Watching C-Span

[DemocratSinceBirth]

A caller slammed Clark for saying Bush is not a compassionate conservative.

Clark said * is not conservative and not compassionate...


The caller said "Hello, what is he?'


Easy...

A fascist....

[Don_G]

1. It's Hard To Communicate

With the brain dead.

[Skittles]

2. FASCIST FRIDAYS SUCK

who is that host - he is so f***ing blatant. This morning he asked a caller HOW REPUBLICAN ARE YOU, I kid you not. Why is it on Fridays the overwhelming majority of callers goose-step to Bush? It cannot be an accident.

[WoodrowFan]

9. I heard that too.

I about ran off the road! The caller was dumbfounded too "What do you mean how Republican am I?!!!?" :WTF:

[qanda]

3. This has been one of the worst ever!

Brian Lamb had Repubs only call in for the first half hour and it's been all downhill since then. The woman on now believes the "liberation" of Iraq will settle the entire Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

[peacetalksforall]

4. Democratic s b

Your message is not clear...did the caller say Clark is a facsist?

The person who hosts Fridays is Brian Lamb - the boss at C-Span. He is superficial on call-ins and interviewing politicians - his expertise is in management, ideas, history, and bringing history to the public.

He is also the person who probably has the last say on what C-Span covers as far as demonstrations.

He is very soft on Republicans, imo.

C-Span is funded by commercial cable. So we know where we stand.

Please explain who said Clark is a facsist.

[morningglory]

5. RW caller said Clark was like a goober for saying Bush is not

conservative. I believe Clark meant he is not a good conservative, like a Barry Goldwater conservative, but panders to right wing nutjobs. It is not conservative to run up the deficit like this, I hope.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Exactly

The father of conservatism was Edmund Burke but his conservatism rested on prudence... For instance as a British lawmaker in the mid to late eighteenth century he supported the American Revolution and not the French Revolution for he feared and predicted it's excesses....

He wasn't unalterably opposed to change as long as it was prudential and organic....

[ProfessorGAC]

8. A Clarification Apropos Lamb

In an interview published probably 15 years ago, he stated he is a registered Independent, and has been since the late 60's. I think i read that in U.S. News back in the late 80's (because that's the news mag i read back then).

Also, i remember him saying two things about his reasons for forming CSPAN. The first was that he was motivated by Watergate and the Nixon White House's constant attempts to make gov't unaccountable and opaque to the people. The second was that he was inspired by what he called "Television's first shining moment. . ." when it exposed McCarthy for the troglodyte he was.

I don't share the opinion of many DU'ers vis a vis Brian Lamb. I think he is objective, almost to a fault.
The Professor

[dennis4868]

7. besides being a drunk, drug user,

insider trader, perjerer and aliar and murderer he is a globalist....not a republican.

[qanda]

10. Maybe this can be clarified...

The caller was saying that in the debate yesterday, Clark said that Bush* ran on being a compassionate conservative and Clark said that Bush* was neither very compassionate nor very conservative. So the caller thought he was being witty by saying, "Well what is Bush* then if he's not conservative-- s liberal?"

I'm telling you Washington Journal pissed me off so bad this morning that I'm going to rethink how I spend my mornings. In the last segment, they were allowing "support Bush*" calls through for the majority of the time, intermingled with a couple of international calls.

Edit: Missed an *

[Catherine Vincent]

11. I agree with poster ProfessorGAC regarding Brian Lamb.

His show (Washington Journal) really tries to be objective. I have watched that program for years and there is no way it leans republican or democratic. Last week, he had only democratic callers call-in for thirty minutes and he xplained why. He also says that he will have a thirty minute call in for republicans on some other topic. Now as far as allowing two or three republican callers in a row, who knows? Maybe the day before too many democratic callers were calling in. We all know people lie and state they are a Democrat when we know damn well they are a Republican (and vice versa). He tries to keep it balanced. That is all that show is based on.

A few callers would like the phones to be by geographical area but the moderators always stress that they split the lines (R) and (D) purposely to get a balanced program. They are not in the business to hear which side the majority of callers' lean to. They just want to hear from both sides equally.

I think Brian Lamb is great. He's stern and doesn't take any crap from anybody. He will let you rant but he just hangs up and go on to the next caller. I know at times he would love to slap the living schit out of some of these people, but that's the way it is. To let common folk have their say.

[AP]

12. They used to split the lines geographically, but they were getting all Dem

callers, so they had to split them up by party.

Maybe, if the Republican party isn't representing the interests of more than 20% of callers, the Republican party needs to change rather than the way CSPAN takes its calls. Maybe they need to find a new axis on which to line up callers.