C-SPAN AND STEVE SCULLY

For two mornings this week, our group of 700 was the audience for the C-Span morning call-in show with Steve Scully and for Brian Lamb’s interview show. I think we acquitted ourselves well. So many of our students lined up to ask questions that we could never get through them all. They were a curious and well-spoken crowd. We got to hear Juan Williams of NPR and Brett Baer of Fox News and a husband-wife team who spent three months in Iowa working for the Obama campaign.

Quotable quotes:

“Obama likes to be the Grand Decider.”

“News is now the province of the cable channels. Networks have moved away from it.”

“This inauguration will be a tremendous emotional moment that goes beyond the political.”

Juan Williams

“We finally realized we were too old to live on four hours of sleep, lots of caffeine and Cheetos.”

“We came away from Iowa with a great belief in the caucus process.”

Carol Wheeler about working on the Obama campaign in Iowa

“Three things will happen: The world will look at us differently; we will look at our country differently; and a significant portion of our population will look at themselves differently.”

Tom Wheeler about the Obama inauguration