Obama Campaign Launches ‘Truth Teams’

Are all these grass roots supporters part of his “jobs created” stat? “Truth Team” for any political party is quite the oxymoron!!

Truth Teams = Propaganda Teams

The President really have you Right-Less folks frothing at the mouth! This is a very good initiative since we all know what you Right-Less plan to do. You plan to lie. Let us all be honest with each other and just admit and accept what is a fact. You people lie. The President’s team know this and plan to call you on it.

The guy needs a “truth” czar. He couldn’t know truth from lies if it hit him head on. It’s what he does best. The very definition of a politician.

The gospel of lies and severe spin according to Obama, our cancer in chief.

It seems that lying can affect the ears also, and that is why Obama’s already freakishly large ears seem to be getting even larger.
Just sayin’, lol.

Gee! I wonder why they think they need to do this? Hummmm….I wonder why?

Truth Teams? Very Orwellian. Next comes the Obama Thought Police.

May I expand a bit my previous thoughts that contained all that is within our current and recently past purview regarding these roundabout and raucously riling issues? Thanks. Let me expand on that a bit: the concentric metrics of Obama spasms in maledictory attempts at reconciling with wacky weirdsters from the left has resulted in the degenerate deconstruction of the maladies of misty mists afflicting his naughty attempts at radical reelection. He made a mistake, it can be ceremoniously cretinized and rectified by November, with luck and more jock-strap like support from sycophants everywhere. Surely and sanctimoniously, craven charts and gluttoneous graphs surreptitious stats can aid in the visual and experiential experiences of pontificatory propaganda on and surrounding our egregious attempts at marauding and marranging the moronical masses who no not knowingly know which dire direction to praise, plead, or stumblingly stumble, or even truculently trot. Heed my advice and info contained solidly and slippery within, or just be a clear dummy or a prancing poltroon.

Attack WAAAAATCCCCHHHHH!
The propaganda team has been up and running for years.
It is called Media Matters. ABC likes to use them as a source as do all the Democrat Super Pacs do.
When are the media Super Pacs for the Democrats going to have to register?

Gee! I wonder why they think they need to do this? Hummmm….I wonder why?

Posted by: newcountryman | February 13, 2012, 9:20 am 9:20 am

You wonder why?

“GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich – Romney is a liar.”

“I think it’s the most blatantly dishonest performance by a presidential candidate I’ve ever seen,” Gingrich said in a telephone interview with the Washington Post Friday, January 27, 2012.

Another O’Dwyer hit piece on the Pres. What a surprise.

Gee! I wonder why they think they need to do this? Hummmm….I wonder why? Posted by: newcountryman | February 13, 2012, 9:20 am

Had you actually read the entire article, you wouldn’t have to wonder. Quote: “If the other guys are going to run a campaign based on misrepresenting the president’s record – and their own – we have two options: sit back and let these lies go unchallenged, or fight back with the truth,” deputy Obama campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said in an email. ”We’re fighting back.”

Calling them ‘Truth Teams’ is a rather silly election year term. Naturally his haters jump all over the name and ignore the reasons why he needs to do this. Republicans lie about him all the time. They lie about their own records. They lie about pretty much everything and anything, pretty much all of the time. Having people counter those lies is a must. The Right Wing swallows those lies like candy. But the Moderates and the Independents don’t need to. Since unlimited anonymous cash will be spent spreading those lies, a push back is definitely warranted.

So will these be ‘Transparent’ truth teams?

Why does the President need to do this? I’m a rational, non-hating guy. Honestly, I have never seen a president treated so poorly by the opposition! The hatred is obvious. I think Obama is the closest thing to a normal guy that we’ve had for a president in my lifetime. He tries to do the right things that would benefit normal, non-wealthy Americans. The GOP fights it by obstruction and trying to convince their poor redneck followers how “terrible” this president is and they of course eat it up.

