I think C-Span should answer for this crap!

[Carolab]

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=188173288

This guy, Jack Wheeler, is the most rabid liberal-basher I have heard (next to Coulter). I could not believe what this guy was saying.

And, adding insult to injury, he is with "Accuracy In Media", which purports to be "a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage."

[AtomicKitten]

1. I saw that douche bag talk for about 10 minutes.

It's all I could stomach.

But we can't tell C-SPAN what to televise and what not to televise. That would make us fascist Republicans!

This is tantamount to Bernie Goldberg on the book tour show on C-SPAN. I resented the legitimacy it gave him for the tripe he wrote.

But C-SPAN isn't in the business of editing. And that's a good thing. Unfortunately we then are exposed to the absolute crappola like the above. The audacity that man had talking about Democratic corruption is beyond the pale, particularly in light of the status quo.

Perhaps it served a purpose. America needs to see the lies and the venom, and if they are incapable of being discerning viewers, then they weren't on "our" side to being with.

[Carolab]

2. Yes, BUT, I have NEVER seen anything from "our side" like this!

This man was spewing lies about "liberals" on the order of "they eat babies"--it was THAT bad!

C-Span should have to provide time for some more of the same from "the liberal side" regarding conservatives!

I wrote them and in case anyone else wants to, here's an e-mail address:

[e-mail]

[AtomicKitten]

5. We aren't like them.

I've had lengthy, very recent conservations about this subject, that the Republicans should be choking on their hypocrisy, that Dems don't have the blood lust. I know it pisses you off. I often feel I'd really like to back over them with my car. But it's what they do. And the bitchier they are, the more desperate they sound. Seriously. This guy going on about corrupt Dems was the epitome of the pot calling the kettle black.

We can't make them stop. Dems are smarter and can be bitingly sarcastic. Howard Dean has Republicans in a tizzy half the time. Now we just have to work on the other half of the time ...

Time to stop being polite, civilized folk.

[bluedawg12]

6. We can e-mail cspan they are sensitive

to loosing viewers.

If they can pander to the right they can pander to the left.

[Carolab]

8. That's what I think. What is fair and balanced about this???

It just feeds the lunatic RW fringe element who thinks all "libruls" should be shot!

[bluedawg12]

9. These creepo's come from these think tanks

they have enormous money resources to feed the right their trashy think tanks.

You have got to check put this web site- they give the vast RW conspiracy info. money,plans...amazing and interesting.
They control how we think...well, try.. heh.

Check it out>>

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/501

The Glue that Binds the Movement
By Michael Flynn | September 8, 2005


IRC Right Web rightweb.irc-online.org


They are the glue that binds American conservatism—in all its flavors: neoconservative, libertarian, evangelical, triumphalist—into an effective political conglomeration. They fund the right’s magazines, the think tanks, the policy institutes, the writers, and the advocacy groups. They help spearhead public policy campaigns as well as idea networks. And they seem to never take their eye off the ball. They are the conservative foundations—the expansive trough of cash that nourishes much of the right-wing’s political infrastructure

[Montauk6]

10. I hear you Carolab but rein it in, rein it in...

I'd heard there was a serious FCC effort afoot to slash C-Span en toto, something about new "digital must carry" rules for cable providers; I don't know all the details and what I've come across thus far is as of 2003.

My point is that, yes, this bonehead's got you riled up; perhaps, this will be their M.O. to trick anti-CSpan support from the left in the grand scheme which is to silence our one true keyhole to "Disneyland on the Potomac."

[Carolab]

11. I already processed that one--the digital "must carry" is on their site.

In fact, it's at the top of the contact page.

http://www.c-span.org/about/contact.asp?code=About

Still, isn't NOT saying something about this tantamount to suppressing dissent? I mean, if we let them continue on with this just because we're afraid they'll get the axe, then what good are they to us anyway?

[Montauk6]

12. Did they allow call-ins?

[Carolab]

22. No. It was recorded. n/t

[Montauk6]

13. 'Nother point: let them weasels have their hour or two of Scaife Scum

As long as we hear from Brother Cornel West or Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn, it's a fair exchange.

