This claim, that more people watched Obama’s acceptance speech than the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, repeated ad nauseum at Democratic blogs, isn’t quite true, and IS quite parochial in an ellipsis.
More Americans indeed watched Obama, but, we’re less than 5 percent of the world’s population, and only about 10 percent of the world’s TV-watching population.
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August 29, 2008
More watched Obama than Olympic opening
Labels:
2008 Olympics,
American parochialism,
Obama (Barack)
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