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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: Thresherman on February 27, 2011, 01:43:10 PM
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I read the following on Hotair's headlines, "Daily Caller, More People have Ferrets Than Watch Fox News", so I did a little digging and sent the following to tips@hotair.
When I followed the link in your Headlines and read that David Brooks claimed that more people owned ferrets than watched Fox News, well that tripped my BS detector. To recap her is what Brooks is quoted as saying:
"We now have — here’s a fact from Morris Fiorina, Stanford political scientist: More people own ferrets than watch Fox News.”
A quick Google search on Morris Fiorina and ferrets lead me to this site:
http://www.vailvalleyinstitute.org/amdiv/Fiorina.html (http://www.vailvalleyinstitute.org/amdiv/Fiorina.html)
It is a presentation by Stanford Political Science Professor Morris P. Fiorina that was held on Saturday, June 25, 2005 and here is the money quote ( bolding mine):
"Finally, there’s the issue of Howard Dean’s vaunted e-mail list. Remember, the internet was going to revolutionize politics. The New York Times had a big article about how Joe Trippi was the guru of the new age of politics. But, in every campaign, there’s some dawn of a new age occurring. There were roughly ½ million people on this e-mail list. Now in absolute numbers, that’s a big number -- 560,000 people. That happens to be the same number of Americans who own ferrets. And since ferrets are illegal in California and in New York City that number is clearly an underestimate. So, in other words, if you go out and pick out a random American voter, the odds are higher that that person owns a ferret than that that person was on Howard Dean’s e-mail list."
Oh, and here is the amount of Fox veiwers cited by Fiorina in that presentation:
"On a good day, Fox News gets about 3.5 million people tuning into the news"
Now that is from 2005 and is representative of how many view Fox on a given day then and does not represent total viewership because there are those who may watch Fox but not on that particular day so the total number is undoubtedly higher.
So, It appears that not only is Brooks misquoting Fiorina as the comparison was to Howard Dean's e-mail list, but he is then lying about the amount of Fox viewers in relation to ferret owners as outlined by the very source he cites!
Just thought that I would pass it along.
Thresherman
Just another episode from Lying Liberal Liars and the Lies They Tell.
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What's a ferret? and what's a "David Brooks"? ::unknowncomic::
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I find it ironic that a faux conservative media weasel such as Brooks would use a ferret comparison.
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Good lord, don't let Richard Gere find out about this....
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Good lord, don't let Richard Gere find out about this....
BTW a ferret is like a mink and a gerbil (Gere's fave rave) is like a hamster.
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I think he meant gerbil.
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Still silly from last night, I see. ::popcorn::
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If Richard Gere ever got involved with a ferret it would be bad for both of them. He should probably stick with gerbils.
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Here's a news flash, Skippy. If you are the conservative voice on CNN or MSNBC, chances are you ain't a real conservative.
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If Richard Gere ever got involved with a ferret it would be bad for both of them. He should probably stick with gerbils.
Maybe he's already graduated to ferrets. ::puke::
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More people put ferrets in their ass, than watch CNN and MSNBC combined.
::stirpot::
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More people put ferrets in their ass, than watch CNN and MSNBC combined.
::stirpot::
::hysterical::