Ingraham encourages listeners to jam phone lines of Democratic voter assistance hotline
As the weblog Firedoglake first noted, during the November 7 edition of her nationally syndicated talk radio show, Laura Ingraham urged listeners to jam the phone lines of 1-888-DEM-VOTE, a voter assistance hotline sponsored by the Democratic Party. Ingraham stated: "I want you to call it and I want you tell us what you get when you call 1-888-DEM-VOTE. They're on top of all of the shenanigans at the polling stations. One problem: you can't get through." Minutes later, while talking with a listener who called the hotline, Ingraham said: "Let's keep 'dem' lines ringing." Ingraham, a frequent Fox News contributor, is scheduled to appear on the November 7 edition of Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto.
According to Firedoglake, the voter assistance hotline is "now being flooded with calls from crank callers."
From the November 7 edition of Talk Radio Network's The Laura Ingraham Show:
INGRAHAM: Multiple callers are calling the 1-888-DUMB-VOTE line and they said that the line is now broken. That you can't get through.
MATT FOX (technical producer): The Democrats can't even do that right; they can't even do a help line.
INGRAHAM: First of all, you're telling people that their vote is being suppressed at all these polling stations across the country. Vote is being suppressed, what are you talking about? You want to see voter suppression? Try to vote in Iraq when you have snipers on rooftops, OK? Those people walk to the polls; they don't care about the snipers. So don't talk to me about voter suppression. That is the biggest bunch of baloney that we've been sold, and we've been sold it election after election by desperate Democrats -- 1-888-DEM-VOTE. I want you to call it, and I want you tell us what you get when you call 1-888-DEM-VOTE. They're on top of all of the shenanigans at the polling stations. One problem -- you can't get through.
[...]
CALLER: Hey, Laura, I called the 888 number. I think I cost the Democrats at least 25 cents.
INGRAHAM: What happened?
CALLER: Well, you get the number, they ask you to put in your zip code; they ask you, of course, English or Spanish.
INGRAHAM: Blood type?
CALLER: And, you know, they say that they'll trace back to your phone. They give you options as to do you want to find your polling place, did you have trouble voting?
INGRAHAM: Do you know what zip code you live in?
CALLER: Oh yeah, I did. I'm pretty sharp.
INGRAHAM: So you never got through, you never got through to talk to a real live dumb poll helper?
CALLER: No, I just got voice mail. I figured I was gonna cost as much money as I could. Well, finally, when they couldn't answer my questions electronically, they said, "We'll forward your call to the local election office."
INGRAHAM: 1-888-dim -- or dumb -- VOTE. No, it's really DEM-VOTE. Let's keep "dem" lines ringing.
...or prosecuted in some way. This is tantamount to voter obstruction. Can't win fair and square...?Well, then.... better steal, lie, cheat... That's the level these clowns have brought the discussion to = retain power at any cost.
if all of the people that really "follow" this hollow woman, the total number of people calling would be about twelve(12). And that would cost about $3.00.
Can't worry about an amateur like laura...but she is a goofy one. Today, 11/8, she is crying on the inside and still looking stupid on the outside.
...Ingraham believes in democracy in the same way that a good fascist does....which is not at all.
The thinkprogress.org item on this topic quotes Ingraham as saying, "Tell me if you think I’m crazy. This is what I’m thinking. I think we all need to call 1 888 DEM VOTE all at the same time."
I hope that she will be investigated by the fed's. This is akin to the NH phone jamming operation where those people were convicted with jailtime. This type of offense is a felony with a 10 year sentance attached. Lets see her try to squirm out of that one. Maybe her buddy Clarence Thomas can help her out.
Here is a link to he Federal Election Commission. Complaints must be filed in writing.
[link to www.fec.gov]
...here's the direct link to the article the poster above me mentioned. I posted it in the article about the robocalls, asking if it was OT, so I'm posting it here as well. [link to thinkprogress.org]
Apparently, MoveOn.Org is offering a $250,000 bounty to anybody who has hard evidence of voter suppression and intimidation tactics, and it is used in a felony conviction. [link to releases.usnewswire.com]
There definitately was voter supression in my precinct. The traffic jam in the parking lot and the number of people who took their time reading the new computer screens for every stinking issue on the ballot caused more than a few to go home.
Where do I collect?
;-)
ps. Congratulations to the Democrats. I hope and pray the can do something other than whine. ;-)
I'm still waiting for her to do a broadcast from Baghdad - outside of the Green Zone, with no US Forces around to protect her.
