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'Values' Voters Still Like Their Television Sin
by noteworthy at 11:57 pm EST, Nov 21, 2004

If it is true that the public's electoral choices are a cry for more morally driven programming, the network executives ask, why are so many people, even in the markets surrounding the Bush bastions Atlanta and Salt Lake City, watching a sex-drenched television drama?

In the greater Atlanta market, reaching more than two million households, "Desperate Housewives" is the top-rated show. Nearly 58 percent of the voters in those counties voted for President Bush.

The password is ... "Vicarious."

Gary Schneeberger of Focus on the Family, an influential evangelical Protestant group, said that "History has shown that even people who could be described as Values Voters Are Prone To Sinful Behavior and watching representations of sinful behavior. Is it shocking that people would be enticed by it? It's not shocking, but it is tragic."

If you recall, that is precisely the logic I laid out a week ago, in response to Frank Rich's column in the Sunday NYT.

Mr. Schneeberger said he was encouraged by the criticism heaped on ABC last week for using a sexed-up opening for its "Monday Night Football" coverage.

Ha!

"Sexed-up!"

Nicolette Sheridan's WMDs are real, baby, and they're spectacular. (Or something.)

RE: 'Values' Voters Still Like Their Television Sin
by Decius at 2:05 am EST, Nov 22, 2004

noteworthy wrote:
] Bush bastions Atlanta and Salt Lake City, watching
] a sex-drenched television drama?
]
] In the greater Atlanta market, reaching more than two million
] households, "Desperate Housewives" is the top-rated show.
] Nearly 58 percent of the voters in those counties voted for
] President Bush.

How about statistical bullshit?

Dekalb: 73% Kerry
Fulton: 60% Kerry

(Source CNN)

Thats the ALT and most of it's significant suburbs. I mean, we all know that Cobb is conservative. Whatever. Even in some of the exurbs people connected with the City are more likely to be finance voters rather then moral values types. The Atlanta "Market's" interest in "Desparate House Wives" may reflect its interest in Kerry, but you're not going to see that if the way you do this is to average out an area like "the whole state of Utah and parts of Nevada, Idaho and Wyoming" and call it "Salt Lake City."

Calling Atlanta a "Bush Bastion" is like calling Israel "Islamic" because you're including Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon in with what you call "Israel."

Stupid.