[NYpeanut]

I stopped watching that lame program about a year after they put in the separate lines (like ten years ago?). Since then, democraps jam all the lines and the hosts don't do anything to mitigate the bad behavior.

I always wanted them to say, "well, that democrat caller broke the rules and called in on the republican line, so now we'll take three republican calls before we go back to the democrat line."

I didn't think anyone but Democraps even watched it anymore.

[mconley22]

I also quit watching after C-SPAN went to their current system. When they took calls on a first come, first serve basis, nearly all of the calls were from conservatives, who constituted most of their audience. I doubt that any more liberals watch the channel now, but Media Matters and other far left wing organizations make sure that Democrats are overrepresented in the callers who get airtime.

[randita]

The affirmative action phone lines ended it for me, as well. The union seminar callers hog all the lines and spout the talking points of the day.

Before that when calls were taken first-com, first-served, C-Span was taking a LOT of heat that the Republican view was vastly overrepresented. They were basically bullied into adopting the affirmative action system. The bullies won.