{"id":3096,"date":"2011-09-14T12:12:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/?p=3096"},"modified":"2011-09-14T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T18:12:47","slug":"attackwatch-com-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/14\/attackwatch-com-really\/fun\/","title":{"rendered":"AttackWatch.com \u2014 Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/attackwatch-e1316020922313.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"attackwatch\" width=\"500\" height=\"571\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3097\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a for-real play in the Barack Obama reelection campaign playbook. Gotta wonder though what exactly is considered an &#8220;attack&#8221; on the President; anything that puts him in a bad light I guess, which in most cases includes the unvarnished, un-spun truth (ie: not what comes out of the White House Briefing Room, nor what&#8217;s regurgitated by the mainstream media.) Looking through the site&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Attack Files&#8221;<\/em> shows enough spin to make a carousel operator dizzy. <\/p>\n<p>Makes me wonder how many times I&#8217;ve might get ratted on. Not that I&#8217;m too worried about it, but if I end up with an IRS audit in the next couple of years, I&#8217;ll be more than just a little put out. Just to be on the safe side, I&#8217;ll break with my usual procedure and not include links to that site. <em>wink wink<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>edit:<\/em> I threw this post together in a matter of a few minutes soon after I first heard about AttackWatch.com, and before I had heard any commentary on it. Since then, the disdain for the idea of the website and the website itself has been pretty much universal; even the left hates it. Here&#8217;s one snide bit of funny about it; enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XZPwDRZ6pTM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a for-real play in the Barack Obama reelection campaign playbook. Gotta wonder though what exactly is considered an &#8220;attack&#8221; on the President; anything that puts him in a bad light I guess, which in most cases includes the unvarnished, un-spun truth (ie: not what comes out of the White House Briefing Room, nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}