C-SPAN

Forgive me for coming a little late to this party.  Honestly, I needed to test my thoughts before posting what you see below.

Here's my bottom line: I have no problem with C-Span requesting that it be allowed to cover what is currently expected to be behind-closed-doors negotiations on health care reform.  But C-Span made a huge mistake in releasing or leaking it's request or by not understanding that it was making the request in a way that was virtually guaranteed to be leaked by others.  In doing so C-Span inserted itself in the political process and inappropriately and quite unfortunately became part of the story.  You expect this from Fox; you recoil when it's done by a supposedly neutral observer like C-Span.

I like and appreciate C-SPAN and have great admiration for it's founder, Brian Lamb.

But my appearance on Christmas morning was the first time I had been C-SPAN for about a decade. There are two reasons.

First, they haven't called.

Second, I haven't reached out to them because the calls you receive while on the air are often from very angry people for who facts and rational arguments are of little interest.