Haven’t we learned by now not to believe this guy?

Here is what Wikipedia says about the origin of C-SPAN:

Brian Lamb, C-SPAN’s chairman and CEO, conceived of C-SPAN while working at Cablevision, a cable industry trade magazine, as their Washington, D.C. bureau chief. C-SPAN was created as a cable-industry financed, non-profit network for televising sessions of the U.S. Congress and other public affairs event and policy discussions. Bob Rosencrans, a cable industry pioneer, was alone in providing the initial seed funding of $25,000 to start up C-SPAN. It receives no funding from any government source, has no contract with the government, and does not sell sponsorships or advertising. It strives for neutrality and a lack of bias in its public affairs programming.

So where did Obama get the right to promise C-SPAN’s coverage in the first place? It would be totally up to C-SPAN, not him. Does he even understand that C-SPAN is a private company and not an arm of the government? It appears that he was just using C-SPAN as a cheap prop in a shallow campaign promise.

But now that C-SPAN has offered to cover the health care debates, both the Executive and Legislative branches of the government are suddenly shy about letting We The People see what they are up to.

Now that’s change (and transparency) I can believe in.