Recently in one of my “Random Thoughts” posts I asked the question……. Whose idea was it to have a History Channel without any history”?
I do not understand why we have a history channel with very little history on it, instead it is filled with gator chasers, catfish idiots and modern dumpster divers…..about the closet thing to history on the channel is “Ax Men”….why? They are cutting down history by destroying old growth forest…..
Over the years I have said many things about GOP lawmakers….some not so good……and for maybe the first time in history(there is that word again) I find myself agreeing with Sen. Chuck Grassley. a Repub from Iowa….I know I am not too thrilled to find him and I agreeing on anything…but alas we do….
“I love history,” Grassley wrote in an email to The Washington Examiner. “A better understanding is going to strengthen our country. It’s going to strengthen patriotism.”
Plus non-history programming represents an unfulfilled promise by the network. “When I signed up for the History Channel on my satellite service, I expected to get history,” he said. “Instead, all I see are people chopping wood or driving trucks on an icy road.”
Back in February Grassley began tweeting about his discontent with the History Channel’s programming. “No history,” he tweeted “I used to get history. Why do we have such a channel when it doesn’t do history?”
As the Examiner reports, about a week later Grassley turned on the History Channel again and was still not pleased with what he saw. Again he took to Twitter to express outrage. “When will they put history back on the channel,” he tweeted.
The only thing we can learn by watching the History Channel is how NOT to fish for catfish or why you should avoid driving in the Arctic…….in other words NOTHING!
I am going to join him on his crusade on Twitter to get the History Channel to actually show history and leave the reality BS to the moronic channels like Tru TV……….
Evidently no one at the History Channel is on Twitter or at the least, subscribed to Grassley’s Tweet feed.
Maybe he ought to go on the Senate floor and let C-SPAN broadcast his indignation. They’re on cable with the History Channel right? 🙂
Larry, my cable company has replaced C-SPAN with garbage…..but it is good idea…..
WHAT!!!???? No C-Span? F*** THAT!
I’m hoping they finally convince the Supreme Court to let in cameras. It’s B.S they don’t have. I guess they dob’t want people to see how full of shit they are.
I agree…cameras would keep them ‘honest’, well as honest as possible…it will be almost impossible to keep they totally honest…..
“Larry, my cable company has replaced C-SPAN with garbage”
Well there you go then. They’re just fulfilling their corporate sponsored mandate
Oh so true…..right now on the channel that use to be C-SPAN is Divorce court followed by some judge show….and that is the whole damn day….it is disgusting!
I remember when the History Channel was nothing but a bunch of WWII stories featuring great shot of Hitlers Germany.
Me too hansi…..we use to call it the Hitler Channel…but at least it was historical stuff….and not the Redneck Olympics….
History Channel induced my obsession with WWII….
mine was the early American history and such……
Lobotero,
Literally, I watch only five channels: History; National Geographic; C-Span; MSNBC; and Fox News.
My favorite USED to be History, until they, as you say, began putting that stupid reality crap on, like that dumb Larry the Cable Guy show. Ugh. The only time they put history shows on is usually late at night or early morning, when most are asleep.
I guess Americans have an aversion to knowledge, so to save ratings, they put those asinine hick shows on….Ugh.
If Grassley somehow brings about a change in their shoddy programming, the mantra will be, henceforth, “Grassley 4 President!”
Terrance we watch some of the same channels….MSNBC, History, C-SPAN (in the good old days), Syfy……TVland for entertainment…..about 5-6 hrs a day…the rest of the time I am reading….
LOL @ Redneck Olympics. I really like their documentaries on the apocalypse and religion. I think the Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men are for them to compete with the equally useless reality shows on other channels.
Spinny, for me the historical stuff like the Am.revolution, French one too and the Dark Ages….stuff like that….