Major Garrett broke the story of the White House collecting e-mails of folks who flagged “fishy” health care information. After mulling it over and blaming it on everyone but themselves, they took it down. Here’s the latest from Garrett.
As a follow up, read James Taranto’s Spammer in Chief at the Wall Street Journal.
Al Gore might have taken the initiative in creating the Internet, but no one seems to have bothered to teach basic netiquette to Barack Obama and his White House staff. As they have grown more desperate in their attempts to remake America’s medical system in the image of the post office, they have resorted to increasingly obnoxious email tactics.
First was flag@whitehouse.gov, the address for reporting “fishy” speech. After being pilloried endlessly for what critics thought was an effort to compile an enemies list, the White House deactivated the address–and blamed its critics. …
Again, the lack of curiosity from the rest of the media is incredible.
Imagine if the Bush White House set up a snitch line, and then Karl Rove spammed millions of Americans!
