dean obeidallah tweet on c-span & tfg

[orleans]

Link to tweet

Next CSPAN will cover ISIS rallies live:


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wtf cspan?
did they have live coverage on jimmy carter every time he helped to build a house?
and why the fuck not? at least what carter was doing was a good thing.

[True Blue American]

1. CSPAN is really

Getting heat over this. A campaign rally for some one who is not running.

[mucifer]

2. I remember CSPAN covering liberal rallies in the past. Am I wrong?

[ProfessorGAC]

5. When It's A Rally For A Declared Candidate, Sure

But, the election is 3+ years away, and PINO is not a declared candidate.
They don't cover every speech by BHO, 41, 43, or WJC, in real time. (I don't know that Carter is still giving speeches.)
This event was no more than a speech by an ex-POTUS. If they don't cover them live for all 6, all the time, there was no good reason to have covered this propagandizing hate fest.

[mucifer]

6. I remember them covering Marches on Washington for liberal causes.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Aren't Mass Gatherings Inherently News?

A guy giving a speech seems a very different thing than covering marches with thousands of people pursuing an or more specific issues.
I get where you're going, but I think there are gradations as to what needs to be covered, what needs to be in realtime, and how said programming is promoted ahead of time.
Also, look at the promo. It says "Campaign 2024". What campaign?
It's not like they need to be chasing ratings.

[malaise]

9. This is not merely a guy giving a speech

This is a twice impeached ex-President who tried and continues to try to overthrow the government, tells his goons to disregard Congressional Subpoenas.

To be kind - fuck CSpan

[LiberalArkie]

12. They cut away from Bernie Sanders rally while he was in the middle of a sentence to go to

a Trump rally with no one on the stage for over 30 minutes.

[Comfortably_Numb]

3. No doubt the 3%ers (of a functional brain), the Loud Bois, and the Oaf Creepers are having a Nazi

fest somewhere. Will CSPAN be covering those too?

[BlueNProud]

4. I remember Brian Lamb giving tons of time to David Brock when Brock was peddling bullshit

Brock later switched sides and admitted his anti Clinton work was lies.

[flying_wahini]

8. I get CSPAN covering the first rally. After that? Hell no.

Free publicity? The point.

[ZonkerHarris]

10. When was the last time they covered a Hillary Clinton speech? She is eligible to run also.

[hibbing]

11. Promoting the big lie

Cable companies not exactly bastions of liberalism. I know the cable company in my community had a monopoly for 30+ years.

Peace

[yaesu]

13. cspan needs to get its non profit status revoked, it is now a gop propaganda channel. nt

[No Vested Interest]

15. The many broadcasts of talks or forums presnted by Heritage, Cato Institute,

Federalist Society -

All these irk me no end, though I get it that such are readily available as they're financed conservative big money, such as Koch Bros., etc.
Democrat or even nonPartisan groups don't have the money to put on these programs continuously.

[czarjak]

16. Birchers! Period.

[djacq]

14. Muslim BFF