Keystone XL ad visible on White House website

[Redfairen]

Source: Associated Press

The oil and gas industry got some prime online real estate for their ad pressing President Barack Obama on the Keystone XL pipeline: The White House's official website.

Obama held a virtual town hall Thursday about Latino health care enrollment, organized by Spanish-language TV networks.

To give visitors a way to watch, the White House embedded a live stream from the Fusion network on its own website. Fusion's live stream first shows users an advertisement, known as a "pre-roll."

Some users tuning in through www.whitehouse.gov were shown an ad from the American Petroleum Institute. The ad urges viewers to tell Obama to approve the pipeline.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/keystone-xl-ad-visible-white-house-website-192131164--politics.html?.tsrc=attmp

[MindMover]

1. Let your opinion about Keystone be known here ....

http://act.350.org/letter/kxl-feis/

[freshwest]

2. It's like the impeach Obama and pro-GOP ads on DU. Thanks, google, for screwing with our heads. n/t

[rdharma]

3. I just checked that White House web page ...... and no ad visable.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/03/06/watch-live-president-obamas-town-hall-latinos-and-affordable-care-act

In fact, I've never seen advertisements of any sort on whitehouse.gov. I call bogus on the claim.

[Nihil]

6. It's all there in the OP ...

>> the White House embedded a live stream from the Fusion network on its own website.
>> Fusion's live stream first shows users an advertisement, known as a "pre-roll."

> I call bogus on the claim.

I call "wish people would read before posting" ... :-P

[rdharma]

7. A dishonest thread title

The ad is NOT on the White House web site .... period.

[Swede Atlanta]

4. I don't see it but that is not the WH accepting the ad it is likely Google or the browser provider..

I have a plug-in on my Safari browser that blocks all ads that run across the top/bottom or either side of the ad unless it is part of the site itself. It has been so nice not to see the crap that Google or whoever puts out there.

[rdharma]

5. That's what I thought too.

They don't put advertisements on whitehouse.gov.

[Arkana]

8. Yeah, I was going to say.

It would be like blaming the DU admins for the fact that occasionally I see banner ads for RW candidates.

Whatever the White House is planning on doing, I'm pretty sure that if they could control the ad content they would have.