The White House’s disgusting Email Faux Pas

The White House has admitted that it erroneously sent out hundreds, perhaps thousands  of  unsolicited  emails to people who had not signed up to be on Obama’s email list.

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.

It’s bad enough that they are politicizing the White House to the degree that they are, but to spam people who don’t even want to see their propaganda, and belittle Major Garrett for asking about it…disgusting!

Back story here.

UPDATE:

The American Issues Project has weighed in:

The White House Spam Excuse Doesn’t Hold Water With Me.

Now I’m no e-mail guru like David Axelrod, whose company ASK Public Stgrategies was once called “the gold standard in AstroTurf organizing”, but this explanation doesn’t smell right to me. Normally, you can’t get on an e-mail list unless you specifically sign up for it. Merely sending a comment to a web site, with your e-mail attached to it, does not put you on that site’s mailing list (this blog is an excellent example of how that works, as are most other blogs).That’s true even if someone else posts your comment with your address. It doesn’t matter who puts your information there, unless there is a specific opt-in procedure, the site is engaging in shady spammer practices.

Shady practices, that’s the Chicago way!

UPDATE II:

Haha:

Did Major Garrett Break the White House Email?

Fox News has posted several breathless updates to the story, including a statement, yesterday, from the White House. As I caught up on this story, I realized that I hadn’t gotten any emails from the White House since 5:25 pm yesterday.

Is it possible that the White House has frozen outgoing emails while it investigates this story? I emailed them to find out, but I haven’t heard back!

Good!