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NYT: 'American Idol' Popular Because of 2000 Election
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| Matthew Sheffield
Posted on 04/04/2007 9:56:04 AM PDT by RatherBiased.com
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To: silent_jonny
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:00:49 AM PDT
by
Miss Didi
("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
To: RatherBiased.com
Okay, I voted for Bush in 2000, and I also watch and vote on “American Idol.” Using the New York Times’ style of psychoanalysis, I have deduced that I am subconsciously attempting to thwart Sanjaya in the same way that I helped thwart Al Gore because I have an unreasonable aversion to seeing the top job go to some annoying, incompetent retard.
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:06:01 AM PDT
by
HHFi
To: RatherBiased.com
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:08:26 AM PDT
by
Socratic
(To persevere is to laugh again.)
To: RatherBiased.com
Maybe the reason that more people didnt turn out for the 2004 presidential race, despite the closeness of the tally four years earlier, is that they were still in denial and distracted by American Idol.American Idol runs from January to May each year. Election Day is in November. That's quite a distraction.
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:10:47 AM PDT
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: RatherBiased.com
You know, I’ve always suspected that the 2000 presidential election increased my desire for very fast cars.
Since then I have owned a Camaro Super Sport and a Mustang Cobra.
Gee, I can’t wait to see what the 2008 election stirs me to buy? A Corvette maybe?
Ooohhhhh. I love politics.
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:31:54 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
("Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion." Will Rogers)
To: RatherBiased.com
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:38:59 AM PDT
by
Ciexyz
(Is the American voter smarter than a fifth grader?)
To: RatherBiased.com
Maybe the reason that more people didnt turn out for the 2004 presidential race, despite the closeness of the tally four years earlier, is that they were still in denial and distracted by American Idol. The left wing lunatic delusional hate filled morons always surprise us that they can go even lower in their stupidity, hatred, and delusion. The 2004 broke record in term of voters participation, over 120 million people vote in 2004 more than any other election in US history. How stupid can someone be to come up with this insane theory relating American Idol to the 2000 elections.
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posted on
04/04/2007 10:57:46 AM PDT
by
jveritas
(Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
To: RatherBiased.com
The high viewer turnout for Idol, which is on tonight, cannot solely be explained by technological advances or a regression in human nature. It cannot be a coincidence that television voting rights arose so soon after the 2000 election left slightly more than half the voting population feeling cheated. Those who didnt go to the polls and fear that their abstention inadvertently made possible the invasion of Iraq may feel even worse. Idol could be a displacement ritual: a psychological release that allows people to vote and even vote often in a contest that has no dangerous or even lasting consequences. (Even losers win out in the end: both Mr. Gore and Jennifer Hudson ended up on the Oscar stage.) Yet, all five American Idol winners have come from a 2000 Red State.
To: RatherBiased.com
I tell people I know who read the New York Times that they would be much better educated about how the world is really run if they read only criticism of the New York Times.
There's plenty of it, but never enough.
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posted on
04/04/2007 11:08:58 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: RatherBiased.com
Alessandra Stanley is the ideal NY Times writer — so perfectly biased, delusional, and deranged that she continually shows the world (or those willing to look) just how nutty liberals really are.
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posted on
04/04/2007 11:15:27 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(Liefong, Fitzfong, Earlefong, Schumfong, Waxfong, Pelosifong.... see a pattern here?!?)
To: RatherBiased.com
LOL The NY Times is showing their liberal angst.
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posted on
04/04/2007 11:16:59 AM PDT
by
MEGoody
(Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
To: RatherBiased.com
![](http://www.jossip.com/gossip/200512-alessandrastanely.jpg)
Alessandra Stanley
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posted on
04/04/2007 11:22:49 AM PDT
by
kcvl
To: RatherBiased.com
I’ve heard of American Idol. Isn’t that a TV show that is on at the same time as Friday Night Lights?
To: RatherBiased.com
There have been some complaints regarding the accuracy of her reporting [2][3]. Her column of September 5, 2005
Discussing coverage of relief efforts following Hurricane Katrina, Stanley wrote that Geraldo Rivera “nudged an Air Force rescue worker out of the way so his camera crew could tape him as he helped lift an older woman in a wheelchair to safety.”
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posted on
04/04/2007 11:24:59 AM PDT
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kcvl
To: RatherBiased.com
So we’re supposed to believe that millions call to vote for their fav performer because they feel disenfranchised, a vote each has a right to cast for free vs. a vote they have to pay to cast?
Maybe what we ought to do then is charge people to vote for the President. Maybe they’d take it a bit more seriously and feel that their vote was really counted (even though they have no proof that their vote was accurately tallied for their performer).
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posted on
04/04/2007 11:25:30 AM PDT
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
To: RatherBiased.com
Stanley is a daughter of Timothy W. Stanley, an authority on defense policy who served in the 1960’s as assistant to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara for NATO force planning and then as a defense adviser in the United States mission to NATO[9], and Nadia Leon Stanley.
Stanley was previously married to Michael Specter[10], a former reporter for the Washington Post, The New York Times and The New Yorker. She lives in New York City with her daughter, Emma.
Stanley is a 1977 graduate of Harvard University[10].
Among Stanley’s close friends at the Times are Jill Abramson and Maureen Dowd.
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posted on
04/04/2007 11:26:07 AM PDT
by
kcvl
To: RatherBiased.com
Stuff like this makes sense to the Times.
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posted on
04/04/2007 11:33:41 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
To: RatherBiased.com
I have never actually watched American Idol. I do watch the local FOX25 news. Yesterday they had 15 minutes of “coverage” of American Idol. Fox is just an altogether better integrated network than the alphabets ever were.
On top to that, I was thinking that aside from better “production values”, e.g., better sets, younger better looking, perkier news readers, FOX25 News is absolutely, day to day, better written and better produced than anything I’ve ever seen on local news before.
They make the other guys look like amateurs.
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posted on
04/04/2007 11:34:28 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
("We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.")
To: RatherBiased.com
Only Democrats are obsessed by voting. Which is unfortunate.
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posted on
04/04/2007 11:36:06 AM PDT
by
popdonnelly
(Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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