Comments on: "Once again, no history": Sen. Chuck Grassley's regular updates on the state of The History Channel

By: AnthonyC

AnthonyC — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 02:25:00 +0000

Food Network, the Cooking channel, and HGTV still seem pretty faithful to me…

By: kent williams

kent williams — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:15:00 +0000

Sympathize all you want with with Grassley’s complaints about History Channel, but be aware that he’s a right-wing conservative, was one of the original purveyors of the ‘Death Panel’ myth about the Health Care Reform Bill, and in general is a disagreeable old coot.

I’m 54 years old, and I remember the beginning of his political career, in the 1970s. Back then I started seeing his campaign ads and thought ‘who is this idiot?’ Apparently an idiot with staying power. His exaggerated corn-pone accent, his hyper-politicized alignment with the most partisan and destructive wing of the GOP, all make cringe every time he comes up in conversation.

I guess he should be thankful for Steve King, who is a bigger moron than he is. Otherwise he’d stand alone as Iowa’s foremost laughing stock.

By: humanresource

humanresource — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:41:00 +0000

Won’t somebody, PLEASE, think of the Nazis?

By: spejic

spejic — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:32:00 +0000

There is a reason why this is important to Congress. Years ago during an attempt to cut funding to Public Television, the main argument for was that private cable channels (like The History Channel) were already providing educational and documentary programming, and PBS wasn’t needed.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:37:00 +0000

Doesn’t the HI Story Channel just run Behind the Music: Queen Liluokalani back to back?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:26:00 +0000

And Music Television aired mostly music videos.

For about six weeks in 1981.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:12:00 +0000

It seemed like the Autopsy & Exhumation channel for a while.

By: IronEdithKidd

IronEdithKidd — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:40:00 +0000

And Bravo had uncut movies.

By: brianary

brianary — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:28:00 +0000

And A&E had some semblance of Arts & Entertainment, rather than hoarding and bounty hunting.

By: Ambiguity

Ambiguity — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:54:00 +0000

And Channel 45 had Captain Chesapeake.

Er, never mind.

By: MooseDesign

MooseDesign — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:41:00 +0000

I’m waiting for him to turn his gaze and lambasting back to FOX once he realizes how little information there is about Vulpes vulpes (foxes).

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:39:00 +0000

Why, when the free market is doing such a good jo….

Oooooooooooh!

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:03:00 +0000

I have an explanation for all of this:

ANCIENT ALIENS

By: iheijoushin

iheijoushin — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:52:00 +0000

Glad to see not all Conservatives are a bunch of anti-intellectuals. If only folks like Grassley raised their voice more in defense of the value of education and life-long learning. Fight the good fight!

By: z7q2

z7q2 — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:33:00 +0000

Indeed, the only channels that seem to have stuck to the original script are C-SPAN and the Golf Channel

By: Daneel

Daneel — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:07:00 +0000

And CNN had news (I assume).

By: cservant

cservant — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:04:00 +0000

I support this. HI Story Channel. Where one get HI on stories.

By: Thad Boyd

Thad Boyd — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:50:00 +0000

And Cartoon Network didn’t run live-action shows.

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:42:00 +0000

And Music Television aired mostly music videos.

By: Sean Breakey

Sean Breakey — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:39:00 +0000

Back in the day The Learning Channel had Learning, History Channel had History, Space Channel Space, and the Discovery Channel Science. As proof positive of how bad this is getting, Discovery has a spin off called Discovery SCIENCE.

By: danimagoo

danimagoo — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:35:00 +0000

For the love of God, don’t give them any ideas.

By: Lord Byte

Lord Byte — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:30:00 +0000

Maybe they should just pull a Sy Fy and call it the Hi! Story channel :)

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:19:00 +0000

Seriously, if it’s not something like: Bog Folk, Raccoon Grapplers, or Antique Mall Jerks, then it’s Ancient UFO Mummy Pilots of Jerusalem.

By: Jonathan Badger

Jonathan Badger — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:13:00 +0000

Of course, when it did show history 10 or 15 years ago, it was known as the Hitler channel as it showed endless WW2 footage…

By: That_Anonymous_Coward

That_Anonymous_Coward — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:04:00 +0000

You know I feel the same way about Congress.
They are supposed to be passing laws and doing the work to benefit the nation, but they seem to be stuck having who has got the bigger balls contest.

Are you sure the tweests are real? This is a good way to check…
https://twitter.com/fivethirtyeight/status/161517312766255104