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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI just did something I've never done.
I sometimes use C-SPAN to follow the hearings while I'm working.
I decided to keep it on during a pause in the hearings and listen to the call-in segment.
Where, exactly, do these callers come from? Half of the callers on the "Democratic" line are either Republicans or very, very ignorant people. Ditto for the alleged independents.
I was once surprised at how close I came to convincing a graduate student - a geology graduate student - that clocks in the southern hemisphere go in the other direction because of the Coriolis Effect. Now I know where such graduate students come from.
wryter2000
(46,082 posts)Those "Democrats" are Republicans. That would be easy to do and just the sort of dishonesty they'd relish.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)C Span's call in line attracts a fair number of whackos. You'd think it wouldn't, but it does. It's the one negative about C Span.
rurallib
(62,448 posts)but the right took it over long ago.
I did the same thing you did a couple of days ago and was saddened to hear that nothing had changed.
Such a waste of CSPAN time.
a kennedy
(29,707 posts)not many fake callers at that time, but it sure has changed now, dont listen to them at all now.....
Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)so you get a lot of paid callers on those chat lines, I'm sure. The phone equivalent of sock puppets and bots.