Friday, September 16, 2011

Now, if it were ‘BungleWatch’ ... (Obama campaign creates new website to report "lies" about Obama)

Now, if it were ‘BungleWatch’ ... (Obama campaign creates new website to report "lies" about Obama):

President Obama’s campaign team has trotted out AttackWatch.com, a spooky new Web site that asks followers to report “lies” being told about the president.

The apparent point is to drown out opposition to Obama and his policies by encouraging instant cyber-swarms aimed squarely at the critics.

The rollout brought much derision, with The Washington Post calling the site a full-fledged “laughingstock” within hours of its launch. Online satirist IowaHawk wrote, “I’m grateful to live in a country where the totalitarians are so hilariously inept.”

Totalitarian might be a bit over the top. Trolling for snitches, which is what AttackWatch appears to be about, is more like it.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...

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