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I am *pissed*
Jul. 19th, 2006 12:59 pmI just got a phone call that made me really angry.
I didn't recognize the number, but picked it up. Recorded message started. "We are conducting a survey about abortion. If you do not wish to answer, please hang up now." I stayed on the line. Now, I'm not good at verbatim recall, but the recordning was something like this: "If you identify yourself as pro-life, anti-abortion, press 1 now. If you support a woman's right to choose, press 9 now." I pressed 9.
"Thank you for being pro-life!"
WHAT?!??!
"Pro-life organizations have been working since blah blah blah, we appreciate your support, send us money, blah blah..."
I was stunned. I pressed *9*. I am *pro-choice*. Very much so. And now here's this crooked survey, which has clearly just recorded my vote as "pro-life", and there's no more information in the recording about who is conducting it, or how to contact them! When the recording ended, I stayed on the line, hoping I'd get *something*, but no. I tried calling the number back, but no dice. I did a reverse lookup and it's apparently a land line based in Bartlesville, OK, and that's all the information that's available.
The number was 918-876-1170, if anyone's curious, and if anyone else gets this call... listen to it carefully. Maybe they give more information after giving choices 1 and 9. I don't know. But I'll be damned if I trust *any* polling numbers coming from pro-life sites anymore. At least one of them clearly has *no* conscience when it comes to truthful reporting... and without knowing which, I can't really trust any of them.
Bastards.
I didn't recognize the number, but picked it up. Recorded message started. "We are conducting a survey about abortion. If you do not wish to answer, please hang up now." I stayed on the line. Now, I'm not good at verbatim recall, but the recordning was something like this: "If you identify yourself as pro-life, anti-abortion, press 1 now. If you support a woman's right to choose, press 9 now." I pressed 9.
"Thank you for being pro-life!"
WHAT?!??!
"Pro-life organizations have been working since blah blah blah, we appreciate your support, send us money, blah blah..."
I was stunned. I pressed *9*. I am *pro-choice*. Very much so. And now here's this crooked survey, which has clearly just recorded my vote as "pro-life", and there's no more information in the recording about who is conducting it, or how to contact them! When the recording ended, I stayed on the line, hoping I'd get *something*, but no. I tried calling the number back, but no dice. I did a reverse lookup and it's apparently a land line based in Bartlesville, OK, and that's all the information that's available.
The number was 918-876-1170, if anyone's curious, and if anyone else gets this call... listen to it carefully. Maybe they give more information after giving choices 1 and 9. I don't know. But I'll be damned if I trust *any* polling numbers coming from pro-life sites anymore. At least one of them clearly has *no* conscience when it comes to truthful reporting... and without knowing which, I can't really trust any of them.
Bastards.
