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I've been listening (for the umpteenth time) to the C-SPAN interview of Robert Caro (by Brian Lamb). Robert Caro is the author of an enormously detailed history of the life and career of Lyndon Johnson. Also for the umpteenth time, I listened to this exchange between Brian Lamb (BL) and Robert Caro (RC) concerning the "Box 13 Scandal," which was Johnson's stepping stone to the United States Senate. This exchange begins about 27 minutes, 30 seconds (27:30) into the video linked above. BL: You have a chapter in this book devoted to his wife, and someone who is still alive…...

If I looked up 'GRAVITAS' in the dictionary, Shelby Foote's picture and voice should be there. Anyway, while I just happened to enjoy this YouTube replay of a Brian Lamb GENUINE interview (as opposed to what we see these days), up pops a PROPHETIC statement by Mr Foote on the acceptance of history versus the desire to 'cancel' history.

‘Lying is the word that I would use to describe this town,” says Brian Lamb, in his usual Midwestern deadpan. “I don’t know if it will ever stop. It’s gotten worse rather than getting better, and both sides do it. You’ve got to listen very carefully to what they’re saying.” Mr. Lamb, 77, is recalling the genesis of C-Span, the cable TV network he founded in 1979. For 40 years it has aired live footage of Congress—“your unfiltered view of government,” as one slogan puts it. For the past 30 years, Mr. Lamb has hosted a Sunday night program, interviewing...

Michael Ramirez talked about his career as an editorial cartoonist and his book, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Obamacare.

According to retired ABC News journalist Ann Compton, Barack Obama has launched into "profanity-laced" tirades against the press in off-the-record meetings with reporters. In a C-SPAN interview, Compton also derided the President for leading "the most opaque" administration of "any I have covered." The journalist, who retired in August after a 40-year career, revealed to C-SPAN's Brian Lamb: "I have seen in the last year Barack Obama really angry twice. Both were off the record times. One, profanity-laced where he thought the press was making too much of scandals that he did not think were scandals." She explained, "And I...

Brian Lamb, who created the revolutionary nonprofit cable television network C-Span in the late 1970s and has been its public face ever since, is handing it over to two lieutenants, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain. Effective April 1, they will become the co-chief executives of C-Span and Mr. Lamb will become the executive chairman, formalizing a management change that has been years in the making. Mr. Lamb will continue to host “Q&A,” his Sunday night interview program, and will pursue other interests, like teaching

The White House continued to suffer embarrassment from its decision to limit coverage by C-SPAN of the healthcare-reform debate to a one-hour event in the White House East Room, in violation of eight separate pledges during the campaign that C-SPAN would provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of all debates and all planning sessions. On Wednesday, Brian Lamb, CEO of C-SPAN's parent company, complained to radio talk-show host Bill Press that President Barack Obama had used his network as "a political football," making multiple promises of transparency on the healthcare-reform issue that he apparently never intended to keep. And today, according to The...

Here is audio of C-Span's Brian Lamb telling talk show host Bill Press yesterday, January 6, 2010, that his view is that, "The American people pay for all of this that goes on in this town." He was referring to Washington, D.C., and he was making the case for why President Obama and Congressional Democrats should open up the Health Care negotiation process and allow C-Span to televise the proceedings - something President Obama promised to do repeatedly during the 2008 campaign. (VIDEO)

Uncorrected transcript provided by Morningside Partners. C-SPAN uses its best efforts to provide accurate transcripts of its programs, but it can not be held liable for mistakes such as omitted words, punctuation, spelling, mistakes that change meaning, etc. ### C-SPAN/Q&A Host: Brian Lamb Guest: Brit Hume July 9, 2008 . . BRIAN LAMB, HOST: Brit Hume, if you had to go in front of a journalism class and define the term ”journalism” today, what would you say? BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: That’s a big subject today. But I think journalism is in new forms, pretty much what it’s always...

Brian Lamb was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush on November 5th. The last time Lamb appeared on a live C-SPAN show was November 30th. This was the last of 13 weekly shows on presidential libraries so his appearance was expected. His voice sounded very bad as if something was wrong with his throat and a caller commented on his "cold", but if it was a cold it was very bad one indeed. He normally hosts Washington Journal on Friday mornings. He has now missed 8 of these shows. Last Friday he was on a recorded Q&A...

