Which crazy C-Span caller do you remember the most?

[GingerSnaps]

What caller made you laugh out loud or cry from what they had said or commented on. Which one stands out in your mind the most as being the most ridiculous outrageous craziest thing that you have ever heard in your life?

It happened last week for me. One guy called in and he said that if a male rabbit's rectum has sperm injected into it that it would make his immune system shut down. The caller was allowed to talk for a long time and he should have been hung up on. I couldn't believe that c-span allowed this guy to talk for so long. I am still trying to pick my jaw up off of the floor.

[kuozzman]

1. I'll tell you after these callers. The subject is "reaction to Bush being

named Time man of the year"

[kuozzman]

5. The lady who just said the naming * as "Man of the Year" was

her AND EVERYBODYS' CHRISTMAS PRESENT!!!

This was said after saying how good of a job he's doing and that the war is "difficult" but he's doing a good job. As well as something about the media covering EVERY MINUTE OF THE WAR IN IRAQ!!???

Wow, this lady is completely brainwashed by MSM.

Maybe it was my Mom.......

[rucky]

2. You just gave me a great book idea:

Freeper Science. It'll be in textbook form, but present all the junk theories of the RW.

[pantouflard]

14. Ya know, I would actually pay $ for that!

I think you've got something there, Rucky.

[IHeart1993]

32. The Real Idiots Guide to Science

Like....
Creationism
No Global Warming
Humans and Dinosaurs lived together
How to count

[Warren DeMontague]

44. "There's an invisible man in the sky...

...who cries every time you touch yourself"

[cornermouse]

3. The old lady who just called in support of Bush.

If she's middle class, she's going to lose her nice luxury car, her motorhome, and quite possibly her pension/social security income.

[Guaranteed]

4. I can't believe you're still watching that.

I had it on for about two minutes in response to your first thread, but I can't stand these fucking idiots.

We are SURROUNDED by FUCKING IDIOTS.

I used to believe that most people are smart, too. It really just blows my mind.

If you're gonna watch this, at least do us a favor and call in to set these dumbshits straight.

[GingerSnaps]

6. I turned the sound off

It's starting to make me physically ill. :puke:

[seaglass]

7. The one that told Barbara Olsen to her face that she hoped she

would burn in hell (or a similar sentiment) about a month or so before 9/11.

I wonder how she felt about that.

[Jeanette in FL]

8. I remember that one too

It was actually the Sunday before Sept. 11th, Barbara Olsen was on with Bill Press. She was promoting her latest book "The Final Days", The woman told Barbara that she was pure evil and that she should repent or she would burn in hell. Barbara Olsen laughed the woman off. I often wondered if that woman had some sort of premenition about Barbara Olsen because she was adament that Barbara needed to mend her ways immediately. It was a very strange phone call and I have often wondered about that one

[Catherine Vincent]

15. I remember that call too.

It was just eerie because I thought of that caller after 9/11 when we heard what happened to Ms. Olsen.

[merbex]

30. I instantly thought of that call when I learned MS. Olsen had been in the

plane.

I had called my father to watch the show and later we talked about the women calling her evil; I'll never forget the look on her face

[Marnieworld]

23. I liked reading about Cher's call

but i missed it live

[blondeatlast]

9. There's enough wackos on both sides for me to realize I can't

stand their call-in shows anymore.

Civilized debate is long gone, buried alongside an objective press. There is more intelligent debate in GDP and GD than in the entire MSM--and we often tend to hate each other as well!

I say we dig them up and Frankenstein 'em.

Without them, our democracy cannot live.

[GingerSnaps]

11. If the parents are talking about it & the kids are taking it to school

Some kid is probably going to end up in a fight about who deserves to celebrate Christmas more.

On 11/2 our democracy went out the window along with most of our rights in this country.

[tx_dem41]

10. I wish C-Span would get rid of the call-in segment....and instead...

have the journalist on that wrote the "story of the day". I don't learn a thing from partisan callers on either side. I might learn something from the man or woman who wrote the story.

[babydollhead]

12. a woman called into C-Span from Minnisota

my 12 year old son and I were watching,(we enjoy watching the "listening look" on the talking head's face) and a with a very Minn. accent said,"If we would have just closed the borders then those creeps wouldn't have flown into those buildings. We howled.

[Simon Le Bon]

13. "I remember

this one crazy woman chick called 'Courtney Rose' or something ranting on about flunking out of cooking school because she fell asleep and burned the steak tartare; which just left me awestruck at her stupidity, being the only person ever to burn raw food. Then she ended up hanging up because her drunken boyfriend started yelling at her. It was funny because they were supposed to be discussing Abu Grhaib."

