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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I'm now giving Mitt Romney another look." Have you heard these callers to NPR
programs?
Is it just me being paranoid or are we hearing more of these creatures coming out of the woodwork calling NPR shows and stating that they were undecided or not really interested in the election until the first debate but NOW they're giving Romney another look?
Every now and again I have to check my reality meter to see if I am hearing/seeing things clearly when it comes to this election. But after the first debate I heard this meme several times on NPR shows...not a whole lot, but several and I wondered if something was afoot...
PCIntern
(25,556 posts)One of the new jobs created!
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Analysis: Its confirmed, radio is full of voice actors and fake calls
http://www.tgdaily.com/opinion-features/54661-analysis-it%E2%80%99s-confirmed-radio-is-full-of-voice-actors-and-fake-calls
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)because if Robme is elected, like PBS, NPR will be on the chopping block.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Just sayin'.
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)"I was going to vote for Romney, until I realized he was an untrustworthy liar who will stand on every position in order to be elected."
It's astroturf. We should get wise to it and employ some of their tactics.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)by the time I get home the program is over...
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)a little too worried about these callers...it would seem obvious to me that the RW would want to discourage liberals by having "callers" do this...
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)When you listen to the callers, do you get the sense that they are following a general theme or are scripted in any way?
These calls will do the same thing that the debate did, energize the base. My son works manufacturing, and maybe the guys he worked with (Republicans all) who had already figured out what Romney was about (money-money-money) will be swayed back to voting the Republican ranks. Somehow, I doubt it.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)can't believe it. That MIGHT be because I'm such a dedicated liberal but I dunno...
Maeve
(42,282 posts)what percentage of his Twitter followers turned out to be fakes, again?
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)It takes real dedication to call a station you hate in order to lie your ass off.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)is that he will probably get rid of the miserable pus pocket that NPR has turned into.
NPR is probably rigging these calls to try to suck up to him. I would not put anything beneath the shameless groveling slimebuckets that run that place.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)I'm trying to remember the incident that made me rethink my opinion of NPR, but I can't. Some kind of pandering to the right, I'm sure.
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)NPR is a sad remnant of what it used to be.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Back in 1992 Cokie Roberts was full of why George HW Bush was going to be re-elected, and how Bill Clinton didn't stand a chance. I remember being quite astonished at the time. THIS is the liberal media?
I listen to very little NPR. I try to catch Car Talk and Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me. I do faithfully listen to Amy Goodman's Democracy Now, but she comes from Pacifica radio, and is mostly on the non-NPR community radio stations.
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)Cokie Roberts has always been a rightward thinker, but there used to be a better balance. I listened past 2004 and it just kept getting worse. Now I'll tune in for classical music occasionally. Sometimes I'll listen to the shows you named but it isn't daily fare and continues to dwindle over time.
union_maid
(3,502 posts)I'm not a betting woman, but I'd bet $10,000 (that I don't have) that those calls are all fake. Who exactly is an undecided voter who calls into NPR? Or listens to it. Undecided voters are either listening to music or have sports radio on.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Obama but "disappointed" in what is happening in the economy and (for some reason) didn't give much thought to Romney but then VOILA, the debate and now they're "giving Romney a second look..."
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)porphyrian
(18,530 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)Their news division is not exactly a friend to progressive causes.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)The RNC, the Koch brothers' Americans for Prosperity, and other GOP PACs have been running ads pushing the 'buyer's remorse' theme to Dems and Independents who voted for Obama. The ads target mostly battleground states, but I looked into a couple of the groups after seeing one of the ads in California (sponsored by a group I'd never heard of). The group has a website dedicated to the same theme of buyer's remorse and another, affiliated group with a similar name which may be one of many groups organizing a campaign of radio call-ins.
The RNC got busted for deception in one of the ads:
Pema Levy September 6, 2012, 12:47 PM
Republicans debuted a new ad Thursday in which a frustrated former Obama supporter expresses her disappointment with the president. The only problem: The woman in the video is actually an RNC staffer.
The new ad features Republican National Committee Director of Hispanic Outreach Bettina Inclan, who in the ad purports to be an average woman voter who supported Obama in 2008. She describes her disillusionment with the president in the ad as a romantic relationship gone awry.
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Inclan began her current RNC post in January 2012, and has worked in Republican politics since well before Obamas 2008 election. She did Hispanic outreach for Rick Scotts 2010 Florida gubernatorial race worked on Capitol Hill for Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) and as national executive director of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly.
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Reaching out to voters who feel let down by Obama is a big part of Republicans strategy for wooing undecided and independent voters who might like Obama personally but feel he hasnt been an effective president. Romney spoke about disappointment in his acceptance speech in Tampa last week. The conservative advocacy group Americans for Prosperity is up with several ads featuring independents who voted for Obama but say they will not do so again in 2012.
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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/rnc-staffer-plays-obama-supporter-in-gop-ad.php
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)It may not have completely flushed down.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)They also call into C-SPAN on the "Democrats" line, claiming that they're "disillusioned with Obama/the Democrats", and that they're voting republican. Nothing new here. They've been pulling this kind of shit for years. I guess they think they're discouraging real Democrats from voting, or something.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)If their "reasons" is a litany of attacks, even gentle ones, on President Obama, they intended to vote for Romney all along.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)just wanted to be "special" and have the host "take their call."
has been NPRW for awhile now, it seems.