Obama Campaign: AttackWatch Gains Over 100,000 Sign-Ups In Less Than 24 Hours

Medialite ^ | September 14th, 2011 | Colby Hall

[tlb]

A source within the Obama campaign has told Mediaite, that in just the first day, the user-generated research tool has been nothing short of an enormous success. “In less than 24 hours we’ve had over 100,000 people sign up at the website, which indicates significant interest from supporters.”

While the volume of conservative critiques speaks to the intensity of the opposition’s feelings towards the Obama administration, at the very least this digital effort did it’s job bit perhaps instilling a little fear in the GOP campaign efforts. It’s not difficult to imagine social media staffers at the RNC scratching their heads and saying “why didn’t we think of that?”

The essence of AttackWatch is the Obama campaign outsourcing of opposition media research to its army of loyal supporters. Among the critiques leveled at this interactive effort is the notion that this is some vestige of “Big Brother” keeping an eye on citizens opposed to the White House politics. This would be a fairer analysis if it were made before the advent of social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. In the brave new world that is oppo research and political smear campaigns, leveraging the passion of one’s political base is not something that we should fear, but rather a smart and savvy political move.

[Titan Magroyne]

Fun thread (Hi, Glenn!), great comments at the article site too:

* RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

Here are the top 10 ‘attackwatch’ tweets so far.

10: @KevinWGlass: Let me put it this way: if Richard Nixon were still around, he would have already owned the domain name AttackWatch.com.
9: @stephenkruiser: “#AttackWatch: Because #ResistWeMuch was already taken.” @AttackWatch
8: @tpcarney: Hey, @attackwatch, I heard a Senator say that raising the debt limit represents a “failure of leadership” #attackwatch
7: @huddled_mess: “Ask not what you can do for your country, ask who of your neighbors, friends and co-workers you can snitch on.” #AttackWatch
6: @justkarl: .@Doc_0 #AttackWatch already has a bat-signal, but it’s solar, so it doesn’t work at night.
5: @exjon: #AttackWatch There’s a new Twitter account making President Obama look like a creepy, authoritarian nutjob: @AttackWatch
4: @iowahawkblog: I actually sympathize with #AttackWatch. They remind me of the time I got my head wedged in a bowling ball return chute.
3: @jonahnro: So I have nearly 7 times more followers than #attackwatch. I think I deserve a nice gold attackwatch.
2: @chrisbarnhart: Dear #AttackWatch – I’m eating a high carb, high sodium meal right now.
1: @davidfreddoso: Reporting WaPo to #attackwatch RT @simonmaloy: WaPo rds tweets mocking #AttackWatch, declares site already backfired. wapo.st/qQhmTr

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Sheep.

[lwd]

I created a twitter account last night for the sole reason of ridiculing #attackwatach.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I'm on of those people!

I signed up as f***youobama@f***obama.com.

[Rodm]

Maybe, more the Obama-Gestapo.org

[TEXOKIE]

My favorite:
“I actually sympathize with #AttackWatch. They remind me of the time I got my head wedged in a bowling ball return chute”

[Roklok]

Rush Limbaugh is one of the 100,000, LOL.

[GreenHornet]

at the very least this digital effort did it’s job bit perhaps instilling a little fear in the GOP campaign efforts.

The fact that, in just the first day alone, over 100,000 reports were received about people saying negative things about Obama should be instilling fear in the Democrats about their chances in 2012. They just don't get it!

[cg56]

I just got my laugh of the day. I checked #attackwatch on Twitter and this is the first tweet I saw:

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

I have to go read more of them now.

[MrB]

Just saw one that was great:

“Barack 0bama is a Venture Socialist”

[sockmonkey]

Lousy Freeper trolls.

Well, actually, I did see some FR troll accusations on the DU threads I read..

[kevkrom]

AttackWatch Gains Over 100,000 Sign-Ups In Less Than 24 Hours

Of course, 99,900 of those sign-ups exist solely to mock it.

[Bronurstomp]

OMG are the Obamabots this dumb, this is beyond spin. This is like saying you got jumped,got the hell beaten out of you and afterwards claimed..”Wow that was a helluva workout”. What happened is Obaama found out all the real clever humor and satire is on the right not with that hateful snark Jon Liebowitz.

[rdcbn]

By the time Obama is finished screwing up the country people will be wanting to climb the from the United States to East Germany - metaphorically speaking, of course

[driftless2]

There’s an hilarious parody of Attackwatch available on the NRO website.

[Arrowhead1952]

**The question should be, how many signed up in sincerity?**

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I heard this lady on Rush’s show [yesterday].

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FoxNewsMom Anita Miller
Caller 2 Rush, Grandma of 12/retired school teacher, flipped Obama the bird as POTUS motorcade drove by. #attackwatch I high five her ‘flip’

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2778184/posts?page=116#116

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[The Sparrow]

I did the same thing this am. It’s been freaking hilarious!

[The Sparrow]

Let them think people support attackwatch! This is the funniest thing on the internets right now. Plus we can pick up lots of conservative followers. =D

*backfire* all over Obama.

[kalee]

When I was reading them last night I liked this one.

I am not sure about those 7 dwarfs, 6 of them seem OK. but has anyone seen Doc’s long form medical license?