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Eli Lake Loses the Basement Dweller Vote

A C-SPAN caller gets an earful from the Daily Beast’s Eli Lake

by
Adam Chandler
May 07, 2013
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C-SPAN, which delivers joy to so many terrible callers, got dashed with a little hot sauce from Eli Lake after a caller charged that Israel controls the United States government.

A question that may be difficult for some to answer is whether Lake’s response was fair or appropriate. A better question: Should Eli Lake host his own call-in show on C-SPAN? Obviously yes.

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.