So, who determines the “truth” these Truth Teams will use for propaganda? “I am a Young Pioneer. I pledge under the Young Pioneer flag that I am determined to follow the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party to study hard, work hard, and be ready to devote all my strength to the Communist cause.” “Truth Teams” for either side smacks of no more that pure indoctrination.
Curtis41..you are not too far removed from the possibilities. We now see the attack on the 1st Amendment. Now Truth Teams. How steep is the current slope?

The truth according to Obama???? LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO

Solyndra, Fast&Furious, Lightsquared, MF Global, Goldman sacs, Ayers, Wright, Anita Dunn, Jones LMAO.. Ignoring subpeonas LMAO., Trampling on the 1st admendment.. THe “truth” according to Obama.. Thats a big belly laugh

And don’t forget fake-gate, fabrigate, lookie lookie over here, The Mountainous Molehill, This Guy, That Guy, and please don’t look at all of the polls!!

Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot would all be proud of these “truth squads”. Next come purges, according to the handbook anyway.

It’s about time! It’s been three years of the Republican Messaging machines smokes and mirrors and wrecking Congress and the economy. Coupled with that all the misinformationa and lies from 24/7 Conservative Rant Radio, Fox Noise, and ConservativePAC’s and Thinktanks. It’s time Mr. President, It’s Time!

Like I said before, I once visited the UK and am thus fully qualified to represent their (our?) views in these matters. Case closed.

EMERALD_SPARKS: I’m not telling anyone who to vote for. I’m simply expressing my opinion. Much as you are. And however many times you dispute my nationality it changes nothing; I am an Englishman. Which gives my opinion less weight than it would have if I was one of yours and actually makes it even less appropriate for me to tell Americans how to vote. Counter-productive. And, once again, I claim no wisdom and even less objectivity.

MYTAKEONTHIS I guess I was. I just don’t remember it like that===Of course you don’t. Most lefties have a very selective memory.

“Truth”? How about showing us 0bama’s college records, how that was funded, who sponsored him, and what he actually wrote while editor of the Harvard Law Review? That would be a good place to start with the truth.

And while you’re at it, tells us: was 0bama’s Muslim schooling in Indonesia Sunni or Shia?

He needs to discuss this with Eric Holder – remember – lying is only a state of mind

Stop WITH all ofthe COMPLAININNG!!! The PRESIDENT is doing the BEST he can. Just PAY your HIGHER taxes!!!!! and STOP lying SO much!!!!!

If anybody here is really from Britain, maybe you can tell us how well all those austerity measures the conservatives put in place are working out? LOL!

Well since truth cannot be defined, this will just be a squad of propagandists. Fact can be defined, Truth is a point of view, much like good, bad, fair, none of these can be defined,

Will the governemnt still pay for my new Hoveround if Obama wins? i believe so, and my vote is for him. Goin mobile, my friends.

I honestly don’t care about Obama’s past at this point. It is prologue. Look at what his presidency has become. It is one giant community organization effort to shift money from those that have anything to those that don’t regardless of effort, life choices, character or merit. In every instance the ends justify the means for this administration no matter how petty, ugly or deceptive. If you’re for it, you’ll support him and if you’re not you won’t. Seems simple enough.

Almost as pathetic as abc deleting legitimate posts, and protecting their pet (or paid) posters.

POSTED BY: OLD MAN TRUTH | FEBRUARY 13, 2012, 10:57 AM======Amen to that…

We did, mate. That’s exactly why we went more conservative. Wise up, instead of trying to be cutesy. LOL.

Well since truth cannot be defined, this will just be a squad of propagandists. Fact can be defined, Truth is a point of view, much like good, bad, fair, none of these can be defined,
Posted by: snewsom2997 | February 13, 2012, 10:48 am.

Truth (noun) – 2 a (1) : the state of being the case : fact (2) : the body of real things, events, and facts…..YOU may think that truth is relative, but most people understand it is not.

