Walker prank-caller: "I was wildly unprepared"

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Ian Murphy, the Buffalo Beast journalist who made national headlines by posing as right-wing billionaire David Koch and prank-calling Gov. Scott Walker, tells Salon that he was ad-libbing throughout the conversation.

"I wasn't expecting to actually get through. I was wildly unprepared," Murphy says.

Murphy simply called Walker's office, saying he was Koch, and was ultimately connected with Walker's chief of staff, Keith Gilkes. "The most ridiciulous thing to me is when I get on line with the chief of staff and he wanted to take my number down, and I said I couldn't give it to him because my maid, Maria, had thrown my phone into the washing machine," Murphy says.

As he tells it in the Beast story:

I politely said hello, not knowing how friendly Gilkes and Koch may be. He was eager to help. “I was really hoping to talk directly to Scott,” I said. He said that could be arranged and that I should just leave my number. I explained to Gilkes, “My goddamn maid, Maria, put my phone in the washer. I’d have her deported, but she works for next to nothing.” Gilkes found this amusing. “I’m calling from the VOID—with the VOID, or whatever it’s called. You know, the Snype!”

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/02/23/ian_murphy_scott_walker_prank

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[Marie Marie]

1. Unprepared but oh so effective.

Thank you for exposing the truth about Wanker, something the "real" journalists refused to do.

[Cleita]

2. Unprepared or not, he got the job done!

:thumbsup:

[Blue Owl]

3. Walker licked those fake boots squeaky clean

Can't wait to see where the Democratic probe leads...

[hootinholler]

4. Just think what he might have gotten if he was prepared. n/t