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O’Spamalot: One nation controlled by text-messages and spam mail uniting and controlling us all. Obama wants to create hope and change or a new direction for our country. After all he won, so it should be his way. /Sarc The media wants a return to JFK's Camelot. BhO you are not JfK. The nearest you've come is creating O'Spamalot. You use technology to manipulate and try to control the American people. I know the American people and it's not going to happen. To recognize and name his attempt (with humor) is one of the first steps in defeating his efforts....

My wife, Helene, is one of an apparently quite large number of people who received a surprising, unsolicited, and hence disturbing email from David Axelrod attempting to extol the virtues of President Obama’s proposed health care health insurance reform, whatever it is at the moment. Like the other recipients, she wondered where the White House got her email address since she has visited no White House web sites. Now, according to Fox News, the mystery is solved, sort of. The White House for the first time Sunday seemed to acknowledge that people across the country received unsolicited e-mails from the...

LA times. The creator is a Palestinian living in Chicago. Article at link

White House Disables Email to Snitch on Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill Opponents Washington, DC -- The White House has quietly disabled the email address it promoted for backers of the pro-abortion health care bills pending in Congress to tattle on opponents of the legislation. Without fanfare, the White House has disabled the email address and is asking people to visit the main web site instead. http://www.LifeNews.com/nat5366.html

The e-mail address set up for people to report "fishy" information about health care reform has become inactive. The White House also has added two new filter devices to its "Contact Us" section on its Web site, following complaints from people who said they were receiving unsolicited e-mails from the administration

Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box — flag@whitehouse.gov — that was set up to receive information on “fishy” claims about President Barack Obama’s health plan. E-mails to that address now bounce back with the message: “The e-mail address you just sent a message to is no longer in service. We are now accepting your feedback about health insurance reform via http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck.” The “flag” service was introduced Aug. 4, with a White House blog post saying: “There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out...

I heard this from a caller on a local radio station. Apologies to all if it's already been suggested. To me, the idea is brilliant in its simplicity! Simply forward ALL of your junk/spam email to flag@whitehouse.gov

FOX News' Major Garrett sparred with Robert Gibbs over emails people are receiving about health care when they never signed up for them. White House adviser David Axelrod is apparently behind this effort.

Major Garrett of Fox News asked Robert Gibbs White House spokesperson a very simple straightforward Health Care slash illegal email question yesterday. How did people who never had any communications with the White House receive unsolicited emails concerning Health Care from the White House.(see story) Gibbs’ inability to give a coherent answer left egg on his face as well as questions about the Obama White House violating the American people’s personal privacy not to mention the violating of the 2004 United States CAN-SPAM Act. Watch in horror (or delight) as Gibbs begins to look and sound like a fox biting...

It started earlier this week, FOX News began to e-mails from people who said they got an e-mail last week from senior adviser David Axelrod, even though they had never requested any communication from the White House. In the email, Axelrod defended President Obama's health care proposals and asked supporters to help rebut criticism circulating on the Internet. Axelrod wrote that opponents are relying on tactics including "viral e-mails that fly unchecked and under the radar, spreading all sorts of lies." "So let's start a chain of e-mail of our own," he wrote, and asked supporter to send his message...

Here is video of Fox News Reporter Major Garrett talking about the White House responding to his questions concerning unsolicited emails citizens have been receiving from the White House. Garrett asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about it on Thursday, who would not answer Garrett's questions and treated Garrett rudely. Garrett reports that the White House released a statement saying that the White House does not send emails to people who have not requested that they receive messages. But they did blame "third party" organizations for sending emails to the White House which may have been added to the White House...

The White House said Sunday night that it will change its e-mail sign-up procedures after some recipients of a health-care e-mail complained that they had not asked to receive updates. “We are implementing measures to make subscribing to e-mails 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,” spokesman Nick Shapiro said in a statement Sunday night. After a few such recipients appeared on Fox News, White House officials determined that advocacy groups on the right or left could have sent in the...

Is White House liable for Spam under Washington State's Anti-Spam Laws? Can't I sue them?

White House Blames Political Groups for Spam Emails on Health Care Bills Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The White House is blaming political organizations like pro-life groups for the unsolicited emails people have ben receiving promoting the pro-abortion health care restructuring bill. Thousands of people have emailed LifeNews.com and other media outlets complaining about the spam emails from the Obama administration. http://www.lifenews.com/nat5361.html

Who should be fired over the ill-conceived (and possibly unlawful) FLAG@whitehouse.gov scandal? Emanuel? Axelrod? Douglass? Sebelius? Are any news outlets asking who should be fired? Are any Republican leaders calling for any firings? Steele? McConnell? Boehner?