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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:17 PM
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Walker prank-caller: "I wasn't expecting to actually get through. I was wildly unprepared"
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 06:20 PM by kpete
Wednesday, Feb 23, 2011 15:24 ET
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Walker prank-caller: "I was wildly unprepared"

Ian Murphy, the Buffalo Beast journalist who made national headlines by posing as right-wing billionaire David Koch and prank-calling Gov. Scott Walker, tells Salon that he was ad-libbing throughout the conversation.

"I wasn't expecting to actually get through. I was wildly unprepared," Murphy says.

Murphy simply called Walker's office, saying he was Koch, and was ultimately connected with Walker's chief of staff, Keith Gilkes. "The most ridiciulous thing to me is when I get on line with the chief of staff and he wanted to take my number down, and I said I couldn't give it to him because my maid, Maria, had thrown my phone into the washing machine," Murphy says.

As he tells it in the Beast story:

I politely said hello, not knowing how friendly Gilkes and Koch may be. He was eager to help. “I was really hoping to talk directly to Scott,” I said. He said that could be arranged and that I should just leave my number. I explained to Gilkes, “My goddamn maid, Maria, put my phone in the washer. I’d have her deported, but she works for next to nothing.” Gilkes found this amusing. “I’m calling from the VOID—with the VOID, or whatever it’s called. You know, the Snype!”

"I knew the story was going to be big. I posted it at 3 a.m. so I kind of wanted to see what kind of legs it had for the first hours." Since then, he's been doing interviews all day, and the Beast's site has been down periodically.



more:
http://www.salon.com/news/the_labor_movement/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/02/23/ian_murphy_scott_walker_prank
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:20 PM
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1. And he still pulled it off
:rofl:
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 08:12 PM
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17. needs a pulitzer prize
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Kber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 10:20 AM
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24. Or an Oscar!
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Mojeoux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:20 PM
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2. WOW
Good thing Maria washed the phone! Ha Ha
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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:26 PM
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5. "I’d have her deported,
I’d have her deported, but she works for next to nothing.”

genius, sheer genius...
peace, kpete
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Poboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 12:36 AM
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23. I agree. pure gold.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:22 PM
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3. I thought he did a great job sayng little and just feeding Walker some rope
Edited on Wed Feb-23-11 06:22 PM by eleny
By saying little he never lost the phony persona and allow for suspicion.

Good work!
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somone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:25 PM
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4. He did a bang-up job by letting Walker run his mouth
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northoftheborder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:42 PM
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6. Right, and Walker didn't need any prodding, just went on and on, enjoying his conversation with....
....his benefactor. (SNAP!)
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:50 PM
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:51 PM
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8. He did a great job. Of course, Walker apparently -- judging from the call --
was really excited at the thought of a chance to talk to Koch while in the very heat of battle, so he wasn't being very careful.

What a bunch.
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Hassin Bin Sober Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 10:43 AM
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26. Yep. There was even a point near the end of the conversation ...
... where "Koch" attempts to wrap up the conversation and Walker keeps it going by continuing to ramble.

I so wish "Koch" had solicited some talk about the power utilities.
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:51 PM
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9. Murphy is my freaking hero.
May this be the call that broke the oligarch's back.
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Luminous Animal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:52 PM
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10. This story just gets better and better.
"“I’m calling from the VOID—with the VOID, or whatever it’s called. You know, the Snype!”"


Hahaha!
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:53 PM
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11. inept staff...
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siligut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:54 PM
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12. Ian Murphy, my newest hero
He pulled it off! Amazing!
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 06:58 PM
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13. Wickedly funny, and what a great call. n/t
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 07:01 PM
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14. WOW for being "unprepared" he did a GREAT
job! :applause: I thought for sure that he had really prepared and practiced.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 07:04 PM
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15. With that cadre of a**es answering the phone he could have claim he was conferencing in Mr.SarkoZEEE
:rofl:
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 07:06 PM
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16. He is my HERO!
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 08:33 PM
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18. Lesson, Calls from billionaires go through
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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 09:25 PM
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20. that was the thing that amused me--like this isn't the first conversation they have had.
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Mr Generic Other Donating Member (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 09:07 PM
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19. this is unfolding like a classical greek tragedy.
hubris is always the downfall of "larger than life" characters.
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Blue Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-11 11:54 PM
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21. Walker is a Koch gobbling turkey
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 12:27 AM
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22. I just wish the Republicans were a weensy bit smarter
Watching them grab everything that isn't nailed down (and a few things that are) wouldn't be such a spectacle if they had a modicum of brains to go along with their greed. But mention your "goddammed maid, Maria," and you're apparently golden with this crowd.
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1776Forever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 10:37 AM
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25. For not being "prepared" this guy was awesome! Wow what a legend he will be! n/t
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 01:57 PM
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27. " You know, the Snype!"
:spray:
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 02:12 PM
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28. I'm still not sure whether "VOID" or "Snype" is better.
But man, they're both funny.
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