group of people least likely to be swayed by scurrilous attacks on Barack Obama. Nothing says, “I am unlikely to believe negative things said about the president” like “I just signed up for a list where he can explain to me why any attack made on him is wrong.”

The 100,000 people who have already signed up are essentially saying that they are definitely planning on voting for Barack Obama, no matter what anyone says.

Attack Wire doesn't even need to send them any e-mails. In fact, it might be better if they didn’t.

Consider: How will this work?

Stop attacks before they start? This is like that old trick where you ask political candidates, “And how many times did you murder your wife?” We all know how this turns out. We’ve seen “Inception.”

And this time the e-mail will come from the Obama campaign.

Are Attack Watchmen really going to get a message every few weeks that says something like, “You may have heard that Barack Obama has a half-bat lovechild in a cave many miles to the south. Rest assured that this is false”? “If anyone has told you that Barack Obama is actually a homicidal robot from the future, do not believe him!” “Barack Obama is definitely not behind the nabbing of those Scarlett Johansson pictures, no matter what you’ve heard.”

Nothing spreads a rumor faster than vehemently denying it.

But I'm sure they thought it through more thoroughly than that.

Or did they?

If they put as much effort into the concept as into the site design, then we can only hope.


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