Those Axelrod E-Mails (Cont.)

While I was putting up a post on that e-mail I received from David Axelrod, Fox News' Major Garrett was asking White House comedian (and part-time press spokesman), Robert Gibbs about those very e-mails that Axelrod is sending out.



What Garrett wants to know is whether e-mails are being sent to people who never signed up for or solicitated e-mails from the White House. Gibbs, in typical fashion, dances all around the question in a belabored manner to say he doesn't know. (He never knows.)

So, since I have received several e-mails from Axelrod (or his office)recently, the question begs; have I signed up for e-mails from the White House? I want to answer that question carefully because the honest answer is to the best of my recollection, I don't think so. It is possible that in responding to a previous e-mail, I may have clicked a link to receive e-mails, but I don't believe that is the case.

The latest Axelrod e-mail came from;info@messages.whitehouse.gov>. At the bottom of the page, there is a notice not to reply to the e-mail itself (though you can), rather there is a link to The White House. On a couple of previous occasions, I sent a short, sarcastic reply both to the White House link and on this occasion to the e-mail address from which I received Axelrod's "chain e-mail". I have gone back and checked these links to see if there is a click where I can recall requesting updates. I don't see anything that I may have checked.

All of which is a torturous way of saying that I don't think I have requested any e-mail updates from the White House.