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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Lanya on November 17, 2006, 04:40:00 PM
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November 17th, 2006
Pat Leahy wants to investigate Laura Ingraham
By: John Amato @ 11:20 AM - PST
Now this would be just a little justice. via email: Pat Leahy at a hearing on voter fraud all but demanded that the Justice Department investigate and even prosecute Laura Ingraham for her election-day call to her listeners to jam the phone lines Democrats set up for reporting voter machine problems and the like.
Audio-MP3
Media Matters explains:
As the weblog Firedoglake first noted, during the November 7 edition of her nationally syndicated talk radio show, Laura Ingraham urged listeners to jam the phone lines of 1-888-DEM-VOTE, a voter assistance hotline sponsored by the Democratic Party. Ingraham stated: "I want you to call it and I want you tell us what you get when you call 1-888-DEM-VOTE. They're on top of all of the shenanigans at the polling stations. One problem: you can't get through." Minutes later, while talking with a listener who called the hotline, Ingraham said: "Let's keep 'dem' lines ringing."
Filed Under: Wingnuts, Right Wing Pundits, scandals
November 17th, 2006
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/11/17/pat-leahy-wants-to-investigate-laura-ingraham/
Transcript of Ingraham:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200611070019
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I do not know if a law was broken , but I would like to discourage such dirty pool.
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The hotlines were setup to report election fraud. Snce polls were showing the dems had an excellent chance to win, Ingraham was just giving hotline staffers someone to talk to. Very compassionate of her.