Posted on 03/16/2007 3:06:37 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
Today CSPAN decided: a) not to cover the Gathering of Eagles rally, and b) to cover the Workers World Party's rally against America.
With this deplorable decision, CSPAN has spit on the American military veteran. How can CSPAN make such a blatantly biased decision? Will they defend their decision, saying that "our" rally doesn't have any celebrities like Gold Star mother, Cindy Sheehan?
What about the Gold Star mothers on our side who will be speaking? They may not have the name recognition that Cindy Sheehan has, but CSPAN viewers have a right (and an expectation) that their voices should carry equal weight. Their sacrifice is equally great, and equally as heartbreaking.
And what about the military veterans who support our troops and our country? Doesn't their voice also deserve to be heard tomorrow?
Every one of us who pays for cable television service pays to fund CSPAN's "balanced" public interest coverage, and our voices are just as relevant and just as deserving to be heard as those on the radical left who despise our country and our troops.
Our Vietnam veterans were spit on forty years ago. Today, CSPAN is spitting on all of our veterans by giving coverage to the Workers World Party/International ANSWER rally and ignoring the opposing point of view.
If you are as angry as I am right now, I have a project for you...
Tomorrow (Saturday - March 17th) give Washington Journal a call. Whatever Washington Journal says that they are taking phone calls to discuss, tell their call screener that's what you want to discuss...
And when you get on, give them all the righteous grief you can, on-air, about how they are covering a bunch of communists and commie sympathizers and kicking our troops in the balls.
Call in on whatever line you can get in on; talk nice to the screener, lie to them about what you want to talk about, and when you get in to the host - slam the bejeezus out of them!
So what if this is "dishonest," this is a war and they are siding with our enemy!
Call-In Numbers
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(202) 737-0002
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Email: journal@c-span.org
YES!
I haven't gotten through but 2 have!
yay..a 3rd got through
why are the other perspectives from the same group???????
How do you know three got through. I heard one who was probably a Freeper?
I thought all were civil, including Garett Reppenhagen.
sorry, i misunderstood
i don't know if 3 freepers got through..but 3 people who "let him have it"
the lady who said "young man"..i can't remember the rest of the quote, but that she thought it was awful that he was marching against the US
I'm IN THE QUEUE
I will open with something about the "american people being lied to" heh..they'll initially love this..but just give me a second..heh
I heard a couple of folks who referenced the GoE. John Uvaldi of Move America Forward is live now.
I have to give credit for the calm, reasonable tone struck buy the hosts and guests. On the left and right, the shout-fest in much of the media creats a lot of heat but little light. Agree or disagree, Reppenhagen was a gentleman, and so is Uvaldi, and that's how it ought to be.
It's one of the many thing I like about C-SPAN Washington Journal . . . It ain't "Hardball."
man...did i not make it clear???
we are being lied to in that the soldiers don't recognize what the mainstream media is reporting...
ARRGGGHHH
and they had cut me off
can someone fix that ..if you get through..i meant that CNN etc is changing the way the war looks so that it looks bad....actual soldiers coming home say they are lying!!
Notice the difference in John's appearance--conservatively dressed in suit and shirt and tie vs. anti war vet earlier in a t-shirt.
They are talking about Move American Forward Win in Iraq Ad campaign on Monday at 10 on C-span.
Just heard you! Well done! CSCAM host didn't have any response, just that they ARE covering ANSWER today and the MAF event on Monday.
arrrgghhh...
i mean ..at least i got the question through about programming...but i didn't say enough about what i meant, apparently on the other side...
arrrgghghh
and it was so carefully planned, i thought it was sooo good
It's not easy. I wouldn't even try.
cspan says they will do somethinng for GOE will be about ads coming on Monday.
Good news, the truck just arrived to get my car out of the snow. Look out DC, here I come.
I am in not listening to anything about the 2008 Presidential race in 2007, so I can't help you. Sorry.
Good caller on now, talking about msm lying to American people, not President.
Freeper?
well..then you're in luck..this has to do about American soldiers not being given representation in the news media
Is this you on now?
I agree, whole-heartedly. And that's why it's on CSPAN (Cable and Satellite Public Affairs Network -- okay, I'm just showing off) instead of someplace that cares about ratings and wants some fireworks. Sad, but true. Washington Journal is slow-moving, calm, pre-first-cup-of-coffee kind of stuff -- informative, but not exciting.
A commercial cable or broadcast net would have had Reppenhagen and Ubaldi on the set a the same time so they could shout at each other. CSPAN has them on in turn, each free to make his case for a good long time, not interrupted by ads or stepped on by the host. I like that approach. It's good for an informed democracy, and a valuable resource for the relatively few folks who make use of it.
Okay - you were on earlier. They seemed to NOT want to understand where the lies were.
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