C-Span 3

[Rage]

Is there such a channel? I thought I heard sombody talk about it.

[James_F]

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan3new.asp

[Rage]

Is it on DTV? I don't think it's on E* or I never noticed it.
I'm listening to an audio clip of Rep. Traficant speak and it's moving and powerful. I wish I could have seen it and the media isn't covering what he's saying. What a railroad job. There is not justice.

[James_F]

Sometimes giving Rage too much info isn't a good thing. :grin:

[Mark Holtz]

Neither DirecTV nor Dish have C-SPAN 3. Under the access rules where a certain number of channels are allocated for "public access", C-SPAN can only qualify as one channel even though there are three TV channels and one audio service.

[Steve Mehs]

I want to see CSPAN3 added!

[Rage]

I think you can get it over the net.

[Geronimo]

I have seen several stories on Rep. Traficant. The traditional media is covering it.

[Rage]

Same here but it's not what he really says because they just use sound bites. What he said was incredible and the media is not covering that. I just heard 2 hours of him with commercials added in. The media will put the Bush or Congress' spin on it supporting being railroaded. What's his crime? Telling the truth.

[James_F]

That and only taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his aides to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and on his houseboat in Washington. He is a criminal, how can you defend him?

[TNGTony]

I'm sure the same way people found a way to defend Clinton against 17 felony investigations. Oh and yeah that Monica thing too :)

Traficant is a crook. He needs to be ousted and charged.

See ya
Tony

[Rage]

Traficant is a hero and the charges against him are bogus. At least 300 members of Congress should be kicked out before him.
His only crime is telling it the way it is.

I give Rep. Traficant Rage's highest praise and honor.


"He is a criminal, how can you defend him?"

Trust me on this one although it won't matter. I never ever, ever supported a Democrat before and this guy needs our support. It's a lie and he's being railroaded for telling the truth. Did you know that this guy was one of the biggest opponent's of the Justice Department? And with the BS Homeland Security coming up they see it's best to not to have somebody around who tells the truth.

Do you want to know what caused this? He was the one who broke the story that the government was sending pilot licenses to Arabs who didn't have a hard address but to PO boxes in Saudi Arabia.

That's his crime.

[Rage]

Not to mention that this guy makes more sense in one sentence than the entire Congress does in 6 months time.

[jrjcd]

is traficant that fellow with the awful hairpiece???

[RJS1111111]

Originally posted by James_F
That and only taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering, and forcing his aides to perform chores at his farm in Ohio and on his houseboat in Washington. He is a criminal, how can you defend him?

Hmmm... Taking bribes, filing false tax returns...

Do you suppose, if true, that he is the only
current member of congress who has done or who
is doing these things? :lol:

What evidence was presented against him at the trial?

Racketeering...

That's a pretty vague charge. What does it mean?
What evidence was presented against him at the trial?

forcing his aides to perform chores at his farm in Ohio
and on his houseboat in Washington...

That's the most sensational charge yet! Do you mean
to say that he actually held his employees against their
will, and physically forced them to perform chores?
Horrors! :eek: :rolleyes: :eek: What kind of chores?
Did he also stop paying them? Were they possibly free
to leave whenever they chose to?

He has been convicted in Ohio, supposedly by a jury of
his peers, of who knows what all. It all sounds kind of
fishy to me. What is he saying in his own defense?

:shrug:

[James_F]

No, I'm not saying the rest of them aren't crooks. I'm a die-hard Democrat and a Bill Clinton apologist, but you have to start somewhere.