Internet Snitch Brigade disabled, but…Updated
So, it looks like the Internet Snitch Brigade has closed up shop — and you can no longer flag yourself at flag@whitehouse.gov.
But the health care czar’s office (background here) and Obama Chicago crony Valerie Jarrett’s staff (background here) are hard at work pumping out O-care propaganda — and still collecting e-mail addresses — at the government-funded website “Reality Check.”
The White House spammers haven’t been thrown under the bus. They’re just taking a potty break.
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After insisting no one was receiving unsolicited e-mails from the White House, officials reversed their story Monday night and blamed outside political groups for the unwanted messages from the tech-savvy operation.
White House online director Macon Phillips said in a blog posting that independent groups—he didn’t name them—had signed-up their members to receive regular updates about Obama’s projects, priorities and speeches.
The White House had consistently denied that anyone who hadn’t sought the e-mails had received them.
“It has come to our attention that some people may have been subscribed to our e-mail lists without their knowledge—likely as a result of efforts by outside groups of all political stripes—and we regret any inconvenience caused by receiving an unexpected message,” Phillips wrote.
“We’re certainly not interested in anyone receiving e-mails from the White House who don’t want them. That’s one reason why we have never—and will never—add names from a commercial or political list to the White House list,” he wrote.
The quasi-apology came hours after the top Republican on the House’s oversight committee, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., asked the White House about its ambitious e-mail plan, which included a message from top political adviser David Axelrod urging support for a health care overhaul.
…The White House turned to its blog to respond broadly to its critics—without mentioning Issa by name.
“An ironic development is that the launch of an online program meant to provide facts about health insurance reform has itself become the target of fear-mongering and online rumors that are the tactics of choice for the defenders of the status quo,” Phillips wrote.
The White House blog post is here.
Rather than shut down the entire fiasco, they are expanding it:
Suggesting New Topics for Us to Address Through the Reality Check Site
The Reality Check website exists to inform public debate about health insurance reform – not stifle it. As the President said, “We are bound to disagree, but let’s disagree over issues that are real.” To that end, we’ve seen incredible response from website visitors who are using the tools provided on the site to share videos and other content with friends and family.
To better understand what new misinformation is bubbling up online or in other venues, we want your suggestions about topics to address through the Reality Check site. To consolidate the process, the email address set up last week for this same purpose is now closed and all feedback should be sent through: http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/contact
Moe Lane: Stop blaming the third-party advocacy organizations.
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Having worked for a school district for 15 years, I know this trick well. They never get rid of anything, they just move it somewhere else and shift attention.
the bus wheels crushed them slowly from head to anus, causing fecal matter to be expelled, that’s why!
Yet another chapter in the Obama / Biden “What-if-Bush-had-done-this?” chronicles.
The difference is that they’re doing it for virtuous reasons, ’cause liberals are always virtuous, right?
They are busy compiling the list for re-education camps. Part B will be from the new website.
Hey, I meant to say something about this earlier. The AARP sez they don’t support obamacare. But last night there were ads on local tv saying they DO support obamacare!
Yep.
We saw that add also.
Smoke and mirrors….I don’t believe a thing coming out of, or from this administration. They have had ample opportunity to just come clean, but they won’t! It must be something in the liberal make up (I hesitate to say “constitution, since they obviously don’t believe in that word.)
They lie, hide, obfuscate…not in an effort to protect America, but to conceal their lawlessness, and true purpose.
Obama has a free hand, and no one will dare investigate him and his backdoor, anti-American, unconstitutional actions, until all the miscreants are voted out of office. We MUST keep up the pressure, or we are dead! Choose a side now. Delay or inaction will be our demise, God forbid!
I have sent several “fishy” emails to the old ‘flag’ system.
My first to the new system, with all my personal contact info:
I do not believe them, shocking as that may sound.”They lie, hide, obfuscate” which is the long way to say Chicago. The AARP offices are in DC-close enough. The AARP supported Obama before they didn’t support Obama before they supported Obama? Is John Kerry on the board?
AARP
601 E Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20049
Remember: Heinz Ketchup on Oscar Mayer weiners is bad for your country.
The White House is quiet today.
Obama is interviewing Squeaky Fromme for prison czar.
They are making a list- checking it twice- and you’ll not- be listed as nice!
(poetic ain’t it?)
What the hell, I will use your letter as I am fairly sure I am on the list
Thanks fred5676
The premier video with Linda Douglass creeps me out, even still. She looks like a female skeletor. egad.
Rats! I so wanted to drop a dime on lgm today!
Potty break or smoke break?
Every day there is a new crisis for the White House. Kinda hard to run the country by trying to beat us all into submission.
