McCain Returns To Robocalls To Target Health Care, Democrats
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), who relied heavily on automated calls to attack Barack Obama during the presidential campaign, is deploying the same to...
Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), who relied heavily on automated calls to attack Barack Obama during the presidential campaign, is deploying the same to...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Shaun Dakin, CEO and founder of the National Political Do Not Contact Registry battled the bots all year long, serving as a champion to everyone who prefers their telephones free of pollutants. So we're happy to defer to his judgment as to the Top 10 Political Robocalls of 2008.
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 05.25.2011
Early voting is well underway in John McCain's home state, which some polls are now calling a toss-up. Tucson early voting sites report unprecedented ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 05.25.2011
According to Shaun Dakin of the non-partisan Citizens for Civil Discourse, individuals in three states have reported receiving a new robocall from the...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Shaun Dakin, enemy of robocalls and American hero, tipped me to this entry on Wordsalad, which features the Most Authentically Robotic Robcall of the ...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011
John McCain and the Republican National Committee are now running robocalls attacking Obama as weak on terrorism -- in McCain's home state of Arizona,...
Pam Atherton | Posted 05.25.2011
There are quick ways to assess the measure of a man, whether he's a date or a guy running for office. Anybody can put on party manners for the camera, but what is he like underneath the show?
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Over the past few weeks, we've heard a lot about these phone calls that powerful and inhuman robots have sent screaming through the phonelines into ou...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011
At least three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attack...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
It is a telling contrast, how differently the McCain and Obama campaigns have used robocalling to advance their political interests. While the former...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Two of the four Republican Senators who have condemned John McCain's robocall campaign attacking Barack Obama are currently employing the telemarketin...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Facing a fresh wave of vicious robocalls, the Obama campaign launched a fact-checking website on Friday that allows voters to report and research the ...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
Indiana attorney general Steve Carter told Politico today that he's opened an investigation into the political robocalls reportedly hitting his state....
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
Ignoring widespread criticism, even from within his own party, John McCain's presidential campaign launched on Wednesday a fresh and vicious wave of r...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
The Republican National Committee is sending out another round of automated anti-Obama calls that, somewhat remarkably, include segments from a contro...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Below is a list of John McCain supporters who have condemned his campaign's robocalls. To see a list of McCain backers who have not yet taken a positi...
Portland Press Herald | Posted 05.25.2011
Maine Democrats and Republicans continued to squabble Monday over John McCain's campaign effort to raise questions about Barack Obama's relationship w...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
In an interview on CBS' "Early Show," John McCain defends his robocalls against Barack Obama, claiming that the Bill Ayers call is "exactly accurate" ...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011
Sarah Palin may have condemned robocalls yesterday as intrusive and a drain on people's attention spans, but that didn't stop her from recording her o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
One of the more noteworthy responses to John McCain's massive robocall campaign tying Barack Obama to Bill Ayers has been from parents whose children ...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
On "Fox News Sunday," John McCain defended his use of nasty robocalls against Obama, telling host Chris Wallace that the calls are nothing like the on...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
Increasingly desperate, John McCain and the GOP are throwing the kitchen sink at Barack Obama. No wonder they called Joe the Plumber. So this week brought racist mailers, a tidal wave of robocalls, more Bill Ayers, Sarah Palin's love of the "pro-American areas of this great nation," and McCain's outlandish claim that ACORN is "destroying the fabric of democracy." Not unwarranted wiretapping, waterboarding, extraordinary rendition, or the denial of habeas corpus. ACORN. Bringing this toxic collection together in one despicable no-goodie bag was Rush Limbaugh, who charged that Obama -- aided and abetted by Ayers and ACORN -- is "smack dab in the middle" of a 30-year plot to teach black children to "hate, hate, hate" America. It's going to take more than a plumber to pull McCain's -- and his party's -- reputation out of the sewer.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011
McCain's "terrorist" ads, pamphlets, and calls should have a tagline saying, "John McCain and the Republican National Committee are Irresponsible for the totally misleading content of this advertising."
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
In his efforts to attack Barack Obama, John McCain appears to have turned to the same political consulting firm that was responsible for spreading vic...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011