Bill Clinton

gnat on 2002-04-29T14:25:52

Bill Clinton quote:

Bill even bragged, unlike Bryant and most broadcasters, he does not need a teleprompter. He said, “I gave the State of the Union and they didn't have a teleprompter. I had to stand up there and fake it for 15 minutes before a hundred million people. Some people think I faked it for eight years before a hundred million people.”
Umm, aren't there ~250M people in the USA?

--Nat


US Population

ziggy on 2002-04-29T14:54:22

Umm, aren't there ~250M people in the USA?
Yes, but more than half of them are watching HBO, Nick-at-nite or MTV while the news-junkie outlets are simulcasting the State of the Union address.

Population estimate

delegatrix on 2002-04-29T15:29:26

Actually, as of now, it's 286,932,267.

They all left and came back

jdavidb on 2002-04-29T18:04:28

Yes, but you've got to remember, we're the country where famous people (Alec Baldwin) promise that if the candidate of the other party is elected, it'll be such an earth shattering tragedy that they'll go live in another country. So all those people were out of the country while Clinton was president.

Some have noted Baldwin's promises aren't always kept.