Has anyone sufficiently answered the question about what’s happening to the email addresses they’re collecting? Gibb the Lib certainly circumvented that one.
Well, darn. After I ratted myself out, gave them my street address and everything, now they’re getting cold feet.
And I was so looking forward to meeting them when they showed up at my doorstep…
we were never doing anything like what you right wing extremists are accusing us of, but now that you have caught us we are definitely stopping that activity. we never had death panels, that palin is such a nut, but we have taken that section out of the bill. that major garret of fox is such an extremist he falsely accused us of creating an enemies list, so we are shutting down that snitch line for enemies in the white house.
These folks operate like a typical scam shop. As soon as they are discovered, they move to another location and resume their same old tricks. I guess for now they mostly infect the .gov domains. Keep the light shining bright, Michelle.
The primary reason, I would think it got disabled was for every “fishy” e-mail reported by an Obamobot Kool Aid drinker, they received 25 – 50 e-mails from us self-confessing conservatives, turning in ourselves, each other, or our liberal leaders or Obama for documenting their out-and-out lies.
Besides all the bad PR, we put so much clutter out in their In Box, they gave up sorting through it all.
Give yourselves a hooah. We spammed them out of business,.
‘Fess up Rougue, that is what you really meant.
This admin is like when they let Dennis Miller in the Monday Night Football Booth, only in a bad way. It’s more like letting a Flippin Community Organizer (aka: gimmie, gimmie, gimmie) in the big chair….. oh wait.
What a bunch of dipsticks.
It seems as though the White House finally decided to have some actual lawyers look at what they are doing with regards to ‘emails’ in general.
I suspect they were advised that several things they have done are in fact illegal under federal laws, and they are changing to address these issues. No doubt they are also hoping that they can stonewall any attempts to investigate them.
Heh. lgm getting creamed by various Acme products a la Wiley Coyote? Now that’s entertainment.
Combine the two…smoking pot break, seeing as this administration’s full of hippies!
I have found the complete list.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dystopos/sets/72057594048403252/
And a guide on how to use them.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5996653
My jaw dropped when I saw those same commercials. AARP claimed they weren’t actively promoting Obama-Death-Care. The commercials were blatantly obvious! That video was horrendous! A bunch of flashy dark tinted window cars and suv’s driving recklessly in the streets attempting to BLOCK an ambulance (the Death Care legislation). What a pathetic visual. They are using a website: http://www.healthactionnow.org as a PAC fund.
AARP Scare Tactic Ambulance TV Ad
Here is ALL of AARP’s propaganda war promoting Obama Death Care: video, audio, junk mail.
Don’t forget to add a ‘/sarc’ when you submit, otherwise they will be confused.
My favorite from watching these ‘toons was the “instant tornado.”
These loonytoons in Wash DC deserve nothing more or less.
For practice ,let me engage in some lefty troll response: “See how wonderful Obama is that he stopped the snitch program that he started against his political opponents?”
Well, I sent them a “flag” of fishiness detailing how one of Obama’s “Organizing for America” astroturfers pretended to be a doctor at a Town hall meeting! Guess they didn’t like that, either.
#30: LOL!!
Does anyone here really believe them? They own the servers and can program them any way they want. Yes your email bounces but did they keep a copy of the message routing identifying the source and the text of the message? There is a wealth of information contained in the message headers.
Yes, I think the White House, and the DNC, need a reality check — the sooner, the better!
Put his name and label together and what do you get? Glib…how appropriate for this “ungifted” propagandist.
Glib:
showing little forethought or preparation ; lacking depth and substance; marked by ease and fluency in speaking or writing often to the point of being insincere or deceitful
A “quality” that The Obama Nation requires in it’s subordinates, and a character flaw that allows them to jump to the top of the list of political appointees. Some other qualities admired by this group of soul-less sycophants?
Sociopathy
Pathological Prevarication
Rancour
Ardour
Contempt
Immorality
Treachery
Perplexity
Greed
Hypocracy
Hyphybotic
Arrogance
Just add a criminal record, and you might just get an appointment as a Czar.
Right_On, you’re right on.
Didn’t I accuse “It” of being glib in another topic? If the shoe fits.
The Thought Police got caught being the Thought Police. So Blue Lips’ thugs close the site down and stars another one that is less obvious.
Line from a great movie: “The greatest trick the Devil ever played was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
Blue Lips wants the State Run Media to convince us his plan no longer exists.
Obamessiah is co-opting Squeaky Fromme?
Darn. Just when I thought Cheney had gotten her sprang from prison with a New Mission In Life. (And maybe some shooting lessons???)
