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Well, this sounds interesting and probably sinister and open to manipulation: The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter. The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers “false and misleading ideas,” with a major focus on political activity online. The “Truthy” database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.” The university has received $919,917 so far for the project. “The project stands...

The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track “misinformation” and hate speech on Twitter. ... “This service could mitigate the diffusion of false and misleading ideas, detect hate speech and subversive propaganda [?], and assist in the preservation of open debate,” the grant said. ... “Truthy” claims to be non-partisan. However, the project’s lead investigator Filippo Menczer proclaims his support for numerous progressive advocacy groups, including President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action, Moveon.org, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, Amnesty International, and True Majority. ... The government-funded researchers hope that the public will use...

ObamaCare critics report IRS harassment after being reported to Flag@WhiteHouse.gov WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Stockman Tuesday asked two House chairmen to investigate allegations individuals reported to a White House email address for criticizing Obama’s health care reforms were targeted with Internal Revenue Service audits. During the debate over adopting ObamaCare the White House encouraged liberal activists to report Obama’s critics to a “Flag@WhiteHouse.gov” email address. At least one of those reported tells RedState.com editor Erick Erickson he was then targeted with audits. “Remember that website Obama set up to report neighbors who opposed Obamacare? A friend reported himself and got...

Turning back to that page out of Stalin’s handbook for good citizenship, the Obama campaign has revived its program of asking Americans to inform on fellow citizens when they see someone, some organization, some politician, or some news outlet “attacking” the Obammessiah. Some of you may recall the black eye that team Obama got when it tried to do this before. Obama’s Attack Watch was heavily lampooned. (See Video Below) One of the best tools that the East German and Soviet regimes had to keep the average citizen of their oppressive regimes in line was a program that urged citizens...

The Obama campaign is today beginning a new effort to enlist and educate at least 2 million supporters for a "grassroots communications team" they're calling the Truth Team. The rollout also includes a social media blitz, directing supporters to three new websites: KeepingHisWord.com, which highlights Obama's record and "promises kept"; KeepingGOPHonest.com, which highlights GOP policy positions; and AttackWatch.com, which fact-checks claims made against Obama on the campaign trail.

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...

I receive "Tweets" from Obama's "attack watch" and have since the ridiculous site went into operation. They NEVER mention any Republican candidates other than Mitt Romney. Tonight is the FIRST TIME since the campaign began they have targeted Newt Gingrich. I think this is an EXCELLENT sign that the "Newt" has the country's attention and the Kenyan knows it. Here is their message: @AttackWatch: Gingrich tries discredited Saul Alinsky attack line against @BarackObama: OFA.BO/V9rZAb KEEP IT UP MR. SPEAKER

Actress Ellen Barkin was really unhappy with the New York Police Department early on New Year’s Day, tweeting she was shoved (or jostled) on the street. But for politicos, this was the most eye-opening tweet: “this will be nothing if Obama loses the election. A police state will be just around the corner.” No s**t.#Terrified”

Far be it from me to defend Mitt Romney, a phony flip-flopper who hopes the Republican base will somehow forget all the liberal statements and actions he has made. However, Attack Watch, President Obama's snitch-website, has given him the lamest nickname I have ever heard. I believe they are trying to be snarky, but this comes off as if a kindergartener had to quickly insult someone. Their headline? Mitt “No Apologies” Romney Repeats False Attack On … Apologies. Not only is that mind-bendingly lame, but they used the word apology twice, making it redundant. Even worse is the "...," somehow...

By now, many Americans have already heard about AttackWatch, which is another campaign to further the narrative of the Obama administration by attacking anyone opposing the president's agenda. The website's banner tells readers to “Get the facts” and “Fight the smears.” But at AttackWatch, it seems as though one man's facts are another man's smears. Rather than writing an exposé on the website and their owners, I will expand on one issue brought up by AttackWatch: gun control “gossip.” Clicking on the link, readers are greeted with a sinister, all-red image of former UN Ambassador John Bolton – the alleged...

Is the Obama campaign quietly pulling the plug on AttackWatch? AttackWatch.com, a website created by President Barack Obama's re-election campaign Obama for America, was meant to monitor and respond to various criticisms about the president, has been strangely quiet for almost two weeks. SNIP ...Apparently, conservatives have managed to mock the site into irrelevance. Their Twitter account hasn't put out a tweet since September 14, as of this article's posting. Perhaps, the Obama's campaign's death panel decided it had no productive life ahead of it.

This month, amid much controversy, Team Obama launched AttackWatch.com, a new website ostensibly designed to compile and refute all arguments against President Obama’s policies and actions in preparation for the 2012 campaign. Little did they know that instead of helping to launch campaigns against Obama’s critics, provide counter-arguments for statists, and generally support the president, the site would backfire, and Obama himself would realize he actually does suck. AttackWatch, not really sinister, just designed to look that way. “After reading all the complaints about me, compiled all together like that, I realized, I am a s**tty president after all,” said...

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If you've got 4 minutes, this really is funny! You've got to admire people who put the required time and effort in to these things.

Attack Watch...the Twitter angle people poking fun at attackwatch.com....made it a “trend” on twitter..... the site wnet down temporarily then it returned the attackwatch trend.....was no longer listed... UPDATE: Why would twitter make such an obviously corrupt move? Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is on a presidential advisory committee. (5/26/2011) President Obama announced his intent to appoint Costolo to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) http://blog.doodooecon.com/2011/09/twitter-hides-attackwatch-trending.html amazing

America is roaring back -- with laughter. A fed-up nation with itchy Twitter fingers is bringing down what's left of an insufferably pompous presidency. How? By unleashing the most American weapon of all: the wisecrack. A hilarious barrage of catcalls and insults has greeted Obama's latest debacle, a Soviet-style website called Attack Watch. With its terrifying design of red and black cellblocks, and scary photos of Obama's critics looking like Mafia hoodlums, Attack Watch openly solicits Americans to turn in their friends and neighbors for thoughtcrimes against the president. Before we revel in our countrymen's deliciously rude response, let me...

This past week the Obama Reich launched AttackWatch.com, a website/twitter thingie to report attacks and smears against Dear Leader. Could there be a whiff of fascism in the air? The DUmmies debate this, here in this THREAD, "AttackWatch.com," and this THREAD, "AttackWatch Gains Over 100,000 Sign-Ups In Less Than 24 Hours." So let us now monitor and report the DUmmies, in Brownshirt Red, while the commentary of your humble guest correspondent, Charles Henrickson, who, in his DU mole identity is busy gathering information on those critical of the One, is in the [Barackets]: AttackWatch.com [AttackWatch.commie] Get the Facts; Fight...

The US Day of Rage’s Twitter feed features a photo of a defaced ten-dollar bill. Someone has added black hair and a Hitler moustache to Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, whom Congress honored in 1999 as “the man who more than any other designed the Government of the United States.” The Founders as Nazis: that’s what the leftists who plan to occupy Wall Street tomorrow think of the American experiment.

Solyndra. LightSquared. AttackWatch. Operation Fast & Furious. US credit downgraded. Vacations on Martha’s Vinyard. Not-so shovel-ready jobs. Zero jobs created in August (first time since WWII). The list goes on and on. So far, our President hasn’t figured out how big a loser he becoming; he still seems to think that everyone loves him. Surrounded as he is by a gang of hand-picked thugs from Chicago and inside the Beltway, Obama seems to think he’s doing a great job, and that his agenda is being embraced by all right-thinking people. The reality, of course, is far different. His stumbling and...