Who had to turn CSPAN off this morning?

[prolesunited]

Why is CSPAN devoting an ENTIRE morning to this propaganda? This is so completely repulsive. There isn't even a liberal news network they can devote the morning to to balance it out.

[madmax]

1. I'm still watching

but I'm pulling my hair out. Is Kim Hume, Brit's wife or mother?


:puke:

[Mistress Quickly]

3. wife

and I believe she is the head of news services or some crap like that at FauxNuze

[bowens43]

2. What propaganda?

[Stuckinthebush]

7. Wash Journal is at the Fox News center today

It is all Fox, all the time.

It is disgusting.

[finecraft]

4. Yesterday it was Grover Norquist

Today it's Fox......I couldn't watch either.

[veganwitch]

10. did you hear him call for martial law yesterday?

he said the national guard should be sent to missouri to straighten out the run-away judges.

[wildmanj]

5. cspan

anytime bryan lamb is on my tv automatically goes into the off position---he is one bigoted fellow i refuse to watch

[RapidCreek]

6. I did

I couldn't stand anymore ot the "fair and balanced" misdirective propoganda.

I got a real charge out of the lady who called and complained about it...Brian hung up on her....Sort of reminded me of Rush Limbaugh.

RC

[nostamj]

8. i turned off during the freeper woman

who said she was glad that * was standing between her and the terrorists....

right honey, big bad george will smote those terra guys

[stewert]

9. C-SPAN Just Lost a Viewer !

I am done with C-SPAN.

I just sent this letter to the C-SPAN e-mail address:

C-SPAN just lost a viewer, first you put that
lying right-wing spin doctor Grover Norquist on
your show to put out his propaganda with no
democrat to balance him. Then you do the show from
the unfair and unbalanced FOX news channel studio,
those two shows are the straw that broke the
camels back.

On top of that Brian Lamb changed the phone line
descriptions, then he gets mad when someone calls
him a biased conservative, duh ! If it walks like
a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

For 8 years under Clinton the phone lines were
Republican, Democrat, Independent, and others.
Republicans would call in every day and trash
Clinton while pretending to be a democrat. Brian
had no problem with that, and he did not change
the phone lines during that 8 years. But as soon
as Bush gets in office Brian changes the phone
lines to agree with the president, or disagree
with the president.

This is a fact that can not be disputed, it's a
fact.

If that is not blatant right-wing partisanship, I
don't know what is. Now C-SPAN has become the
mouthpiece for every right-wing spin doctor in
America. Your network has lost it's credibility,
Brian Lamb is a partisan joke, and C-SPAN is now
just another corporate media outlet with no
respect and no credibility. You clearly just give
enough time to liberals to make it look good, then
you spend the majority of your time giving every
right-wing spin doctor in the world a forum to
spew out his propaganda.

As soon as I send this e-mail I am removing C-SPAN
from my tv memory.

Steve

[nostamj]

11. i will turn off WJ but not c-span

there's no other place to hear the Senate, press conferences, and other live events.

yes, WJ is becoming a cesspit of RW propagandists and inane callers but, not worth dumping everything it has to offer.

[Tomee450]

22. great letter

I rarely watch Washington Journal anymore. Can't stand the right wing slant. So often they will have a very right wing guest with no one to balance him. I don't think having a Wes Pruden from the Washington Times is balanced by having a reporter from the NYT or Washington Post. Those papers are not liberal in my opinion. Brian Lamb has definitely changed and seems to be very pro Republican.

[skippysmom]

12. I like C-Span and think it does a useful service

But do they EVER have anyone liberal on Washington Journal anymore? It seems they always have hacks from right wing newspapers, think tanks, etc.

[Bandit]

17. Never by themselves

When they do allow a liberal on the show they always have a conservative on with them to immediately counter what is said and to interrupt when a point is about to be made. Conservatives though are on most of the time un-opposed and spinning with no one to call them on it.

[Tomee450]

23. They

rarely have a real liberal on. They will have a right winger on with someone from the middle or an individual who claims to be impartial. A right wing reporter should be balanced with one from such publications as the Nation, American Progressives or Washington Monthly. The liberal view is seldom represented on Washington Journal and that is one of the reasons I stopped being a regular viewer.

[BarbaRosa]

13. I watched

and once I got over the shock of all faux, I actually got quite a chuckle out it all. Watching each one of those 'on air personalities' try to portray faux as news, much less fair and balanced, got funnier and funnier as it went along. It looked for a moment or two that Kim Hume was about ready to blow her top. I sorta got the impression that she has been so buried in faux that she has no idea of whats going on in real world.

If anything, today WJ came real close to crossing the line into Comedy Central material.

[locustfist76]

14. Big Deal

C-SPAN shows all kinds of different type of programs that appeal to a ton of different groups. Are you afraid of people who have different opinions than you? If so then you are a close-minded person just like the religious right.

[Q]

15. It IS a 'big deal' to have RWing propagandists...

...provided with more airtime WITHOUT an opposing point of view for 'balance'.

- But then again...this is exactly why Republicans GOT RID of the Fairness Doctrine....so that the Right's point of view would dominate.

[prolesunited]

18. So, did you register

just to show your support for Fox? The problem is a question of balance. I'm not afraid of differing opinions. I think they should all be out there in the marketplace of ideas so that people can sort them out.

The problem is that we're only getting one viewpoint in the U.S. media and Fox news is the worst offender of them all. For CSPAN to showcase them as if they are some sort of respectable standard is disgraceful. And it's not as if they can show a liberal network the following day as a counterbalance because it does not exist.

Seeing as how I have a degree in journalism, I might have some clue as to what journalistic integrity and standards are supposed to be. Fox falls well short of that mark.

[locustfist76]

19. nope

No I didn't register to show my support for Fox. I actually try to get my news from as many sources as possible. I do watch Fox, along with MSNBC, and CNN. I also read the Washington Post, USA Today, Washington Times, New York Times, BBC and Asheville Citizen-Times on-line. The point I'm trying to make is every channel has some type of biased that you have to deal with. Plus, each source has a particular "news filter" in their reporting. The only way to find the truth (not liberal or conservative...but truth) is to read and watch as much as you can.

[bloom]

16. I turned it off

I don't waste my time with FOX.

[SoCalDem]

20. I turned off my PVR.. not even interested

:(

[shimmergal]

21. I turned it off. I turned off Norquist yesterday, too.

Instead, I watched Imus, which was new to me. Don't know what I think about it yet, but at least it had the clash of opinions.

Later on, though, I saw a fragment of Senate debate on TV. Sens. Reid and Durgin made some good points about the damage being done by outsourcing and the budget deficit.

[candy331]

24. I was under the impression that Fox was

trotted out to help prop up Bush's sinking poll Numbers. I expect to see more of this kind of thing to shore up his lagging credibility.