Obama Administration on the Hunt for "Smear Campaigns"

Jeez, can you get any more pathetically Stalin-era-esque, folks?  Another witch hunt being perpetrated by Obama and his goons, embarking on a seek-and-destroy missiong to snuff out any and all dissent.  I heard about this website this morning on my drive in to work, and then found the following article in FoxNews ... which I'm sure will eventually be shut down by Dear Leader's regime:

Reelection Campaign Launches Reporting Site for 'Phony Attacks' on Obama

President Obama's reelection team is looking for scouts to report would-be "smears" against the president, urging supporters to submit criticisms they read or see to a new campaign website called Attack Watch. 

"Here's the deal: We all remember the birth certificate smear, the GOP's barrage of lies about the Affordable Care Act  and the string of other phony attacks on President Obama that we've seen over the past few years," Obama for American Campaign Mirector Jim Messina wrote in an email released Tuesday.

"There are alot of folks on the other side who are chomping at the bit to distort the president's record. It's not a question of if the next big lie will come, just when -- and what we're prepared to do about it."

The site, a compendium of claims with rebuttals by the president's team, is a throwback to the 2008 campaign's Fight the Smears site.

AttackWatch lists a "news feed" where people can click over to find analyses from liberal groups like Media Matters and Think Progress that offer defenses of the president's position. 

Among the "attack files" cited so far are those from Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry and others, who've suggested Obama is not a strong ally to Israel. Another rebuttal is aimed at criticisms by Republican congressional leaders like Mitch McConnell and Eric Cantor, who accuse the president of creating job-killing regulations

In each instance of an "attack," the site gives news articles explaining the president's side of the story.

In the email, which also solicits donations to the president's reelection campaign, Messina writes that the site is a resource that "allows us to nip these attacks in the bud before they show up on the airwaves and in emails."

The scouts will then become the first line of defense to "spread the truth" to friends. 

The new campaign site also lets people vote whether they've seen the "attack," and has a Twitter feed, @AttackWatch, for people to follow for updates.

So, I went to the website and snapped this:

Kinda freaky, ain't it?

This brings to mind back when the White House website had a spot where you could report "fishy" info, websites, e-mails, etc.  Two prior incidents that I've blogged about:

1) "Fact Are Stubborn Things" on White House website:

"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."

2) Obama Truth Squads