Godwin's Law Violation Award Nominee

Sept 19th, 2011

Following my somewhat humorous pushback against the right's freak-out over AttackWatch.com last week, posted HERE, HERE, and HERE, I received quite the inbox full of alarmist invective. This fellow, however, was far and away the most entertaining.

I still say it's just a website.

"And yes Herr Parker, Hitler’s Nuremburg rallies were Teutonic halftime shows!!!

You see there are none so blind as those who prefer not to see.

This web sight sounds and smells like Herman Göering’s, Heinrich Himmler’s, and Adolf Hitler’s Reichssicherheitshamptamt (main state security agency) the umbrella agency of both the Sicherheitsdients or SD (security service) and the Sicherheitspolizei (security police) before both morphed into the Geheimestaatspolizei, (secret state police) shortened to Gestapo in conversational German.

If my above analysis of Attack Watch proves to be to harsh, then it is at least Nixonian, so take your pick… Excuse me now, someone is banging on my front door...!!!"

Points for the multiple violations of Godwin's Law. Extra credit for the lesson in Nazi bureaucracy. Smiley sticker for the repeated use of triple exclamations.

YAY! We Have An AttackWatch Hyperbole Award Winner!

Sept 14th, 2011

Way to go, Washington Times! Your editorial team has really come up with the play that was needed to win the game. In fact, said play made all previous examples of today's craziness simply pale by comparison. And you started straight in with the headline!

Wow. Not only do you evoke Winston Smith at 13 O'Clock, you also got away with calling the first African-American President "Brother."

Pretty Clever.

From the very first line, your piece would be fantastically funny... were it not for the fact that you are so utterly humorless:

"Be careful, if you dare to criticize Citizen Obama, comrade. The Web is watching."

I am just so impressed with this piece, it simply has to get the award for... (drum roll please)

"Most Hyperbolic Freak Out Over AttackWatch.com!"

YAY!

Fox News Raises Hullabaloo Over Website Kerfuffle

Sept 14th, 2011

You know, this AttackWatch.com freak-out on the right is really just too much fun. On most levels. The truth is that the disproportionate responses are getting worse. It would seem that the fringe is now trying to outdo one another. As I predicted earlier, they are shoveling some seriously steaming loads of "fair and balanced" over at the Murdoch Device. Apparently, Chris Plante has declared that this interactive website is actually proof of Obama's "very fascist" intent to "create an army."
via Media Matters

A Website Makes The Right Wing Go Higgledy-Piggledy

Sept 14th, 2011

As hard as it is to believe, a simple interactive website launched by the Obama re-election campaign has indeed caused an apoplectic conniption fit within the American Right.

Simply titled AttackWatch.com, the site is designed to allow supporters of the president to chime in about misinformation in the blogosphere, forward wacky e-mails from fringe types and generally complain about Fox. I guess.