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...action, romance and character is a sense of political drama, prefigured in Phantom Menace. If that movie had a message, it was: Take a meeting. The film often went logy from all its earnest senatorial harrumphing, which was every bit as compelling as a lazy committee hearing on C-SPAN. Politics is important in Clones too, but as a running three-cornered debate: Padme's idealism colliding with Obi-Wan's cynicism and Anakin's budding realpolitik...
Traficant appealed not only to bored C-SPAN viewers but also to a dying steel community like Youngstown, where his energy and enthusiasm for “banging away in D.C.” made him immensely popular. This is all the more remarkable because Traficant has persevered in the face of almost constant attacks and investigations by the Justice Department. Traficant first made headlines in 1983, when he was a county sheriff, for successfully defending himself against federal bribery charges, despite not being a lawyer. His defense against overwhelming FBI evidence was that they had caught...
Early rock 'n' roll was about kissing in Dad's sedan. Today stars opine about trade policy. Here's a rock history suitable for C-SPAN as well...
McCarthy: If he says that September 11th has niggerized America, yes, that’s going to alienate people and that’s going to piss people off, and they are going to be like, “God, why is he saying that on C-SPAN?!” But the fact of the matter is that doesn’t mean he is any less excellent. It just means that he is using the platform he has because he has earned that space, because he has done a lot of stuff that is quite excellent...
...that is that people are going to make judgments about you without having read your 1979 book on the American evasion of philosophy. They are going to make judgments about you not just based on the things like Race Matters, but on things like what you say on C-SPAN...