Why Did C-SPAN Blacklist Savage?

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[Freee-dame]

C-SPAN is paid for by subscribers, not the owners (stockholders?) And what does Ted Turner have to do with anything?

Ted Turner is the founder and former owner of CNN. Their anti-conservative bias is well-known.

[TxCopper]

I know all too well about the exploits of Ted Turner/Cnn. I am not retarded. What does CNN have to do with Comcast/AT&T/Cox/Charter/DirecTV/Dish Network/etc SUBSCRIBERS?

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Sounds like the actions of a big-mouthed, paranoid, hate-filled bully who is hiding in a radio station.

Did you sign up to make this one post?

I agree that Savage is making way to big of a deal with C-span doing what they did. However, you could have made your point without the name-calling.

Do you send similar type emails as well?

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Yes, and I see dcatdad has provided a transcript of that portion of yesterday’s WJ.

It was his one and only post so far.

Interesting.

[leadpenny]

Maybe dcatdad is Brian Lamb?

I’ve been a C-SPAN junkie since the early 80s, and Friday Brian was the most irritated I have ever seen him. He handled it in his usual style though. As far as I know he’s never taken that much time to read vile emails like the ones he got on this subject.

This whole thread is a tempest in a teapot.

Savage is afraid to have his program simulcast on C-SPAN.

Brian Lamb is a saint.

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It looks more like a fan than Lamb himself.

I don’t think he should read his emails in public, unless they are from repeat offenders. The idiots who sent them are just that: idiots. Savage wanted his DVD to be shown, and C-span chose not to air it; case closed. The simulcast might have been interesting.

They should both just let it go already.

I don’t know if Lamb is a saint or not: not sure if Savage is either.

[leadpenny]

I don’t think he should read his emails in public

He read their names too. I applaud him for doing it. Every email he read also made reference to the tax dollars that C-SPAN gets. Brian hammered the idiots for not knowing how C-SPAN is funded.

[Checkers]

“I listened to some of Savage last night and it appears he didn’t have the balls...”

Yep

[TBP]

We’ll cover them in person, and we’ve offered on occasion — and he’s turned us down — to cover his talk show on television.

LKamb says this, right when he knows Savage is going on vacation. But the mere fact that he makes the claim does not mean that it's true. Lamb is a well-known ultraliberal.