McCain falsely takes credit for ‘creating’ Do Not Call list.
McCain falsely takes credit for ‘creating’ Do Not Call list.
This week, 16 months into his campaign, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) released his first policy paper on technology. Over at the Wonk Room, former Clinton administration privacy counselor Peter Swire notes that the paper gives McCain credit for “creating” the “Do Not Call” list. But the Federal Trade Commission chairman announced the list two years earlier:
McCAIN: 2003 – McCain led in creating the FTC’s ‘Do-Not-Call’ telemarketing registry to allow consumers to opt out of receiving telemarketing calls. And, when the law was challenged in court, McCain led the effort to ensure that it was upheld.
REALITY: FTC Chairman Tim Muris announced in October 2001 that the FTC was going to do the Do Not Call list. Yet somehow McCain magically caused the Do Not Call list in 2003. And, given the independent agency status of the FTC, it is a stretch to say that ‘McCain led the effort to ensure that it was upheld.
The paper also says that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act “became law in 2000.” In fact, the law was enacted in 1998.
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The McAncient? Claiming he invented the No-Call List?
No one could have predicted!
Somebody, quick, text Al Gore!
August 15th, 2008 at 12:02 pmMcPutz is wrong again!
It was the Russians who created the ‘no-call’ list.
snark
August 15th, 2008 at 12:04 pmWell then, I guess I should call McCain and tell him how crappy the Do Not Call List really is.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:05 pmThere is one thing about senility that becomes more obvious as the disease progresses. Not only does the memory fail to recall reality it begins to recall creative memories. Soon he will be claiming he introduced a bill to ban camels from the ark but Noah did a signing statement. Noah did make one mistake: he should have allowed only the front half of the horses aboard. It sure would have solved our political overpopulation problem in DC.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:08 pmWhat’s next – John McCain signed the Declaration of Indepndence, which he also co-authored?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:11 pmthe do not call list im on is BROKE! another fine waste of money brought to you by republicans.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:11 pm5th Estate Says: “Well then, I guess I should call McCain and tell him how crappy the Do Not Call List really is.”
5th, it is not the list that is crappy but the crappy list of crappy bushco sycophants that refuse to enforce the rules of the list for their crappy corporate buddies.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:11 pm5th Estate Says: Well then, I guess I should call McCain and tell him how crappy the Do Not Call List really is.
It has more loopholes for corporations than the US tax code.
I bet I still get 5 to 10 unwanted calls per day.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:12 pmDoes anyone expect truth from the criminal cabal that promoted an AWOL alcoholic/cocaine addict as a “war president”?
They stole 2 federal elections, so don’t expect them to get honest now.
The scary thing is, mccain is such a lame candidate, it is hard to believe the repugs actually expect to win an election. Do they plan on stealing it or do they have a vested interest in getting obama elected.
Option 2 opens an entire set of interesting questions, none of which bode well for the future of US democracy.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:14 pmI reported a comapny who called me, and discovered that in order for action to be brought against violators there has to be some insane number of reports of infraction, after which, they may or may not decide to investiate based on some random set of sampling ideology.
Essentially, it was typical Bush legacy – pretend to do something, but keep your fingers crossed behind your back the whole time because there’s no way the slaves are getting Sundays off when there’s all that cooton the corporations ned to get picked.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:16 pmMcCain falsely takes credit for ‘creating’ Do Not Call list.
The Luddite McCain? Pffft, everyone knows Al Gore created the Do-Not-Call Registry..
August 15th, 2008 at 12:24 pmGrampy McSame says – My friends back in the day we used to get calls all day and all night, those drums would never stop, BAM BAM BAM…BAM BAM IRAN, 24/7, now I prefer rocks myself, banging them together or just throwing them, when you throw a rock you are sure to get someone’s attention, so I got tired of all the drumming day and night and especially during dinner time, it’s hard to start fires enough and get the coals glowing without those pesky drums, so I decided, that’s right, I DECIDED that the drums during dinner needed to stop, so I sent out Cindy to dance Topless while drugged up on those little pills she borrowed and sure enough the drums stopped, and it was all because of me, the POW guy, you know “Songbird” McSame…I like pork and beans in my pants.
