I was sent a note about this text service by SMS Text News reader, Alfie. The service, The Real State of the Union, will apparently turn your mobile handset into a ‘George Bush Lie Detector’. The President is due to do a State of the Union speech shortly — and it will quite probably be peppered with the usual spin associated by politicians around the world. The service, funded by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, reckons it will correct Bush’s ‘lies’ with the truth… or, as Stephen Colbert is wont to say, ‘truthiness’.
Here’s how it’s set to work. Sent ‘facts’ to shortcode 30644 (Only available in the States, I imagine, standard text rates apply) and you’ll get this back:
I’m pleased to see they’re using the correct ‘STOP’ opt out. I’ve registered for it to try it out — I’m pleased to see more adoption of the medium.
By the way: I’ve no particular affiliation with any political party. I generally think they’re all doing a more or less mediocre-to-bad job.