More Kanyegate madness

So earlier today I received this in my email:

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So of course I called the number.

It was cool: The guy complimented me on the quality of the press release and then started asking me all these questions about PenceFo Industries, which is the name of the company under which the press release is registered. I'm pretty sure I managed to create the impression that this wasn't all just some guy working out of his mom's basement. If this works out the way I hope it does, I might have to start charging mofos a fee to do this shit.

Anyway, he also walked me through some steps to reformat the release so that it will receive the maximum amount of media attention and also allowed me to bump up the release date to the 17th, which means that this bad boy will be hitting the wires tonight at midnight, West Coast time. If you haven't seen it already, you can go ahead and check it out here. If you caught it this morning, you might want to check it out again since I made a few changes to the format and also added a choice quote from chiseven that I think does a good job of summing it all up.