Obama is a liar. He needs the truth team to investigate his words he has spoken in the past 3 years.

Posted by: A Cynic—That is the definition of the word truth, not the definition of something that is a truth.

Oops!

Truth Teams!?!?!?
You have got to be kidding.

Some truth would be appreciated, such as show your transcripts from occidental and harvard along with student loan details.

“The Republican party lives in a world devoid of Facts or Reality.”

Posted by: Stormkrow | February 13, 2012, 12:14 pm 12:14 pm

Funny statement coming from someone who voted for meaningless rhetoric like HOPE and CHANGE.

Sign me up.

Let me start with this:

““The Obama campaign is organizing propaganda teams to deceive voters because Americans are catching onto the reality that Obama’s record doesn’t match his rhetoric,” Kukowski said in an email. “How else will they mask the broken promises like introducing another trillion dollar deficit or the fact that the president continues to recycle the same proposals without ever seeing results?””

This statement is, front to back, a LIE. All of it. I am calling B.S. on it right here and now.

Citing FACTS and NUMBERS to counteract unsupported and/or vague claims as made constantly by the Right is not “propaganda”. Propaganda is repeating the same LIES and BUZZ WORDS over and over again (as the Right does) and ignoring the FACTS (“no birth certificate!”, “no jobs!” “death panels!” “failed policies!” “Muslim!” “Socialist!”) in an effort to influence the views of the public.

Obama has made it clear he IS going to run on his record and why WOULDN’T he? He pledged to bring bin Laden to justice and DID. He vowed to work to improve the economy, and he HAS, with over 3 million private sector jobs added during 23 straight months of private sector job growth to date. He vowed to end the wars AND fully fund the Veteran’s Administration and is keeping those promises. He made sure ALL the TARP money Bush signed away was PAID BACK with interest. Libya is liberated and Ghadafi, one of the biggest supporters of terrorism since the Nixon years, is dead without the loss of a single American life. The list goes on and on.

The response of the Right is to raise a machine-gun barrage of misinformation and distortion of that record (in the hopes that their low-information base will simply swallow their rhetoric whole and not bother to verify). Oh, and to distract with hot-button issues like abortion, gay marriage, Sharia law, and even BIRTH CONTROL.

These people have no shame. They have no moral center. They will do WHATEVER they have to do to WIN, be it making secret deals with terrorists to hold American hostages until after the election or undermining the economic recovery and playing politics with the lives of millions to make Obama look bad leading up to an election.

They are masters of spin who live by the Nazi mottos of “repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it” and “the bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.”
(one leaked memo from Reagan’s campaign urged GOP operatives to simply repeat the phrase “tax and spend liberal” ad nauseum…nevermind the facts…and people would come to associate it with the opposition.)

It is vital that they be challenged whenever they distort or LIE (which is virtually everytime they SPEAK or WRITE)…their machine-gun barrage of propaganda must be countered with a machine-gun barrage of TRUTH and FACTS. We cannot allow them to control the language or define the issues (as they are so skilled at doing).

Posted by: RAVEN—You assume people care. Except for the 1-5%% of the electorate that debates on these forums and those like them, most Americans are willfully ignorant of everything. The don’t care, they do what the TV tells them, the vote for who will promise them the most Ice Cream at lunch, or just don’t participate at all.

They are masters of spin who live by the Nazi mottos of “repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it” and “the bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.”

Posted by: RAVEN | February 13, 2012, 12:51 pm 12:51 pm

Exactly how Obama got elected. His campaign was all platitudes and imagery (Greek columns, anyone?). Obama had no track record as a chief exec. His radical background was buried by the media.

MOJO: “There are no “independent fact checking sites”. They all have an agenda, and not a one can be trusted. You have to become your own fact check source and dig hard to find the facts.”

