Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2009

America hates policy, loves drivel


In news sure to surprise exactly no one, ABC's special on President Obama's health-care town hall meeting which aired last night was watched by what amounts to zero people (roughly). The Live Feed brings us the grim statistics:

The one-hour ABC News special "Primetime: Questions for the President: Prescription for America" (4.7 million viewers, 1.1 preliminary adults 18-49 rating) had the fewest viewers in the 10 p.m. hour. The special tied some 8 p.m. comedy repeats as the lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.

So essentially, Americans can't be bothered to tune in for a Q&A with the leader of the free world about something that will undoubtedly affect their future, but 10.6 million made the time to tune in to watch two morons get divorced. This is usually where I would say something sanctimonious about weeping for America's future, but I didn't watch either. What was I doing last night? I'm not telling.*






*Your mom, obviously.


via The Live Feed