{"id":7425,"date":"2011-09-14T19:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T23:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=7425"},"modified":"2011-09-17T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T21:04:58","slug":"attack-watch-big-brother-in-the-white-house-recruits-all-americans-to-spy-on-one-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/09\/attack-watch-big-brother-in-the-white-house-recruits-all-americans-to-spy-on-one-another.html","title":{"rendered":"Attack Watch: Big Brother in the White House Recruits all Americans to spy on one another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Watchwoman:<\/span> \u00a0<\/strong>Hitler taught children to report their parents to their teachers who forwarded the quips onto the Gestapo (Secret Police, the SS) if they said anything negative about him or the way in which he governed or said anything\u00a0derogatory\u00a0about any aspect of the entire Nazi Evil Empire and then those reported simply disappeared into the abyss of the Nazi Concentration Camps and were subjected to tortures unimaginable and death. \u00a0When I first heard of this many years ago, I was appalled. \u00a0If you&#8217;re younger, you probably don&#8217;t know a thing about this because I&#8217;m confident your public government re-education brainwashing center never taught you this. \u00a0And here it is 2011. \u00a0Now it seems that Obama is not only recruiting youngsters, but every American to report, like his own personal spy army (Minions of Obama) on every other American. \u00a0In the book, &#8220;1984,&#8221; we read about this. \u00a0And here it is &#8211; 2011 &#8212; and we have it&#8211; White House or Watch House or Paranoid House? \u00a0Read a tweet by conservative author Brad Thor who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BradThor\/status\/113957412477747201\" target=\"_blank\">summed up<\/a>\u00a0the critics\u2019s argument: \u201cWow, not only are\u00a0Obama\u00a0&amp; Co. incredibly thin-skinned, they&#8217;re paranoid.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u25ac Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>:~:~:~:~:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attackwatch.com\/\">SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING: OBAMA WEB COLLECTS &#8216;GOSSIP, SMEARS, ATTACKS&#8217;&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>White House spy site &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.attackwatch.com\/\">http:\/\/www.attackwatch.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>However, it has . . .\u00a0<\/em><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/blogpost\/post\/attack-watch-new-obama-campaign-site-to-fight-smears-becomes-laughing-stock-of-the-internet\/2011\/09\/14\/gIQAspHDSK_blog.html\">Becomes &#8216;laughing stock&#8217; of Internet&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<h1>Attack Watch, new Obama campaign site to \u2018fight smears,\u2019 becomes laughing stock of conservatives<\/h1>\n<div>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/elizabeth-flock\/2011\/03\/04\/gIQARk0JbI_page.html\" rel=\"author\">Elizabeth Flock<\/a><\/div>\n<div>As the 2012 presidential campaign heats up, President Obama\u2019s campaign team has set up a new Web site,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.attackwatch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AttackWatch.com<\/a>, to challenge negative statements about the president made by Republican presidential candidates and conservatives.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Obama for America<\/a>\u00a0national field director\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jeremybird\" target=\"_blank\">Jeremy Bird<\/a>\u00a0told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2011\/09\/obama-attack-watch-website-to-help-supporters-fight-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News<\/a>that the site\u2019s goal is to offer \u201cresources to fight back\u201d against attacks. Mostly, that means fact checking statements from the likes of GOP presidential contenders Mitt Romney and Rick Perry and conservative commentator Glenn Beck and offering evidence to the contrary. The site is designed in bold red and black colors, and uses statements like \u201csupport the truth\u201d and \u201cfight the smears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The response to the site has been less than stellar.