Tea Party Robo Calling in DC

Frank Luntz, did you just call me?

I just got a short anonymous robo call here in DC.  The middle-aged male voice began with a loud "American" and then went on to jostle my ear with "Tea Party" in a script of just a few sentences delivering astroturf patriotic concern.  He asked if I was aware of the changes happening in the country and in government.  That was all, end of call.  

The right wing is spending dollars to associate their contempt for Obama and expanded health care with the contempt that the colonists had for British taxes.   It's a ways to the next annual commemoration of the first Tea Party held in Boston on December 16, 1773, and even further away from the first annual commemoration of the Fox News Tax Day Tea Party next April 15.  Why robo call in June?  Why in DC?  

The Conservative media makers have been hired to stoke an uprising.  Their enterprise is a hypocritical, nonsensical mash-up of revolutionary words and images.  My guess is that this PR effort is unconcerned with actually fostering rebellion.  It doesn't matter if only some of the whacked public responds.  The goal is to associate conservative discontent with the American Revolution and American virtue.  

The campaign smells like Gingrich to me, an attempt to get some traction on the health care debate, and failing that, create a narrative for the long-term: Obama is Intolerable.  

The New York State Senate maybe.  Sharapova's shrieks, definitely.  But Obama, Intolerable?  That narrative is not sticking.  

•  Tip Jar

  by Redpoint District on Thu Jun 25, 2009 at 05:56:25 PM PST

•  Well, there are some on 7/4.

  Tax Day, though I thought Tax Day was 4/15 (or close to there.. )

  by Losty on Thu Jun 25, 2009 at 06:14:50 PM PST

•  I think that they are giving up on the tea party

  cause because I have yet to see Fox or any big named republican pimping tea parties like they did the last round of parties.

  by AdamND on Thu Jun 25, 2009 at 06:29:56 PM PST

•  I got the same exact call in CA about

  2 weeks ago. It made no sense. The robo voice just asked if I'd heard of the tea parties and then basically hung up. It was an incredibly dumb waste of money on their part.

  by doinaheckuvanutjob on Thu Jun 25, 2009 at 08:30:30 PM PST

  •  They're confused about what "viral" means (nt)

    by KateCrashes on Thu Jun 25, 2009 at 08:48:01 PM PST

•  do you have the audio file?

  we track all robos at our blog.

  http://thinkdodone.typepad.com/...

  by shimane on Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 08:18:07 AM PST

  •  Unfortunately I don't have the file.

    I thought they might have also called my home and it would be on my answering machine, but no.  If they do, I will upload.  

    by Redpoint District on Fri Jun 26, 2009 at 08:27:01 AM PST