A caller to C-Span this morning, who identified himself as a Republican from North Carolina, accused the network of taking too many phone calls from black people.
“You have black folks calling in on the Republican line, independents. And you have so many of ’em I can’t believe this is just an accident. If you keep on with the way you’ve been programming, you should change your name from C-Span to black-span,” he said. “I know they have an opinion but I wish that they would be honest and call in on the right line.”
“Everyone one of ’em thinks that Obama is Jesus Christ and they don’t like when anybody criticizes him,” he added.
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Late Update: It’s worth remembering that there’s been suspicion about potential C-Span crank callers in the past. In December, the blogosphere was abuzz with a caller to C-Span who was quite alarmed while speaking to Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), wondering if his prayers to strike Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd dead had instead hurt Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe, who’d missed a morning procedural vote on health care reform. We found evidence at the time that the call could be a prank. Today’s caller doesn’t sound like the same person to us, but it’s worth remembering that C-Span may have been crank called in the past.
