I just got called by Citizens United. How I made it onto one of their lists is a mystery. They should probably fire whoever sold it to them, since they asked for me by name. I was asked whether I would be willing to take a critical presidential survey for "David Bossie's Citizens United," and I said yes.
What followed is exactly as diarist slowthought described last week at around the same time of day, on Saturday. But since this appears to be a pattern, slowthought's diary only got one comment, and maybe someone else will be quicker to grab a recorder if forewarned, I am bringing it up again. I did take a few notes.
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A live person asked whether I would take the poll, but said I had to listen to a recorded message from Dick Morris first. A recording with Dick's nasal voice started, with a pitch for his book, a "battle plan" for taking back America in 2010. I could get a copy of his book free if I stayed on the line and answered the survey question. He had a plan for rolling back and repealing the Obama socialist agenda, he said.
Then he did a little fear-mongering on the health insurance bill. 159 new government agencies, death panels, 16,500 new IRS agents, public funding for abortion.
Then the live person--"his associate"--came back on the line. The survey question is whether I support Obama's socialist agenda, and a long list of other horrors. I said that the question assumed things that simply weren't true and I couldn't answer yes or no. She wished me a nice day and didn't offer Dick's book before she hung up.
This is what the Cittizen's United decision will bring us lots of: expensive push-polling designed to undermine every good thing the Democrats have managed to bring themselves to actually vote for. Which really isn't so many things that we shouldn't be concerned.
The minimum we should do to fight back is to expose this sludge to daylight.