Wrong number: RNC lists phone-sex hotline

[Stuart G]

Source: MSNBC, AP

updated 38 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The best thing the Republican Party can say about this week is, it's nearly over.

First came news that the Republican National Committee paid $1,946 for a gathering at a sex-themed Hollywood club, which a group of young Republicans had visited without RNC approval. The money is to be paid back.

Now it turns out the RNC inadvertently listed a phone-sex number on a fundraising letter sent to potential donors. People who tried to call the committee were instead offered "live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl" for $2.99 a minute.


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36135320/ns/politics-more_politics/

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This is also being discussed in our Disscusiion forum here..different source in that discussion...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8068606

It is not an April Fools Joke..It is for real...Hard to believe..

[truthisfreedom]

1. This is becoming a theme.

[NJmaverick]

2. Are we sure it was a mistake

[KansDem]

5. Yes, it was a mistake

Republicans would never dream of talking "live, one-on-one with a nasty girl" for $2.99 a minute. They'd prefer something in the range of $1.49 a minute, or less if they could get it.

[Journeyman]

6. Depends on whose dime they're spending. . .

$1900+ for faux lesbian bondage sex? Maybe. . . if they were spending your money. Their dough? Gonna find something in the blue-light special aisle. . .

[mindfulNJ]

3. WTF?

What the hell is going on with the RNC? Sabotage? Or are they really that inept?? Incredible!:crazy:

[calimary]

4. Well, whatever it is, to me it's rather sweet payback for some of that crap that

kkkarl rove pulled (stuff he learned from that damnable schmuck lee atwater) when he was one of those adorable Young republi-CONS. Like the local Democratic candidate gathering about which he sent phony flyers out, promising liquor and nasty girls, on stolen local Democratic party stationery with letterhead and everything. It's made me wish we had our own kkkarl rove to give them a taste of their own medicine, but it appears that their own ineptitude, sense of exceptionalism and entitlement may be taking care of things for the rest of us.

[Caretha]

22. Kharma's like that

and sometimes the cycle of payback gets shorter & shorter.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

7. Tea Bagging, Lesbian Sex Clubs, and now Phone Sex. So Republican

Such wonderful "family" values.

Thank you, Michael Steele, John Boner, and friends :)

[Supersedeas]

9. Joe Mika and Diebold to the rescue

[UndecidedGuy]

14. I dont think its fair

To paint all republicans in this light. Granted, there are a few bad apples in ever barrel statistically you cannot say this is some reflection on the vast majority of people on that side.

Out of curiosity I went to a Tea Party rally. Everyone I met and saw was decent, polite, and nice. This was in Annapolis MD not too long ago.

[Lautremont]

18. Would they have been quite so nice to a black Democrat if he'd happened through the crowd?

I'm guessing not.

I'm curious, though - what's at the root of your indecision? What are the factors that keep you undecided? I'm genuinely curious, not trying to pick a fight.

[UndecidedGuy]

28. It is very hard to be a hard-right or hard-left when you try to look at the whole picture

It is like being a rope in a tug of war contest that is why. I think there are certain ideas that are good on both sides, but the methods by which they are achieved or even promoted often get in the way of real success.

[Lautremont]

31. You don't have to be hard anything.

Politics, in a personal sense at least, aren't like a jacket you try on and wear if it fits. They're a natural extension of your value system, an expression of how you operate in the world and how you'd like the world to operate in turn. And so, as people are complex and multi-faceted and sometimes contradictory, their politics will tend to be too.

It's too simplistic to say that all progressive-leaning people are going to be caring and empathetic and all conservatives are grinchy and mean. Certainly neither is 100% true. And yet there must be some foundation of belief which leads one way or another: towards a political outlook which tends to see us all as fellow travelers in an often difficult-to-navigate world, or one which casts us each as individuals who have to struggle through alone, and whose progress, or lack of it, is evidence of our quality as a person. Conservative politics tend to put up walls: between people, between races, sexes, sexualities, nations, religions, ideologies; progressive politics see those divisions as secondary and gives primacy to our common humanity. "A rising tide lifts all boats" (and other cliches) on the one hand, and "every man for himself" (and other cliches) on the other.

