People from the Radio-Television Correspondents Association have sent a “formal complaint” to Senate Rules Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer because the Senate has denied C-SPAN the permission to provide round-the-clock coverage of people looking at Robert Byrd’s wrinkly old corpse as it lies in state in the Senate Chamber. It is implied that Byrd’s family doesn’t want cameras there. Come on Senate, can you please just let C-SPAN point a camera at Robert Byrd’s dead body for hours on end? The alternative is them airing the Elena Kagan hearings. WHICH ONE IS MORE ENTERTAINING? [Erika Lovely]
PEOPLE WHO DIED OF LOVING JUSTIN BIEBER TOO MUCH
July 1, 2010
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His fellow Klansmen prefer to remain off-camera.
Justin Bieber? Really?
In heaven, everyone is white.
If you had to stick a pop star in the blingee, it should have been John Denver. Much more appropriate.
I just hope Michelle doesn’t make Malia and Sasha kiss him in his coffin. That could cause permanent damage and even make them talk in voices that have conversations with each other.
If CSpan has shown Virginia Foxx, Mitch McConnell and Michele Bachmann — and aired their puerile logorrhea to boot — I can’t see where it would be less respectful to human dignity to show Senator Byrd lying in state.
I’d rather C=Span televise the Congressional gym. Not the bathroom or spas; just the few fat or fit who exercise. Or whatever goes on in there.
C-SPAN is so nosy…maybe there is some secret ritual us little people aren’t supposed to see.
For the disappointed KKK necromancers out there:
Just watch “Driving Miss Daisy” instead. Jessica Tandy is a Robert Byrd doppleganger, and she has nigras doing her bidding, like the Civil War told them too.
/problem solved
[re=610331]Sharkey[/re]: You jest, but the Politico commenters are in seriousness claiming the Dems don’t want people to see them praising the former KKK member who renounced it and apologized decades ago because they don’t want people to know they’re the REAL RACISTS.
WOAH! STUEF! PACE YOURSELF WITH DA BLINGEEZ YO!
U DON’T WANT TO BLOW YOUR WHOLE WAD THE FIRST MONTH!!!
The putrefaction will not be televised.
[re=610361]lochnessmonster[/re]: Yes, they use a device first introduced in the second century to remove the phylactery wearing rat he’s got in his anus, then immediately transplant the creature into another the anus of another host (someone without a family or anyone who will notice he’s missing) and then that host will sit in the Senate for another 60 years doing the bidding of the creature who controlling it. Can you spell R-O-T-H-C-H-I-L-D-S???
When was the last time CSPAN was ever allowed to show something worth seeing?
When you’re dealing with a chamber that has included members who thought the Internet was a series of tubes and others who have never in their 400 decades of life used an ATM, the less confusion about these new-fangled cameras and technology and media and stuff the better. Otherwise, we’re likely to end up with Robert Byrd’s corpse on the Supreme Court (which will still speak more often than Clarence Thomas) and Elena Kagan having to use a fiddle to hammer her way out of a pine box buried on a West Virginia mountainside.
Jack you must be patient and wait for Sessions & Vitter to upload their cell phone vids. Ol’ Jeffie will be posting on hiz history site Exalted_Cyclops.org, while Shitter Vitter will posting on hiz family values site Poop_Poopy_Do.org.
How about having a taxidermied Robert Byrd set up as an animatronic greeter to the Capitol Visitors’ Center? He could play a reel on his fiddle and tell old stories about Daniel Webster and Ted Stevens.
Because Bird has appeared to be dead for years, C-Span could just fake it with archive footage.
[re=610382]chascates[/re]: In other words, turn the place into a Chuck E. Cheese’s?
[re=610394]Guppy06[/re]: But with worse food.
Couldn’t they just tap into a security camera? It seems like that’s what they do most of the time anyway.
[re=610382]chascates[/re]: That’ll fit right in with the log flume ride in there.
In life, Byrd had great love and respect for the Senate. In death, he’s just stinking to shit out of the place.
Closed casket in the Senate Gallary. Just saying.
Besides, the angle of the C-Span cameras there would just have shown you the backsides of all of the pols, so no loss unless you are a closeted Republican.
I had some nasty things to say to folks here but thought again. Here’s a guy that could have been Strom-Lite but became a real person. Up from nothing, self educated – a real throw back, you know, like a Lincoln. He became more than anyone could have expected because of what he expected of himself. Who of us has made so much of so little (not me). Goodbye Senator.
Who is that dark skinned man dancing in the blingee? Something about his face is strangely familiar.
This is pretty much the equivalent of live video — better, since I’m sure live video would’ve had crowds filing through. http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/interactive/2010/07/senator-byrd-lies-in-state.php?ref=fpb
[re=610582]WHAT?[/re]: When he died I put my copy of Robert Byrd: Mountain Fiddler on and listened to it while doing the dishes. And thought about his speech against Dubya’s invasion of Iraq and how I drove around for half an hour on the way back from lunch so I could hear as much of it as possible. And how he got wheeled into the Senate at midnight to cast a deciding one of the procedural votes on healthcare. And I’m so glad he held on for as long as he did, because if he hadn’t lived for that final vote, I’d still be chewing bits of my arms off in anger.
And don’t imagine that we haven’t paid our respects in other places earlier just because we’re all catty and unclassy now — but he wasn’t perfect. He was also known for long, pointless incomprehensible rambling, the decades as an unrepentant racist and the disastrous effort to ease the way of the Clinton healthcare bill through the Senate. If you want to be disgusted with someone, try Steve Forbes.
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