In a repeated effort to bring everyone to the same omniscient level as President Obama, the Obama Administration and Obama for America has reinstated a Big Brother-esque reporting website to help you "Get the facts...and Fight the smears". You may have short term memory loss, and the "Facts are Stubborn Things" video has slipped your mind, or the Reality Check on Health Insurance Reform web page, OR the email address where you could "help the White House keep track of fishy information". I wrote about it on this blog, August 14, 2009.
Apparently the non-confrontational approach wasn't working. The revamped concept can now be found at http://www.attackwatch.com/. What a mild title! New slogan: "Get the facts. Fight the smears." The main page has several headers that can take you to a variety of locations:
News Feed: Gives you not only featured news stories that are labeled "twists the facts" or "flawed understanding" and even "massive jobs lie". Who are the repeat offenders, or in their terms "Attackers"? Glenn Beck, Mitt Romney, and Rick Perry.
Attack Files: This is what you would normally see on Presidential candidate's website labeled, "Rick Perry on the Issues" or "Mitt Romney: The Issues" or even more creative and productive "Newt Gingrich: Solutions". What a novel idea! Solutions? Have we tried that before? But, I digress. Obama for America decided on something a little more understated, "Attack Files". Not the X-Files, or Watch Dog. Attack Files. Are the American people being Punked? Sometimes I wonder.
Report an Attack: If you haven't felt like you've stepped into George Orwell's "1984" yet, venture over to "Report an Attack". Big Brother hasn't progressed to Thought Police, but they are waging a full fledged "attack", becoming "Speech Police". Which seems to be very contradictory to the most quoted freedom from the 1st Amendment.... Freedom of Speech. Do we need to amend that amendment to include "freedom of thought" before its too late?? Out of curiosity, I might report my own blog. Why not? I'm opposed to the majority of what President Obama has done in office, so that is the only qualifier, right? Being opposed to his way of thinking? Having a "flawed understanding"? I guess he hasn't talked enough about the health care reform, or the stimulus, or Stimulus 2.0 (aka the Jobs Bill) for me to gain a better "understanding". What I haven't been able to uncover (which is why I might go "undercover") is what happens to the flagged websites. Is there punishment for disagreeing?
Join Attack Wire: Sign up for this more-annoying-than-spam email alert system (I already did) to not only be notified, but "armed with the facts". Only less than a year ago he delivered a fantastic speech at the Tuscon Arizona Shooting Memorial, where he said "make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds." Armed? Attack? Fight? Is that rhetoric that "heals" or "wounds"? By your own standard, you are failing to "usher in a more civil and honest public discourse".
Support the Truth: And now, the bottom line. Money. Donations can be made by credit card (of course, the new US Currency) ranging from the affordable $10 to the $500 (or other) peak. There are even options for recurring monthly payments and Americans abroad. I'm wondering how far the bottomless pit of funding the Obama for America campaign has raised. How is this not a scare tactic to raise money?
This wealth of knowledge and plan of action is disturbingly displayed in a startling color scheme of black, white and red. I have avoided the extreme right band wagon of "President Obama is a communist!" or "The Democrats are National Socialists (Nazi's)" like the plague. But quite honestly, when I first pulled up this website, my "judge the content by the homepage" reaction was, how does this not look like communist or nazi propaganda. The three most common colors used in nazi or communist propaganda are black, white and red. Again, I feel like we're being punked! They couldn't look more Big Brother if they tried. I typically try to be able to argue the other side, understand their thought process; but in this case, I am at a loss.
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