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Get The Facts And Fight The Smears!

Guest post by: Michael Hume

Article Overview: Well, guess what! It's campaign season again (like that ever ends), and we have a whole new snitch site: "AttackWatch.com," complete with Soviet-style black-and-red graphics, which asks us to "get the facts, fight the smears!" Otherwise, those non-liberals in the media (both of them) might convince some people to vote against the president's re-election....

Get The Facts And Fight The Smears!

Oh Wait: The Facts ARE The Smears Remember all the way back to 2008? The Green Bay Packers had yet to win their fourth Super Bowl, America still had a space program that actually sent people to space, and President Obama wasn't president yet. A lot has changed since then, but there are still some familiar things. Like "AttackWatch.com."

During the 2008 campaign, Senator Obama's team had enlisted an army of tech-savvy internet geeks to create web sites that would facilitate, well, snitching on the part of the candidate's supporters. One, the famous George Soros-funded "MediaMatters.com," is still with us today. The other, "FightTheSmears.com," was specific to the campaign. Both basically asked us to spy on our fellow Americans, and report any "smears" against Mr. Obama.

Well, guess what! It's campaign season again (like that ever ends), and we have a whole new snitch site: "AttackWatch.com," complete with Soviet-style black-and-red graphics, which asks us to "get the facts, fight the smears!" Otherwise, those non-liberals in the media (both of them) might convince some people to vote against the president's re-election!

The outpouring of love their candidate got three years ago seems to have been replaced by an outpouring of derision this time around. Some of my favorite "tweets" in response to the new site include these: "I saw a kid eating fries with his happy meal"... "I'd like to report my neighbor - Bob, for surreptitiously scraping the Obama sticker off the bumper of his Prius"... and "I saw 6 ATMs in an alley, killing a job. It looked like a hate crime!"

But my favorite was this one: "Will we be able to read this in the original German?"

Yes, this sort of spy-on-your-neighbors effort does have a little Hitler-youth flavor, doesn't it? No one is comparing the president to Hitler, to be sure, but his team's methods do make you wonder if they think he's running for a second Reich.

If I were to say "President Obama's campaign has launched a snitch web site!"... would that be a fact, or a smear... or both?

The problem, of course, is that the facts ARE the smears. Though his supporters surely wish otherwise, the president's record speaks for itself. You read the price of gas at the pump: smear! You hear about the monthly jobless report: smear! You learn about the first downgrade in the history of U.S. debt: smear! You watch your business go under or your wealth disappear: well, you get the idea.

Speaking for humor-fiction writers everywhere, I have to say, Mr. President, nobody's making stuff up to make you look bad. You beat us to every punchline. Ha ha ha! The joke, as they say, is on us.

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