White House Corrects Conference Call Number After Directing Reporters to Sex Line
In a press release, the White House accidentally listed a phone sex number for journalists seeking an "on-the-record briefing call with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor Jim Jones to discuss the NATO summit."
FOXNews.com Thursday, April 02, 2009
Journalists seeking to talk a little foreign policy with high-profile Obama administration officials live from the G20 meetings in London this week were solicited for phone sex instead after ringing up the toll-free number given by the White House.
In a press release, the White House accidentally listed a sex line number for journalists seeking an "on-the-record briefing call with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor Jim Jones to discuss the NATO summit."
But after dialing, a soft-voiced female recording that was clearly not Clinton asked for a credit card number if you "feel like getting nasty."
After several efforts to make sure that the phone number was correctly dialed, a call to the White House resulted in a corrected press release. "If you are having trouble dialing into the call, please try this number as an alternative," and listed the international line included for reporters abroad to dial.
By this time, the conference call was already under way.
Asked for comment about this mishap, Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton responded: "A corrected phone number on a press release is probably one of the stupider things FOX News has covered lately."
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/02/white-house-corrects-toll-free-number-mishap/
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My Thoughts
"A corrected phone number on a press release is probably one of the stupider things FOX News has covered lately."
How about giving the out the wrong phone number to a press conference, and that wrong number ends up being a sex chat line? Is that one of the stupidest things the White House press corps has ever done? They don't need to flip the script on Fox because they were embarrassed by their own incompetentcy and were caught doing something doltish.
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