Also, like him or not, it was intriguing seeing Louis Farrakhan take on the Talking Points callers on Washington Journal.

[npincus]

15. right-o about C-SPAN. They cover ALL events: RW to LW and all in between

Trust me, this guy made more viewers throw up than he made converts.

I don't think televising bestows legitimacy on the person or event being televised, C-SPAN is only a window to witness that event and the viewer is left to make his/her own conclusions.

Dictating to C-SPAN about what or who or where they should or shouldn't televise would be the death of C-SPAN.

[zanne]

19. Well, you have to admit the Heritage Foundation gets....

ALOT of coverage on C-Span; far more than any other group.

[pinto]

3. I thought it was kinda funny, in a weird way. Gave "over the top" a whole

new twist.

[Carolab]

4. Look who they are! Richard Mellon Scaife is their benefactor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media

[bluedawg12]

7. Neocon gasbags with typical conservapig money

the benefactors read like a who's who of radicalrightwingnuts.

Oil and whoor's beer.

Check out their neoconniver connections- always the same names eventually pop up. Always from the same money. Damn these neoconnivers are getting rich on our backs.

Check out this liberal website that watches them!

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/groupwatch/aim.php

Private Connections:
>This group holds conferences and exchanges for "anticommunist intellectuals around the world." Former Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams is her son-in-law and Norman Podhoretz, editor of the right-wing journal Commentary is her husband. (12,13) Decter was also on the Board of Directors of the now defunct Nicaraguan Freedom Fund. (14) Decter is a Heritage Foundation trustee, an Ethics and Public Policy Center trustee, a Hudson Institute fellow, and an advisory board member of The National Interest. (19)<

[rodeodance]

16. their lable is similar to "healthy forests' of the WH.

Accuracy In Media (AIM) is an American organization which monitors the news media in the United States. Founded in 1969 by Reed Irvine, at the time an economist with the Federal Reserve, AIM describes itself as "a non-profit, grassroots citizens watchdog of the news media that critiques botched and bungled news stories and sets the record straight on important issues that have received slanted coverage". It commonly attacks what it sees as liberal bias in the media. In spite of AIM's claim of political neutrality, many mainstream media sources and liberal media watchdog groups such as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting refer to it as a conservative organization.

AIM openly maintains many ties to conservative groups and is known for criticizing journalists with accusations of leftist bias, but rarely (if ever) levels claims of conservative bias against reporters or news organizations. Its positions on issues would also usually be classified as conservative: AIM editorialized in support of Nicaraguan Contra leaders such as José Francisco Cardenal. It also supports the Committee for a Free Afghanistan, a US group that has backed the Afghan rebels beginning in 1981, notwithstanding the fact that many of the Afghan mujahideen rebels would later form the Taliban. Also supported are Augusto Pinochet, who was called a savior of Chile, and the group often quotes from the fringe right-winged The Epoch Times on issues regarding China, instead of any main media sources.

AIM publishes a bimonthly newsletter called the AIM Report, of which Irvine is the editor. In these newsletters Irvine often encourages subscribers to write to people or organizations urging them to change their policies.

[rodeodance]

17. "It commonly attacks what it sees as liberal bias in the media."

[Skidmore]

14. I am equally outraged and yesterday I had a similar thread on GD re:this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5058344

I think we should push the "faces" of the Democratic Party to denounce this crap. Who would be good to point in this direction? I'd actually like to see Reid denounce it on the Senate floor and call for an apology from the organization that funds this creep.

[Pepperbelly]

18. Not me. I won't jump on C-SPAN ...

they cover almost EVERYTHING.

[ChiciB1]

20. Another Thing That I'm Upset With Them About Is That....

while they are doing a complete COVERAGE of the million people today, they didn't do ANYTHING close to this on September 24th when we had the March!

All they covered were the speeches, not the March!!!

[butterfly77]

21. Did you see this John Derbyshire..

Friday on C-span