Family Research Council Fibs About Its Ratings?

[Mark E. Smith]

Press Release 8/14 - Sunday

Justice Sunday II Reaches 79 Million Households, 50 States

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Amber Hildebrand, [e-mail]
JP Duffy, [e-mail]


Nashville, TN - Justice Sunday II - God Save the United States and This Honorable Court, a live nationwide television simulcast by Family Research Council and Focus on the Family Action, will make its way into 79 million households in 50 states tonight, Sunday, August 14, 2005.

Justice Sunday II is a follow-up broadcast to Justice Sunday - Stopping the Filibuster Against People of Faith which reached an estimated audience of 61 million households in 42 states when broadcast live this past April from Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky.

http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PR05H13

79 million... 61 million... A little reality check for the fibbing fools at the Family Research Council: Last year's Super Bowl drew a viewership of 45 million.

[Azathoth]

1. A million, a billion, a quadzillion trillion

Numbers and math, like science and logic, mean little in the faith-based community.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. you forget that many are ill, and have multiple personalities

so, when an audience of 100 actually believes that they are 1200, you get an idea about their math.

[librechik]

13. 6 days to make the universe, animals 2X2, coming back from the dead

Iraq will be a cakewalk--makes sense,



to them

[terrya]

2. Yeah, sure, right.

The Super Bowl doesn't get those kind of ratings. The Oscars don't get that kind of ratings.

But some fundie right wing hatefest will draw 80 million people?

How stupid do they think people are?

[politicaholic]

4. Yes, they're quite dillutional...

If this was on cable then they might be competing for that all too coveted 56th slot in the ratings.

[Midnight Rambler]

5. Sounds like what they did the first time

They say it reached 60 million, which isn't technically a lie. It was availible for viewing to an audience of 60 million, but that doesn't necessarily mean that 60 million actually watched it.

[LoZoccolo]

8. Yes, the TV signals reached the televisions.

Whether or not they were decoding them and displaying them is a trivial and insignificant question to be asking.

[ironman202]

6. that would mean every single American that voted for him

plus another 18 million people that didn't watched this tripe. Oh please!

[LittleClarkie]

7. Stopping the fillibuster against people of faith?

As opposed to your normal human being, who may be fillibustered at will.

"The rules shouldn't apply to us. We're special."

I'm a Christian, and I find that logic pretty darned heinous.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

15. You're not a Christian...

not according to these people. If you don't believe exactly (EXACTLY) that they believe, you're an apostate and a heretic. Worse than an infidel, actually, and you're going to burn in hell for all eternity. There people are spooky as hell, thinking they have some covenant with God (is that a burning bush in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?) to create a Christian Nation and anybody who opposes them is in league with Satan.

[snowbear]

9. HOW..............

.....HOW can they call themselves "People of Faith" when they support filthy, lying, scoundrels?!?!?!?

[Mark E. Smith]

10. Because they're lying filthy scoundrels themselves

Birds of a feather, as they say.

[guruoo]

14. Remember, Frist said 'faith' meant faith in the GOP

:crazy:

[Stinky The Clown]

11. What fucking liars

NPR talked about this on Sunday ...... the 79 .... or 61 ..... or whatever million is the number of cable subscribers who are connected to cable services that carry one or another of the various efungelical nutjob channels.

NOT the number of pople actually looking in.

The actual number watching was, supposedly, closer to 6 million.

But they also said it could have been a lot less than that. Maybe as low as 600,000.

The actuals were pure guesses on the part of the cable companies ... or something like that.

(I was in the car in traffic when I heard this and admit to having been only half paying attention.)

[gratuitous]

12. And yet the numbers will be parroted and reported

But remember the rallies back in late 2002 and early 2003 protesting Bush's proposed war of preemptive empire? Our local newspaper actually hired aerial photographers to scan the demonstrators so it could better deride the organizers' crowd estimates.

But they'll print 80 million viewers of Hate Your Neighbor without a qualm.