Ha ha. RNC press release:
To help meet its goal of holding the most tech-savvy convention in history, the Committee on Arrangements (COA) for the 2008 Republican National Convention today announced that Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) will serve as the Official Communications Provider for the Sept. 1-4 event.
If you recall, Republicans have been tripping all over themselves to protect those "patriotic" telecoms that broke the law in order to spy on your communications on behalf of Bush and Company. Qwest was the lone holdout of the big telecoms that upheld the law and refused to play along, hence, by extension, supposedly "unpatriotic".
Yet here they are, rewarding Qwest with a contract to wire their convention.
More evidence that the GOP's overheated rhetoric is nothing more than that -- overheated rhetoric.