Posted on 07/06/2011 10:12:25 AM PDT by Nachum
When the White House named Jesse Lee as its Director of Progressive Media and Online Response to rebut criticisms on social-networking media, some people argued that the Obama administration had taken a big step toward becoming Big Brother. At the time, I argued that this was nonsense, and that the White House had a right to respond to criticism — but that Lee’s job was a task better left to the DNC, which traditionally served the role of political response. Instead of looking hip and timely, attacking Twitter users would make the Obama administration look petty and thin-skinned, and would diminish the seriousness and dignity of the Presidency. Punching below one’s weight is a strategy that never pays off.
Little did I know just how far below their weight the White House would punch. Heritage Foundation’s Rob Bluey analyzes Lee’s feed and discovers that 15% of all his rebuttals in the month since he took the job have been directed at one user, and it’s not Jake Tapper, Bret Baier, Chuck Todd, or even Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. Instead, Lee has spent almost one-sixth of his twitter time rebutting … Kevin Eder.
Who?
President Obama’s director of progressive media is obsessed with one particular conservative provocateur. Jesse Lee’s duties at the White House include “online response” — and there has been no shortage of responses to one person who routinely communicates with him on Twitter.
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Just like all bullies; find the weaker amongst your opponents and pick on him rather than taking on someone who might give you a fair fight. Seems that the bully picked wrong this time around, as Eder’s giving as good as he’s getting, more better.
>>President Obama’s director of progressive media<<
The title “Minister of Truth” must have been taken.
This is the downside of the Alinsky isolate, freeze, and riducule strategy. You risk looking like a bully and a thug if you misfire and open yourself up to high volume blowback.
petty and thin-skinned
Obama in a nutshell.
Remember Obama’s presser with Netanyahu? The One was so angry with Netanyahu I thought he was going to have a stroke. The One cannot stand any criticism. The best way to show the evil and vacuousness of The One is to contradict and make fun of him. It’s to laugh. As his numbers go down the drain, expect an ever increasingly vile stream of hatred from The One, accompanied by an ever more hysterical defense in the Rancid Media.
i might try to get in on this game with a smaller popoulated account. last time I did that, the next day one of my accounts was shut down.
Yep...nothing offends a pseudo-intellectual blowhard more than a good, solid mocking. The internet is a target rich enviroment...
Interesting premise. I wonder if this strategy would work on some of the trolls that populate this site? I've always advocated ignoring them instead of engaging them, but the other day I mocked one and he went absolutely balistic. It was kind of fun to make him lose control and abandon his canned talking points for awhile.
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