--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 9/9/06 4:26:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > CBS I'm sure, made a business decision. They were > > about to offend an entire nation, one that had voted Ronald > Reagan, America's most popular president
<snip statistics documenting Clinton's poll numbers were consistently better than Reagan's> <snip> > You should have resisted the temptation to rise to > the bait. > > Mind-boggling. This is what a *real* True Believer > looks like. > > _BBC NEWS | Americas | Reagan voted 'greatest American'_ > (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4631421.stm) Quite > frankly I remember the program this television poll was > based on and remember voting in it. BWAHAHA!!! Let's look at MDixon's claim again: > [CBS was] about to offend an entire nation, one > that had voted Ronald Reagan, America's most > popular president. This was a "poll" in which TV viewers were asked to call or email or write in with their preference--in other words, a self-selected sample, not a scientific poll. And it was for "greatest American," not "greatest American president." Reagan "narrowly edged out" Lincoln and Martin Luther King. He didn't even get a *majority* of those who stated their preference, let alone "the entire nation." And--this is the real kicker--the "poll" was conducted *after his death*, three years after the CBS movie incident. > Another consideration > CBS made when deciding to pull the Ronald Reagan > movie was the fact that it was full of personal > attacks against the man and he was on his death > bed unable to defend himself. This was the main > reason for the public outcry against the movie, > Where as the ABC movie The Path to 911 deals > with Clinton policy. Uh-huh, right. That *misrepresents* Clinton policy and claims he was too busy dealing with the Monica Lewinsky scandal to go after the terrorists, blaming him for the deaths of 3,000 people. No personal attacks there, nosireebob. > By the way, as I recall Clinton never got or just > barely got 50 % of the total vote cast in either of > his elections where as Reagan was elected by very > strong margins each time. Irrelevant to your erroneous claim, but just for the heck of it: Clinton won only 43 percent of the popular vote in 1992 because Perot was running as a third-party candidate and got 19 percent of the vote. In 1996, Clinton got 49.2 percent of the popular vote and Perot got 8.4 percent. In neither of Reagan's elections was there a strong third-party candidate. MDixon, you shoulda stood in bed. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
