FOXNews.com - C-SPAN CEO: Obama Used Us as 'Political Football': "C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb accused President Obama of using his network as a 'political football' during the presidential campaign, citing the president's broken pledge to televise health care reform negotiations on the nonpartisan channel which is devoted to covering Washington.
Lamb, speaking on liberal host Bill Press' radio show Wednesday, said Obama had 'no right' to assume C-SPAN would cover the talks in the first place. And while he said his network would naturally want to cover the negotiations in full anyway, Lamb expressed disappointment that the White House has not lived up to that commitment.
He said the 'only time' the network has been allowed to cover the White House's involvement in the talks was a 'one-hour' event in the East Room which he described as a 'show-horse' affair.
'We are an independent journalistic institution, and the president, when he was a candidate, had no right to assume that we would cover anything ... That was the first thing. We were used as kind of a political football during the campaign,' Lamb said, according to an audio recording of the interview posted on Breitbart.tv but not available on Press's radio show's Web site.
'We obviously would cover these negotiations. ... It's just a gut reaction that if we pay for something, and it's the public's business, we ought to be able to see how it's done,' he added."
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