C-SPAN 2 Got Interesting In A Very C-SPAN 2 Kind Of Way

Oct 18, 2010 19:42

If you’ve ever watched C-SPAN or C-SPAN 2 with any regularity, you know that it is the opposite of salacious. Usually the most interesting thing that can happen while you’re watching it is that you realize that you can recognize Senator Evan Bayh by voice alone. But recently on Book TV (the Lost of C-SPAN 2), something really strange happened. A ( Read more... )

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soldoutmatinee October 19 2010, 00:10:27 UTC
so awkward

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luvlorn October 19 2010, 19:20:15 UTC
Once on cspan I saw Fidel Castro making fun of George W Bush (basically implying the guy couldn't read by talking about Bush's favorite book being "the Very Hungry Caterpillar" when he was a kid, except the book wasn't published until Bush was in his 20's). It was all very tongue in cheek except the translator wasn't picking up on it and kept monotone the whole time. So I was thinking, "am I really hearing this? Fidel Castro is funny?"

Anyway this woman does seem like the crazy type. I like her.

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azetburcaptain October 22 2010, 05:14:12 UTC
Video. Please!!!

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luvlorn October 22 2010, 16:31:42 UTC
I wish I could find one. I could only find some articles about it. Apparently he was quoting Michael Moore. Very tl;dr article, but it's the cached page so it's partly highlighted: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:35rypoLLcZQJ:www.counterpunch.org/castro07302004.html+Fidel+Castro+Hungry+Caterpillar&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

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