Obama Campaign Launches "Truth Team"

CBS ^ | February 13, 2012 | Stephanie Condon

[lbryce]

President Obama's re-election team on Monday rolled out a campaign to recruit two million supporters to help debunk attacks on the president's record and hit back at his Republican rivals.

Called the "Truth Team," the new effort will engage Obama supporters online and in person, encouraging them to communicate with undecided voters about the president's record.

"People don't just want to hear from campaign statements or ads -- they want to hear from the family and friends they trust," Stephanie Cutter, Mr. Obama's deputy campaign manager, wrote in an email to supporters.

Obama for America, the president's re-election team, will announce "truth teams" in a handful of swing states today. National groups like the National Education Association and the Service Employees International Union have also signed on as partners in the effort.

The "Truth Team" website highlights the effort's three goals, each of which have their own website: AttackWatch.com will defend the president against false attacks, KeepingGOPHonest.com will fact check Republicans' claims about their own records, and KeepingHisWord.com will tout the president's record.

In 2008, more than a million people participated in Mr. Obama's similar "Fight the Smears" initiative. This year, the campaign hopes to double that number before the Democratic National Convention in the fall.

The "truth team" effort acknowledges the bitter contest expected between Mr. Obama and his 2012 opponent. Social media can be a powerful tool to help combat attacks, but it also carries some risks -- when the campaign launched AttackWatch.com last fall, conservatives largely lampooned it.

[Liberty Valance]

LOL! BTTT!

[TigersEye]

FReeper John Semmens wrote the original satire that the e-mail is based on. You ought to give FR's own their due credit, devolve! LOL

[devolve]

[BigEdLB]

[devolve]

[caww]

I suspect we’ll see these “truthers” lol....popping up all over the social media on the net...and likely infiltrators on FR as well.....trusing the Viking Kitties are arming up and ready. They’ve sure been busy of late!

[caww]

I suspect we’ll see these “truthers” lol....popping up all over the social media on the net...and likely infiltrators on FR as well.....trusing the Viking Kitties are arming up and ready. They’ve sure been busy of late!

[caww]

Well Google/YouTube is obviously on board. Everytime I go to a video Obama’s pop ups are all over the place...this is no doubt a media war going on and what do we have to counter it? Hopefully in the end...we have the American voters!!!!

[2ndDivisionVet]

[GVnana]

[manc]

when we hear lies and attacks we will get the truth out.

Translation

If we hear the truth out we will have our groups hit FB, social media, the local papers websites with comments, we will send out our people to soccer games, functions etc and we will get our lies out to combat the truth.

Expect your local paper websites, national news websites, social media sites to be hit at once with about 20 people logging on and attacking the republican candidate and defending obama

[manc]

when we hear lies and attacks we will get the truth out.

Translation

If we hear the truth out we will have our groups hit FB, social media, the local papers websites with comments, we will send out our people to soccer games, functions etc and we will get our lies out to combat the truth.

Expect your local paper websites, national news websites, social media sites to be hit at once with about 20 people logging on and attacking the republican candidate and defending obama

[manc]

from what I understand the way it works is that they have hundreds of thousands of folks, some paid some not. They receive a text or an email and are told to hit a website or local paper and then the website or the phone number is supplied.They are given talking points to such article etc. Those people then hit that local paper comments section, the NY Times comments section, the social media website and then defend obama with the lies and talking points they are supplied with off their mail they received or text. The aim is to make it look like a bunch of normal people just happened to have found such article or comments and will try and put the republican comments in the minority and to make it look like stupid people vote republican. Comments like"I do not leave messages and I ma not either a Dem or republican but I felt the need to state that this article is totally not he facts , obama has done bla bla etc" When you get 50 people leaving such comments on a local paper of a small town then it makes the people in that town feel that they are seeing obama smeared and that he is doing a good job. For anyone to laugh at this and not take this seriously is being ignorant tot he damage these trolls can do to this country. As for the republican party just making valentines card website then they need to buck up and understand that this is a fight a war not some pretend play scene.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Add a photo of Mussolini and what his people thought of him in the end. Dictators all fall when the clueless sheep wake up.

Truth Teams = Gestapo and Brown Shirts? Ya think?
ObamaCare = Death Panels = Auschwitz = 2nd Holocaust? Ya think?

Starting to sound and look familiar?

[fnord]

“Obama For America” = OFA

Any organization that uses Ofay as its acronym is not deserving of respect, or civility.

Stay classy Obama

[mom.mom]

So if you are a member of the TRUTH SQUAD, do you get to wear a little shirt or uniform, perhaps a badge? A ribbon would be nice, like for breast cancer. Although all the really cool colors are taken.

So you have to lie to defend the “truth,” which is a lie?

So basically this is another gimmick for idiots.

[mom.mom]

So if you are a member of the TRUTH SQUAD, do you get to wear a little shirt or uniform, perhaps a badge? A ribbon would be nice, like for breast cancer. Although all the really cool colors are taken.

So you have to lie to defend the “truth,” which is a lie?

So basically this is another gimmick for idiots.

[unkus]

Dictators all fall when the clueless sheep wake up.

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I see more discontent with the evil bastard every day. Let’s hope enough wake up to overcome the voter fraud this Nov.

[left that other site]

Familiar...

and FRIGHTENING!

[crosshairs]

Good is evil. Evil is good. Up is down. Down is up......