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Analysis: It’s confirmed, radio is full of voice actors and fake calls
http://www.tgdaily.com/opinion-features/54661-analysis-it%E2%80%99s-confirmed-radio-is-full-of-voice-actors-and-fake-calls

because if Robme is elected, like PBS, NPR will be on the chopping block.

Just sayin'.

"I was going to vote for Romney, until I realized he was an untrustworthy liar who will stand on every position in order to be elected."

It's astroturf. We should get wise to it and employ some of their tactics.

by the time I get home the program is over...

a little too worried about these callers...it would seem obvious to me that the RW would want to discourage liberals by having "callers" do this...

When you listen to the callers, do you get the sense that they are following a general theme or are scripted in any way?

These calls will do the same thing that the debate did, energize the base. My son works manufacturing, and maybe the guys he worked with (Republicans all) who had already figured out what Romney was about (money-money-money) will be swayed back to voting the Republican ranks. Somehow, I doubt it.

can't believe it. That MIGHT be because I'm such a dedicated liberal but I dunno...

what percentage of his Twitter followers turned out to be fakes, again?

It takes real dedication to call a station you hate in order to lie your ass off.

is that he will probably get rid of the miserable pus pocket that NPR has turned into.

NPR is probably rigging these calls to try to suck up to him. I would not put anything beneath the shameless groveling slimebuckets that run that place.

I'm trying to remember the incident that made me rethink my opinion of NPR, but I can't. Some kind of pandering to the right, I'm sure.

NPR is a sad remnant of what it used to be.

Back in 1992 Cokie Roberts was full of why George HW Bush was going to be re-elected, and how Bill Clinton didn't stand a chance. I remember being quite astonished at the time. THIS is the liberal media?

I listen to very little NPR. I try to catch Car Talk and Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me. I do faithfully listen to Amy Goodman's Democracy Now, but she comes from Pacifica radio, and is mostly on the non-NPR community radio stations.

Cokie Roberts has always been a rightward thinker, but there used to be a better balance. I listened past 2004 and it just kept getting worse. Now I'll tune in for classical music occasionally. Sometimes I'll listen to the shows you named but it isn't daily fare and continues to dwindle over time.

I'm not a betting woman, but I'd bet $10,000 (that I don't have) that those calls are all fake. Who exactly is an undecided voter who calls into NPR? Or listens to it. Undecided voters are either listening to music or have sports radio on.

Obama but "disappointed" in what is happening in the economy and (for some reason) didn't give much thought to Romney but then VOILA, the debate and now they're "giving Romney a second look..."

Their news division is not exactly a friend to progressive causes.

The RNC, the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity, and other GOP PACs have been running ads pushing the 'buyer's remorse' theme to Dems and Independents who voted for Obama. The ads target mostly battleground states, but I looked into a couple of the groups after seeing one of the ads in California (sponsored by a group I'd never heard of). The group has a website dedicated to the same theme of buyer's remorse and another, affiliated group with a similar name which may be one of many groups organizing a campaign of radio call-ins.

The RNC got busted for deception in one of the ads:

It may not have completely flushed down.

They also call into C-SPAN on the "Democrats" line, claiming that they're "disillusioned with Obama/the Democrats", and that they're voting republican. Nothing new here. They've been pulling this kind of shit for years. I guess they think they're discouraging real Democrats from voting, or something.

If their "reasons" is a litany of attacks, even gentle ones, on President Obama, they intended to vote for Romney all along.

just wanted to be "special" and have the host "take their call."

has been NPRW for awhile now, it seems.