Baloney. Snopes is the gold standard of un-biased fact-checking of all those mass emails and conspiracy theories/urban legends (if more Right-wingers would check this site before forwarding all their tripe about how Obama banned religious-themed ornaments on the White House Christmas tree (Bush did that) or even eliminated the tree altogether (balderdash) our in-boxes would be a lot clearer.

The BLS, the Census Bureau, CBO, IRS and many other sources, both governmental and private sector (such as the private companies which regularly do their own surveys of job growth) are non-partisan, reliable, and are the best places to find the ACTUAL data/numbers/facts.

Think-tanks with an ideological bias (most of them), Fox “news”, radio commentators, and others putting their own spin on or even MAKING UP the facts are the worst sources.

The denial that there are any reliable sources or facts/figures out there (and/or the assertion that certain sources are somehow privy to the REAL truth which is being otherwise concealed from us by some vast, evil conspiracy) is part and parcel of the ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM that is running rampant on the Right lately.

Conspiracy theory, superstition, vague claims, paranoia, and general misinformation rule, and logic, facts, figures, history, and science are all suspect or rejected outright.

Coupled with the intolerance, anger, militarism, and anti-government sentiment common to that demographic, it is an ominous trend that should be countered at every opportunity.

“Baloney. Snopes is the gold standard of un-biased fact-checking of all those mass emails and conspiracy theories/urban legends (if more Right-wingers would check this site before forwarding all their tripe about how Obama banned religious-themed ornaments on the White House Christmas tree (Bush did that) or even eliminated the tree altogether (balderdash) our in-boxes would be a lot clearer….”

PREACH THE TRUTH!!!!! (CLAP!) (CLAP!!!) Tell it! Tell it!!!!

“Truth Teams” has an Orwellian ring.

Even more disturbing, the administration announces its “truth teams” the day after the Jack Lew, the White House chief of staff, falsely claims (twice!) on national television that Republicans in the Senate are responsible for the Democrats’ failure to pass a budget.

There are plenty of us who care, and care deeply. We follow, discuss and engage in politics and current events and we VOTE.

Posted by: RAVEN | February 13, 2012, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm

If you’re one of millions of America’s leeches, I don’t care what you think. I’m the one paying your share of taxes so that you you can live a lifestyle you don’t deserve. My labor doesn’t belong to you.

If you do nothing but take from other Americans and give nothing back to society you don’t deserve a vote. If you remain willfully unemployed and purposely steal from other taxpayers you should thrown in jail, regardless of how much you care. Robbing other people for your personal benefit is a crime.

I recall another transformative figure that sought to rescue his nation from the brink of disaster, monetized his national debt, instituted federalized health care, and ran on a platform of hope and change. He too had a truth team, headed up by Dr. Joseph Goebbels. Funny how history has a way of repeating itself. That country was full of brainwashed fools that depended on the central government for everything, too. And they also abdicated all power to the great leader and his administration. Funny.

What’s the old saying? Charity begins at home. How about truth finding yourself?

Posted by: disgusted with gop | February 13, 2012, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm

Clearly FOX news is a propaganda network.

p.s – you should read more real news – ACORN doesn’t exist anymore.

Every day the left exposes its totalitarian agenda more and more.

Raven, you are clearly a propagandist yourself. You have not stated one single fact about anything. Instead, you make ad hominem attacks against people in the right in order to push your agenda. If one person says something that is garbage, it is no reflection on an entire group of people. And yet, you do generalize and perpetuate lies of the left yourself. PROVE what you say if you are so adamant on requiring the same of others. You gave no facts. You merely made mention of some stupid thing about ornaments that I had never even heard of.

And each “Truth Teamer” will receive a one month supply of food stamps and a $28 dome tent.

This is the the most disturbing comment thread I’ve ever read in my entire life. We have the right wing that makes a lying a job (food stamps for vacations, right?) and then wonder openly why Democrats need entire teams to undo the brainwashing they’ve done.

