I’ve finally found a clip on the C-SPAN caller who seemed to begin sobbing because he feared that his teabagger prayer group’s appeals that Sen. Robert Byrd would die or otherwise be too ill to vote on health legislation might have accidentally felled Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma instead.

Sounds like a Dwight David Honeycutt deal to me. Not funny if real, of course.

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UPDATE: Talking Points Memo is now promising proof that it is a hoax.

UPDATE II: Well, maybe not proof, but a similar sounding guy — claiming to be a white milionaire Republican looking to get that black man out of the White House — called from Georgia when David Brooks was on C-SPAN.

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