Posted on 03/13/2012 6:10:12 PM PDT by iowamark
Republican Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley is fed up with The History Channels programming and took his rage out on Twitter, unleashing a fury of tweets, chewing out the network for their reality programming and lack of actual historical shows. When I signed up for the History Channel on my satellite service, I expected to get history, Grassley told the Washington Examiner. Instead, all I see are people chopping wood or driving trucks on an icy road.
I love history, Grassley added. A better understanding is going to strengthen our country. Its going to strengthen patriotism.
Grassley began his jeremiad against The History Channel in February, and revisited it this week.
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I was there for the original airing of video killed the radio star..
I remember seeing Metallica videos on MTV.
Love Pawn Stars, and their explorations of some of the items brought in for sale, including old weapons and books, do provide historical information from another perspective than the straight story format - besides Chumley is lots funnier than your everyday history professor.....
The History channel has been taken over by Ancient Aliens !!!
Years ago some nicknamed it the Hitler Channel because of the WW II documentaries, etc.—and yes on occasion they will run
“Third Reich: The Rise” and “T.R.—The Fall”. But yes they do run stuff like Pawn Stars now. I was at a Chinese restaurant the other day, in bar section (you can eat your meal in bar) and some guy was glued to “Pawn Stars” on History.
I did like their recent How The States Got their Shapes,
though; a lighthearted look at history and geography.
And speaking of mis-named, no-longer-relevantly-named things,
Boston’s House of Blues nightclub is in the news because of mosh pit antics at punk shows. The nightclub chain, started by Isaac Tigrett of Hard Rock Cafe and “Blues Brother”
Dan Aykroyd, these days has anything BUT blues music. It’s
extremely rare that they present an artist in the tradition
of Waters, Hooker, B.B. King, or Koko Taylor. House of anything but.
Memo to Senator Grassley:
They don't want patriotism strengthened.
It indeed was sarccasm
I posted the photo of Mitchell and Glenn out of sheer enjoyment of those fellows.
Now a show for dysfunctional is Ax Men. A couple of the ones on there a person really has to wonder about LOL.
The origional name The History Channel was dropped in 2008 and simply called History thereafter. That is why you see a H logo and History.com on the screen.
Don't you mean how dare a consumer complain that they are not getting value from a service?
I see nothing where he wants the government involved in anyway he is just ticked that a service that he paid for is now no longer providing the service. Has that suddenly become a bad thing?
My post was sarcasm. His comment was whining
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