C-span's Brian has a hissy!

[alaine]

In response to several calls (during a spot with a Post journalist) asking why the Bush family scandals are not covered more in the press. A female caller started in on them asking why they never report about the fact that the Bush family "has been in bed with the Saudis since the thirties" and why "Prescott Bush and the Nazis" are never make the papers or the fact that "the Bush family have ruined this country".

The reporter had responded that the Bushes are boring people and "go to bed early", etc, which we all know is a bunch of complete crap...But at the point where the caller recommended everyone read "Forbidden Truth", Brian broke in and insisted that "We do, we do report these things" and got red in the face and started raising his voice and then practically yelled "What more do you want?"

I was pretty shocked as I've never seen him act like a shock-jock.
What's up with him? Is he a shrubber or something?

[AbbieLives]

1. Conservative Fridays with Brian Lamb....

totally suck. I didn't realize that it was Friday until I turned on C-Span this morning. Turned it off about 3 seconds later.

[alaine]

3. So I guess he is one of them...

I usually watch the house and the senate and I almost never watch when they are interviewing repubs because I can't stand it, but (and this was a repeat from earlier) but I stayed on this one because there were several callers in a row that said the same thing. It was a trip to see him totally lose his cool like that.

I want our scandal-mongering press back. The media has been on their heroic best behavior since 9/11 and I am sick of Bush etc, getting special treatment just because he was resident during 9/11. I mean, my God, Hillary never ran over anyone with her car, and Clinton didn't have a criminal record, and they rip them to shreds on a regular basis. Brian needs to take some valium and get used to it, because it is only going to get worse.

[blm]

2. he's been like that for a long time, alaine.

We're pretty used to it by now.

[arcane1]

4. "We do, we do report these things"

:wtf:


since WHEN?????

:shrug:

[bpilgrim]

5. wow - people are starting to crack

they are realizing their worst fears and that is what gets people so worked up, imho.

peace

[mandyky]

6. I like Brian Lamb

Not sure he is conservative as much as he is the boss (at CSpan), and he gets it from both sides - we say he's too conservative and the freepers jump on him for being too liberal

[jonnyblitz]

8. i like him also..

most partisans only like to hear their own side and always accuse somebody who does both sides of being on the other side.

[alaine]

10. Oh come now.

You have to admit there has been a dearth of information in the press about the Bushes. Let's put it this way, if these same things were true of the Clintons (which is not to say there are not scandals, I've read Palast's book) Bill and Hillary would have been stripped of their citizenship and deported by now, either that or executed as traitors.

The callers were simply asking why the info is not covered in the press, why doesn't it even get that far?

[CafeToad]

12. Yeah, hardly anyone I know knows this story . . .

This is the extraordinary story of a dinner date that was scheduled to happen on March 31st 1981, the day of the strange assassination attempt on the life of former President Ronald Reagan. What should have been the biggest story of the 1980's seems to have been wiped clean from history, systematically prevented from ever again being mentioned by corporate media.

Held at the home of Neil Bush, the son of George Herbert Walker Bush, who himself was the very ambitious former CIA director and current Vice President, the guest of honor at the dinner party (which was quickly cancelled after news of the failed attempt on the life of the President), was Scott Hinckley, the brother of John Hinckley, the man who just that afternoon shots President Ronald Reagan, coming one half-inch from killing him.

A half-inch from putting George H.W. Bush, into the White House



http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/issues/v2issue3/features/bushempire.shtml

[mandyky]

15. CSpan's Washington Journal

Covers what is in newspapers mostly. Brian's point is that people call in all the time and bring stuff up, but if it is not in newspapers, what do expect CSpan to do? BTW, Last month CSpan did do profiles on some web sites.

Also, the guy on today was the gossip columnists from the WP, who is now going up to NY to a gossip rag. This guy was the one who gave Tim Robbins a ration of crap at a cocktail party, back during the leadup to the war.

[alaine]

16. Which I think is why the caller asked the question.

You'd think a gossip columnist would have a field day with the Bushes. And I don't really know why Brian felt so moved to break in and overreact like that , but he did.

