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C-SPAN Getting Hammered With Prank Calls About Mitt Romney’s Penis

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C-SPAN is not, typically, a place where one can expect to find the sort of gaffes, fights, and general shenanigans running rampant on other politically-minded networks. But, lately, it has had to contend with a couple of few prank callers (or, perhaps, one caller with multiple personalities) who would rather the channel be a little less serious and a little more zany. Cue slide whistle!

RELATED: CNN Prank Caller Poses As Student Arrested In Cairo, Thanks ‘Baba Booey’s Monkey Nuts’ For Freedom

In the video below, from Monday, a caller poses a serious question regarding Newt Gingrich‘s campaign to former New Hampshire governor Judd Gregg. And then the focus drifted, naturally, to the size of Mitt Romney‘s penis:

Then, on Tuesday, a caller with a rather impressive Yankee accent really, really wanted to know about that same certain appendage belonging to Romney:

Yeah, you heard him right. For the record, the questions went unanswered.

Update: And there’s a third! (Thanks @mcrblg!)

In this clip, a caller from “Florida” wanted to know what C-SPAN was doing to curb these prank calls. Kind of:

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  • Anonymous

    I’m well endowed for a Mormon. 

  • Anonymous

    “Thank you for C-SPAN, Brian.”

    The real question: do Mormon Underpants cause shrinkage?

  • Anonymous

    It’s great to have a trust fund.

  • http://twitter.com/mcrblg andrewjbaronsohn

    This morning a caller got on, complained about the obscene calls coming in lately, then said he supports Mitt Romney because of his penis size.

  • Anonymous

    May the spirit of comic anarchism live forever, even if it’s godhead is Howard Stern.

  • Anonymous

    LOL

  • Anonymous

    We blame it on magic.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ ElectionFraudClickHere

    Another pointless story for domestic spying 

  • Anonymous
  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    His name is W_Mittens_Romney and he Endows this message.

  • Anonymous

    That chick in the 2nd clip is fine.

    Also, thank God for this type of insanity. It is hilarious.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The best politics/ body part mash up since Barry Goldwater’s obituary in Reason magazine as penned by Robert Poole:

    “Had it not been for him, the magazine you are reading – and its parent organization-might not exist. I read Goldwater’s book, The Conscience of a Conservative, in high school, just as I was becoming phallically aware. Its powerful message of individual liberty, economic freedom, and anti-poo-poo struck a chord with me, launching an intellectual journey that went on to Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Benny Hill, and many others. Ultimately, this process generated the idea that I would make a career out of defending rationality and liberty.  Wiener.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/jas7751 Jay Aubrey

    One would think that libs would be more interested in Soetoro’s penis.  For obvious reasons.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=505100313 Trevor Cason

    LMAO! Hilarious

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    Didn’t I warn you people about giving C-Span’s number to Barney Frank?

  • Anonymous

    c span is a liberal industry joke. 

  • Henry Wood

    another closeted conservative…

  • Hout Bosques

    Uptighty Whities? You betcha!  

    But you still can’t beat all that extra action you get from those T-shirts with the pasties; the entire adult population gets put into a constant state of erectile tissue stimulation. It’s one fo the reasons why Mittens is forever flip-flopping: he’s, uh, distracted. 

  • Anonymous

    The Democrats have a one track mind!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    Mitt, are you worried about the latest surge from Newt?  

  • http://twitter.com/Wasson_C Wasson_C

    C-SPAN is great because of how it rolls with the punches. For a few Republicans to always want to censor things I find extremely more offensive and obscene. Don’t worry C-SPAN I will always watch.

  • Anonymous

    C-Span should hire former Congressman Anthony Weiner to censor all of these disrespectful calls.  He probably has photos of the “endowment” of all Repulican candidates in his cell phone and he will be able to set the record straight.

  • Anonymous

    Stop crowing!  Mitt says his may be small, but he loves every foot of it!

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    Whether you believe it or not it’s the truth. Obama is not the president, he’s the acting president. He disappeared for 2 weeks after his election win only to reappear looking exhausted sitting next to John McCain, with a bad poker face, for a press photo shoot. Obama is now a Pentagon puppet.

