Boing Boing: Ringtone of Philippine prez fixing election wildly popular

Monday, June 20, 2005

Ringtone of Philippine prez fixing election wildly popular

A ringtone featuring a clip of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo fixing her election is sweeping the Philippines.

Text message consumer rights group TXTpower said its site (www.txtpower.org) had been overwhelmed by demand for the clip taken from a recording at the centre of allegations Arroyo tried to fix the result of last year's election...
In the full conversation, which the government says was illegally wiretapped and then doctored, a woman who sounds like Arroyo asks senior election official Virgilio Garcillano whether she would win by more than 1 million votes in a southern area.

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