Obama Spam? No Answer Yet… FOX Reporter Major Garrett Hits Nerve Asking Press Sec. Gibbs about Unsolicited Health Care Emails from Axelrod (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on August 15, 2009
Email spam on health care coming out of Obama White House? Still waiting for an answer from WH Press Sec. Robert Gibbs
Obama spam? Do not yet know… we’re awaiting promised follow-up by White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. Let’s just say Gibbs got a tad bit testy with FOX News reporter Major Garrett for asking about people receiving unrequested emails from Obama’s Senior Advisor David Axelrod on the subject of health care reform.
Looks mighty “fishy” and confounding to me… where did David Axelrod get these email addresses from people who did not request White House correspondence? And yes, since we don’t yet have any legitimate answers (just Gibbs getting irritated and tap-dancing on the issue in the video below), it is troubling. However, this has the potential of backfiring in a major way against the BHO administration, so no cause for reactionary alarm or connections to George Orwell’s 1984. Yet.
WH Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Loses Cool With FOX News Reporter on Unsolicited Emails Sent by Obama’s Senior Advisor David Axelrod | August 2009
The law: In 2003, Congress enacted the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act to curb spam. As required by the Act, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted rules that prohibit sending unwanted commercial e-mail messages to wireless devices without prior permission. This ban took effect in March 2005. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adopted detailed rules that restrict sending unwanted commercial e-mail messages to computers.
Snippet from FOX News: FOX News Offers White House Examples of Unsolicited E-Mails on Health Reform
…But some people who received the e-mails directly from the White House forwarded them to FOX News and asked how they ended up on the list when they’ve never been in communication with the Obama administration. Some wondered if visiting the White House Web site automatically places them on an e-mail distribution list….
Commentary from Mark Epstein:
…Included in the concerns that Obama is behaving like a constitutionally-defined “domestic enemy” is the president’s inability to answer specific questions addressing the funding for health reform, while simultaneously giving tacit approval to the Orwellian mass emailings from the White House to Americans who’ve never contacted 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and whose private email addresses should not be found anywhere within the Executive Branch. There are legitimate concerns that the “snitch address,” f...@whitehouse.gov, is one of the methods the administration is using to pit Americans against one another, as well as to spy on Americans opposed to the administration’s agenda. As noted on several occasions at the raucous Town Hall meetings, Americans are upset over a number of issues, not just health care. Thus, Axelrod’s unsolicited email only fans the flames of distrust, which causes fear in many. A fear that Americans should not be experiencing. Instead, a healthy constitutional republic is one in which the government fears the people and the people’s representatives would never dream of conducting “back room” business or attempting to ram through a piece of legislation that only a minority of Americans fully support. The Obama administration’s arrogant behavior belies its stated transparency and willingness to represent the people.
Related reading:
RedState: White House: Axelrod spam? All because of outside agitators. and Obama Brownshirts Try to Silence Glenn Beck
VotingFemale Speaks!: Barack Obama the Internet Spammer; White House has broken the LAW; Spamming Americans with their ObamaCare Spam e-Mail is Highly Illegal; Major Garrett vs Robert Gibbs
It’s Only Words: Why Is The White House Spamming Me?
Nice Deb: The White House’s disgusting Email Faux Pas
Grand Rants: “No Government Spam” Law Needed?
Scared Monkeys: Hey Democrats, You Might Want to Listen in the Town Hall Meetings & Read the Polls … 57% Against Obamacare
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Secrets of Vancouver: Latest Whitehouse Spam Message
Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter (R-MI), Big Hollywood: A Health Dirge Night: President Obama’s Lefty Health Club Band
The Underground Conservative: White House Spamming Americans
LET’S GET POLITICAL IN BILLERICA, MA: The White House Email Spam Letter
Dave’s World: A White House E-Mail-Gate!
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Human Events: Hollywood Hit on Glenn Beck
The Foundry: White House Battle Against Free Speech Grows
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Just Americans Making Ethical Statements Weblog: WH Green Czar Van Johnson linked to Group attacking FOXNews and Glenn Beck and Obama “Brownshirts” Attack Glenn Beck; This is “UN- American”!!
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Ten Top Reasons I’m Happy About The Glenn Beck Boycott
Andrew Klavan, PJTV: Andrew Klavan on Culture: Shut Up (video)
Truth, Lies and In Between: Fishy is as Fishy Does…
Defenders of The Constitution: The White House Calling All Snitches
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Stop Socialism Now: Google and Blogger Shut Down Sibel Edmonds’ Blog – Googles role in propping up Obama
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The American Dissident, A Literary Journal of Critical Thinking: Myths and Hypocrisies
Brian Jennings, Big Hollywood: The Fight for Free Speech is On!
Burt Prelutsky, Big Hollywood: ObamaCare is Really ObamaDoesn’tCare — So Vote For Gracie
Vets On The Watch: The Government Knows Best, So Just Shut Up
Gateway Pundit: Joe the Plumber: Obama’s Answer Was “Right Out of Karl Marx’s Mouth” (Video)
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I’m sending this to the “rat on your neighbors” White House email.
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For anyone who thinks this is much to do about nothing, you will feel differently if you visit the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau near Munich, or follow the rise of the Nazi Party and study Hitler’s strategy to identify non-Arians, and even Nixon’s enemies list. Thanks for the post.