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Quite Frankly, this is bizarre
Montana Redhead (now with letters) Started conversation Oct 19, 2003
So I'm flipping thru channels, and then there's the most bizarre thing I have ever seen. It's a cartoon, mocking that abysmally bad MTV show TRL...called CRL (Congressional Request Live). The premise is that C-SPAN gets hip, and presents senate hearings as videos...
I was on the floor, and quite shocked by the clarity of the political statements.
Quite Frankly, this is bizarre
Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Oct 19, 2003
Weird! What were the political statements?
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Z Posted Oct 19, 2003
That is bizarre, but sounds fun, how long are the videos?
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Montana Redhead (now with letters) Posted Oct 19, 2003
Not very long. It's cut very much like MTV is. They had some girl requesting Tom Daschle's senate speech regarding the funding for the Iraq war (the 87 billion) and then the host was talking about the 4th congressional district in Georgia, and how it's newly elected congresswoman was standing against pork barrel politics...very strange.
What shocked me was that they actually managed to make politics seem interesting. C-SPAN is so incredibly boring...I could see this actually working. perhaps it would get younger people interested in politics!!!
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Researcher 220282 Posted Oct 19, 2003
thank the Goddess I dont get US mtv
UK mtv is bad enough 
apart from that how are you and life *on that side of the pond* 
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marvthegrate LtG KEA Posted Oct 19, 2003
MR, what network was it on? Comedy Central?
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Oct 19, 2003
And what do you suppose was the point of the exercise?
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Montana Redhead (now with letters) Posted Oct 20, 2003
VH1, actually. Life on this side of the pond is getting tricky. I went to LAX this morning and felt like a criminal. I really wish this whole War on Terror would find Osama and Saddam and get the damned thing over with, already. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but still.
I think the point of doing "the exercise" is to prove just how lowest common denominator the US is sometimes. If you think about it, how many people who don't have direct dealings with government actually watch C-SPAN? I know I don't, except for the occasional viewing of book talk, when the author is someone I want to know more about (usually a historian).
I think it is also a commentary on just how much youth culture guides US culture.
Quite Frankly, this is bizarre
Researcher 220282 Posted Oct 20, 2003
I agree with what you are saying about 'terror' the houses of parliament look more like dover during WW2 at the moment with concrete blocks all round 
gawd I get VH1 
to remove from favorites 
just as an *aside* cable in the UK has started showing the 'REALITY' tv channel I'm starting to wonder where it will all end *pay per view* executions????????
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- 1: Montana Redhead (now with letters) (Oct 19, 2003)
- 2: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Oct 19, 2003)
- 3: Z (Oct 19, 2003)
- 4: Montana Redhead (now with letters) (Oct 19, 2003)
- 5: Researcher 220282 (Oct 19, 2003)
- 6: marvthegrate LtG KEA (Oct 19, 2003)
- 7: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Oct 19, 2003)
- 8: Montana Redhead (now with letters) (Oct 20, 2003)
- 9: Researcher 220282 (Oct 20, 2003)
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