The punks claim that they wanted to expose Landrieu's staff for not answering the phone in reponse to opponents of the Senator's position.
Numerous letters-to-the-editor in the New Orleans Times-Picayune report satisfaction with the staff's response. Not surprisingly, those among these letter-writers who reveled their opinion on the matter admitted to being supporters of the Senator. (Opponents, of course, would be unlikely to write in Landrieu's defense, regardless of their actual experience.)
O'Keefe's position assumes that staff members may have been promptly answering all calls from supporters, but were letting the phone ring on and on unanswered when the caller wanted to express disagreement.
How exactly were these staffers supposed to know the opinion of each caller without picking up first?
How stupid do these people think the rest of us are?