[librechik]

7. watch Book TV this weekend--Prescott Bush subject both days

Poor old Brian. He actually believes they are covering the liberal side. They do better than most--I wish the rest of TV were as balanced.

[alaine]

9. True, thanks to the senate and house cameras. (n/t)

[Richardo]

11. You won't like it - a puff piece by a local Houston sportswriter/author...

:puffpiece:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=1B0MTRBDBA&isbn=1401600093&itm=6

The Booknotes segment was a sparsely-attended event at the B&N where Richardo moonlights. I was not there for the whole thing and couldn't really hear what the discussion was about.

But the "crowd" looked pretty subdued.

Blurb: (puke alert!)
Prescott Bush is the only person in U.S. history to be father of a U.S. President, grandfather of a U.S. President, and grandfather of a state governor.Duty, Honor, Country is more than a biography of the U.S. Senator from Connecticut, although it is that. It looks at the principles that Prescott Bush passed on like family heirlooms to his five children, including George H.W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States: discipline, duty, ethics, commitment, courage, honor, honesty, loyalty, and responsibility. And it looks at the ways the Bush family legacy has made Prescott Bush, former President George Bush, George W. Bush, and Jeb Bush give themselves to public service. "My father believed in the concept of noblesse oblige," said former President George Bush. "You made your money and you had a duty to serve the community or your country."

Written with the encouragement and enthusiasm of former President Bush, the book is a readable story of noblesse oblige in action, from the time Prescott Bush served in town government in Greenwich, Connecticut, to his career as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut, to his role in passing far-reaching legislation in the Eisenhower years. It also deals honestly with Prescott Bush's alleged business relationships with Nazi industrialists and other accusations. Half of the book also shows how the commitment to public service was lived out in the lives of Prescott's children and grandchildren, focusing on his son George H.W. Bush and his grandsons George W. Bush and Jeb Bush.

An obvious pander - the book came out in February and is currently in the 200,000's in the B&N sales rank.

[alaine]

13. Yep, looks pretty scary.

Thanks for the warning.

[TacticalPeek]

14. he does it well.

I know of nobody on tv that splits the baby as well as Brian Lamb. He is the best out there as a true "host" or "moderator". And his interviews are very good, also, if one appreciates the passive, Socratic approach.

[alaine]

19. Well he sure wasn't passive today.

I think someone touched a nerve. He could have just let the reporter answer the question. I had already assumed the reporter had puke leanings, but I was interested to hear his denials.

I think the truth is that these reporters and journalists are too scared to touch the powerful Bush family because they don't want to endanger their credibility by associating themselves with what are viewed to be "conspiracy theories", which unfortunately leaves them with little Bush material they can put their hands on since this family and it's associates are mired in scandal and conspiracy and greed.

[Cha]

17. I got to hear the Best thing on C-span this morning when I woke

up! It was the last of the calls on whatever question..but it was from a lady from Illinois I believe and she was excited--talking about Bev Harris and the voting machines and she let out all kinds of truth. And, of course, brian had to cut her off at some point, but she got in a lot Great info. I wish I remember more but it was when I first woke up and I know Bev Harris stood out!!

Did anyone else hear that call?

That's all I heard of conservative Friday and it was a treat!
:kick:

[DagmarK]

18. I remember when I just LOVED Brian Lamb.......

back in the days when I was willing to have cable.....the Clinton years.

Just LOVED his discussions and him......

He has really sold his soul........

[bearfartinthewoods]

20. this is the second time in two days i have seen a subject title that

i feel misrepresents the events. maybe it's to be expected because we all see things through our own filter but i saw the show referenced here and cannot agree with the title.

red-faced and yelling? shock jock?

not by my estimation......

[dwillison]

21. I would imagine he gets tired of hearing the same partisan

dribble from both sides everytime he opens the phones up.

[salmonhorse]

22. He does not report on them, the Bush family oligarchy, like he did...

...throughout his party's throwing away $70,000,000 while chasing Clinton's penis for eight (8) straight freaking years and counting and he knows it. He therefore lies right into the camera every time he makes so lame a claim ~

He is a rightwing Republican partisan from way back; the lion cannot change his spots to save his ass.