Attack Watch Snitch Site a Focus of Internet Fun

yahoo ^ | 9/14/2011 | Mark Whittington

[tobyhill]

Back when the Obama administration was young, the White House set up what amounted to a snitch line, an email address where people were invited to report on other people bad-mouthing the president of the United States on health care.

The snitch line was soon taken down. However, it has now been resurrected in the form of a website called Attack Watch. People are invited to use the website to report on other people who are running down President Obama. In this way the Obama campaign for reelection would gather information to "fight smears."

According to the Washington Post, the reaction has not been as the Obama people have expected.

It seems Attack Watch has become the figure of fun for people on the Internet, particularly conservative bloggers who are flooding the website to turn themselves in. The site has backfired in a spectacular fashion, causing Obama to seem like a paranoid, Nixon-like figure on steroids.

The problem is one of the unstated job descriptions for president is to catch flack from people who don't like the executive. This can be galling, especially when the attacks get personal or are perceived to be unfair. Various presidents have reacted differently to the chatter of their enemies.

Nixon, for example, compiled an enemies list and plotted against unfriendly reporters. Clinton would constantly complain about the then-nascent talk radio sector, especially Rush Limbaugh, and had a war room-style operation during the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

By contrast, Reagan and both Bushes dealt with attacks either with good humor in the former case or by ignoring them in the latter. One criticism of President George W. Bush is that he ignored attacks a little too much, allowing some of the accusations to take hold without a response.

[Fantasywriter]

I hope they didn’t take it down. ‘Cons’, as one tweeter called us, haven’t had this much fun in ages.

Resist we much!

[KingKongCobra]

Loved this -

kernelofwisdom

Giant fireball in the sky is contributing to global warming and it is coming back tomorrow!! #AttackWatch

[AlmaKing]

SenMikeLee Mike Lee
@Judgenap & I discussed the President’s #jobs bill last night on Freedom Watch. Does #attackwatch know?:

DanaPerino Dana Perino
You gotta see the @greggutfeld monologue tonight on The Five. @ericbolling and @kimguilfoyle on too. Oh, and @robertgbeckel. #attackwatch

michellemalkin Michelle Malkin
Stiff competition! I did not make Top 10 #attackwatch tweets. Must. Try. Harder.

[LaybackLenny]

I had boobs but my stupid auto correct changed it to blobs. :0/

Uh...er...I'm officially speechless.

[dead]

[healy61]

I went and did my part. I reported that I am saving walnuts to grow trees and corner the market for fretboards. I didn’t want to undermine the rosewood and all.

[BigCinBigD]

Here's a tip for him. Psssst...Your wife's a Bigfoot Gus.

[tarpit]

I would like to report ObamaCare for failing to reduced the number of uninsured Americans as the President said it would.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

It’s midnight and the attack watch tweets are still going strong ... and HILARIOUS!

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

What's the difference between Baywatch and AttackWatch?

One is full of gratuitous fake boobs and the other starred Pam Anderson!

Hilarious!

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

I'm using twitterfall.com to watch it and have 1250 tweets backed up. this is going to go on for a loooooong time and with every tweet the Obamaites are looking stupider and stupider and more and more like thugs with every tweet that passes and I only started at about 11:45 central time and it's now midnight.

Gonna be a loooooong night for the WH.

lol. and wait til the press reports some of these tweets tomorrow. ouchie for O 8 Co.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

That one is great...I also liked:

Hey #attackwatch, I saw 6 ATM's in an alley, killing a Job. It looked like a hate crime!

[rfp1234]

https://twitter.com/#!/search/ATMs%20%23attackwatch

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Obama's approval ratings are so low that the Kenyans are now saying Obama was born in the U.S A #AttackWatch #Obama

[Billthedrill]

My personal favorite: "How many times do I have to turn in my parents to get the Hitler Youth knife?"

I don't believe I've laughed this hard in years. The best part is that some snot-nosed Dem functionary in DC thought this was a good idea in the first place. Welcome to the bigs, kid.

[rfp1234]

http://www.attackwatchwatch.com/NewsFeed/Entries/2011/9/14_Just_in_Time_for_the_Holidays!.html

[jackal7163]

The color scheme of the site is right in that it mimics the nazi flag

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

“dear #attackwatch don’t beat yourself up. all of Obama’s other ideas suck, too.”

[taraytarah]

Attack Watch Commercial

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

"Dear #attackwatch when Alinsky talked about isolation&ridicule,do you think he could have foreseen such an amateur mistake as #attackwatch ?"

"Barack has to shut #AttackWatch down. It's puttin to many comedy writers outta work!"

"#AttackWatch Obama inadvertently gave the public campaign-approved outlet 2 mock him in 140 characters or less"

and jeez. I been there for just > half an hr and 2500 new tweets have stacked up behind me.