    Learn what Obama, Osama, Biden, Bin Laden, the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists, and Sarah Palin had to do with the last presidential election and the military’s overthrow of our government. The biggest cover up is exposed at the link in my name

  • Anonymous

    C-Span is one of the few worthwhile things on television. And part of what makes it worthwhile is the honest interaction between voters and the powerful in politics and journalism. Sure, they get many calls from crackpots left and right, but at least it’s honest crackpottery. The person or persons making these calls should go straight to hell.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_52BNPBEO4RIXQ4SIKI6GB7XWJ4 FLWC

    A certain commercial jingle comes to mind:  I’m lovin’ it.

    As someone with absolute disdain for the MSM – and as someone who is convinced that (in 2012) the MSM serves no good purpose – I applaud such efforts.  I am recommending a campaign of “creative interference” against the MSM this year.*  Bleed the MSM financially – through a 1,000 pin pricks – and the distraction resulting from this campaign will reduce the role played in the coming elections.  Such a campaign is long overdo.

    (* to limit the harm done by the MSM)

  • Anonymous

    What no calls about Newt’s junk….yeah, that would make me vomit as well.

  • Anonymous

    Obama voters, what can you say.  They are the biggest assortment of losers and fruitcakes the world has ever seen.

  • Anonymous

    HAHAHAHAHA. BABABOOEY !!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Byron-Matthews/735919198 Byron Matthews

    hahahaha Occupy C-SPAN apparently 

  • Anonymous

    Cain drops in polls, numbers go to other man, both (shall I say three) of them experienced the same
    thing in the nineties . No more please, we can do it.An ex adulterer in the oval office and a first lady who had an affair with a married man. These type of persons will be  making history that will be read by our children and granchildren a century later .Is this the kind of role model that we want our children see? Hypocracy is the buzz word here.
    Protect our children. They are not political ( pandering, expediency, etc), and they need a God fearing leader in the white house as their role model.

  • Anonymous

    I heard Mitt was soooooooooo hung that he has to strap his penis to the roof of his car. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    Werent they supposed to delay these calls or face a fine?

  • http://twitter.com/SquidEatinDough SquidEatinDough

    And a Baba Booey to you all!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1495230406 Malloy Robbie

    The last one (the third one ) sounds A LOT like prank caller Ned (go to youtube and search Ned prank calls)………..I think it’s him.

  • Anonymous

    That was really funny.  And I bet he has a huge penis!

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    It’s so big he passes out with each arousal.

  • http://twitter.com/BeBreezyMan YOLO

    Larry King is BACK! http://thejmanproject.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/larry-king-is-working-on-a-new-online-venture/

  • D H

    It sounds like the same guy to me.

  • http://3chicspolitico.com/ SouthernGirl2

    OMG! This is too funny!  KMSL!

  • Anonymous

    Such a reasonable comment, from a eight year old maybe

  • Anonymous

    Twofer- dishonest as is stupid

  • Anonymous

    Wow I heard Fatbo getting all smarmy about this one. as if the garbage he spews isn’t  40 pts of IQ lower than C-Span’s

  • Anonymous

    How is this kind of prank helping anyone. How is this bleeding anyone either or why would that be good? You are a fool!
    So I guess you must be some right wing simpleton who listens to talk radio & watches FOX all day long, then get all outraged over media bias because you are too dull to realize that the media crap you swallow is the most biased rubbish around.

  • Anonymous

    Why should the prankster go to hell? That is not just humorless of you, but downright cruel. I am sure the real Nietzsche would have taken that in stride

  • Anonymous

    Duh, how do you know he is a lib? Hint, not everyone who sounds smart and has a sense of humor is a lib.

  • Anonymous

    You mean even bigger than the morons Palin, Beck, Perry, Bachmann or Cain attract? As well as how do you know he is a liberal?

  • http://24Ahead.com 24AheadDotCom

    Fun’s fun, but when do we get some serious for a change?

    Things like this are somewhat healthy *provided it’s counterbalanced with serious discussions about serious topics*.

    When all you’ve got is ha-ha (combined with the MSM’s misleading/worthless coverage and brainless partisan hack bloggers), you’re on the Road to Idiocracy.

    If ha-ha is all you do, you aren’t fulfilling your duties as a citizen either. You’re laughing as politicians scr*w the rest of us instead of trying to do something about it.

    See my site for my alternatives to Idiocracy.

