Fake news (and entertainment) has a long history.
wonder what he got paid to be the contestant-
Trump got rid of another one?
Though a hoax, it seems the carefully scripted program served to set the stage for what are now known as “reality shows.” And viewers are equally gullible now as then.
RIP.
The fake CNN townhall debate where Hillary received the questions (but not Bernie) will never get this level of exposure.
a rigged debate is a rigged election
I am a bit suspicious of Jeopardy.
Not that I think they are giving them the answers but there are ways to favor certain people.
Stempel blew the whistle on the rigged “Twenty-One” game show only because they didn’t give him everything they had promised him. The poor sap did not realize that he was a patsy from day one.
Who knows? Had NBC not been so careless, Twenty-One” might still be on today. Still rigged, but now hosted by Hillary Clinton.
If the producers simply had him miss a very difficult question (e.g., a physics question), Stempel wouldn’t have felt humiliated and sought revenge. Instead, the producers wanted to shock the audience by having Stempel miss what was an easy question for him and the rest is history.
I knew they’d catch up to him sooner or later.
I’ve never seen the expression “former stepdaughter” before. I assume it means that her mother is Mr. Stempel’s ex-wife. I guess it sounds better than “ex-stepdaughter.”
I’ve never seen the expression “former stepdaughter” before. I assume it means that her mother is Mr. Stempel’s ex-wife. I guess it sounds better than “ex-stepdaughter.”
And I love it that the program was sponsored by Geritol - from their Wikipedia entry:
“In 1965, the FTC ordered the makers of Geritol to disclose that Geritol would relieve symptoms of tiredness only in persons who suffer from iron deficiency anemia, and that the vast majority of people who experience such symptoms do not have such a deficiency. Geritol’s claims were discredited in court findings as “conduct amounted to gross negligence and bordered on recklessness,” ruled as a false and misleading claim, and heavily penalized with fines totaling $812,000 ($4,335,739 in 2015 dollars),[7] the largest FTC fine up to that date (1973)”
When I was a kid, a neighbor won $32,000 on the $64,000 question show. I have no idea if the win was legitimate, but he did get the money.
He used it to build a bomb shelter in his basement.