How the Governor Scott Walker Phone Prank Could Have Gone Wrong

Ian Murphy, the journalist who made the infamous prank phone call to Governor Walker posing as one of the evil Koch brothers, is telling the media that he had no plan other than to get the greed-driven, DIY deficit causing lawmaker on the phone and wing it from there.

The Buffalo Beast editor told the on-line magazine Salon.com  "I wasn't expecting to actually get through. I was wildly unprepared."

And yet…he was able to get the Governor to confirm his diabolical union-busting plans. 

Wow!  We really need to look into getting some audio equipment.  We love to screw with people and are great at doing voices.  And speaking of voices, Murphy expressed disappointment that he couldn’t impersonate Egypt’s deposed evil president, Hosni Mubarak, which was his original choice of voice for “The Punking of the Gov.”

But how did Murphy get through to a government official so easily?  We spoke with an insider in Governor Walker’s camp who told us, “I know.  It makes no sense he got to talk to anyone in government on the phone at all when people you are trying to ask about things like jury duty will let the phone ring for a full half hour before even considering picking up the receiver and looking away from their Sudoku game.  I have to give Murphy credit for when he reached Walker's chief of staff, Keith Gilkes, using that ‘Thurston Howell III’ type voice to impersonate David Koch and then complaining about wanting to bitch-slap his illegal maid all the way back to Mexico.  Any Republican can relate to a sentiment like that.  I’m sure that’s how he got through so easily.  It’s good he didn’t try to do a Middle Eastern voice to impersonate that other basic freedom crusher, Hosni Mubarak, as Republican’s don’t shop at the 7-11, so we would never even recognize what that was supposed to be.”