Margaret Cho has a do-not-call post
Apparently, Tucker Carlson was arguing on the behalf of telemarketers over the do not call list and when asked for his home number Carlson
gave out the number for Fox News Washington Bureau. After Fox was deluged with calls, the nutwork put Carlson's unlisted home number on its website. Mr. Bowtie tried to be a gangsta, and ended up a wanksta, and paid a stiff penalty, which consisted of several hours of 'Jerky Boys' old-school prank phone calls. No disclosure was made of the exact content of these calls, but one can only imagine.Margaret Cho is a great comedian, I really enjoy the posts, I just can't figure out the permalinks.
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That is fucked up that Fox would play the 'phone home' card, but then if you are going to defend telemarketers, and pretend to give out your own number, you have to have some accountability for that. You cannot say, "Ok, BEAAATCH!!! BRING IT!! 703 - 519 - 6000!!!!! HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW!!!" - which is not really your number, but the FOX number, then they call you out like "OH YEAH? 703 - 519 - 6465. SAY IT TO MY FACE!!!" and be surprised that they did what you'd expect them to do....
[Tucker Carlson (10/01/03) by Margaret Cho]