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RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:12 pm
by Aaron
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WASHINGTON (CNN) - National Republicans turned the tables on their political counterparts Wednesday by redirecting angry telephone calls coming into their switchboard to the Democratic National Committee.
The DNC released a Web video early in the morning accusing the GOP of inciting mob activity at town hall meetings.
At the end of the video, the DNC instructs people to call the Republican National Committee to express outrage. Callers who dial the RNC's main number to voice their concern about the DNC's charges are told to press 1, which sends them to the DNC's main switchboard.
DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse described the RNC's redirection as a "neat trick," but said it just further proves the Democrats' point about the GOP.
"The RNC is inciting angry mobs to shout out legitimate discussion at public events across the country and now they want to ignore people who deplore their tactics," Woodhouse said. "Republicans don't want to have a discussion about the future of health care reform - they want to shout out - and now completely ignore - anyone who disagrees with them."
RNC spokeswoman Gail Gitcho dismissed the DNC's charge and accused Democrats of "trying to divert attention from the widespread opposition to President Obama's government-run health care experiment.
"The fact is many Democrats are opposed to the president's plan, including many Democrats in Congress," she said. "We wanted to make sure that callers who believe only 'rabid extremists' are opposing the president's health care plan have the opportunity to express those concerns to the DNC."
I just thought this was humorous, no real news value.
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:14 pm
by Deepcrush
Is anyone surprised by the GOP doing something like this???
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:29 pm
by Mikey
Not lately. And to think, I remember when the GOP was a political party, not an embarassment to the few intelligent people who actually subscribe to the original core values of the group...
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:35 pm
by Sionnach Glic
The correct response to this, of course, is to set it up so that said callers are then re-redirected
back to the Republican switchboard with instructions not to press 1.
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:36 pm
by Monroe
haha. You gotta love the key words that the GOP use whenever they talk about health care.
experiment
government ran
bureaucrat
too much too fast
taking decision making away from doctors and putting them in government bureaucrats
socialist
etc
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:16 am
by Tsukiyumi
Monroe wrote:...socialist...
I love that one.
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:30 pm
by Sonic Glitch
Tsukiyumi wrote:Monroe wrote:...socialist...
I love that one.
Yea me too... I was thinking yesterday while mowing a neighbors lawn that I kinda want to start telling people "Please remember, it was not the
socialism which made states like Nazi German and the USSR
evil, it was the
genocidal, paranoid tendencies of their leaders, that made them evil. Thank you, have a nice day."
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:48 pm
by Lighthawk
Wow...and these are the men and women running my country, playing phone pranks on each other? Really? I thought these people were suppose to be adults.
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 10:09 pm
by Tsukiyumi
me,myself and I wrote:Tsukiyumi wrote:Monroe wrote:...socialist...
I love that one.
Yea me too... I was thinking yesterday while mowing a neighbors lawn that I kinda want to start telling people "Please remember, it was not the
socialism which made states like Nazi German and the USSR
evil, it was the
genocidal, paranoid tendencies of their leaders, that made them evil. Thank you, have a nice day."
My Facebook profile makes my position on that pretty clear.
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:15 pm
by Graham Kennedy
If I were the Dems I would simply have my people answer such calls with "You've reached a Republican party official. We know that as a Republican voter you are a f***ing moron, and therefore we don't care what you have to say because we know you will vote for us anyway, you inbred, slobbering, pitiful excuse for a Human being. You can take your views and shove them, because next election you'll vote Republican no matter what. Bye now!" and hang up.
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:25 pm
by Monroe
That's a bit too harsh for American politics
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:29 pm
by Aaron
Monroe wrote:That's a bit too harsh for American politics
What? You can imply that a candidate had an illegitimate black baby, make up BS like Obama is a Muslim, has no birth certificate etc but calling a GOP voter a moron is
to harsh?
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:50 am
by Monroe
Cpl Kendall wrote:Monroe wrote:That's a bit too harsh for American politics
What? You can imply that a candidate had an illegitimate black baby, make up BS like Obama is a Muslim, has no birth certificate etc but calling a GOP voter a moron is
to harsh?
cause it insults the voter.
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:23 am
by Monroe
Re: RNC Routes Complaint Calls TO DNC Switch
Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:59 am
by IanKennedy
What's the phrase you keep using. God help America, well something like that anyway.