With the exception of the collective body of men and women who wear or have worn America's military uniforms, we are hard-pressed to identify a single organization that has contributed more than C-SPAN during the past quarter century to the appreciation, understanding, enhancement and defense of the fundamental governing institutions that form the foundation of the American republic. So, we weren't surprised when President Bush selected C-SPAN's founding chairman and CEO, Brian Lamb, to be a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest civilian award for distinguished Americans...

Michael Savage vs. Brian Lamb. Sounds like the unlikeliest of media showdowns, right? Well, it's happening right now, it's bloody, and Lamb is winning. First, some quick background. Talkers magazine recently awarded Savage -- a radio host whose talk show I enjoy -- a Freedom of Speech award. Savage did not pick up the award in person at a gathering in New York. Instead, he sent a speech on DVD. C-Span cameras were at the conference and covered parts of it but not the taped Savage speech. How did Savage react? By selling a DVD of the speech on his...

Washington Prism – Babak Yektafar It was strange watching Brian Lamb, the founder of C-SPAN, on TV at a party in mid-town Tehran last month. Stranger yet, was the number of people at that party who were familiar with him, and his call-in show, Washington Journal. After talking to a few people at that party, and later on at another gathering, I came to realize that Brian Lamb, the pride of Lafayette, Indiana, actually has a small and rather cultish following in Iran. C-SPAN is carried via World Net satellite network, which among other programs, carries programming by the US...

December 11, 2005 Laura Ingraham Radio Talk Show Host Program Details Watch on C-SPAN at 8pm/11pm ET Info: Laura Ingraham discusses her syndicated radio program "The Laura Ingraham Show", her political views, and her personal background. BIO: She is the host of the mid-morning syndicated radio program, “The Laura Ingraham Show”, heard in 340 stations nationwide. PREVIOUS: · Practiced law at Washington office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. · Law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. · Worked as a young staffer in the Reagan Administration, in the White House, and at the Education and Transportation Departments....

Laura Ingraham will be the guest of Brian "Wolflamb Jack" Lamb Sunday night at 8 pm ET (repeated at 11 ET) on one of the C-SPAN stations (not sure which one). Lamb recently was on her show; when he mentioned being a DJ back in the early 60s, she dubbed him "Wolflamb Jack". She has said she even got the sober-faced Lamb to laugh during the hour interview. >>MUST-SEE LAURA TV: Watch Laura this Sunday on Reliable Sources on CNN at 11:30 am ET; and on CSPAN at 8 pm ET/11 pm ET (an hour-long interview with Brian Lamb).>>

SECURITY CLEARANCE is what you apparently needed to attend the secret wedding last week of C-SPAN impresario Brian Lamb, a lifelong bachelor at age 63, to a hometown friend from Lafayette, Ind., known only as Victoria. "They were married in a small, private ceremony in the Washington area," a C-SPAN spokeswoman said mysteriously, "and Brian was in the office all week." Surely that's the kind of response that would prompt the deceptively soft-spoken Lamb - in one of his trademark interviews with a politician - to demand answer after answer. Anyhow, congratulations, Brian!

ABOUT Q&A C-SPAN's New Interview Series Every Sunday night on Q&A, we introduce you to interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work. The show airs at 8pm & 11pm ET on C-SPAN each week, every week of the year. But if you miss a program, you can catch up on previously aired shows on this web site. Either stream the video at any time convenient to you, or read the accompanying transcript. Also, you can do a keyword search against all the...

RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites. We have three bites from Ann Coulter here from Washington Journal on C-SPAN today. C-SPAN caller tells Ann Coulter and Brian Lamb that he divorced his wife because she didn't want him to listen to me. She said, "Me or Rush." The caller picked me. C-SPAN CALLER: Let me ask you a question about talk radio. I remember when talk radio first hit the airwaves around '88, when Rush Limbaugh came on, and it was really a breath of fresh air hearing somebody that finally agrees with what I've been thinking and...

Click on the link and go down to the line that shows the interview- it is 25 minutes.

In 41 years as a pundit, Robert D. Novak has rarely shied from controversy. As a syndicated columnist and fixture on cable-news shoutfests, Mr. Novak has opined from the right about some of the biggest stories of his time. He has been a stout cold warrior, a critic of Israeli policies and a passionate defender of military veterans who criticized Senator John Kerry's Vietnam War record. But now Mr. Novak, 73, finds himself a central figure in perhaps the gravest confrontation between the government and the press in a generation, and he has been uncharacteristically circumspect. With a federal judge...