By encouraging her listeners to spend time jamming the phone line of the Democratic voter assistance hotline, this will have two immediate results:
1} the more time her listeners spend making crank calls, the fewer of them that will be available to harass and intimidate Democratic voters who are already going out to the polls, and
2} the more time her listeners are making phone calls, the fewer there'll be actually tuning in to her - and as her listenership goes down, so will her her ratings, until she is eventually - and thankfully - off the air.
Way to go, Laura!
Check out what our christian value republicans are doing in Arizona:
[link to rawstory.com]
How you can conflate this article with Christians is beyond me.
our gun toting friends belong to the border patriot group. I'm just stating out loud what their website claims them to be.
It is sad how pathetic Republicans have become.
They haven't even lost yet, but they are already acting like sore losers.
Why do Republicans hate democracy so much?
If people like these are the ad hoc spokespeople for the GOP no wonder the Republican dominance of the political process is unraveling in a fashion that is not pretty.
What's next?? Is she going to tie up 911 lines cause she hates injured Liberals next???
No, I'm thinking "graveyard liberals."
and jam the phone lines of HER RADIO SHOW? We could start about 3 or 4 hours before her show starts, & just keep hitting redial until her show is over. For 1 day she would get nothing but LEFT WING callers. It would give her a taste of her own dirty tricks.
But we won't. We don't really think like her. It's hard for progessives to behave like fascists.
But still...
Voting is a PATRIOTIC DUTY. It is a privilege and an honour. Sadly, some people are selectively patriotic, depending on the flavour of the Day. Ingram, Coulter, The Republican Party and their cohorts believe that to support anyone but themselves is UNPATRIOTIC. Therefore it is their PATRIOTIC DUTY to prevent the UNPATRIOTIC vote for the DEMS. We are Patriotic, are we not!
She basically advocated that her listeners perpetrate a distributed denial of service attack on the voter help line. In the world of IT, it's illegal.
And for Matt Fox to say that Democrats can't even do a help line correctly is just bull****. Even the most sophisticated network on the planet is not capable of coping with a DDOS of sufficient size.
It's unfortunate that what she advocated isn't illegal in that venue - telephones.
When she is only a liar and a fascist, trying to suppress our right to vote.
Please MMFA: Please force the Feds to prosecute this woman, she is an anti-American traitor to the ideals of our country.
Let's do a dial a date phone jamming on her phone number...
So many of you assume she is trying to suppress the vote. How silly. You may not realize that calling a Democrat toll free number is not suppressing the vote.
I think so many missed the fact that Ingrahm was ridiculing the Dems because, as she put it," you can't get through." So, I seriously doubt whether hoardes of evil Republicans were awaiting marching orders from Ingham to jam phone lines that were already jammed.
So my guess is all this outrage expressed here will go nowhere as it usually does.
Besides, when you think about it, Ingrahm was telling her listeners to talk to Democrats. Isn't that a good thing?
Enjoy. Enjoy. Lets see what Pelosi and Co. can do.
so guess that kinda blows a hole in your argument, eh?
Wow! hundreds? Oh who would have guessed so many! Gee... maybe they will eventually go over the thousand mark! Damn those evil Republicans!
Seriously, I really am not keeping up with this story. As far as I'm concerned, it is a moot point.
The fun part is reading the outrage from you guys! I needed a laugh after my side got smoked! Enjoy.
there's nothing in the world that a good strong beer can't fix.
or.... (Naw.. I can't do that... I'm a Republican!)
I think I'll have more success with the beer. I'll buy the first round for everyone here!
I need to do it soon though.. before my taxes go up!
;-)
Man, I'm jelous. It must be the man. He's keeping me down. Good thing I have beer in my fridge...
My guess is not everyone here is a beer drinker. We could probably break out a six pack and still have some left over. ;-)
ps. You got a big screen tv down near the fridge? If so, save me a seat for the OSU Michigan game. I'll go all out and bring some imported. ;-)
Go Bucks!
Your true colors are showing.
Like those trying to rationalize WMDs...err....democracy... err...terror...errr.....you're trying to rationalize her behavior?
...YOU LOST!!!
Oh, and some more words:
Nana-nana-naaana...!
Well... well... Well put.
Way to rub it in!
Enjoy!
;-)
I had my mind made up long before this lunatic came up with this brilliant idea.
The sickest thing is that these psychotics claim the "liberals" are dividing the country.
I'd love to meet Whora Ingraham late at night. She'll become fertilizer if I do. I'm not a violent guy, but that she has a "mainstream" media to which she has such easy access is a nightmare. She needs to be put in her place, where she belongs: either the emcee of a kiddee TV show or flippin' burgers.
Got that Whora?
Including directions for e-mailing to FCC here.
please tell me how she has a radio show it so unfunny and all her listener claims she's Hot and i'm thinking where she's skinny she look sucked in and that nose. "please"