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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Man Gets Revenge On 4:30 AM Robocalls, Amuses Fox News' Megyn Kelly

(By Jon Bershad, Mediaite) - Here’s a fun story for anyone who hates waking up early and loves sticking it to the man. At 4:33 am on Wednesday morning, Maryland-based lawyer Aaron Titus was awoken by a robocall from his children’s school alerting him that there would be a snow delay. Titus was furious that he’d been woken up when he already knew about the delay, so he did what anyone else would; he robocalled them back.

Titus went online and found a robocall company as well as as many phone numbers for school board members as he could find. The next morning at 4:30, they received this message:


“‘This is a Prince George’s County School District parent, calling to thank you for the robocall yesterday at 4:30 in the morning. I decided to return the favor. While I know the school district wanted to ensure I drop my child off two hours late on a snow day, I already knew that before I went to bed. I hope this call demonstrates why a 4:30 a.m. call does more to annoy than to inform.’

It ended: ‘Quit robocalling parents at 4:30 in the morning or at least allow us to opt out of these intrusive calls.’”

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