Since we're in the initial, formative hours of the creation of the channel, I'll submit to the community whether nearly pure commentary from the mouths of pundits should be part of the "news" channel.

Take these two videos:

http://politics.videosift.com/video/John-McCain-Blames-Barack-Obama-For-high-Price-Of-Gas
http://politics.videosift.com/video/Andrew-Card-Laughed-Off-Of-Morning-Joe-for-Time-Horizon

My inclination is to say they should be included simply because of the source, if not the content, but I'd love to hear others weigh in.

>> ^Irishman:
So rather than set a timeline, they have made time non-linear, they are fucking GENIUSES. With this technology they could solve the world's energy problems in about ten minutes. That's MINUS ten minutes to you people still working with linear time.

Finally Gene Ray is getting the recognition he deserves. Four Corner Time, Cubes Earth!

RE: Two minutes of hate...

That crossed my mind too. It was pretty uncomfortable.
Though, many feel that Andrew Card played an instrumental role in selling a war to the U.S. public based on fabricated premises with horrific and hateful consequences a great deal more significant than two minutes of booing and catcalls.

The students of University of Massachusetts Amherst who protested Andrew Card receiving an honorary degree were expressing their displeasure after their initial organized attempts to persuade the university to abandon the decision fell on deaf ears. They were well within their rights of free speech and protest is not always comfortable.

In 2007, Card received an honorary degree in public service from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The decision by the university administration to give Card the degree was met with protests and petitions from thousands of university students, faculty, staff, and community members. They argued that Card played a leading role in disseminating deceptive and misleading evidence to justify the Iraq War. At the May 25, 2007 graduate school commencement ceremony, hundreds of students, faculty, and staff protested the award with boos and catcalls as Andrew Card accepted the degree. Protesters, including many faculty on stage, drowned out Provost Charlena Seymour's remarks, asserting that Card lied about the Iraq war.

Andrew Hill "Andy" Card Jr. (born May 10, 1947) is an American businessman, former state legislator, and was President George W. Bush's first White House Chief of Staff and the head of the White House Iraq Group. He announced his resignation on March 28, 2006 and it became effective April 14, 2006. He assisted the President with many of his policy decisions and managed the daily operations of the White House staff. Prior to serving as Chief of Staff under his son, served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation under George H. W. Bush.

A native of Holbrook, Massachusetts, he and his wife Kathleene have three children and four grandchildren. A dedicated Chief of Staff, his wife once asked "Are you married to me or George W. Bush?".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Card

* Rush Limbaugh -- sought deferment (because of a cyst on his tail end).
* George Will -- sought graduate school deferment, (too smart to die).
* Pat Buchanan -- sought deferment (for bad knee).
* Pat Robertson -- his US Senator father got him out of Korea as soon as the shooting began.

* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Matt Drudge: did not serve.
* Steve Forbes: did not serve.
* Tony Snow: did not serve.
* Michael "Savage" Weiner: did not serve.
* Brit Hume: did not serve.
* Roger Ailes: did not serve.

# Paul Gigot: did not serve.
# Bill Kristol: did not serve.
# Ralph Reed: did not serve.
# Michael Medved: did not serve.
# Charlie Daniels: did not serve.
# Anne Coulter: did not serve.
# Jerry Falwell: did not serve.
# Alan Keyes : did not serve.
# Ted Nugent: did not serve.

* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Ari Fleischer: did not serve.
* Andrew Card: did not serve.
* Ken Adelman: did not serve.
# Mitt Romney - did not serve in the military but did serve the Mormon Church on a 30-month mission to France.
# John Bolton: did not serve.
# Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
# Bill Frist: did not serve.
# John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments, to teach business.
# Trent Lott : avoided the draft, did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee" He defeated tripelegic Max Cleland by questioning his patriotism!
* Don Nickles: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=essayaninterestingday

The home video here seems to indicate that Bush was probably told of the first plane attack before he arrived at the school. Andrew Card then told him of the second attack while he read along with the class.

In DC that day, though, I remember that information was very poor. I remember picking up my student loan check after I was told of the first plane (the person telling me the news thought it was an ultralight plane or something of that sort). It wasn't until my wife called me and from downtown and said that she could see the Pentagon smoking that I raced into DC. I, too, got that "oh f&%k, s*$t, f&%k " deer-in-the-headlights look.