White House press corps drops the ball

NOTE: The DNCC is doing the same thing as I received an unsolicitated email wanting my support of healthcare. This is so wrong on so many fronts. The WH press corps would have had Pres Bush's head if his staff sent out one unsoliciated email. Crickets are chirping except for a few reporters as the rest continue to carry the water of their 'savior' for liberal causes. SPJ Code of Ethics has been tossed out the window by most of the WH press corps. When you can count on one hand the number of reporters willing to ask a tough question, you have a bunch of cheerleaders with tingles up their legs not reporters.

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White House press corps drops the ball
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 8/17/2009 6:00:00 AM
OneNewsNow.com

A former White House press secretary is criticizing the White House press corps for its reluctance to press the Obama administration on why some Americans are receiving healthcare emails from the White House when they never signed up to receive them.

On Thursday, Fox News correspondent Major Garrett asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs how the White House obtained the email addresses of Americans who received unsolicited email messages regarding healthcare reform from President Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod.

The exchange became very heated. Former White House press secretary Dana Perino admits she was surprised there were not more questions from the White House press corps about the unsolicited Axelrod emails.

"I'm still so close to having been White House press secretary that I imagine what it would have been like for me at the White House podium if there was a suggestion that we had taken the 'fishy' email list and then tried to use those email addresses to espouse our position to them. I am pretty sure that the White House briefing room would have been unglued," she contends. "So, I think that the questions need to be answered."

She believes the unsolicited White House emails are borderline "unethical" and may even be illegal.