Make no mistake about it, the thinkers among us will win back the minds of the middle class. You can’t make people vote against their best interests in the name of Jesus forever. Eventually they will want the best for their families. When that happens, this nation will make up forever.

Hitler called his “truth teams” the Gestapo.
Stalin called them useful idiots.
Khrushchev called them political officers.
Castro calls them stooges.
Posted by: JB | February 13, 2012, 2:23 pm.
“The American equivalent of those mentioned above is, of course, Fox and Friends.”
POSTED BY: DISGUSTED WITH GOP
Lame try at a reverse-reality quip. No, the American equivalent is obviously Obama’s “truth squads” and posters like you. Check, mate.

Posted by: RAVEN | February 13, 2012, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm

If you’re one of millions of America’s leeches, I don’t care what you think. I’m the one paying your share of taxes so that you you can live a lifestyle you don’t deserve. My labor doesn’t belong to you.

If you do nothing but take from other Americans and give nothing back to society you don’t deserve a vote. If you remain willfully unemployed and purposely steal from other taxpayers you should thrown in jail, regardless of how much you care. Robbing other people for your personal benefit is a crime.

Hate much? I’ve worked all my life and paid my taxes, and VOTED in every election. Take your tainted paint brush somewhere else, until you have something meaningful to contribute.

The sign that a politician is a horrible liar, and his stronghold through deception is failing.

A HUGE violation of U.S. citizens’ constitutional rights. Of course his propaganda officers have set out to attack constitution supporters in this massive propaganda campaign. Last time i checked, outright attacks on the constitution (which he is sworn to uphold) is TREASON.

For those of you that read more than what the marxist and immorality indoctrination centers give you. This is nothing to surprised about.

1984, Fahrenheit 451, Serenity or Firefly, etc.

MiniTru and Newspeak is alive and well. To forget history is to repeat it!

PORTER51: “If you’re one of millions of America’s leeches, I don’t care what you think. I’m the one paying your share of taxes so that you you can live a lifestyle you don’t deserve. My labor doesn’t belong to you.

If you do nothing but take from other Americans and give nothing back to society you don’t deserve a vote. If you remain willfully unemployed and purposely steal from other taxpayers you should thrown in jail, regardless of how much you care. Robbing other people for your personal benefit is a crime.

Hate much? I’ve worked all my life and paid my taxes, and VOTED in every election. Take your tainted paint brush somewhere else, until you have something meaningful to contribute.”

ExCUSE me, but what I contributed here was the TRUTH. Look it up. I stand behind every fact, figure and statement I post, because I HAVE looked it up and verified it to be factual. I refuse to allow myth, lies, distortions and conjecture to stand unchallenged when I encounter them.

A little history on me: I have worked full time for most of my adult life. As did my late husband of 23 years. We each owned and operated our own small businesses for years, as well as working for others for years. We paid our taxes. We created jobs. We voted in every election (national AND local) Both registered Independents/Unaffiliated voters. We had 2 kids (now 19 and 12) both of whom we supported, financially and otherwise.

The only time either of us ever took “welfare” was several years back when he became disabled due to a genetic condition diagnosed late in life and had to go on full disability. We went on food stamps for a while. So we got SOME of the taxes we paid in over the years BACK during a time of crisis.

He died at 45 (without insurance OR the on-going care he needed to extend his life BTW, due his “pre-existing condition”…even through Medicaid/SS, there is a 16th mth waiting period for health coverage. He was already dead by then. Lest you think people DON’T die everyday in this country for lack of affordable medical care.)

Currently, I’m attending a university full-time, finishing up my 2nd degree (with a 3.80 GPA to date…I graduate President’s Honor Roll/4.0 GPA with my first many years ago). I also work part-time. I decided to further my education after the economy tanked in 2007-8 and I’d spent 8 mths on unemployment unable to find a job despite sending out dozens of resumes a week (an excellent resume, BTW). Only time in my LIFE I’d collected unemployment or been unable to almost immediately find a job.

