Anyway, the video is of Fox 'Correspondent' Megyn Kelly going after Bill Burton from the White House. Now, sadly, this video was posted as 'Bill ignores Kelly's questions", all conspiratorial like, which is pretty much how Megyn tried to frame the 'conversation'. What I saw was a government official trying to have an honest conversation with the press and he couldn't Quite believe the level of stupidity he was dealing with. But hey, I'm one of those idiot Libruls.
So, the first 3 minutes of the video was dedicated to Megyn asking if the White House was going to Delete the e-mails after they had responded to them. Now, I barely made it past this, because it is blisteringly stupid. There is a records act which Prohibits the deleting of White House e-mail, you may recall the Bush Administration had a little trouble with this policy. Then, after Bill struggles to understand why she's asking if he is doing something either A) unnecessary, or B) illegal, Megyn switches gears and states that she does Indeed know about that retention act, and that this is a really a free speech issue.
My suspicion is that she was trying to trap Bill, but let's not speculate and assume she's working in good faith (which she wasn't or she would've brought up the act right away, rather than wallowing in innuendo for 4 fucking minutes, but...). She now states that people might be worried about sending an E-mail to a neighbor, because that e-mail might be forwarded to the White House. Keep in mind, the people she is likely referring to now feel comfortable showing up to town halls with "Death to Obama" signs. Ok, one guy did this, but I've yet to see any serious outcry from the Right.
Though, I have to say, I understand this fear; not necessarily legitimate, but I understand. Thinking back, I wouldn't have wanted people forwarding my e-mails anywhere where they could be read by Karl Fucking Rove (even though I'm sure my e-mails are all in a database somewhere already, along with yours), so it's fair that a person might not want shit forwarded to David Axelrod. However this concern would carry FAR more weight if Megyn or her 'news' network gave a good goddamn about privacy during the Bush administration. For the last eight years Bush has been mining telecommunications and e-mail completely indiscriminately in the name of warring terror. This is well documented, Congress passed a retroactive law to protect Telecom agencies from any punishments for cooperating with Bush spying demands. (Barack signed off on that, I might add, after he PROMISED NOT TO. Kind of a big deal to some of us.) So, this seems more like a concern for Fox ONLY when Democrats are in power. Principles are principles, or so I've been told, at least for some of us.
Despite the hypocrisy of Fox, they do have a point. I would call this a minor error on the part of the White House. But they do finally have a website set up now to handle all the Healthcare bullshit that's been flying around out there, mostly perpetrated by people like Megyn, I hope they keep it up. And maybe we won't have to send them e-mails, though really, thanks to Bush, the Executive Branch (i.e. Obama) already has access to ALL your shit. To sum up, spying is legal, privacy is passe, and Fox, despite current protestations, helped it happen.
Anyway...
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