Some mornings these past two weeks, I've been a volunteer for our local NPR affiliate KQED's member pledge drive. It's been great - getting me up in the morning into the station at 6:30am, working with cool people, answering calls, taking pledges, eating bagels, drinking tea and coffee.
Or should I say it was going great till this morning.
I get a call:
"Good Morning, thank you for calling KQED Radio, this is Brooks, may I take your pledge?"
"I would never give you my pledge."
"Excuse me?"
"You promote homosexuality."
......
"I'm sorry sir, we don't promote anything, we are an objective news organization."
"You promote homosexuality."
"Sir, we don't promote any thing. Would you like to tell me how we promote homosexuality?"
"You degrade Christianity."
I wanted to chew this guy out, but as a representative of KQED, I couldn't do it.
"Sir, we do no such thing, we provide both sides of the story, many of which obviously don't fit into your viewpoint."
"Your station is run by Satan worshippers."
"I'm sorry sir, but there are Satan worshippers on the other line that would love to give us their money. Good bye."
*click*
Ass.