Think Progress has Laura Ingraham audio up now. Got to be illegal

[madfloridian]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/07/ingraham-voter-line/

"As FireDogLake has been reporting, right-wing radio host Laura Ingraham today urged her listeners to obstruct efforts to protect voting rights by jamming a free voter protection hotline.

After playing a recording of DNC Chairman Howard Dean promoting the line to voters, Ingraham suggested her listeners call en masse:

Tell me if you think I’m crazy. This is what I’m thinking. I think we all need to call 1 888 DEM VOTE all at the same time."

DNC link there with some of the prank calls. They are right on top of this.

[madfloridian]

1. From the DNC calls....unreal. Funny and tragic.

Full transcript:

DEAN (recorded):" We have a hotline — 1 888 DEM VOTE — anybody can call that. If they feel like there are voting irregularities, we’ll send some folks over to the polling place in a matter of minutes.

(Phone ringing) OPERATOR: Leave a message with your question or press pound to be transferred at no extra charge to your local election protection team or the state Democratic Party. (Dialing) Your call cannot be completed at this time. Please try your call again later.

INGRAHAM: Wait a second! So — (Laughter) you call 1 888 DEM VOTE — otherwise ‘Dim Bulb Vote’ or ‘Dumb Vote’ — and all you do is get tranferred to muzak, then they cut you off. This is what I’m thinking. Tell me if you think I’m crazy. This is what I’m thinking. I think we all need to call 1 888 DEM VOTE all at the same time. And, by the way, when you call, when you call the number — and remember, it’s ‘Dem Vote’ not ‘Dumb Vote’ — when you call the number, as we did, and we got transferred, transferred, then we just got hung up upon. You know, we’re supposed to have these election teams within a matter of minutes, they’re supposed to be coming to the polls. Can you imagine what those people look like? Halloween all over again. So if you have trouble with the poll, you’re supposed to call, via 1 888 ‘Dumb Vote,’ and this is what you get."

[thepurpose]

2. If not it should be.

[madfloridian]

3. That is really sick. To do this is just not normal.

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[thepurpose]

4. I don't understand why this isn't against the law. I mean really I would not condone

democrats doings this kind of crap.

[Bitwit1234]

5. New Hampshire

If New Hampshire republicans were prosecuted for jamming the phone lines they have her on tape telling people to jam the Democratic help lines, then why can't she be prosecuted. That has got to be illegal. She can't say she didn't do it, it is on tape.

[madfloridian]

6. On tape and DNC has the transcript up..

Amazing she would do this.

[madfloridian]

7. Daily Kos post also questioning legality of the what she did.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/7/16324/3449

Did Laura Ingraham just commit a crime ON AIR?
by AHiddenSaint
Tue Nov 07, 2006 at 04:03:24 PM EST
That is the question because right now it is possible she just did something VERY ILLEGAL ON AIR.

http://www.firedoglake.com/...

Laura Ingraham has asked her listeners to call the Dem Voter protection hotline -- and they are now being flooded with calls from crank callers. Please call Laura and tell her what you think about this: 800.876.4123. You can e-mail her here. Apparently, voter intimidation and fraud are a joke to Laura Ingraham. Let's let her know that it is no joke.