[LiveBait]

Wow. That is ridiculous. Just goes to show that fair and balanced doesn't always mean giving equal airtime to both sides of every debate. Holocaust deniers and other racists don't deserve that sort of platform under any circumstances.

[martin_fierro]

when the hosts of its morning discussion program, “Washington Journal,” stare impassively at the camera while yet another crazed caller recites chapter and verse of the latest conspiracy theories involving the Trilateral Commission or the Bush family’s Nazi/Saudi/Zionist/ KGB/CIA ties

That's when Brian Lamb et. al. really earn their paychecks, IMHO. I sure couldn't do it.

[Huck]

What kind of freeper names himself alan alda? I personally think c-span does a real good job. She took herself off the air. I don't have a problem with them showing the other guy talking. They have plenty of people on all the time that I disagree with strongly. But I am an adult and can think for myself. I don't need anyone to protect me from someone's ideas, thank you. And I appreciate Washington Journal's androidic approach to hosting. In fact, I'd like to see actual robots programmed to do it. So there.

[marty60]

Wow a Professor with backbone. It's to bad she has to take this stand. But, I agree with her on not giving these anti-semetic pigs a forum at her expense.

BTW how did C-Span come up with this guy. Is he on a speakers list?

[oldbill]

Hey guys - back off. Brian Lamb believes that since most of C-SPAN is coverage (and bloviating) of politicians and pundits, he thinks it's important that the average person gets to have a say, no matter how wise or foolish it may sound.

The segments on Washington Journal and other CSPAN shows that allow call-ins are the venues for this vox populi. Even if some of the callers sound like they are from Area 51, you can't say that CSPAN doesn't let them add to the debate. It's refreshing to see true balance in the news and political discussion, even if means the oddballs are in the chorus.

[wideminded]

C-SPAN often teeters on the brink of self-parody, particularly when the hosts of its morning discussion program, “Washington Journal,” stare impassively at the camera while yet another crazed caller recites chapter and verse of the latest conspiracy theories

This is one of the best things about C-SPAN. Brian Lamb is especially good at this. Sometimes he lets someone who sounds nutty go on for an unusually long time, much longer than any of the other hosts, and then the caller ends up saying something that makes some sense. Lamb has said of these people: "More than once they have been right."

As for Lipstadt, I sometimes get the feeling that people like her are in it for their own self-glorification.

[OldFriend]

IMHO Brian Lamb suffers from Andrew Sullivan syndrome.

[Malesherbes]

The C-SPAN call-in shows are a magnet for Dims, Dims masquerading as Independents, and Dims claiming to be Republicans whose lives were ruined by Bush.

[Tallguy]

C-Span's morning call-in programs used to be a good barometer about what 'Main Street' thought about the day's events. No more. Not since they've 'balanced' the program by insisting on 1 Republican Caller, followed by 1 Democratic Caller, followed by a third Caller who hasn't got a coherent political philosophy. Unless they have a really good guest, these programs are brain-dead.

[SAWTEX]

“C-SPAN’s cockeyed version of fairness.” According to Cohen, the aforementioned — and, apparently, astonishingly vapid — Connie Doebele told him,

Connie fails big time in respect to bias. She is a full blown liberal and can not hide it. Brian Lamb and C-Span
would be better off if they kept her off the air if none
bias is the goal. I am a C-Span junkie and never miss Washington Journal. I could care less about the steroid
hearings which is the lead question this AM.