<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, where the Web site has an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AttackWatch\" target=\"_blank\">account<\/a>\u00a0to help Obama supporters submit evidence of \u201cattacks\u201d on the president using the hashtag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/%23attackwatch\" target=\"_blank\">#attackwatch<\/a>, nearly every tweet about the site \u2014 mostly from conservatives \u2014 has ridiculed it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s a new Twitter account making President Obama look like a creepy, authoritarian nutjob,\u201d an Arizonan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ExJon\/status\/113785368989536256\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cIn less than 24 hours,\u00a0Attack Watch\u00a0has become the biggest campaign joke in modern history,\u201d a contributor to conservative blog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.therightsphere.com\/author\/rb\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Right Sphere<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/diggrbiii\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a>. The contributor linked to the following parody commercial for Attack Watch:<\/p>\n<p><strong>See the paradody\u00a0commercial!<\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Attack Watch Commercial\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-XYKRokgX00?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Tommy Christopher of Mediaite\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/obama-campaign-launches-attackwatch-com-to-get-the-facts-fight-the-smears\/\" target=\"_blank\">noted sarcastically<\/a>\u00a0of the site, \u201cGreat. Sounds like a terrific content-generating resource for right-wing bloggers, too. Everybody wins!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the initiative is reminiscent of a similar online effort launched during the 2008 campaign, called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightthesmears.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fight the Smears,<\/a>\u00a0the intimidating design and language of the new site seems to be what\u2019s causing a bigger ruckus.<\/p>\n<p>Fight the Smears looked and felt far less scary, quoting Obama at the top of its page in a classic hope-change statement: \u201cWhat you won\u2019t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon \u2014 that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge but enemies to demonize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attack Watch, on the other hand, uses the shorter tag\u00adline, \u201cGet the Truth. Fight the Smears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s safe to say that in its 24 hours of existence, Attack Watch has already biggest campaign joke, becoming a tool for conservatives to use against Obama 2012. A tweet by conservative author Brad Thor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/BradThor\/status\/113957412477747201\" target=\"_blank\">summed up<\/a>\u00a0the critics\u2019s argument: \u201cWow, not only are\u00a0Obama\u00a0&amp; Co. incredibly thin-skinned, they&#8217;re paranoid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, Wednesday, 5:11 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obama 2012\u2019s press office just returned an earlier request for comment. According to deputy press secretary Katie Hogan, 100,000 people signed up for the site in the first 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis site is a tool providing our supporters with the facts they need to fight back against lies and distortions about the President\u2019s record,\u201d Hogan said.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/blogpost\/post\/attack-watch-new-obama-campaign-site-to-fight-smears-becomes-laughing-stock-of-the-internet\/2011\/09\/14\/gIQAspHDSK_blog.html\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/blogpost\/post\/attack-watch-new-obama-campaign-site-to-fight-smears-becomes-laughing-stock-of-the-internet\/2011\/09\/14\/gIQAspHDSK_blog.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watchwoman: \u00a0Hitler taught children to report their parents to their teachers who forwarded the quips onto the Gestapo (Secret Police, the SS) if they said anything negative about him or the way in which he governed or said anything\u00a0derogatory\u00a0about any aspect of the entire Nazi Evil Empire and then those reported simply disappeared into the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1686,1361,1344,599,1925,1331,1871,701,1867,503,1502,705,1680,1498,1184,1620,1430,35,251,450,2737,806],"tags":[2822,2832,2834,2833,2828,2830,2831,2829,2826,2827,2825,2824,2823],"class_list":["post-7425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1st-amendment-rights","category-anti-christian-bias","category-attacks-from-the-left-on-the-righteous","category-big-government","category-character-assassination","category-conservative","category-constitutional-unconstitutional","category-democrats","category-evil-plot","category-free-speech","category-godlessness","category-government-2","category-injustice","category-insanity","category-internet","category-moral-decline","category-news-2","category-obama","category-persecution","category-politics","category-surveillance","category-warning","tag-attack-watch","tag-authoritarian-nutjob","tag-backfired","tag-biggest-campaign-joke","tag-gossip","tag-laughing-stock","tag-obamas-campaign","tag-smears","tag-spy-on-facebook","tag-spy-on-twitter","tag-spy-on-your-friend","tag-spy-on-your-neighbor","tag-turning-every-american-into-a-spy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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