Ring tones--the new protest songs

[McKenzie]

Heehee...this could be really funny. Get a ringtone and have friends call you whenever you are in the midst of right wingnutz - there must be masses of material from TV/radio broadcasts. Think I'll go for one that has BLiar claiming that Saddam had WMD's and could strike us within 45 minutes.

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"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," he says, and Arlo Guthrie's "City of New Orleans" starts playing under the looped quote. The remark is a snippet from a speech Bush made in the flooded southern city, in which he praised Federal Emergency Management Agency head Michael Brown shortly before Brown resigned.

The homemade ring tone, a pointed political statement, is the creation of Eric Gundersen, a Washington-area Web developer for nonprofits. It's an early take on the genre of protest ring tones, a grassroots practice now picking up steam in the United States after emerging in the Philippines a few months ago.

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