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Robocalls Challenged

  • 18-10-2008 6:52pm
    #1
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,539 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    "Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, facing a tough reelection fight, urged GOP presidential contender John McCain on Friday to stop making automated calls into her state linking Democratic nominee Barack Obama to a 1960s radical."

    "The calls say Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge’s home and killed Americans.”

    Of course these calls fail to mention that Obama was 8 years old when Ayers was a violent war protester, or that their association was years later on a charity board with other notables of American society?

    Do automated telephone messages succeed when attempting to character assassinate presidential candidates in America? If they do, what does this say about the American political system or the parties that do such things?

    Source: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/18/nation/na-robo18


Comments

  • #2
    Kama
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭Kama


    It must work to some extent for it to be a widely used practice; its in the (Rove-packed) dirty-tricks bag along with push-polling...


  • #3
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Robocall Versus Terminator?


  • #4
    zod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭zod


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1LzvMdowU


  • #5
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    FOX...News...Gaining...My...Respect?


  • #6
    norbert64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,192 ✭✭✭norbert64


    zod wrote: »
    [YOUTUBE----]LbEkte3RU0o[/YOUTUBE]
    You know, call me naieve but does anyone else think that perhaps McCain is actually putting country first here.

    In so far as, he's intentionally tanking his own campaign by ramping up all this negativity, thus making it a done deal for Obama to become POTUS.


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  • #7
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    norbert64 wrote: »
    You know, call me naieve but does anyone else think that perhaps McCain is actually putting country first here.

    In so far as, he's intentionally tanking his own campaign by ramping up all this negativity, thus making it a done deal for Obama to become POTUS.

    He's not throwing the campaign. Most 72 year old's don't run for office, he is because he is intent on leaving a legacy as president of the US. He is reverting to negativity because he doesn't care how he gets to be president any more.


  • #8
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    zod wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d1LzvMdowU
    Jesus h christ...


  • #9
    cooker3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭cooker3


    Wow. That interview was terrible for McCain. The fact he hired the same guy after making that quote is pretty damning.


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