Posted on 09/14/2011 8:10:50 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A new Twitter hashtag designed to help fight misinformation against President Obama appears to have backfired in early use on Wednesday.
President Obama's Twitter feed, which is run by his campaign staff, on Tuesday evening started promoting the new website AttackWatch.com and hashtag #AttackWatch, designed to fight misinformation against the president.
The hashtag was already in heavy rotation by Twitter users by Wednesday morning, but many users are conservatives such as columnist Michelle Malkin, who offered up her own daily column as an example of an Obama "attack."
The website is meant to be "the first line of defense against a barrage of misinformation," according to an email from Obama's campaign manager announcing the launch on Tuesday.
Businessman Herman Cain, a Republican presidential hopeful, also responded to the announcement of the website on Wednesday.
"Seriously?" he tweeted.
Obama For America Wy just tweeted this:
“If you’re worried about negativity from the other side, @AttackWatch is your chance to help spread truth.”
LMAO!!!
Just begin your post with #AttackWatch.That is the hashtag
Yep they step in it every time!
So how long do you think it will be before someone makes the “Hitler” video for this?
Now that one made me laugh out loud!!
LOL!!!
Hey, my attackwatch window on twitter cleared itself, and then there were only 6 tweets showing..Please don’t tell me they closed it. It was hilarious.
From the WashCompost blog.
Posted at 12:56 PM ET, 09/14/2011
Attack Watch, new Obama campaign site to ‘fight smears,’ becomes laughing stock of the Internet
By Elizabeth Flock
Miss me yet - JimmaCarta
I let my Mexican drug lord license expire. Can I still get a gun from the ATF?
That one there is mine
That is one of the funniest! I laughed hard when I read it.
LOL.. You can't make this stuff up!
I heard this lady on Rush’s show.
Aw man...I went rushing out to my car at lunchtime to hear his opening salvo...I thought it was going tobe this...but it was on the election. Glad to hear he’s covering it...but I would be in tears by now if I had listened to Rush reading any of those on the air... :-)
I’ve been spreading the cheer via email, though...a good laugh that everyone deserved around here...
This is too much fun:
#attackwatch: my neighbor says Obama is thin-skinned, reacts badly to criticism, and has thuggish instincts. Can you have him arrested?
Dear #AttackWatch: Oooo, can I be a Neighborhood Block Captain? Do we get a uniform? When will you post the new rewards system?
Dear #AttackWatch: will the coming show trials be streamed? Can we recant our thoughtcrimes via Twitter, or must we appear in person?
You can say there's no such thing as justice, but all the good conservatives believe...
#attackwatch: social media sites are sending disrespectful messages about our Leader saying he opposes free speech. Can you shut them down?
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