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...C-SPAN On the first morning of the Democratic National Convention, all the cable-news outfits were yakking about what Hillary Clinton might say--except one. On C-SPAN? Empty chairs on a silent stage. It was waiting for someone to show up and actually say something. This was the only channel on which a citizen could watch all the convention speeches. Plus, it airs Prime Minister's Questions, my all-time-favorite sitcom. (No offense, Larry David...
...political director of New Hampshire Institute of Politics. She has appeared frequently on MSNBC, C-SPAN AND CNN. But her most delicious credential is teaching a class called “Pizza and Politics” at Saint Anselm College...
...drained the allotted time with his own seemingly endless monologues. Out on the campaign trail as a two-time presidential candidate, he roused audiences with his fire and eloquence but sometimes turned them off with tactless blunders and goofs, like when he famously snapped at a voter before a C-SPAN camera and noted that in Delaware "you cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." In January 2007, on the day he launched his own presidential campaign, he was quoted in a newspaper describing Obama as "the first mainstream African...
...C-Span viewers this summer also have been treated to testimony by former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, and current Attorney General Michael Mukasey. They all appear to be cut from the same cloth. They may seem evasive. They may feign poor memories, inspired by the tactic’s success in the case of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. They may even invoke executive privilege. Yet beneath the veneer of forgetfulness and caution, they seek to entrench the same fundamental belief in the American psyche...
...nothing higher than Baywatch. The movie continues that dark, quiet tone, which means that today's moviegoers will have to forgo expectations of wisecracking heroes and snarling psychopaths, and to take seriously a couple of anguished folks who look and behave with the tired tenseness of anchors on C-SPAN...