I hate telephone advertising. While I realize that this is a controversial choice, I am prepared to defend my position against the hordes of angry defenders of the right to interrupt my dinner while peddling your bullshit product/service/charity/political candidate.
That said, a couple of things have happened recently that have made me rethink my opinion.
For starters, about 40 call center employees in Indiana walked off the job rather than read a prepared script bashing Barack Obama for things like:
- Electing Barack Obama will put your children in danger
- Barack Obama is soft on crime
- Coddling criminals and putting them on the streets early
Willie Horton, there is a call for you on the white (fear) courtesy phone!
Of course, the only reason they were asked to read this script was because it illegal to robo-call in the state of Indiana. If you’d like to hear the ad as it ran in other states, here you go.
If you don’t feel like listening…
Hello, I’m calling for John McCain and the RNC, because Democrats are dangerously weak on crime. Barack Obama has voted against tougher penalties for street gangs, drug-related crimes, and protecting children from danger. Barack Obama and his liberal allies have a disturbing history of coddling criminals. so we can’t trust their judgment to keep our families safe. This call was paid for by the Republican National Committee and McCain-Palin 2008 at 866 558-5591. Thank you, bye
Hey Senator McCain, if minimum wage phone monkeys can see through your bullshit, how well do you think this is going to play with the rest of the country? Maybe you could outsource the calls to India since they neither know, nor care, about you or the American public.
Think about this for a minute, telemarketing is one of the slimiest professions known to man, even prostitution is more honest about what it is than a telemarketer who calls during dinner asking to speak to Mr. or Mrs. So-and-so about something “REALLY important”. If these guys are saying “No thanks, I have standards.” to your message, then maybe you should re-think the message.
Maybe if you were more like this guy, you could have Sarah Palin do something useful for your campaign.
