Just think – According to Fox News the White House confirms it joined the ranks of the folks who flood your in-box with emails claiming you’ve won the Nigerian lottery and that parts of your anatomy just don’t measure up.

Earlier this week, in a classic obfuscation-by-misdirection move, the White House tried to convince the public it wasn’t behind the emails:

The revelation comes after the White House acknowledged this week that people were receiving unsolicited e-mails from the administration about health care reform and suggested the problem was with third-party groups that placed the recipients’ names on the distribution list.

We need answers as to how much taxpayer money, if any, was used to fund this effort. Allahpundit at Hot Air asks the important questions:

Two questions. (1) Did Govdelivery supply any of the e-mail addresses that ended up getting the Axelspam? The White House denies it but it’s still not clear why people who never signed up for their mailing list ended up receiving it. (2) More importantly, do the other pols and agencies that use Govdelivery use it to push items on their ideological agenda or do they limit it to official government business? There’s a big difference between FEMA spending tax money to issue hurricane warnings and The One spending it to push his policy wish list.

One other thing: if this was the Bush administration you can bet that there would be calls for the White House to be prosecuted under various anti-spam laws.

Mr. President, there’s only one way that spam is funny:

* Update: Is GovDelivery throwing Obama under the bus? Is the White House getting a lesson in honesty from the marketplace? Maybe GovDelivery’s executives see the handwriting on the wall and want to distance themselves from negative press and possible legal problems.

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