[UPDATE] Welcome, Michelle Malkin readers. More on this topic here.
(Via Hot Air Headlines) I understand that it’s probably legally wise for the White House to assign responsibility for Axelrod’s health care spamming to all those evil, evil advocacy organizations, but really:
“We are implementing measures to make subscribing to emails clearer, including preventing advocacy organizations from signing people up to our lists without their permission when they deliver petition signatures and other messages on individual’s behalf.”
If the petitions were only presented in hardcopy form, somebody had to enter those email addresses into the system. If the organizations in question had provided a digital list of email addresses, somebody had to add them to the White House’s distribution list. If the organizations in question had signed up those email addresses one at a time, somebody on the White House Staff needs to explain why he or she didn’t even set up a please-click-to-confirm-your-registration system.
Somebody with a name.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
, and is (to the best to my knowledge) in the public domain.
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From the Post: ”…somebody on the White House Staff needs to explain why he or she didn’t even set up a please-click-to-confirm-your-registration system.”
You-have-got-to-be-kidding!! Why in h_ll would they do such a thing. They didn’t even have a verification system for campaign donations via credit card over the internet. I.E., crooks are as crooks do [to paraphrase that wise sage, F. Gumph].
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Yes the spam did happen and I still have mine. It said “Something Worth Forwarding”, so every time I thought about it, I forwarded it to flag@whitehouse.gov.