This sentence makes absolutely no sense:

"I have a recording of a pre-recorded phone message from DNC counsel Joe Sandler which contains the same sorts of disclaimers (including placement) as NRCC calls."

try proof reading before posting an article...

I got one of these calls yesterday, for candidate John Garamendi, here in California. I didn't recognize the number so I let my voice mail take it.

When I got around to listening to it, my first thought was, "Well, I'm not going to vote for him NOW."

This is more of the typical Republican behavior designed to suppress the vote and steal yet another election. It is clearly fraudulent. They cannot win on the issues and on Iraq so they have to resort to illegal and annoying activities to push likely Democratic voters to stay home. Disgusting.

These Republican robocalls begin by saying they're "about" a Democratic candidate. They're designed to fool voters into believing they're being harassed by the Democrats rather than the true source, the NRCC!

Nothing new here. Just the same old dirty Republican tricks. If they can't win, they cheat. Wake up America, the Democrats are the party with moral authority, not the corrupt Grand Old Police Blotter.

Why would DNC counsel Joe Sandler have pre-recorded phone messages? I don't think anyone is going to vote based on what the DNC counsel thinks. I don't understand what they are talking about.

The NRCC has a nationwide campaign to suppress the vote, and judging from his response letter, Don McGahn, their general counsel, apparently thinks it's all a big joke.

What a pompous response. We'll see if he's laughing tomorrow night.

Why do Republicans hate democracy so much?

What's missing from this story is the fact that these Republican-funded calls say that they're from the Democratic candidate, and are meant to convince the voter that the Democratic candidate is harrassing them with repeated phone calls. It's a mendacious new form of voter suppression, and it's getting very little coverage in the mainstream media.

--ET

CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and Fox are each ignoring the GOP's nationwide campaign of false-flag robocalls meant to harass voters and fool them into thinking the calls come from Democrats. If it were Dem on GOP, if it were on Drudge, the cable nets would be on it wall-to-wall. As it is, they're content to ignore it.

That's because the powers-that-be in the mainstream media are in the tow of the Republican party. The Halperins and Crowleys of the news biz are all part of the same corruption.

Like Halperin says, Drudge rules their world.

You have to understand that and absorb that before you can set about doing what's necessary to change it.

The issue isn't "robo-calling." The issue is harrassment and deception. The calls paid for by the Republican National Congressional Committee are designed to annoy the people being called, and they're designed to appear as if they come from Democratic campaigns.

They lie. They steal. And they cheat. Somewhere, Lincoln is weeping.

Both parties deliver millions of robocalls during election season. You've probably gotten the calls from both parties and many outside groups. It happens every cycle.

Only the REPUBLICANS have a nationwide campaign to deliver millions of intentionally-harassing calls disguised to appear that they're from the opposite party. That party is the Republican party. And the calls are funded by the NRCC -- the House GOP election committee.

Republicans... the party of election subversion. Deal with it.

this is sick....typical Republican dirty trickery... what's next? Try to make everyone believe that they bought drugs but never took them and the male-page prostitute on the bed was there to give out massages but nothing gay happened and God is with us? please...

Thanks for bringing this to the attention of the electorate. However, the story could use some clarification.

The offending robocalls all have the same pattern. They start with "This is a message about candidate X", and then go on to provide negative information about that candidate. If one listens all the way to the end, they are able to determine the call is from the NRCC. However, there are numerous reports of the same call occurring 7 or 8 times in a row. To the person hanging up on each call, they are likely to assume the call is in support of candidate X, rather than a NRCC-sponsored call. Naturally, this infuriates the person called, and may likely cause them NOT to vote for Candidate X just because they are so annoyed.

There are reports of this same style of call occurring all over the country in completive Congressional races. talkingpointsmemo.com has more details.

It is very important for our Democracy that the truth about these calls gets out there. I hope ABC has the courage to report the truth in a timely fashion.

Why doesn't ABC News make this a top headline?

ABC news is afraid of any news that is viewed as too "partisan", especially if it is "partisan" against republicans.

This in the face of obvious voter suppression!

Stephen, you DO realize that this article is about illegal phone calls made by the Republican Party lying and saying they are calling about a Democratic candidate, with the purpose of dissing the Democratis candidate and/or ticking Democrats off--don't you?

What Dean said...

And of course ABC was investigate the actual law, or condemn this immoral and anti-democratic practices of the GOP.

How do these companies and politicians sleep at night?

Typical Democrat fear response article! Even with all the left-winged media bias they realize they don't have this thing in the bag.
Now it will all just be a big bunch of excuses and blame-I love it!!!!

I've also received these calls. Caller ID labels it as "ATT", like the phone company. It make me mad that politicans are above the law!
No matter who wins congress, we're still screwed.

US Soldiers are going to die violently in Iraq today, like they do every day. They think they're fighting for democracy, but if George W. Bush and his supporters have their way democracy won't happen on Tuesday. They'll do anything to subvert and undermine the integrity of this election because they are not expected to win it, and the stakes are high. Imagine how many scandals the Democrats will uncover with Congressional investigations.

So our troops fight and die to spread democracy overseas, while the GOP works hard to subvert it here at home. This will not stand.