Steroid hearing on all MSM and C-SPAN 3?

[SeanQuinn]

THREE? Isn't this LBN? Well, let's see what's on the other C-Span networks.

CSPAN 1 - Some Representive talking about dangers of social security priv.
CSPAN 2 - Santorum introduced Schiavo bill
CSPAN 3 - Steroids.

A bit weird, eh?

[jakefrep]

1. Not really

It seems C-SPAN saves 1 & 2 for important stuff (which the steroid hearing is definitely not).

[FloridaPat]

2. All the problems in this country and that is their big concern?

Steroids? Ok, illegal drugs and lots of people making big money off them - the dealers and the users. What are on peoples brains that fake baseball players, fake news, fake president, fake war - has no meaning? Too much reality TV?

Schiavo bill - all the death in this country - and this is an issue! Why doesn't hubby just get a divorce and let everyone else alone. Why should he be the only one who decides her fate? Congress doesn't care about any other lives. Just look at Iraq.

And they're still at SS priv. Our congress at work.

[HuckleB]

3. This is ridiculous. Congress should be doing other things.

That said, it does appear that there's little doubt about McGwire's past after today. He basically pulled a Bush, saying he wouldn't talk about it. Still, I'll give him more credit than those who flat out denied it, though one must add that they're still playing the game.

McGwire, at Steroids Hearing, Says He Won't Discuss the Past:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/sports/baseball/17cnd-ster.html

Further, it is interesting that this is what it took for fans to find out about MLB's real steroid policy. Everyone knows Selig is scum, but now we know he's scummy scum. And Fehr is no better.

Congress Calls Baseball's Steroid Policy Misleading:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/sports/baseball/17steroids.html?

[nickgutierrez]

4. On one hand, I agree with you about Congress doing other things.

On the other hand, if Congress was doing other things, the question becomes "who do we want to screw today" from this Republican congress.

I'll also add that McGwire had the unreported point of the day when he talked about the fact that if you denied use, you're not going to be believed, and if you admit it, you put yourself at severe risk.

[jakefrep]

5. It's definitely a catch-22

McGwire is right about that.

I have a feeling that whatever came out today in the hearings won't pacify the tinfoil hat types in the sports media who spout scattershot accusations and lurid conspiracy theories.

[nickgutierrez]

6. You just hit on something, and it's easy to miss

According to the MSM, it's possible to believe that every baseball player is on steriods despite the fact that less than 5% of players tested positive, while at the same time dismissing substantial evidence suggesting that * stole the election...

Cognitive dissonance, anybody?

[HuckleB]

7. When was that 5 percent tested?

[jakefrep]

9. I believe it was in 2003 nt

[HuckleB]

10. Exactly.

When they knew they would be tested, and still five percent failed?

[HuckleB]

8. And McGwire also said...

"I've accepted my attorney's advise not to comment on this issue."

Hmmm.

[grumpy old fart]

11. Am I wrong in assuming most MLB players are rethugs?

Can you imagine the press we could get if one of these whiners was actually an intelligent liberal, and took the opportunity to lambaste the Congress for ignoring the real issues of the day? I mean specifically laying out the numerous * disasters begging for investigation. Now that would be a ball player I could look up to, juiced up or not.