Memo to Bob Mueller and WKRN
Yo Bob, if you’re going to do a Sunday-morning local commentariat round table on national politics, we’d like to suggest you book panelists who have more to offer than just looking into the camera and making shit up.
To wit: Steve Gill on This Week with Bob Mueller Sunday, waxing creative on convention speech viewership:
“Forty million people tuned in to watch [Palin’s] speech. Thirty-seven million tuned in to watch the spectacle of Barack Obama’s Super Bowl halftime show without the football game.”
Reuters, waxing factual, reveals the lie: Obama’s speech at the DNC was seen on American TV by 38.3 million people. Palin's speech at the RNC was seen on American TV by 37.2 million.
This will strike some, understandably, as relatively small-bore prevarication in the grand scheme of things. But it came in the form of a direct and unqualified assertion of outright fiction as truth by a guy whom Mueller introduces on air as a “media and political expert.” Will WKRN correct the record and rebuke its “expert”? Or is the point of Mueller’s panel each Sunday to showcase expertise as the fine art of propaganda?
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