[arwalden]

17. OMG!! She Was BURNING Steak Tartare!!! TOO Fucking Funny!!

[GingerSnaps]

21. It would be nice to see a link to that caller

It's sounds totally embellished to me but then again I am a stickler for the truth. Proof with links to everything that I have been told instead of hearsay would be what I would require instead of listening to a bunch of old bitty's that call into C-Span.

[arwalden]

25. I Can't Help You There. I Didn't Hear The Caller...

I just found the post to be amusing and quite believable considering the intelligence level of other callers I've heard on CSPAN.

Does the CSPAN website even bother to transcribe the free-form call-ins?

[GingerSnaps]

28. If they screened the callers and the few crazies got in after screening

Can you imagine how many crazier ones are sitting at home that didn't get through on the line that didn't pass the screening process :D

They believe everything that the nuts are saying that are calling in and the ones calling in are either making things up to fit their own agenda or are blowing things out of proportion to an extent that it has become a lie. Soon, it becomes a book which I believe thats how Ann the man Coulter might gets some of her ideas from.

Anyone would know what steak tartar is and the only person that would cook it would either have to be someone with a huge imagination or a chef and then it would become a gourmet burger because i believe that you use the finest cut of beef in steak tartar. Someone would have to be nuts to eat it because mad cow is going around and we already have enough "mad cows" to go around in this world. The bars are filled with them!

[arwalden]

29. I've Phoned In Twice And Never Been Screened...

Someone answered and confirmed that I was calling in on the Democrat's line then instructed me to turn down my TV and hold until it was my turn.

Perhaps they've changed the screening process now.

Not everyone knows what steak tartar is... I didn't know what it was until I was almost 30. -- I'd be hesitant to call someone "nuts" because I really can't speak with any authority about their mental condition. Any raw food is risky. Eggs, sashimi, beef, oysters... they all come with some risk, but I don't think those who eat it are nuts.


-- Allen


*** I'm still interested in knowing if CSPAN actually transcribes their open-line call-in's. I'm doubtful that the previous poster would be able to PROVE to you (by way of a providing a link) that his recollection of that strange caller (Cora-belle?). ***

[GingerSnaps]

31. I have gotten through on the line 3 times

I was never been screened but they did ask if i had called in within 30 days. I normally use the republican line so that I don't tie up one of our lines and then I trash * until they hang up on me. :D

Some people think that they hear things and they are actually speculating and imagining things about what is going on. The bigger a lie gets the more out of proportion it gets blown. I believe that is the mentality of the right wingers and they make things up in order to fit their own agenda. Put a couple of them together that know each other and they back each other up and if you ask for facts they will back each other up again but no facts will be presented. The only ones that will be able to prove it is someone else from their group of close knit friends and that is how right wingers are. Persecution with no real facts and lies that tend to grow every time that they talk about the subject.

With me I don't pass judgment by hearsay and people on the right tend to do that. I have heard that they have get together where they all tell a lie and at the end they have created a whole chapter in a Democrats life that actually didn't happen.

Can you imagine trashing a person that you don't know and acting as if you have known them your entire life just based on speculation or possibly it might deal with animosity and jealousy which I know nothing about but you can hear it in their voices on c-span.

[GingerSnaps]

20. I remember one woman that called in

She was bitching about how famous Monica Lewinsky had gotten and she asked what Monica had done to get famous and she was ragging on and on about how she had tried to make it and done the exact same thing that Monica had done except she didn't have her dress dry-cleaned afterwords but she was still at the bottom and time was running out because when you hit 50 you are pretty much finished. It was so funny that I peed on myself from laughing so hard. The host let her rag on and on and on and on until people started figuring out that she had OCD.

The poor woman started crying of the phone and bitching about not being pretty enough or talented enough and Monica was famous and how could Monica be famous and she was so much better looking than Monica and Monica didn't have any talent at all. It sounded like this nut case hated the world around her and she latched on to Monica because she had no other way to vent about her career and not making it.

After a while she was ragging about her 1st grade boyfriend and how he dumped her over a box of crayons. Can you believe that this OCD woman still held a grudge over her first grade boyfriend dumping her and she was almost 50 years old. I blame Raygun for getting rid of psych care and releasing dangerous people from the mental wards of psych hospitals. She didn't even know Monica Lewinsky but she had so much animoisty towards her that she sounded dangerous.

