Obama mobilizes rapid response on Web..........(Hello MoonBats, meet the enemy..FREEPERS !!)

Chicago Tribune ^ | September 17, 2008 | John McCormick

[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.

[mnehring]

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.

[lildoc511]

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

God Bless McCain & Palin

[Aria]

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

[Damifino]

We should start an Action Wire ping list to counter them

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

[piytar]

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...

[McKayopectate]

Ditto, baby!!

[God luvs America]

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....

[subterfuge]

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.

[piytar]

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

[mainestategop]

You can count me in as well!

[IrishMike]

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.

[JFC]

I am sooooooooooo there!

[mmanager]

I’m with ya!!

[darkwing104]

Don’t forget the kitties...

[IrishMike]

“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.

[Allegra]

These Communists are trying to shut down any oppostion.

What a bunch of whining lighweights.

[taraytarah]

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?

[lovesdogs]

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

[RedRover]

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.