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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:00 AM
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CSPAN Call In is a Joke!


Every day I listen to all these crazy wingnut clowns call in on the Support President Bush line.

It was of oourse designed to be "fair" to each party.
Brian Lamb was probably the Master Mind behind the Call In system.

It ain't hardly fair, no way.

If you count all the wingnuts that call in on the independent line that would lead the Joe Average American to think that clear thinking Republicans are saying all of these hateful comments.

So really, the comments, IMO, are completely slanted to majority wing nuts that say the same old stuff.... "OBL caused 911, Black people need to get a job, Medicare is just a waste of our tax $$$'s."

IMO, these people are paid operatives of Rove!

Please tell me that there are not that many true Republican idiots in America.

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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:01 AM
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1. agree
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:02 AM
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2. Those people are brain-damaged or something.
I can't listen to that crap.

Seriously, they must be eating lead paint chips.


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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:07 AM
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5. They sound beyond stupid

Where are the logical thinking Republicans?

Have you noticed how many MEAN WOMEN manage to get through?

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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:10 AM
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6. And to think that those are the same women
who do phone sex in between eating ding dongs and watching soap operas.:eyes:
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:04 AM
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3. Just a few vocal radicals who have been empowered by W's
extreme philosophies. Most Republicans I know are running from the W as fast as they can.

Brian would do well to stay off the extremists talk programs like Laura Ingraham.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:18 PM
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35. Brian is more dangerous than Rush IMO

Everyone knows that Rush is a shill.

But unless you really watch Brian carefully, you think he is being calm and fair --ha,he is a snake in the Republican grass.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:07 AM
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4. Did you hear last Tuesday when this older guy on the repuke line
that said God bless, Bush, the GOP, Rush Limbaugh and Walmart. The question was do we need another Ross Perot (don't know where that came from). But all the repuke callers said no because we will get someone like Bill Clinton. :eyes: And this guy (sounded like a very old guy) said we would get a sex pervert like Clinton and then we'll have that broom riding wife of his. But he finished off by showing how racist he is...saying that the black callers are so damned ignorant and shouldn't use the phone and call in.

What a racist SOB! :mad:
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:11 AM
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7. I missed that call about the Black Callers


I would have thrown my phone and destroyed my television on that one.

As an African American I can truthfully say that my Brothers and Sisters that call in usually have their heads on straight and their facts well put together.

Rarely have I heard Black Callers that I was not proud of, rarely.



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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:13 AM
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8. Sounds like the gop boiler rooms have been working overtime
to feverishly stop the hemorrhaging in their beloved party. Honestly, I'd lay a decent bet that a fair # of these fools are paid operatives.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:15 AM
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10. They sound like the Swift Boaters, they remind me


of that woman at the Republican Convention that wore the band aid on her face.

Real paid operatives.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:32 AM
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18. Exactly.
The spin machine's running nonstop. Their boy is going down.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:23 AM
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27. It really seems like they are reading from a script lately

The fix is in, big time.

Rove at his best.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:36 AM
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30. Yes the fix is in.
I'd hate to be a journalist who stood their ground and reported the truth at some of these places. Just like Dan Rather when he dared go with the AWOL story. Funny how the righties shifted the focus from the actual substance of that story and launched an attack on Rather and CBS.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 02:30 AM
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34. And I think you are correct
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norml Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:14 AM
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9. I either get a busy signal, or no signal when I call them.
I'd be surprised if I actually got through.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:17 AM
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12. Same thing here, I have never gotten through ~ we need a plan
Edited on Sun Nov-20-05 12:18 AM by goclark

Is there a way that we can do a massive call in or call in on the Independent line?

I live on the West Coast and wake up early.

What is the best time to attempt a call? What days are best?
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:23 AM
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28. I wonder if with the lines
they only have the republican line open?
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:42 AM
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32. I think the Repub line can be staggered

so that the calls come in like a flowing river.

With the Democrats line, their are probably so many of us that we can't get through.

So it would not be too hard to manage for them, especially now when the Chimp is in the toilet.

I just can't believe that the calls are balanced.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:17 AM
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11. I am getting suspicious too
the calls do seem to cover every RNC talking point every freaking day don't they?
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:21 AM
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14. Yep, and most of the guest that I see are Wing nuts in

suits.

People from Newspapers that are totally Right wing but unless you knew better you would think it was middle of the road.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:19 AM
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13. Thom Hartmann mentioned a GOP call center in NoVA - Job = call talk shows
Making sure that the latest talking points are on every airwave.

Thom talked briefly about this. Too briefly, as far as I'm concerned.

This was about a month ago.

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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:23 AM
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15. I totally believe it, can we find out more about it


We could make it our JOB to call in on a rotating basis.

Maybe they answer the calls from the numbers that they recognize.

Something is crooked at CSPAN, for sure.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:29 AM
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17. Hartmann's website has forums.
Perhaps his members offered up more info.

That was the first and last that I'd heard of call centers in Northern Virginia.

BTW, Hartmann said that they handle over 1500 call-in programs daily.

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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:38 AM
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20. Amazing, they are probably pd. by Halliburton nt
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:59 AM
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23. How about the corps that recently shed their pension programs?
Bankruptcy, the newest labor control tool.

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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:20 AM
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26. I don't understand about the pension program


Do they have something to do with the Call in system?
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:41 AM
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31. I think that any corp that benefits through Bush rule is suspect
Couldn't donations to call centers be considered community involvement?

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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:48 AM
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33. With these crooks , the Call CENters will probably

get the Medal of Honor.

BUSH: Nice job, Callies, nice job!
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:24 AM
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29. Wow
Is that legal?
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upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:29 AM
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16. churches do it too
:eyes:
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:47 AM
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21. It does sound like it could be a Church "Call In" committee

because they all are coming from the same perspective.

This is probably a bigger scam than those Game Shows in the 60's, remember, "I Want To Be A Millionaire?" or something like that show.

" Hello Brian, Is that U?" is today's version...


" Pres E Dent Bush is My Pres E dent! He is fightin them over there so we don't havto fightum over here!"

It must be a fix, must be!

I have more faith in America than the level of the Call Ins.

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Tactical Progressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:35 AM
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19. Libertarians
They're 'not Republicans' even though they believe in hardcore greedonomics just like the bulwark of Conservative ideology.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 12:52 AM
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22. They must be paid Liberatarians


cause they all sound alike and think alike.

They are phony, it is far too organized.
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:01 AM
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24. I have feeling, Rove have C-Span one line for all the prepaid caller to
use and that is what I think is happening. Every once in a while, they let liberal get through. I have no doubt in my mind, it's a set up done by Rove and GOP.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-20-05 01:09 AM
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25. I agree, who can we complain to ~

I bet there is some Secretary that mans those phones that has enough information for Fitz to talk to for ten days.

It is crooked, really crooked.

I want to keep calling one day until I get in, I will ask them how do they fix their phones to have the same voices in rotational fashion.
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