"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job" ringtone

boingboing picks up on John Borland's article on protest tones and George Bush's words of praise for former FEMA director Michael Brown - a satirical voice tone on his incompetency in handling the situation in New Orleans following the floods.

"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," he says, and Arlo Guthrie's "City of New Orleans" starts playing under the looped quote. The remark is a snippet from a speech Bush made in the flooded southern city, in which he praised Federal Emergency Management Agency head Michael Brown shortly before Brown resigned.

The homemade ring tone, a pointed political statement, is the creation of Eric Gundersen, a Washington-area Web developer for nonprofits. It's an early take on the genre of protest ring tones, a grassroots practice now picking up steam in the United States after emerging in the Philippines a few months ago."

emily | 2:35 PM | Political Ringtones |
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