The problem with CSPAN is audience exposure. CSPAN is a cable/satellite channel, not a broadcast channel. Even in this day, millions of households do not have cable.

Additionally, there is no way in hell the networks, their OnO’s, or many of their independent affiliates would agree to simulcast CSPAN. Ain’t gonna happen.

Everybody else was just yak yak yak. I am not stupid I don’t them telling me what I just heard.

Time to put the thing on C-Span.

On being telegenic:

I’m with you on that account.

Let’s use one famous example: Abraham Lincoln. I mean, that guy was tall and gangly — he had Marfan Syndrome, after all. This guy was NOT telegenic, in other words. So, if they had TV back in 1860, would he have been elected? Maybe, and maybe not.

More on Marfan:

http://www.marfan.org/nmf/index.jsp

Personally, being a son of the South, with most of my ancestors being in the South at the time, I would have to say that whether or not he was telegenic or not wouldn’t have mattered much. Slavery would have been a wash — my ancestors weren’t slave owners (that I know of) and neither would I have been, so it wouldn’t have been a PERSONAL issue to me. It wasn’t for most of the Southern voters of that time, either — most voters didn’t own slaves, anyway. I just can’t see myself supporting something like that, even then. I suspect that I would have voted against him anyway, but not because he wasn’t telegenic or because of his stance on slavery. I would have voted against him because of his stance on States’ Rights, and I would have voted against him because of his policies on export taxation and domestic spending.

JMO, but I think we worry way too much about what candidates look like – being teeveegenic is too important to people. Half our best presidents wouldn’t be elected today ’cause they were too funky looking or had crappy speaking voices or odd mannerisms. Kerry isn’t a jerkweed because he looks like Lurch and speaks like Thurston Howell, he’s a jerkweed because he’s a jerkweed.

Stephen Green at VodkaPundit will be drunkblogging it:

http://vodkapundit.com/archives/006780.php

Now, whether or not he’ll be in any condition to do any sort of fast fisking or fact checking afterwards remains to be seen…

Bush Urges Supporters to Help Floridians

Kerry campaign officials said they were happy Bush had agreed to all three debates and cared little about the rules, some of which the commission said are unenforceable because camera angles are controlled by the television networks.

Channel Ann Coulter for your snappy cynicsm here:

Kabuki Dance: Yep, my sentiments exactly. There’s nothing either candidate can say or do that will convince me to swing my vote. Well, unless GW starts doing a Dr. Strangelove thing, and all that’ll do is convince me to stay home. Of course, the chance of that happening are about the same as the chance of my stepping out the door to get the paper and getting hit by a meteorite. MUCH less of a chance even than getting hit by lightning.

A great idea whose time has come. There is little or no reason at all to invest any trust in the MSM’s technological/informational complex, equal to or even exceeding the power, in its own way, of Eisenhower’s military/industrial complex.

Trust, whether consciously or unconsciously committed to, is always an investment. The MSM hasn’t earned it, very much to the contrary.