Anyway, I guess what I'm saying is you've already got the worldview that will lead you to one political persuasion or another, so instead of reading through the idea books of each ideology, as though you were trying to decide what kind of car to buy, look within.

I didn't mean to write a whole lecture - apologies!

[SpiralHawk]

19. A few "Bad Apples" would not have inflicted 8 years of xCommander AWOL Bush

& XVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney and their wAr making and phony 'conservative' borrow-and-spend-America-into-bankruptcy on America.

So yes -- ALL Republicons must bear the Bad Apple label, because they earned it. They twice 'elected' and thereby inflicted blatant WMD-lying, war-profiteering, preppy Chickenhawk phony 'conservative' fiscal & moral fools on the formerly prosperous and honorable United States of America.

[Name removed]

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[UndecidedGuy]

27. WTF?

Evolve or go back to "Teabagville"? I didn't come on here to insult you or anyone, just make a reasonable case for my standpoint.

I see too much of this pattern of insulting and labeling the other side as what you want us independent swing voters to think, and the truth is it alienates us from your positions more then you realize.

[valerief]

29. Then don't defend oppressive Republicans at this CLEARLY PROGRESSIVE site.

Until the day Republicans become PROGRESSIVE, they don't have the interests of the common man at heart. I don't see Hell freezing over any time soon either.

Forget Republicans. Come over to THE LIGHT. :hi:

[Quantess]

30. You didn't deserve that comment, IMO.

Your posts on this thread have been fairly reasonable so far.
The responses just shows how polarized Americans are right now. However, I have to say that teabaggers are getting harder and harder to defend, unless all you watch is FOX.

[muffin1]

33. What,

no screaming at poor old men with Parkinson's at that rally?

It's great to see you on this thread, defending rethugs, too!:hi:

[UndecidedGuy]

35. Rush Limbaugh is a cruel S.O.B.

Making fun of Michael J. Fox like he did shows a sick attitude. I think people need to realize he is just a court jester for the conservative side, and nothing else.

[CLANG]

8. Here's the recording - until the guy hung up

http://www.archive.org/details/TelephoneCall18004545400

[SkyDaddy7]

10. That was AWESOME!

What I would pay to see the face of some hard up GOP Christian Nut when they made that phone call!!!

I wonder how many "Family Values" folks reach in their wallet for their credit card to have "live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl"????
:rofl:

[shotten99]

11. The gift that keeps on giving

[Lochloosa]

12. Someone REALLY wants Michael's head.

[underpants]

34. Yeah all of this is being leaked from inside

[Ian David]

13. This shit happens all the time to both sides.

But that doesn't make it less funny.

[Wapsie B]

15. Nasty girls? With all those in the closet in the gop I'd have to think it would be nasty guys.

[Javaman]

16. The question is: did they get complaints?

:rofl:

[deminks]

17. :facepalm

lust - check- examples too numerous to mention
sloth - check- Party of NO, nothing, nada
pride - check- to the point of delusional
greed - check - corporatists to the last breath
envy - check- want theirs and to hell with others
gluttony - check- overconsumption, wasteful poo on the environment
wrath - check - rage at the "librulz", hate what they won't understand

[superconnected]

20. The party of Moral Values, always delivers - this kind of crap.

[nolabear]

21. There IS a God, and she is laughing her ass off!

You just can't buy this kind of payback. Or heck, maybe you can. Just dial 1-800-RNCLUST

[valerief]

23. I wonder how much of that 'per minute' the RNC collected. nt

[BreweryYardRat]

25. I bet someone had a Freudian slip while typing the letter and didn't catch it in editing.

Karma.

[Turbineguy]

26. Do I have to donate to the RNC first?

Or can I just call the number?

:evilgrin:

[47of74]

32. And for those of you just dying of curiosity...

...here's a link to an audio recording (NSFW) of what callers were greeted with when they called that number.

[Old Troop]

36. Maybe it's not a wrong number!!