VANITY: A very strange question I just heard on "Family Feud"...

Self ^ | 2/5/10

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

I'm watching a new version of "FAMILY FEUD" right now(with host John O'Hurley) with my son on the Ion Channel, and one of the questions the host asked the families was the following:

"What Person Has Made A Difference In Our Lives?"

There were 5 answers to the question, and the answers were, in order of importance, as follows:

1 - Martin Luther King, Jr. 2 - Oprah Winfrey 3 - Bill Clinton 4 - Benjamin Franklin 5 - Jesus

I was aghast. First of all, I want to know who the hell they surveyed. If this show surveys 100 people for each of their questions, I want a phone list of who they called, where they live, and what they do for a living.

If this is the direction America is going towards, we might as well just give up, folks...

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Needless to say, one of the families answered "Ben Franklin", and the winning family answered "MLK, Jr."

Nothing against the persons who were part of the answers. It's the order in which they appear that bugs me. Some of them shouldn't even be in the Top 5.

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Pingie...

[La Enchiladita]

Don’t watch it anymore... who cares. Liberalism PC infested the answers on JEOPARDY so badly that I stopped watching. There are other things in life.

[Ingtar]

They poll studio audiences for later shows - or that is what they claimed years ago when I last watched.

[SkyDancer]

Someone should ask why Barry wasn’t on that list ....

[lacrew]

What! Obama only got 5th place.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Sheesh. Whatever happened to “Mom” and “Dad”?

[OCC]

I always thought they surveyed the studio audience for the answers... of course the last time I watched the fued, Richard Dawson was hosting.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Oh, in OUR lives. OK. But it could still be “our Moms” and “our Dads.”

[La Lydia]

How pathetic is your life if Oprah has had the greatest influence on it?

[raybbr]

Have you noticed on that show that EVERY game is a white family against a minority family? Or two minorities - each different? Have you ever seen the show within the past five years where it was two white families or two black families?

[Responsibility2nd]

I challenge any numnut on that show who answered “Ben Franklin” to even come up with one thing Franklin did or said.

Like which president he was.

[Northern Yankee]

Or bill clinton?!

Goodness these people are a sad group.

[CIDKauf]

Show was 15 years ago or so probably....

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

Yes, in “our” lives. I do think that Mom & Dad should be first.

[al baby]

Why in the hell were you watching that crap anyways

[MosesKnows]

In Our Lives

Doesn't that make it personal? Who made a difference in your life may be entirely different than who made a difference in someone else's life.

I don't believe the show informs contestants about the age, sex, or political affiliations of the 100 people surveyed. If you are a contestant, you just play the game as your instincts indicate.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Someone should ask why Barry wasn’t on that list ...."

The question asked "what person...?" Obama is bigger than that.

[dirtymac]

“I challenge any numnut on that show who answered “Ben Franklin” to even come up with one thing Franklin did or said.”

Wasn't Ben Franklin the first to make the five dollar bill? Didn't Ben Franklin invent electricity? Does electricity get into lakes behind big dams due to lightning strikes, cause I have never seen streams of rivers have electricity in them, hence no power plants. Just curious.

[UCANSEE2]

I do think that Mom & Dad should be first.

Wouldn't that require knowing who your Mom and Dad were?

The reason Benjamin Franklin was in the top 5 was because he 'invented' lightning and money. (/s)