Limbaugh/Hannity Parent Company Admits Hiring Actors to Call Radio Shows

[TalkingDog]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Limbaugh-Hannity-Parent-Co-by-Gustav-Wynn-110305-942.html

But according to an online account, Premiere is hiring actors to fake on-air calls to radio shows who do not divulge the scam. Before being abruptly removed, their website read:

"Premiere On Call is our new custom caller service... We supply voice talent to take/make your on-air calls, improvise your scenes or deliver your scripts. Using our simple online booking tool, specify the kind of voice you need, and we'll get your the right person fast. Unless you request it, you won't hear that same voice again for at least two months, ensuring the authenticity of your programming for avid listeners".

As reported, once the actor "passed the audition, he would be invited periodically to call in to various talk shows and recite various scenarios that made for interesting radio." In addition, the source was specifically told there would be no on-air disclosure of the fabricated nature of the call. He subsequently landed the job, at $40 per hour and a minimum one hour of work per day.

This suggests an array of radio clients is broadcasting bogus calls by actors, categorized by their accents or vocal qualities. Next time you hear a "gruff", "clean", "crisp", "deep", or "textured" voice, you might just be hearing a Premiere On Call actor secretively playing a real person.

[defendandprotect]

1. Pitiful . . .

[TalkingDog]

2. Judases. I hope they fucking choke on their seven pieces of silver.

Betraying bastards.

[Judi Lynn]

6. If it weren't for deceit and treachery, Republicans would get nowhere at all. n/t

[tinrobot]

3. Sounds like this is 'Penthouse letters' for teabaggers.

[global1]

4. I Wish One Of These Actors Would Get Some Conscience And Become A .......

whistle-blower and either write a tell-all book about this describing how this works and what shows they have turned up on and how they get the scripts for these fake call-ins. Who provides the scenarios? How are they coached? Or it would be interesting if 20-20 or Dateline did a piece on this.

[Rex]

5. The damage done is irreversible,

a charade for so long and to hurt so many people out there with the lies and now obvious charlatanism, should make most people want to puke. If we lived in a real country, these assholes would be standing trial for causing harm to America. Like Evangelists that steal money from grandma every Sunday, throw the BUMS in jail!!!

[MadMaddie]

7. They cheat even when they don't have to

That should tell you all you need to know.