**** Elections thread *****

[BananaStand]

Thanks for taking the bait. Now, how many of those 'viewers' were at work and thus couldn't see it

What bait? If this is a "trap" its pretty weak sauce. In America, only some 40% of the population "works". I dont' have the stats in front of me, but I'll bet that's at least average, if not towards the high-end world wide.

How many were on the other side of the Earth where it was nighttime.

C'mon man, you're being silly. I'm aware that the earth rotates. Again, this "trap" you set is sad.

You can't infer every person on the planet was a potential viewer, or even every person in your own country

Yes, you can. Half the planet is bathed in sunlight, and less than half of that population has to go to work at any given time. And even among that population, a lot work out side and even more have windows. Eclipses are rare. They're also predicted, which means people are aware of them when they happen. For the inference to be proven false, you'd have to demonstrate that billions of people purposefully avoided a historic celestial event that would be nearly impossible to avoid if you have eyes and spent more than 2 seconds looking at the sky. That assumption would be preposterous, hence it's reasonable to infer the opposite.

Sure, but it's irrelevant anyways. Spicer told a bunch of other lies in that ranting press conference where he took no questions. Those are enough to give him the title of alternative fact king.

Why do you call them "lies"? Do you think that they knew for sure that subway rides were lower, but reported them higher anyway? They KNOW the press is just waiting to catch them in any kind of nonsense, why would they deliberately walk into that? The guy was given the wrong numbers, he reported them as the right numbers, and then corrected himself the next day. That's called a mistake. You did the same thing to Fox News last week. You seem to equate mistakes with lies whenever it suits your narrative. People aren't perfect man.