On "fishy" White House email controversy

I have not been as concerned as others about sinister motives of "fishy information" gathering by comrades in the White House (here), but I thought their response to the controversy was kind of ironic:

"Despite reports by some bloggers and others in the media that have invoked a variety of sinister conspiracy theories, more people signed up for updates last week than during the entire month of July."

Hey! The White House collected a ton of email addresses last week? Wow!!