C-Span's Bigot-Friendly Policy

No, no one from C-SPAN has called me back to answer my questions about why call-in bigots are allowed free air-time to rant endlessly about Jews and other apparently objectionable groups. It's easier to get calls back from the White House than it is from C-SPAN, at least on this particular Wednesday. In any case, here's a useful compendium of anti-Semite sewage voiced on C-SPAN in recent days. An excerpt:

C-SPAN HOST ROBB HARLSTON: Lets take a 2nd call from Atlanta. This one on our line for Democrats. You're on the Washington Journal.

CALLER: How you doing this morning?

HARLSTON: Just fine Sir, go ahead.

CALLER: Okay. Listen, I feel we need to come to the problem- to the root of the problem - and I think the Jews that's actually there in Palestine - they are pretended Jews. It's just like white folks from South Africa (indistinct) but they went over and took the people's land, language and their culture and then called themselves South Africans. There was Jews already over there in that land. They were darkey Jews. These European Jews - they are pretended Jews. They are the scum of the planet Earth and they are just like their father, the Devil.

Harlston did not intervene.

Here's another:

CALLER: "Good morning. What I want to say is that Iran has the full right to test anything they want in their land. The only problem with Iran and the only reason that the media here puts a lot of attention on Iran is that they are anti-Zionist, which Zionism is a theology or methodology of ethnically cleansing the Christians and Muslim Palestinians from Palestine to make it a Jewish majority state called Israel. You call it "Israel," I call it the "fourth reich" and the "fourth reich" controls the media here and so they set the agenda on what is important and they keep fear mongering people about Iran."

C-SPAN HOST PAUL ORGEL: "Should Israel be concerned over its security with Iran apparently having the ability to strike it?"

CALLER: "Well, if you notice how insecure Hitler was, the Third Reich was, because they had bad intentions - Hitler had bad intentions - for he was always insecure about Russia and everybody against him. Because he was out against everybody - Hitler was. The same thing with the Jews. They are against everybody."

PAUL ORGEL: "That's the view from Baltimore, Maryland."