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Pew: Americans show some interest in IRS lost emails; not much in World Cup
American Thinker ^
| 07/01/2014
| Rick Moran
Posted on 07/01/2014 7:52:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Bread & circuses not enough?!
Give the peasants cake and circuses...
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
07/01/2014 7:56:13 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
I've had three friends from different states tell me that whatever teams had recently won (I know one was Colombia), that cars drive past stop signs, people wave their nation's flags in support, honk cars horns incessantly, etc. which are all violations of road rules. But little is done. Imagine if the average American decided to blast a car horn and ignore stop signs because of a domestic celebration. I wonder how many of these people celebrate the 4th of July or Veteran's Day with such passion.
To: SeekAndFind
When I was in school the boys played football and the Girls played Soccer. Not much has changed
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:09:29 AM PDT
by
eyeamok
To: SeekAndFind
I’ll bet a nickel that the emails show up in October.
That should provide enough time for a cleanup.
Will they show unannounced in a box in the White House
or on Lerner’s kitchen table??
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:14:10 AM PDT
by
sasquatch
To: SeekAndFind
ESPN has been hyping the World Cup for weeks...
It's not just ESPN hyping the world cup - most of television media has as well. The media giants smell money and just what we need is another distraction in the form of more time spent in front of the screens... wouldn't want the American public to have time to see what's going on around them.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:14:47 AM PDT
by
AD from SpringBay
(http://jonah2eight.blogspot.com/)
To: bgill
Whats a world cup?
I think it’s a new type of jock strap. One size fits all, probably.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:15:04 AM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: bgill
Whats a world cup?
It's that big trophy the winner of the NHL Championship gets to borrow for a year. It's pretty cool, actually. This year the Los Angeles Kings have it.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:15:09 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: SeekAndFind
This is bad news. I know the soccer haters are going “yay”, but 5% more people are watching the World Cup than care about the IRS targeting Americans. This also says something bad about our media, that compose of many more outlets than ESPN or sports media; if only 12% of Americans care about the IRS scandal, then the media are clearly ignoring this and not reporting to American. Sigh
To: SeekAndFind
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12% who are following the IRS lost emails story..” Gee, could it be that the number is so low because the MSM is ignoring the issue/scandal, and when not ignoring, excusing it.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:28:13 AM PDT
by
falcon99
To: KC_Conspirator
the media pick and choose what to report on, what to emphasize, and what to ignore.
I have to believe that, under a Republican president, that this IRS scandal would be getting saturation coverage.
The media continue to distort their coverage, to show the Obama administration in the best possible light.
The media have a vested interest in this administration being perceived as a success, and their policies being successful.
In some ways, the media created and spawned Barack Obama. He’s a liberal dream in some ways. He’s a liberal president, a non-white historic president, etc. He’s the media dream president. And the media lose all perspective or objectivity when reporting on this president.
Of course, this is real life, not “The West Wing” with its similar liberal dream president.
To: SeekAndFind
I’m interested in both, and USA matches are drawing audiences equal to the NBA Finals.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:34:02 AM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
To: AD from SpringBay
Media has been trying to hype soccer since the early 1980s and they still haven't managed to convert the nation.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:46:33 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Dr. Sivana
Nah. That’s Stanley’s Cup.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:47:34 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Dilbert San Diego
Media have had about as much luck hyping soccer as NBC has with promoting the WNBA.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:49:08 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: SeekAndFind
12% who are following the IRS lost emails story and 26% following events in Iraq Three quarters of our nation's citizens are as useful as ferns.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:51:39 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: TomGuy
Is this a cup? Much less a cup for the world?
Now THAT is a cup for the world.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:54:09 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
To: Colonel_Flagg
USA matches are drawing audiences equal to the NBA Finals. I'm not a soccer fan at all, considering it about the same tv viewing desirability as PGA tour golf.
However, that kind of viewership is pretty good. What I find really interesting is the soccer hate (as opposed to soccer ignoring that folks like myself would do) on FR.
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posted on
07/01/2014 8:55:20 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
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