When Your Volunteers Won't Read Your Message, You Are In Trouble

Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.

Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being "dangerously weak on crime," "coddling criminals," and for voting against "protecting children from danger."

Williams' daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave, Williams says. The call center is called Americall, and it's located in Hobart, IN.

"They walked out," Williams says of her daughter and her co-workers, adding that they weren't fired but willingly sacrificed pay rather than read the lines. "They were told [by supervisors], `If you all leave, you're not gonna get paid for the rest of the day."

[via TPM]

Jason Bourne Calls Palin VP Pick "Disasterous"

Near as I can tell, it seems assured that Matt Damon read these articles before he made this rant, "McCain and the politics of mortality" at Politico (re: "actuary tables") and any one of Maureen Dowd's recent NYT's columns on Sarah Palin "Vice in Go-Go Boots?" or "My Fair Veep" ("bad Disney movie" joke). Other possible sources cited include: on the book-banning or "library censoring" issue, the Boston Herald; and on the question of whether or not she's a creationist, Wired Science.

Fannie and Freddie should just get married and get off welfare, right?

Saturday in Colorado Springs, Colo., Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said, "The fact is that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers. The McCain-Palin administration will make them smaller and smarter and more effective for homeowners who need help."

"Too expensive to the taxpayers?"

They're private entities.

McCain Speech Interrupted by Iraq Vet Protester

John McCain was caught off guard this evening when an Iraqi War Veteran interrupted his speech.

"Service" is the theme of the Republican National Convention. Isn't John McCain all about military service? Watch the video.

McCain Camp Admits Ad Was False

After the NYT's and WaPo get on their case. [via Daily Kos]

McCain Not Entirely Neglected by the NYT...

Much has been made of the fact McCain's editorial (or at least an editorial emerging from the McCain team's word processing system) for the New York Times was returned for further revisions.

However, the mostly-characterized-as-liberal paper did feature an op-ed from the McCain man's former communication director, Dan Schnur.

Meanwhile, McCain leaves no doubt that he plans to overstay, excuse me, stay his welcome right here in the US of A... Shown below advocating for further oil drilling of California shores.