posted September 18, 2011 11:02 AM            

The purportedly internet-savvy Obama team has fallen into a Twitter trap, and it can't get out.

The AttackWatch.com snitch website, already the butt of jokes, is the subject of endless mockery on Twitter, thanks to the site's creation of a so-called hashtag on Twitter (#attackwatch), enabling anyone interested in following the subject to receive tweets which carry the hasthag. Best of all, the hashtage cannot be revoked, or controlled by Team Barry. It is out there, and they can do nothing about it.

Ross Kaminsky lays out the dimensions of the disaster at The American Spectator, pointing out that young voters, once solidly for Obama, are the heaviest users of Twitter, as well as the demographic having the hardest time with enemployment, and facing a grim future. The mockery of Obama on Twitter continues to roll merrily along, making Obama into a laughingstock. Kaminsky writes:

If there has ever been a more spectacular failure of a propaganda campaign in such a short time, I am unaware of it. (snip)

But the real beauty of AttackWatch, which is to say the seeds of its own destruction, is the campaign's use of Twitter, allowing and encouraging thousands, or perhaps millions, of people to jump into the conversation.

As I follow #attackwatch in my Twitter application on Thursday morning, I can't keep up with the updates. A new tweet hits about every two seconds, almost all of them obviously by people who are not just opposed to the administration's Goebbels-like activities, but who are effectively turning AttackWatch into the biggest joke in Internet history.

Here are a few of the tweets which have come across the #attackwatch hashtag just during the writing of this article:

From DrFreeLance: "I saw a werewolf drinkin a pina colada at Trader Vic's, and his hair was perfect."

From chuckdevore (Republican state legislator in California): "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean a big majority of us isn't out to get you..."

From EddieRobbins: "My neighbor removed his Obama bumper sticker. I think he's a racist."

From DickMeyers: "Bless me #AttackWatch for I have sinned. I have muttered naughty words about our Dear Leader 9 times & have doubted his divinity a few times"

From joaniekensil: "Ate refried beans & chips for breakfast which is sort of racist foodist - Carbon emissions to follow."

From PoliticalGravity: "Saw a kid with a lemonade stand and she didn't have a permit."

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

And from the always excellent IowaHawkBlog: "#AttackWatch have you cried "uncle" yet? Because we can keep this up all f***in' day."

Ed Lasky points out more tweets via IBD:

On Twitter, this pompous, conspiracy-minded premise has managed only to attract an outburst of humor.

"I saw a kid eating fries with his happy meal yesterday," tweeted someone signing himself NostraSeamus.

"I did see the price of arugula at the supermarket today," tweeted Krackerjam.

"Watch out, monthly jobless report. @AttackWatch is onto you," tweeted SECupp.

"I'd like to report my neighbour - Bob, for surreptitiously scraping the Obama sticker off the bumper of his Prius," tweeted AmeriPundit.

"I saw 6 ATM's in an alley, killing a job. It looked like a hate crime!" tweeted ThorInAZ.

"I just parked my private jet in a handicap space, left it running & bought lemonade from little girls in yard w/o a permit!" tweeted TheWrightWingy2.

These comments are the logical result of a presidency trying to dictate how people live, refusing to admit its economic policy has failed and fostering the sort of big-government socialist bent that believes in citizen snitches.

posted September 18, 2011 10:25 PM            

meanwhile some of these charming people showed their true colours at the tea party repub debate
http://videogum.com/371972/tea-party-debate-audience-would-like-everyone-to-die/politics/

now, not to be too hard on ron paul, i remember him explaining his own medical ethics years ago...he's a doctor, remember? he has refused to take insurance on principle. HOWEVER some of his patients cannot afford his service, in which cases he works gratis, like most good doctors through history. of course the insurance racket makes this more and more difficult.

but it is the audience who are calling for DEATH to those who haven't covered all the bases. not for an end to the need for heavy insurance, but for an end to the people who don't play the game.

posted September 19, 2011 09:24 AM            

Hey katatonic, if you're going to just make stuff up, $5 per tweet should be increased to at least $20 per tweet.

Since you're just making stuff up out of thin air, you could have also made up a tea party pledge.

I, .................., a certified member of the tea party, do hereby pledge a monthly donation to the Kock Brothers in the amount of $2000 to help offset their costs in smearing O'Bomber, Socialist demoscats in Congress and thug union bosses.

.............................

The question which prompted your response was asked by a lame brained moron O'Bomber drooler of the press who couldn't find his own ass with both hands, a searchlight and a map from a Proctologist.

The idiot knows US law forbids medical providers from refusing to treat people because they have no money.

Of course, everyone knows O'BomberCare's Death Panels WILL direct medical providers to not treat people...based on cost assumptions made by non medical, chair warming federal bureaucrats.

Pull your head out...like a good girl scout.

posted September 19, 2011 10:57 AM            

i said i "heard" it. i haven't yet done the search from source but i most certainly did not make it up.

people are proposing that the govt has no business either covering a person's insurance needs OR his medical needs. the question was perfectly reasonable under those circumstances whoever asked it. it is the response that tells all about the people who think they want total freedom from government. which they would hate if they ever got it.

posted September 20, 2011 11:11 AM            

this does not apply to longterm illness or non emergency cases. it also does not apply to hospitals who do not take medicare etc. of course most of them do, so they are included, but

it does not refer to doctors per se, especially ob/gyns like ron paul (though a pregnant woman with emergency situation must be treated by a HOSPITAL)

posted September 22, 2011 08:59 AM            

How come you don't know that?