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Congress to Grill Peddlers

WASHINGTON DC -- A local woman testified before Congress today in an effort to get the federal government to intervene to curb abuses wrought by over bearing infomercials.

Parsimony Lessman, founder of Consumers for Limiting Aggressive Pitchmen, told the House Oversight sub-Committee on Citizen Incompetence that her family faced financial ruin after her husband, Will, bought nearly a ton of Mighty Putty at the insistent urging of noted pitchman Billy Mays.

William "Billy" D. Mays is a television commercial and infomercial salesperson most notable for promoting OxiClean, Orange Glo, and other cleaning, home-based, and maintenance products. His signature loud high-energy approach to pitching an array of products, along with his recognizable beard, have gained Mays a substantial amount of recognition.

"It is clear that with the growing presence of big screen, high definition televisions and THX surround sound systems in the home," said sub-Committee Chairman Dennis Kucinich, "Our citizens are helpless to resist in the face of what amounts to technological waterboarding. This is worse than Guantanamo."

Kucinich plans to call the CEOs of the Home Shopping Network and QVC before the committee to explain their predatory sales practices and excessive corporate profits.

"This is just crazy," exclaimed inventor and marketing personality Ron Popeil, best known for his ground breaking Veg-O-Matic. "Hasn't Congress ever heard of the First Amendment?"

Mays had no comment on CLAP's allegations.

Lessman also testified that her husband, who finished fourth in last year's Mudcat Falls Nuke Em Bass Tournament & Fish Fry Festival, has the largest known collection of Pocket Fishermen in Calabash County and possibly the Tri-State Region.











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