The Black-SPAN Caller Was Right
Granted, he could have chosen his words better…
Not to mention a slightly (but expected) misleading title from The Huffington Post
Mediaite’s Jon Bershad points out that this isn’t the first time C-SPAN’s Bill Scanlan’s had to sit through a hateful diatribe, noting that, “In January he got to have a discussion with a caller who wanted less Jews on the air.” On that occasion, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg didn’t care much for Scanlan’s noncommittal approach to taking the call, assailing him for not doing anything to challenge the caller or cut him off.
Let me better make the point for ‘Bill from North Carolina’….
As black people vote 90-95% for Democrats, for some to call in to C-SPAN on the Republican line and then praise Barack Obama is the epitome of disingenuous. If anything, Bill Scanlan should have cut those black callers off because they misrepresentation who they were. To call both Bills asleep at the wheel and racist is what we’ve come to expect from the left.
C-SPAN’s subsequent apology for the call was spineless.
April 3rd, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Of course, but why is this guy listening to C-SPAN? Was he thinking he was going to become informed?
April 3rd, 2010 at 5:36 pm
“Granted, he could have chosen his words better…”
It seemed to me that he was trying very hard to choose his words carefully.
April 3rd, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Well, he could have quoted the 2010 Census and use the word ‘negro‘.
April 3rd, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Their Seminar Callers are “grassroots”. Just ask ‘em.
Our callers are “teabaggers” and worse. Just ask ‘em.
April 5th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
machine – hypocrisy anyone?
April 5th, 2010 at 6:27 pm
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