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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 11:16 AM
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Stephen Colbert Breaks Down The Four Kinds Of African-American Fox News Viewers
When statistics came out that showed about 1.38% of Fox News’ viewers were African-American, many people began to wonder: “Who are they?” Fortunately, Stephen Colbert sent out his crack research team to find out, and the results are shocking.
Usually, When Colbert wants “the latest news on Fox News, I turn to Fox News,” he joked, mocking the fact that Fox News often touts their ratings supremacy. The ratings play such a prominent role in their programming, Colbert argues, that he suggests they should “slap a wig on them and give them their own show.”

But what Fox News doesn’t mention, according to Colbert, are the ratings among African-Americans: a whopping 1.38%. “Personally,” he noted, “I didn’t know so many African-Americans were terrified of Barack Obama.”

Then he went into a breakdown of the numbers on the African-American side of the ratings scale, and discovered four categories of black Fox News watchers: people stuck watching at the Jiffy Lube, white people in blackface, people who said the name “Glenn Beck” three times into a mirror, and Juan Williams. The analysis was impressive to Colbert: “In fact, the only way these sky-high numbers aren’t impressive is if you compare them to something.”

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Brewman_Jax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-10-10 01:07 PM
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1. I saw that clip
:rofl:

Too bad they couldn't have found a way to get Michael Steele in that study. :D
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-10 12:41 AM
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2. and Juan Williams.....!
:rofl:
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firedupdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-10 08:23 AM
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3. I lost my coffee when I read that one!
:rofl:

So true...I figured out that fox was the real reason I quit my last gym! That crap was playing on all the tv's and this beeotch pretended she couldn't find a remote...not one! I stopped working out for a month and joined a new gym. At the time, I thought I was just being lazy...later, I admitted to myself it was because of the gotdamn tv's! :rofl:
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