Why God Invented C-SPAN

By Karen Tumulty | July 17, 2009 | +

From this morning’s Washington Journal. If only it were REALLY like this:

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gysgt213

KT-can you release from mod. Thanks,
deconstructiva

Isn’t Congress already really like this?
Or just the music is missing? If they only played background tunes like at a shopping mall (Bachmann Turn Her Overdrive?) ….
http://twitter.com/ktumulty Karen Tumulty

Simone Bolivar has liberated your comment, Gunny. But let’s work on that pottymouth.

Except, of course, in this instance:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1910691,00.html
deconstructiva

…what was the pottymouthed word? Feinstein?
yoshiattack

I’ve followed the auto-tune series from #2. It’s one of the the freshest things to come to YouTube.
dunedweller

Wiki says Jane Hamsher is a contributor to political blogs, so I guess that makes all of us commenters members of the media too. Guess we won’t be getting in to see DiFi anytime soon.
Commenter 2B named later

Yes, the auto-tune series is incredible. I can’t stop listening to it. (Really. Someone help me.)