My daughter and I receive SS survivor benefits (my son is 19, in college, and no longer receives them). NOT “welfare”; we are getting back what my late husband paid IN, nothing more or less. It is HIS money, not YOURS.

It is interesting that you assume anyone who differs from your narrow political perspective MUST be a “leech” or deadbeat. Do you also assume I’m Black or Brown? (I’m not, FTR…Scots-Irish, English, French…father a 1st generation American and a Marine; military service on my maternal side going back to the time of Andrew Jackson, who married a direct ancestor of mine whose relatives served as Generals in his administration.)

I voted for Obama because I honestly thought him the best candidate. And I intend to vote for him again because he still is AND has done a fantastic job thus far, all things considered. I watched the Republicans drive this nation into a ditch (as they have done before…study history re’ the Great Depression). I have no intention of giving them the keys back now that Obama and Co. have pulled it out and gotten it back on the road and running. I care too much about my kids, myself, others, and this country as a whole.

“Hate much” yourself? You don’t know me. You only think you do.

How very Fidel Castro/Hugo Chavez/Kim Jun Il of our dear leader! If these truth squads don’t speak to the true dictatorial nature of this president then I don’t know what will. Wake the bleep up, sheeple!!!

You know, all you folks who are characterizing this effort to get the truth out as propaganda and double-speak, you COULD just take the time to LOOK UP the claims made by both sides and VERIFY which is true and which is false.

See, if the info the Obama team is putting out IS true, it is NOT propaganda and the “Truth” label is NOT double-speak. (And I can attest that it IS true because I HAVE verified it through apolitical, un-biased, reliable sources, just as I am required to do for information I cite in any paper I write for a university class…it’s not hard.)

Instead, you’d rather swallow the propaganda of the GOP and other biased sources whole and jump to a knee-jerk reaction before even examining the claims of the Obama team (which are on his site, for all to read…go for it).

In such a way, you reveal yourselves to be the REAL purveyors of propaganda and double-speak. (“Peace through strength/war” being a classic example of this practice).

It’s lame.

HOT OFF THE PRESSES….thought I would tell you, cuz ABC ;would never rreport this one: Obama is sending out some of this cabinet secretaries to meet quietly with some of the party’s highrollers for big buck contributions to his superpac…….not like the old days, where one of them might have shown up at the local Farm group’s awards dinner at the local grange………but, what the heck, he can do it…..the czars run his life and our White House….gives them something to do to keep them occupied. Will someone do something about this character?

Please read the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. This Administration is copying that one. Truth Teams = Gestapo. Don’t believe me, read about what the Third Reich was all about. Compare Nazi Germany to what this one is doing. You will see the similarities. The Democraps and the Republicants both are the same party in this as they are appeasing the enemy that should not be there. And Obama and his henchmen/women ARE the enemy of the US. How? Compare now to 20 years ago and come back to me. Why are we supporting the Muslim Brotherhood? Also why do over 27 members of Congress not pay their taxes including the head of the Treasury? Why does the “Spouse” order what our children will eat but her brood can eat anything? This is suppose to be a Republic of the people and for the people. Not for a “CHOSEN CLASS.”

If the economy is doing any good, it is in spite of Obama rather than because of him. He is one of the most idelogical presidents that I can remember, he has been obstructive of free enterprise, his admin has stopped businesses at every turn, and the only reason that he is doing as well in the polls as he is is because the media is so mired in the left, they seem to be afraid to say anything negataive about him. Why aren’t more people talking about the high gas prices and what the administration has done to cause that? He has almost stopped drilling on federal lands, they have refused to issue permits to drill, but allow other countries to come in and drill. He is so corrupt that is ungodly, and anyone who does independent research would know that, but none of that is mentioned by the media, they just make excuses for it. When Bush was in office, and the gas prices went high for a few weeks, they were all over him, saying it was his fault, yet all of them are giving such a pass on Obama for it.