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    Unelected officials have taken over Washington and are orchestrating the daily news. 99% of the comments and replies you’re reading online come from an NSA software program spamming the internet. Comments are created before the stories are ever reported. The oldest, first, highest, best, and most popular rated comments are all propaganda. They are conducting Psy-ops (psychological operations) for domestic spying. They have 1000′s of handles and are determined to bury the truth and attack anyone leaking it.

    The next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out. The truth is linked to in my name. Cowardly attacks covering up the truth are welcomed.

  • Anonymous

    This is the crudest, most ridiculous thing publicize.

    Since you are showing that you have the conscience of a pustule…

    Call Beyonce and ask her what size her vagina is now that she had her baby…

    Go ahead…you smart, funny freaks.

  • Tim Howe

    can one even imagine the outrafe and the charges of racism if this story was about Obamas penis?

    the coverage wouldnt be a bit funny then – would it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/anne.aiken Anne Idell Aiken

    Oh who cares anyway about Mitt’s stuff?  The guy who called in with such a question has more ‘BALLS’ than Mitt could ever think of having. LOL!!!

  • shonangreg

    Why do you think this is Democrats and not Republicans? The A.B.R. crowd on the Republican side would the first ones to come under suspicion, yet you know Democrats are in the wrong here already.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1495230406 Malloy Robbie

    EastCoastBob should have called in all upset about the obscenity. “I’m trying to teach my Kid Chris about politics and government and My Kid Chris is hearing these awful things!…”

  • Anonymous

    Who’s the hottie in the second video?

  • Anonymous

    And here I thought I was reaching across the aisle!

  • Anonymous

    Aisle? You’d find me outside, listening to the show through the open doors, too cheap or indifferent to pay my way in.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1498905611 Kevin Wolff

    Libby Casey of Alaska Public Radio.  She guest hosts this show sometimes, like during primary season when some of their regulars are on-location in other states.

  • Anonymous

    It’s silly and even stupid that Mediaite would even air these videos.  

  • Anonymous

    Did I say “aisle”? I meant isle. But seriously I’m not quite sure where you stand politically. You surprise me sometimes.

  • Anonymous

    If he doesn’t have more than the BIG marines with the tiny dicks (cudda’ been 50 below, below but even then . . .) he’swellandtrulyfucked!

  • http://www.facebook.com/rswarburton Robbie Warburton

    First of all, after listening to all three calls I’m convinced that all three calls are made by the same caller, who should look for a career in voice acting. But I love in the third video how the anchor noticably gets nervous and starts shuffling papers.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NFFMV5IAZF7UG4QHFGEXIW7KFU Daniel

    “We’re trying to keep the conversation productive” what a suck up!  What’s not productive about discussing the size of Romney’s penis?  Rumor has it that morman’s have small penises.  Don’t you think the American people have the right to know how big his penis is? this is the man who wants to be leader of the free world, wants to have his finger on the button!  My guess is Obama has a much bigger penis…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NFFMV5IAZF7UG4QHFGEXIW7KFU Daniel

    Yeah, stupid non-profit liberal media without any corporate agenda.  How dare they have no corporate agenda!  Shame on them…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NFFMV5IAZF7UG4QHFGEXIW7KFU Daniel

    At least Barney Frank is brave enough to admit he is gay and live his lifestyle openly.  Can’t say the same for any of the many, many gay republicans who live secret lives like cowards: Craig Schmidt, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, Charlie Crist, and soon to be announced Shepard Smith, Ed Shrock, and David Dreier.  You know, conservative America would have a heart attack if they knew the truth about how many gay politicians and staffers actually run the show in Washington.  Even the ones who advocate anti-gay legislation are only doing so to cover their own ass and get more votes :/

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_52BNPBEO4RIXQ4SIKI6GB7XWJ4 FLWC

    Morrisminor, I think you would better appreciate what I’m suggesting if you better understood what I mean by “creative interference.”  Imagine the following scene:

    A media scrum has developed – in anticipation of the arrival of some political figure – and just as the vehicle carrying that person arrives (and just before the doors open), HAPPY NEW YEAR!  A half-a-dozen people with those cheapo confetti cannons – till then kept hidden – let ‘er rip.  Imagine the great shots there’d be.

    Or, how about a drive-by-shooting of sorts.  Again, the MSM has gathered – with those expensive cameras – and a vehicle drives by with someone with a paintball gun, or perhaps a (big) squirt gun loaded with something messier than water.  That toy totin’ someone sprays the media scrum.  Fun?  Wow!

