Conservative Phone Company Exploits Wedge Issues for Profit

[Shallah Kali]

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/print?id=827643

or

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Business/story?id=827643&page=1

"Our base, which would be a conservative base, really does not like the same-sex marriage that has been pushed down our throat," UAT consultant Carl Thompson told ABC News.

UAT niche markets its service by railing against Internet pornography, homosexuality, and then criticizing competing phone companies it claims promote both.

Many major corporations -- ranging from huge hotel chains to telecommunications firms that carry cable television and Internet services -- have profited, in one form or another, from adult entertainment

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Other corporations change policies because they smell potential profits. Coors Brewing Company, once a major supporter of conservative causes, even went so far as to employ someone to market specifically to gay and lesbian customers. Her name: Mary Cheney, the daughter of the vice president.

Ya'll just have to read the transcript of the calls in this article! They are :rofl:

[davidinalameda]

1. God hates AT&T, MCI, and Verizon

but I have Cingular and why do I keep getting dropped calls on my cell

:shrug:

[Turbineguy]

2. Oil exploration company? Phone Company?

What's next? A line of clothing for wingnuts?

"Be in style with the Niedermeyer Look!"

[Shallah Kali]

4. They can always import burkas for the wimmen folk

so they won't be oogled by evil evil doers of evil :b

[whistle]

3. Yes, this does appear to be a "wedge issue".....

...where this consultant's under-ware wedged in the crack of his ass!:wtf:

[Catfight]

5. I really don't like the conservative base bigotry and hate pushed

down my throat. How about railing against neo-conservatives, child pornography that they love to download off the internet, sex rings they love to get involved in, pedophilia they love to protect behind the cloth, and domestic violence they love to promote in their homes? They're the sickest bunch of all organized cults.

[youspeakmylanguage]

6. This is GREAT!!!

Pornography, as crazy as it sounds, could be a fundamental issue that divides the Repug base and helps us gain power. We should be encouraging endeavors like this.

Any issue that can neatly divide the wacko fundie fringe from the freedom-loving, libertarian-leaning small government folks is a beautiful thing. Eventually these two groups will wake up in the morning, in bed together and realize how big of a mistake they collectively made.

[youspeakmylanguage]

7. I have no love for MCI...

In response, MCI spokesman Peter Lucht issued a statement saying, "It is disappointing that this company would resort to spreading false statements to benefit its cause. One would hope that consumers would see right through them."

...or any other phone company, for that matter, but I would love to see MCI force these clowns to refute this or, even better, claim it publicly.

Most likely the weasels will claim the telemarketer was making the claim up.

[Shallah Kali]

8. Things like this will hopefully also divide the moderate GOP from the RW

I am starting to hope that my state senators (Snowe & Collins) might go independent because of the RW allying themselves with the pseudo-christian radical clerics.