forrette@cory.berkeley.edu (Steve Forrette) (11/12/90)
The other day, while watching the election returns on TV, President Bush came on the screen. He was asking for the public's support of the USO. To make a donation, the viewer was asked to call a 900 number (Three or so dollars a call, I think). I suppose that it is the Commander-In-Chief's job to generate support for the armed services, but something just doesn't seem right about the President of the United States advertising a 900 number.
werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) (11/13/90)
[ Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 816, Message 6 of 9 ] > The other day, while watching the election returns on TV, President > Bush came on the screen. He was asking for the public's support of > the USO. To make a donation, the viewer was asked to call a 900 > number (Three or so dollars a call, I think). I suppose that it is > the Commander-In-Chief's job to generate support for the armed > services, but something just doesn't seem right about the President of > the United States advertising a 900 number. Did you watch his LIPS ??!!?? :-)) (It May have been dubbed in after he was told to say 1-800-...) I keep seeing a sleezy 1-900 ad in the CBS Nightwatch program since a couple of nights ago also, but I failed to take note to see if it is the same ad Bush was on earlier (maybe someone told him he was supporting sleeze ?!? This one is hyping something like: "support our troops, let them know that you support them, call 1-900-mumble ... Operation Mail Call (sounds like paper, doesn't it?!!) And just during the last few seconds: $2.50 a minute I wonder if a very slow secretary is sitting on a PC and an impact printer sending letters to some APO-address now that ATT's free fax program is discontinued (if I remember my rumours right...) Internet: werner@rascal.ics.utexas.edu werner@astro.as.utexas.edu werner@cs.utexas.edu BITnet: werner@UTXVM UUCP: ...!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!werner OR ...!utastro!werner
dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave Levenson) (11/16/90)
Just be glad he wasn't pushing 1-900-BALANCE at $10K or so per call as a way of balancing the budget! :-D