    You know how much the MSM loves it when some political figure gets “pied,” or is otherwise the victim of a prank similar?  Remember – just a few days ago in Manchester – how the MSM enjoyed the antics of Vermin Supreme.  Presumably, the MSM – and yourself – would equally enjoy what I’m suggesting. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_52BNPBEO4RIXQ4SIKI6GB7XWJ4 FLWC

    Morrisminor, I think you would better appreciate what I’m suggesting if you better understood what I mean by “creative interference.”  Imagine the following scene:

    A media scrum has developed – in anticipation of the arrival of some political figure – and just as the vehicle carrying that person arrives (and just before the doors open), HAPPY NEW YEAR!  A half-a-dozen people with those cheapo confetti cannons – till then kept hidden – let ‘er rip.  Imagine the great shots there’d be.

    Or, how about a drive-by-shooting of sorts.  Again, the MSM has gathered – with those expensive cameras – and a vehicle drives by with someone with a paintball gun, or perhaps a (big) squirt gun loaded with something messier than water.  That toy totin’ someone sprays the media scrum.  Fun?  Wow!

    You know how much the MSM loves it when some political figure gets “pied,” or is otherwise the victim of a prank similar?  Remember – just a few days ago in Manchester – how the MSM enjoyed the antics of Vermin Supreme.  Presumably, the MSM – and yourself – would equally enjoy what I’m suggesting. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_52BNPBEO4RIXQ4SIKI6GB7XWJ4 FLWC

    Morrisminor, I think you would better appreciate what I’m suggesting if you better understood what I mean by “creative interference.”  Imagine the following scene:

    A media scrum has developed – in anticipation of the arrival of some political figure – and just as the vehicle carrying that person arrives (and just before the doors open), HAPPY NEW YEAR!  A half-a-dozen people with those cheapo confetti cannons – till then kept hidden – let ‘er rip.  Imagine the great shots there’d be.

    Or, how about a drive-by-shooting of sorts.  Again, the MSM has gathered – with those expensive cameras – and a vehicle drives by with someone with a paintball gun, or perhaps a (big) squirt gun loaded with something messier than water.  That toy totin’ someone sprays the media scrum.  Fun?  Wow!

    You know how much the MSM loves it when some political figure gets “pied,” or is otherwise the victim of a prank similar?  Remember – just a few days ago in Manchester – how the MSM enjoyed the antics of Vermin Supreme.  Presumably, the MSM – and yourself – would equally enjoy what I’m suggesting. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_52BNPBEO4RIXQ4SIKI6GB7XWJ4 FLWC

    Morrisminor, I think you would better appreciate what I’m suggesting if you better understood what I mean by “creative interference.”  Imagine the following scene:

    A media scrum has developed – in anticipation of the arrival of some political figure – and just as the vehicle carrying that person arrives (and just before the doors open), HAPPY NEW YEAR!  A half-a-dozen people with those cheapo confetti cannons – till then kept hidden – let ‘er rip.  Imagine the great shots there’d be.

    Or, how about a drive-by-shooting of sorts.  Again, the MSM has gathered – with those expensive cameras – and a vehicle drives by with someone with a paintball gun, or perhaps a (big) squirt gun loaded with something messier than water.  That toy totin’ someone sprays the media scrum.  Fun?  Wow!

    You know how much the MSM loves it when some political figure gets “pied,” or is otherwise the victim of a prank similar?  Remember – just a few days ago in Manchester – how the MSM enjoyed the antics of Vermin Supreme.  Presumably, the MSM – and yourself – would equally enjoy what I’m suggesting. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_52BNPBEO4RIXQ4SIKI6GB7XWJ4 FLWC

    My reply to morrisminor’s reply to my comment was misplaced.  You’ll find it just above nein9nein’s comment.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NPUP22FNTPVCXRUMWJEURGQGD4 JonasP

    Sounds sort of like the old Yippie stuff,

  • Anonymous

    Magic Mitt does not need a penis. He is a penis.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Linda-Ingmanson/1119911642 Linda Ingmanson

    ROFL! Oh man, that last call was golden. Sorry, I know it’s very bad form to encourage shenanigans and monkeyshines, but that really was hilarious.

  • Anonymous

    This seemed pretty funny for a while, but eventually I had to feel a little sorry for C-Span.

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