You can take credit for the Georgia Conflict while you’re at it, nimrod.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:26 pmAmericans need to be very very scared that this BUFFOON might get elected. His grip on reality is tenuous at best
August 15th, 2008 at 12:26 pmIf anyones asks mccain about this, he’ll deny he said it, then mutter about how he’s prone to hyperbole, and the russians tortured him in world war elevnty when he was a starship captain, and the msm will call him a maverick.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:27 pmVrusty and UNB…
Yes you are both right on the lack of enforcement, or rather the loopholes. I have been getting robo-calls from “Credit Services” for a year now which I happen to know is based in Maine. They use a telemarketing shop to field live responses and they of course are just a bunch of minimum-wagers who are just trying to earn a buck in this lousy economy. The “press 2 to be removed from our call-list” is complete bollocks.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:29 pmMcCain is so old that he also helped invent the railroads!
Vote Smart in ‘08.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pmHmmm, I added all my Landlines and Cell numbers to the list and the unsolicited calls dropped dramatically.
Used to get 2-3 a day, now I am lucky if I get a couple a month. You all need to remember that there is a loophole. If you have done business with the calling company, they are allowed to call you. If they do, just tell them you are on the DoNotCall list, and do not call anymore.
Also, whenever a retailer ask for my phone number, I tell them it is none of thier business. If you give out your number to any yahoo company or retailer you’ve opened the door for them and thier “partners”.
I look at it like this.. Guard your phone numbers like you would any other personal info i.e.. SS# CC# PIN#
Cheers
August 15th, 2008 at 12:31 pmThe Do-Not-Call list?
No. I think McNumbNuts was thinking of his campaign manifesto — more commonly known as the “I Do-Not-Recall” list.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:34 pm5th Estate Says: The “press 2 to be removed from our call-list” is complete bollocks.
I’ve NEVER heard anyone support telemarketing, however, if theses companies persist in doing it, it must be working. I don’t even pick up there calls. I wanna know who does? And why.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:40 pmWhether it’s McCain, Corsi, or any of the myriad corporate neocon shills – they treat the truth as though it were quantum physics: aside from a few “elitists,” nobody knows or cares about it.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:43 pmRandomChaos Says: Also, whenever a retailer ask for my phone number, I tell them it is none of thier business.
I don’t give out my phone number – my former credit card company did, prior to having sent me the ‘opt out’ paperwork, which was another frustrating process that shouldn’t have been.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:45 pmSame Shit Different Day McCain.
Repetition, Redundancy, Regurgitate, Rinse, Repeat, Replay.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:59 pmHe’s confused, it was actually the “Do Not Think” list.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:22 pmOf course, when McCain first proposed the idea it was known as the Do Not Pony Express List, but still…
August 15th, 2008 at 1:37 pmHonest to God, he sounds like O’Reilly, who once claimed that his encouragement of a boycott against French products cost France “billions of dollars.” But I’m quite sure it won’t be long before we hear from the trolls that Gore claimed to have invented the Internet. The only difference is that O’Reilly’s claim actually happened and the Gore “claim” was a complete and utter fabrication by the Right.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:10 pmI’m just impressed that he didn’t call it the “Do Not Telegraph” list.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:13 pmRemember how the right ridiculed Al Gore for “inventing” the Internet?
Remember how it was a continuous joke that was constantly rammed down our throat to descredit the then Vice-President?
Shall the left use the same tactic?
Nahh, probably not.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:31 pmBut, gawd help me, I hope someone from this so-called Librul Media is paying fcking attention!!!!
Its not just the national level. Here in Missouri, our good repubs (who are Bushies through and through)have repubs claiming to have invented the Missouri DNC list
August 15th, 2008 at 3:29 pmThe que cards were good for McSame….kept him from soundin stupid.
August 15th, 2008 at 4:11 pmNext, he’ll probably claim he invented the telephone.
August 16th, 2008 at 11:37 am