BTW Simon LeBon Is from the Wolverhampton area of Birmingham which is several hours away from Hitchin or Herts. A friend of mine recorded an album at the same studio when they were recording Planet Earth and was in the music scene at the same time that Simon's band came out. The only difference is Simon made it and my friends band is on the one hit wonder show on VH1.

[crispini]

33. What's your friend's band's name?

Just curious, if it's a one hit wonder might we have heard of them?

[GingerSnaps]

39. The one hit wonders? Dexys Midnight Runners

The band's name that he was in prior to Dexys is the one that he was in when he bumped into them. He also attended High School with one of the members and then bumped into them while he was recording or practicing at the same time. The band prior to Dexys didn't even make the one hit wonder show. I am not sure if Planet Earth was Duran Duran's first album.

[crispini]

40. I remember them!

"Come on Eileen!" Cool!

[shrike]

47. Oh, man. "Come on, Eileen"

Haven't thought of that one in years.

[Bethany Rockafella]

34. Good lord! That one was a doozy!

[gardenista]

46. Was it "Corarose"? Doesn't anyone else remember her?

Sounds like she hit the CSPAN airwaves after she got her DU tombstone. Poor thing. I felt kinda sorry for her.

[The Flaming Red Head]

16. I voted for George Bush but I don't agree with the Patriot Act

restrictions on free speech, (yada, yada, yada) and I think he (Bush) should do something about it.

stupid stupid stupid stupid

[Name removed]

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[PROGRESSIVE1]

24. I see that NASCAR fans have T.V.

[Not_Giving_Up]

27. Hey wait a minute now

I'm a NASCAR fan...and a DUer....Explain that one! Not all NASCAR fans are from Dumbfuckistan!

[blueblitzkrieg]

19. One of the most idiotic callers I remember...

is right after the election, a woman called in and said she was so happy Bush won, she voted for him, and the one thing she hopes Bush does in his second term is to stop the outsourcing of American jobs because she was afraid she might lose hers. :eyes:

IDIOT.

[jellybelly]

22. Haven't watched it recently...

I stopped watching C-Span about a year ago because of all the racist callers. 90% of them were anti-jewish or anti-Israel. I remember one ass saying, "you are either a jew or an American". The racism came from both sides sadly. Too damn annoying for me to continue being a viewer.

[CBHagman]

26. The creepiest (so far) was the guy from South Carolina who...

...called in to discuss the attack on September 11th and the pending Iraq war. I think the guest that day was Jessica Mathews, though I might be mistaken.

At any rate, the caller accused Mathews, due to her raising questions about an Iraq war, of being like Neville Chamberlain and said she looked like Chamberlain, too. Then he made the point that any future terrorist attack would probably occur in large cities like New York or Washington. Then, practically salivating audibly, he said, "And when you hear that plane coming at the building" --

It was then that the host cut him off and reminded listeners that personal attacks on the guests were not tolerated.

At any rate, that guy was one of the scariest of the worst-case types among our fellow citizens -- ignorant, malicious, smug, and cruel. I wish I could remember which community he was from. People should have locked their windows and doors immediately.

[GingerSnaps]

36. Was that last week or the week before last week?

I think that I heard that caller unless it was another creepy head case :scared:

[CBHagman]

45. Oh, you heard yet another creepy head case.

Unfortunately, Scary South Carolinian made the call some time ago (I haven't listened lately). Heavens, there are MORE such people are out there. :scared:

[Bethany Rockafella]

35. I haven't watched in a while but there are four that come to mind:

Caller #1 is from Arkansas and constantly rags on Bill Clinton and she is a racist because she is always ragging on blacks and their welfare.

Caller #2 is an American with a european accent but no matter what the topic she always blames it on the Clintons.

Caller #3 is a male african american that talks about 90 words a minute about white folks but really doesn't say much of anything.

Caller #4 is some guy that calls about once a month that loves GWB and always ends his calls to say hello to Fred in Tennessee.

[GingerSnaps]

38. Caller #2 is a British lady right?

I think that a group of the callers are on a special line ;-) coming from the back room and they are set up to tie in to a newspaper article that the host is about to read.

[jonnyblitz]

37. "liberals don't ready anyways"

I don't remember the context but I remember that one remark from the call. I DO remember it was a woman caller.

[jonnyblitz]

41. oops, didnt see the typo in my subject til it was too late.

ready should be READ! DUH ME!

[spooky3]

42. I liked hearing "Ted from Boston" calling in

when John Sweeney (labor leader) was on.

"Ted" was Sen. Edward Kennedy.

[jonnyblitz]

43. I have heard Cher call in twice .

both times discussing troops in the hospital who lost limbs in the war that she visited.