`Live Earth' Concerts No Big TV Draw - (They told us 2 billion watched)

KAALTV ^ | 7/11/07 | David Bauder - AP

[GeorgiaDawg32]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Given a choice among the Police, John Mayer and Madonna on television or a summer's night out, millions of Americans chose the latter.

The Live Earth concert, Al Gore's sprawling worldwide effort to raise environmental awareness, wasn't a big television draw. NBC's Saturday-night highlights show was seen by 2.75 million people, according to Nielsen Media Research, or fewer people than watched the soccer match between Argentina and Peru that night on Univision.

[Jaysun]

The ‘effin NASA channel got better ratings.

[Clam Digger]

Wow, they only drew 1.4% of the expected aufdience? That’s pretttty lame.

[libertarian27]

I watched a bit of it....I learned that to stop global warming; when I leave a room, I should turn off the lights.
It was very informative, the Claymation characters were kick*ss./LOL. It was Beyond lame.

[bray]

Live Earth Bombed

Pray for W and Our Troops

[kenth]

I remember watching a few minutes of one of the “peace” marches on that “peace” channel, oops I mean C-SPAN, and seeing them arrive at an attendance figure. The moonbat announcer said there were 100K people in attendance that day. Immediately she said that it “felt” like more, probably closer to 200K. When she finished up a couple of sentences later, she had determined that it was actually close to half a million people marching that day.

Pulled it all out of her backside.

[MsLady]

I have a hard time listening to a bunch of people who have spent their entire lives pretending to be someone else.

LOL!!!! And not to many doing such a great job of that.

[weegee]

What did Live Earth have in common with Woodstock? An estimated 400,000 people watched it. Bwaaahahahaa.

[GSWarrior]

I watched it for about 30 seconds...saw Cameron Diaz trying to read a cue card. It had the feel of a tele-thon.

[t_skoz]

live what? live earth? huh?

[weegee]

(1979) http://www.answers.com/topic/americathon

In the future (the distant year of 1997), the United States of America is in crisis.

The oil shortage has grown to epic proportions, leading to people living in their cars and bicycling to work. Cigarettes and meat have been outlawed, gold coins are needed to operate common household appliances, and the Western White House (located in a luxury apartment in California) has been forced by economic necessity to operate round-the-clock tours for vacationing Chinese citizens.

The economy is deep trouble; President Chet Roosevelt (John Ritter) has borrowed four billion dollars from Native American tennis shoe manufacturer Sam Birdwater (Chief Dan George), and he's foreclosing on the loan. When a media expert, Eric McMerkhin (Peter Riegert), is summoned for advice (since despite all hardships, Americans refuse to give up their televisions), he suggests a telethon.

It's a great idea, except the President's assistant Vincent Vanderhoff (Fred Willard) is in cahoots with the United Heb-Rab Republic, a sinister coalition of Israeli and Arab nationals who want to snap up America if the debt can't be paid. He ensures that the show is stocked with endless ventriloquists and insists on Monty Rushmore (Harvey Korman), a washed-up, drug-addicted television personality as host. The star of the popular sitcom "Both Mother and Father," he is sure to self-destruct over the grueling 30-day-and-night telethon schedule.

Despite terrorist attacks and the kidnapping of President Roosevelt, the patriotic spirit prevails and American citizens dig deep and pledge their gold to the cause.

This outrageous farce (based on a play by Firesign Theatre alumni Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman) features cameos from Elvis Costello, Jay Leno, Meat Loaf and the Del Rubio Triplets, and is narrated by George Carlin. The Beach Boys, Eddie Money, and Nick Lowe contribute to the musical soundtrack. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide

[GSWarrior]

Any movie with the Del Rubio triplets can’t be all bad.