Remember in their previous campaign, they had a special site set up to report people who were speaking out against Obama?
Oh yes, you were to report those who dared criticize Dear Leader.
Gee.....what does that remind you of....?
Heck, I remember some of our resident leftists crowing about turning people in for their anti-Obama comments.
Obama campaign web site lets supporters report criticism of President
If you've heard someone criticize the President, read an article or blog post critical of Obama, or if you've received an email that doesn't heap praise on the man Newsweek once called "
god of all things," the
Obama campaign wants to know.
ABC's Jake Tapper reported Saturday that the Obama campaign sent an email to supporters encouraging them to “report an attack” at the campaign's
Truth Team report page.
"Received a robo-call or an email forward full of falsehoods? Found a misleading leaflet in your mail? Tell us about it, and help fight back against the attacks on President Obama and his record,” deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter wrote.
The web form asks for an email address, the zip code of the person making the report, the content of the attack, the link to the attack if it is published online, and the source of the attack.
In the "Source" portion of the form, one can choose from a television interview, a forwarded email, a page on a website or a blog, a robocall, an advertisement or even a rumor one might have overheard.
According to Tapper, Cutter cited a
Market Watch blog report claiming that "federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since President Eisenhower."
But, Tapper wrote, "the
Market Watch item has been refuted by several fact checkers as severely flawed, notwithstanding its citation by White House press secretary Jay Carney..."
The
Washington Post Fact Checker gave the White House press secretary three Pinocchios, saying the data is flawed and the analysis lacks context. The
Associated Press also took the administration to task for using the flawed report
Tapper added:
But voters should generally beware of campaigns claiming that they are fact checking. They have an interest in conflating nonsense — like the bizarre assertion that President Obama was born in Kenya — with legitimate criticisms. They want all attacks to be dismissed as falsehoods — and that is simply not the case.
Reporting criticism of the President is not something Americans are used to, and is more reminiscent of 20th century dictatorships. It is not, however, a new concept for this administration.
Last September, the Obama campaign
set up Attackwatch to give liberals an outlet to report conservative criticism of the President.
Attackwatch became an
internet joke shortly after it was set up, but the site still exists. Now, if one wants to report criticism of the President, the site redirects to the official Obama campaign "Fight back" page.
The Blaze noted that "when combined with Obama’s record of '
naming and shaming' Romney donors, a site encouraging people to 'report' Americans who disagree with the administration seems more and more like a thinly-veiled attempt to quiet the opposition."
Your online snitching form:
https://my.barackobama.com/page/signup/o2012-attackwatch-report-an-attack
