Conservative radio hosts asking listeners to jam Democratic helpline with prank calls

Thorgrim · 11-07-2006, 12:59 PM

Laura Ingraham has asked her listeners to call the Dem Voter protection hotline — and they are now being flooded with calls from crank callers.

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Conservatives are going pretty low this cycle...

WickedLou9 · 11-07-2006, 01:01 PM

they should prosecute here for encouraging people to break the law, and they should charge everyone that prank calls with harrasment and denial of service. Stupid bastards.

Stylerod · 11-07-2006, 01:04 PM

So which is it

UPDATE: Laura Ingraham has asked her listeners to call the Dem Voter protection hotline — and they are now being flooded with calls from crank callers. Please call Laura and tell her what you think about this: 800.876.4123. You can e-mail her here. Apparently, voter intimidation and fraud are a joke to Laura Ingraham. Let's let her know that it is no joke.

UPDATE #2: More on Laura Ingraham: "caller indicated she is running a tape of Bill Clinton over and over saying "call 1-888 Dem Vote to report problems" — and then making fun of him, thus producing a spike in crank calls to the number" Protecting voter integrity is no joke. And I am not laughing. If anyone has audio of this, I'd love it.

Did she ask them to call? Or did she just play a tape?

Thorgrim · 11-07-2006, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by Stylerod

So which is it

Did she ask them to call? Or did she just play a tape?

she asked them to call, read the first line

SpicyMcVoodoo · 11-07-2006, 01:19 PM

Why are Republicans doing evil shit with phones in this election?

WickedLou9 · 11-07-2006, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by SpicyMcVoodoo

Why are Republicans doing evil shit with phones in this election?

karl rove made them do it. He is the devil himself.

Phantom · 11-07-2006, 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by SpicyMcVoodoo

Why are Republicans doing evil shit with phones in this election?

Reps are just evil people, who want to take over de wurld.

Scrum · 11-07-2006, 03:05 PM

There are conservatives out there applauding this.

Stylerod · 11-07-2006, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent

There are conservatives out there applauding this.

did it really happen?

motivez · 11-07-2006, 03:07 PM

Did you hear about the one where the conservative radio station used the emergency broadcasting system to force other radio stations in the area to play a campaign advertisement?

Yeah, that happened too. It's amazing how low they're sinking this election cycle..

Scrum · 11-07-2006, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by Stylerod

did it really happen?

All signs point to yes.

Scrum · 11-07-2006, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by motivez

Did you hear about the one where the conservative radio station used the emergency broadcasting system to force other radio stations in the area to play a campaign advertisement?

Yeah, that happened too. It's amazing how low they're sinking this election cycle..

I didn't hear about that.

Stylerod · 11-07-2006, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by motivez

Did you hear about the one where the conservative radio station used the emergency broadcasting system to force other radio stations in the area to play a campaign advertisement?

Yeah, that happened too. It's amazing how low they're sinking this election cycle..

No didn't hear about that one. I'm not even sure I understand what you said.

Stylerod · 11-07-2006, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by Scrumtralecent

All signs point to yes.

Proof? Besides a biased liberal blog?

motivez · 11-07-2006, 03:10 PM

Yeah.

SFGate: Politics Blog : This is a test of the Emergency Alert System: Vote for Dick Mountjoy!

Direct link to the audio: http://cdn.sfgate.com/blogs/sounds/s...on_11-6-06.mp3

motivez · 11-07-2006, 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by Stylerod

No didn't hear about that one. I'm not even sure I understand what you said.

They activated the emergency broadcast system, which forces all radio stations in the area to play their broadcast, and then played a campaign advertisement for a Republican candidate.

motivez · 11-07-2006, 03:12 PM

From SomethingAwful

This morning Monday, Nov. 6th at 10:02 am my radio station recieved an Emergency Alert System (EAS) test that came through with a radio advertisement for republican senate cantidate Dick Mountjoy coming on after the familiar "this concludes this test..." message.

EAS is a system where two or three stations per county are Local Primary (or LP) stations that iniciate system tests or actual warning messages in times of an emergeny such as a natural disaster. The alert is broadcast over their normal signal in the form of data tones followed by a voice or video message pertaining to the alert (or a voice saying "this has been a test.. etc). Radio stations are required to have an EAS unit that listens to these LP stations, and when an EAS broadcast comes through it interrupts the normal air feed to rebroadcast whatever is coming from the LP signal.

Upon further investigation we discovered that the message originated from local Clear Channel owned conservative talk radio station KFBK in Sacramento. We gave them a call inquiring about the incident and they admitted to broadcasting the message as a result of a "training snafu".

Training snafu. Right.

Stylerod · 11-07-2006, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by motivez

They activated the emergency broadcast system, which forces all radio stations in the area to play their broadcast, and then played a campaign advertisement for a Republican candidate.

Now that's dirty!!!

motivez · 11-07-2006, 03:16 PM

and illegal

Stylerod · 11-07-2006, 03:17 PM

So anyway, back on topic. Any one have proof about this threads main point before I move on?