Fox host compares White House emails to pornography
Published: August 18, 2009
Updated 6 months ago
Since Sunday, Fox News has been leading coverage of a controversy surrounding a mass emailing from the White House about health care reform that arrived in the inboxes of people who had never signed up for White House emails.
Commenter after commenter expressed concern that the White House is culling people’s private information in order to push health care reform. On Tuesday, Fox host Gretchen Carlson went so far as to compare those emails to pornography.
“I find it fascinating as a parent, Ken,” Carlson said. “I haven’t gotten to that point with my kids where I have to do all those filters on the computer but I find it fascinating that we are filtering out pornography and all this other stuff and yet the White House can get an email through.”
Carlson did not address why she believes porn filters would stop emails about health care.
The White House said Monday it would tighten its email sign-up rules after drawing fire over the controversy.
But the administration denied signing people up without their permission and seemed to blame third-party activist groups for the problem. The news Web site Politico.com said it was possible that a third-party group could send a comment to the White House web site in the name of each person who signed an online petition, leading the White House to add their email address to its emailing lists.
“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,” said spokesman Nick Shapiro.
THE IRONY OF IT ALL
“Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, first suggested that the White House’s public invitation to submit references to ‘fishy’ information about healthcare reform smacked of an enemies list,” the Los Angeles Times reports.
Shapiro found it ironic that a White House Web site designed to collect and respond to misinformation about health care is now the subject of misinformation itself. ABC’s Sunlen Miller and Jake Tapper report:
White House Director of Media Macon Phillips writes in a blog post that the irony is that the website, which tried to clear up misinformation caused by “fear-mongering” has now become the subject of the same beast.
“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 writes.
– With AFP
This video is from Fox News’ Fox & Friends, broadcast Aug. 18, 2009.
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So, these same people, who seem to have a problem with the United States Government, can’t seem to be able to find the delete key on their computers? That every email they receive from organizations and advertisers they don’t want, they file a complaint against? Are all Republicans now wimps? Evidently.
This has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with continued racism in this country. These are people who can’t stand the fact there is a black man in the White House, and will do anything and everything to discredit his presidency. They carry guns to events he speaks at, they lie about the health plan, they whine like little girls when they receive unsolicited emails. As Jimi said, “There ain’t no life nowhere.”
Like spam, this kind of bruhaha flood our news blocking out real discussion of the health issue we are facing. It’s the magician’s trick of distracting one to look away from what he is doing. The MSM follows the distraction and the public then sees the distraction is what is important. We have become a bunch of fools. For example, Idiots out there saying that what Obama want’s is both facist and communist. Only in the US does the news not correct the obvious contradiction and misinformation. They just report…we decide.. What a load of …
Who are these idiots on Fixed Noise? I can honestly say that Rupert Murdoch, the Australian, has done more to harm this country than any terrorist.
Murdoch is a scourge. His citizenship should be revoked and he should be put on the first plane to Guatemala. Let this unAmerican sack of shit preach his totalitarianism somewhere more befitting its tone, like, say England or Australia.
These people are stupid. plain and simple.
Did you know that right now, there is a uniting taking place between the left wing and the right wing. Imagine what the center must be thinking.
Did you hear that sound and smell that smell? It’s just the sound of most of congress and the White House pooing and pissing themselves.
Guess they get what they deserve, to be dumped upon as they have dumped upon the rest of us for the last 50 years.
Together, left wing and right wing united, we are the future of American politics.
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Botox and bleach have shorted out this poor woman’s brain.
Well, the war in Iraq/Afghanistan is on a back burner. Torture investigation is on a back burner. US attorney firing investigation is on the back burner. The lies told during the run up to the illegal invasion of Iraq is on the back burner. All the media concern now is over who is the most deceitful side on the issue of healthcare, while guns are being openly carried to Presidential events. I don’t remember anybody doing that with Bush. I think that people are openly being insulting to Obama, and that is on the coattails of that criminal Bush. Obama is Jesus compared to Bush. Bush actually did things during his reign that would deserve disrespect. Give Obama time, and if the shoe fits, throw it! But, not yet!
It takes one to know one, Gretchen. Thank you, JESUS that I’m not a viewer or a sheep-person who actually listens to, or especially believes BS like this.
Dear God.
People that have a grasp of history, will have their anti-gun views diminish in direct proportion to their trust that their .guv will act in accordance with their oath. That said, wrong place, wrong time. I would not doubt that more than one of these were plants. . for fairly obvious reasons.
If anyone would know the pornography industry from the inside, I’d bet on Gretchen Carlsen.
She makes Steve Doocy look like a brain surgeon!
Instead of writing dribble on this board, posters should organize massive letter campaigns to the advertisers who support Faux News. The only way to put an end to this is to hurt them where it counts, in the pocket book.
Listen, I read pornography all day, every day, so I know pornography. Believe you me, White House emails ARE NOT pornography!