Georgewbush.org publishes its unsolicited e-mails

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...and there is plenty o' grist for the mill.

http://www.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/

(the .org domain is a parody site; people sent e-mails to [email protected] thinking they were going to the appropriate .com address. Ouch.)

Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"This is what Evelyn has had HER VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR doing this past week. I sincerely do not know how we are going to make numbers if this is what our BUSH/CHENEY 2ND CD CO-CHAIRPERSON is doing. The entire campaign and election will be long gone before, if ,anything is ever accomplished by Evelyn."

tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh my God. People are gonna get in TROUBLE.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Just stay away from Jenna or things could get ugly."

Ew ew ew.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it's fair (lawful?) to publish these without consent (esp. with people's email addresses on), is it?

Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Some of the e-mails have a disclaimer at the bottom indicating that they are only intended for the recipient...but if they were received by the recipient they were addressed to, is that technically illegal?

(That said, I wouldn't be surprised to see this page nuked by the end of the night.)

Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"something needs to be done about this (below). can't we say something intelligent? can't Bush announce something progressive like dedicating even more federal funds to stem cells and other, more advanced areas such as cord blood? i am so tired of this nuttiness. (and when he says he was first prez to dedicate funds, the dem retort is that this research was not around several years ago, and amount is insignificant)

when healthcare is discussed next debate, things like stem cells and health care insurance and expensive drugs could bury him. i hope this is registering out there.

two of keenum babies are home and doing well. mark has sat by their bedside all weekend, every day and night, like a hawk.:

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I was wondering about the ettiquette/legality of it all myself.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

But check out NEWT-WHAT_IS_AT_STAKE_IN_2004_ELECTION.pdf

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

From Newt:

Michael Moore is another member of the Leftworld anti-Bush elite. Moore’s comments in Europe have been so viciously and consistently anti-American that it is amazing Senator Tom Daschle would go to the premier of Moore’s anti-Bush propaganda film. The relationship between Moore’s movie and the anti-Bush movement is clear. Time Magazine compared the fervor of the left for Fahrenheit 9/11 with the intensity of fundamentalist Christians going to see Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. That may say something about the degree to which for some on the secular left politics is the equivalent of a religious experience.

Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

No one's mentioned the fact that these people sent e-mails to a site whose front page features slogans like "Bush '04: American Monarch" and "Eat the Poor."

Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ai-yi-yi. That list of Minneapolis churches and their attendence numbers.

Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha

http://www.georgewbush.org/spots/images/false-christian-home.jpg

Today is October 25, in the Year of our Lord Jesus 104

Watch "False Christian" Now!
John Kerry wants to trick churchgoing Americans into thinking he's a legitimate Christian. But what's the REAL story? Watch the latest in our Godly campaign's ongoing series of wholly accurate, non-distorting political ads to find out:

Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Funnee.

I don't think there's any legal issue here. I don't think you can put conditions on unsolicited email. All those confidentiality clauses that government agencies and law offices always stick on their emails can't be binding if both parties don't agree to them ahead of time.

As for the etiquette...it's not really any different than a reporter coming across a stack of internal memos and printing them. Relevant cases: the Pentagon Papers, obviously, and on the other hand the Cincinatti Enquirer vs. Chiquita case. In the former, the reporters were just recipients of the confidential information; in the latter, the reporters engaged in deliberate deception and theft of company property (voice mail messages). Even though having a website called georgewbush.org is obviously deliberately deceptive, it's no more so than any of a zillion websites with misleading names, and obviously legal. There's nothing criminal about it, and there's certainly nothing criminal about them posting messages sent to their address.

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

(er, Cincinnati, that is...always screw that up...)

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

holy shit, the part about smoking crack is roffle

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the most horrifying thing of all is everyone obviously uses Outlook and top-posts all over the shop. Its a TRAVESTY I tells ya.

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

We do a LOT of crack in the Bay Area, you know.

Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but we don't SMOKE it.

Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I thoguht that kind of doing crack was restricted to SanFran!

I'll get me coat.

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I spoke with William and he'll be glad to pick up Governor Huckabee from airport and drive him to the Holiday Inn Select.

if his next campaign slogan isn't "i

m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 09:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I know where you're going...

Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 10:01 (twenty-one years ago)

ilx sabotaged my post. but yeah, it's prob funnier if you fill in the blanks.

m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)


Quick! Everyone copy it.

bob nope (bobnope), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

georgewbush.org taught me that lynne cheney wrote a lesbian western novel in 1981! for real: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0811-07.htm

is this common knowledge 'round here?

m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

regarding the legal aspect .. many of the laws that apply to written material (letters, documents) don't apply to email because email wasn't around the last time the laws were revised. and since it's electronic and it's neither a physical document nor speech (telephone) it isn't covered.

dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Lynne Cheney's lesbian novel is very frequently mentioned in the Guardian's "Diary" column.

caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't had time to go through all of the documents, but apparently, this story explains what is meant by 'caging' (i.e., some of those lists you've seen).

I wonder if some of those people are that stupid, or if this was leaked?

k3rry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40457000/jpg/_40457933_corrinebrown_203.jpg

Democratic Congresswoman Corinne Brown was quoted as saying, "...And then after Epcot we're going to Space Mountain!"

The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, one of these e-mails was supposed to go to Mary Matalin.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(It's this one:)

something needs to be done about this (below). can't we say something intelligent? can't Bush announce something progressive like dedicating even more federal funds to stem cells and other, more advanced areas such as cord blood? i am so tired of this nuttiness. (and when he says he was first prez to dedicate funds, the dem retort is that this research was not around several years ago, and amount is insignificant)

when healthcare is discussed next debate, things like stem cells and health care insurance and expensive drugs could bury him. i hope this is registering out there.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I HEART REPLY TO ALL

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

no relative of mine

sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)


Interesting thing about the churches in Twin Cities area- Denominations listed: Lutheran, Presbyterian, Baptist, and others, but no Methodist, Catholic, Episcopalian.

k3rry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)


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