/humor off
Having performed my patriotic duty and reported my wife’s subversive comments to flag@whitehouse.gov, they have abandoned me. I hope we can get marriage counseling paid for with stimulus money.
Not meaning to dump on them, but if they took a really good potty break, there would be nothing left.
Toke break.
shimauma2 beat me to it (@25)! Drat!
Amen! Amen! They are acting like cockroaches!
Before Obama was president, he was a Senator.
Before he was a Senator he was a Community Organizer.
Community Organizers shake down business to support thier favorite charties.
Now as president, Obama is trying to shake down the American public.
But, Mr. Obama, the American public will not be bullied.
Among our weapons are: fear, surprise, fanatical devotion to the “One”, and nifty purple shirts….
(with apoloigies to Monty Python’s Flying Cirus “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition” sketch.
And after the potty break, they get back to potty work.
Liars.
so the obama white house lied to congressman darrell issa when they said they were not sharing these names with anyone, as they claim a third party used the names. OR they illegally used the names as an enemies list to send out political info (expressly forbidden) to try to convince said enemies to convert. OR they are doing both. i smell impeachment proceedings in 2011.
One point noteed on Fox this morning was that since this involves the Office of the Presidnet, by law all communication must be preserved forever. Think about the inplications of this.
And all this from Mr. Transparency.
Step back for a moment and take a pause.
Look at what is going in and out of there and just take some time to ponder just what Obama and his cronies have turned the White House into.
It is utterly disgusting.
errah Gibb the Glib Libb
now playing, zero the worm and his lying lackey’s.
Errah
I think I read this story when I was a kid.
If you give a dyed in the wool socialist law professor a community organizer’s job then he’ll organize socialist like those in Acorn. If he organizes socialists like Acorn then he’ll have a political base and run for Senator. If they elect a socialist senator then he’ll have a political base to run for President . . . .
Snoop Dog’s Green Room?
Fixed that for ya…
Let me be clear. It’s comforting to know that it’s all been the work of them pesky outside agitators.
It’s all about power folks, not health care. Obama wants control of everything. That’s the way they do things in
ChicagoAfrica. You promise anything to get elected. Then, you and your power-addicts push people around and suck the treasury dry, turning a once prosperous country into a broken, hollow shell and it’s populace into penniless, desperate people that have to depend on the government for the scraps that it throws to them. Unfortunately for Obama, this is not Africa. He is dealing with Americans who are not going to lie down and let him trample all over them. Read your American History Obama. Learn from the past or be doomed to repeat it and suffer the consequences of ignorance.
I know I was getting unsolicited commercial email from one David Axelrod from the White House! I kept the samples to use in my CANSPAM suit.
All of the White House behaviors are quite consistent with their world view and political philosophy. They basically are elected to be kings/queens and (In my best George Hamilton accent from Zorro the Gay Blade) we the peoples, we are subjects.
OT: Robert Novak died today. RIP.
Thousands quit AARP over Obamacare.
If you walked up to a bear and it mauled you, would you be surprised?
A bear is a bear and bears do what bears do. Walk up to a wild bear and it will probably give you a swipe.
Democrats will lie, cheat and steal their way to power every single moment they have a chance.
A Democrat is a Democrat and Democrats do what Democrats do.
This will never change.
“It has come to our attention that some people may have been subscribed to our e-mail lists without their knowledge—likely as a result of efforts by outside groups of all political stripes—and we regret any inconvenience caused by receiving an unexpected message.”
And, of course, our “tech-savvy” operation never heard of email sign-up verification. That’s been the standard for at least a decade now.
Oddly enough, I suspect that these leftist morons are surprised when a “bear” mauls them.
North Korea, Iran, Al-Qaida, etc. are basically all “bears” of one stripe or another. And Obama and his ilk are determined that we can reason with the “bear” and that we have no reason to be worried or expect the “bear” to behave like a “bear” if we are being nice.
Of course, the real world doesn’t work that way. They are just too ideologically indoctrinated to know that.
WE82,
I saw that Hillary apologized to Nigeria yesterday..
Hopefully, she is giving the details of Bill’s bank account to some young man who wishes to share his inheritance at this very moment..
Based on her and Obama having apologized to everyone for everything, I think we are now down to three remaining apologizes:
To Liechtenstein for not having bought enough of their stamps.
To Monaco for not having ensured Princess Grace Kelly had a safer car.
To Italy for having desecrated their cuisine pizza by developing taco pizza.
Flyoverman–I’m waiting for Iceland to apologize for Bjork.
These clowns would be doing America an incredible service if they would just stop trying to DO THINGS.
GRRR
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Spaceycakes:
Yes – absolutely
LMAO
Bjork? I think that’s the sound my cat makes when he ralphs up his breakfast.