Robocalling Editorial

On Sunday in the Detroit Free Press there was an editorial regarding regulating the annoying practice of Robo-calling.
Although I agree whole heartedly that the practice needs to be regulated if not eliminated, the tone of the editorial misrepresented the true nature of the Robocalls as we have known them this year, and ignores entirely the mass coordinated plan on behalf of the RNC in another attempt at voter suppression.

From the editorial:
"Maybe the most annoying aspect of the campaigns that just ended was the proliferation of "robo-calling" -- automated messages on behalf of political candidates or causes that kept phones ringing and answering machines filled throughout the fall."

and one paragraph later:
"The calls, often featuring celebrities or political leaders, are more annoying than effective, and, for elderly people who are most likely to have only land-line phones, they can be a physical imposition." (emphasis mine)

So, what we have here is failure to communicate. First of all there is no mention that this was almost entirely a Republican undertaking. Have been subjected to, or have had friends subjected to the mass robocall effort, the only Democratic "robocall" i ever received was recorded by Debbie Stabenow and it highlighted her success as a Senator. It was only one call and it was the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday.
The other nine individual messages that were left multiple times were entirely anti-Granholm. Some were vulgar, some stated who was paying for them (who are you "Michigan Working Familes"? I still want answers), some just left the smear where it lay. They were highly inaccurate to the point of, at times, outright lies. I never received one from a purported "celebrity" and the only politician who seemed to be directly involved was Debbie Stabenow who started her call with "Hello, this is Senator Debbie Stabenow.". The other phone calls I recieved were live people helping with the get out the vote effort (although that could use a little more coordination as well).
Not that my phone number is the alpha and the omega of robo-targets. I heard rumors of a James Dobson one on behalf of DeVos for the GOTV effort.
Although I support the idea that there should be an effort made to limit or end robo-calling, it would have been nice to have someone actually do some research and make a stronger case for it. Although their reasoning is valid it seems as though the skipped right over the obvious reason, to not allow political candidates or their surrogates smear and slander their opponents without their being any recourse, or without even having to acknowledge that they were behind these dirty tricks.