Obama Internet Snitch Brigade Attack Watch

Obama Internet Snitch Brigade Attack Watch:

As the Obama campaign machine prepares to kick things into full gear
for 2012, the president is relying on some old tricks to give him a leg
up on his competition, including recycling one particularly
controversial program to fight “disinformation.”

You may recall that in the heat of the health care reform debate, the Obama administration came under fire for encouraging
its supporters to collect and forward any “fishy” information about the
president’s health care plan directly to the White House:

Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, “facts are stubborn things.”

Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the
internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to “uncover” the truth
about the President’s health insurance reform positions.

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out
there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.
These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or
through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them
here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email
or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems
fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

After widespread outrage of this “internet snitch brigade” exploded across the internet and the media picked up on the story, the White House quickly pulled the plug on the e-tip box. But this kind of creepy “Obama monitoring program” is back — just in time for President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.

The Obama-Biden campaign has launched a new website — www.AttackWatch.com — to monitor “inaccuracies… falsehoods… gossip…“ and ”smears” against President Obama. The BarackObama.com campaign website reads:

If you’re worried about the increasing negativity of the
attacks on President Obama and his record, now’s your chance to fight
back with the facts. Visit AttackWatch.com to learn the truth about frequent smears, track new attacks as they happen, and report false allegations you’ve seen or heard.

We’ve heard it all since 2008, from lies about the Affordable Care Act to false rumors that the Obama administration hasn’t been an ally to Israel.
These aren’t just unfounded allegations about the President—they’re
attempts to derail the momentum of this movement and undermine
everything we’ve accomplished together in the last three years.

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