Pro-Obama hashtag backfires on Twitter (AttackWatch)

The Hill ^ | 9-4-11 | Alicia M. Cohn

[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.

[pyx]

#AttackWatch If I turn in my father for eating fried food, do I get to wear a nifty brown-shirt with the O patches on the shoulders ?

ROTFLMAO !

[rightwingintelligentsia]

I let my Mexican drug lord license expire. Can I still get a gun from the ATF? That one there is mine

AHEM. I think iowahawk beat you to it.

Questions, So Many Questions

[CSM]

I bet they are all wee-wee’d up!

[CSM]

Self ping for reading tomorrow.

[New Jersey Realist]

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[macinnis]

This is the FUNNIEST thing I have seen in a long time! I have wasted 3 hours signing up for Twitter and reading it all! My side hurts! I also chimed in a few times myself.

[seekthetruth]

You are making me choke on my evening glass of wine! LMAO!

[Voter62vb]

Well, not so fast.

Twitter for instance, tracks trends. #Attackwatch was trending no 3 in USA as a topic this afternoon. It’s off the list now.

Not a big deal right?

Well, it’s an example of how the social media machine is working hard to protect Obama.

[My Guns Never]

yep, that’s where I got it.

[ponygirl]

People are calling our President the Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers; that’s not allowed is it?

I'm totally stealing that one.

[KansasGirl]

There’s a FB page now.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/AttackWatch

[rcrngroup]

If he spends too much time worrying about what people are saying about him, how does he have time to do his job?

Actually I think that's a good thing. He actually doesn't do much during the day anyway, more or less just wanders around, bothering people. In fact, I would rather that he go on a 365 day vacation and give him & phat ass $1 million per day just to stay on vacation. It would be a bargain specialy for us. Our country would be saving hundreds of billions of dollars. That way 0dumb0 the socialist commie RAT bastard wouldn't be spending $4 trillion of our money and now wants to increase it by another $500 billion or so. Let's give him & phat ass mabelle michello $1 million per day just to STAY on vacation and away from DC.

[Christian4Bush]

hashtag - someone please explain this to an old goat FReeper. I monitor twitter mainly to follow some news tweets. I see a lot of @’s and #’s but don’t really know what it represents.

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Use “@” when you want to send a message to another Twitter user. For example: @BarackObama - where’s your REAL birth certificate? With that, you just sent a Tweet to the Dumb Bastard.

Use # to create a hashtag. With this hashtag you can look up numerous Tweets under one name (tag) for example, #attackwatch (by the way, the hashtag has no spaces. Underscores are fine but no spaces. The second you type in a space, the hashtag ends. )

Hope this helps

[reformedliberal]

It’s not just that he is a narcissist. The world is full of them and most people learn to leave them alone. Without power, narcissists are mostly pathetic. THIS one, however, has all the power of the US Presidency plus public employee unions, academia and the official state media. That is what is dangerous.

The ridicule is wonderful, effective and priceless. It is the 21st century equivalent of Danes wearing the yellow star. We are all enemies of the State.

I expect AttackWatch to disappear quietly and the memory officially purged forever.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I wish to report Sen Harry Reid said Obama is -”light-skinned” and having “no Negro dialect unless he wanted to have one.”
He is at
522 Hart Senate Office Bldg
Washington, DC

LOL! Did you actually add it to #attackwatch?

Also, Biden's patronizing comment "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." It also demeans all other African Americans.

[American Constitutionalist]

" And of course his staff and campaign workers will end up spending big amounts of time simply reviewing all of this information of what people are saying about Obama, rather than doing other things. "

That's the very point, make them spin their wheels to nowhere so they waste their resources.

[American Constitutionalist]

Here is another one to use on Attack watch.

If 2 + 2 = 4, how come then Obama's peoples ? that ? is it discriminatory that it's not 2 + 2 = 5 ? got to look into this discrimination Obama administration.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Here is another tweet on #attackwatch:

#attackwatch has become an #attackwatch on #attackwatch

Unlikely the idiots in charge of #attackwatch will understand a self referent statement though.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Media Matters defends Attack Watch with a straight face!

After Years Of Smearing Obama, Right-Wing Media Mock Obama For Anti-Smear Site

[lefty-lie-spy]

OK, that video was awesome. Thank you!