NEW YORK (Reuters) -- He may have beaten Saddam Hussein, but President George W. Bush got clobbered by slinky socialite Paris Hilton when her television show got higher ratings than Bush's exclusive ABC interview Tuesday night.
More Americans watched Fox's "The Simple Life," which depicts the 22-year-old hotel heiress working on an Arkansas farm, than saw Bush being interviewed by Diane Sawyer, Nielsen Media Research said on Thursday.
"The Simple Life" may have been helped by the public saga of a video, making the rounds of the Internet, showing the granddaughter of hotel chain founder Conrad Hilton engaged in various sex acts with ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon.
"The Simple Life" drew 11.8 million viewers while Bush's ABC "Prime Time" interview drew 11 million, Nielsen said.
In the interview, the president made headlines by saying the recently captured ex-Iraqi leader should be executed -- the "ultimate penalty" -- for his iron-fisted rule in Iraq.
But Hilton won more viewers with her performance baking pies and working the town fair's kissing booth in a mini skirt.
Originally posted by: Shanti
LOL.
She is a better public speaker though.
Originally posted by: miguel
Originally posted by: Shanti
LOL.
She is a better public speaker though.
That is true. Bush is a horrible speaker, he lacks charisma. He does appeal to the average joe though because he's very normal when he talks. Doesn't look like he's acting. We shall see next november.
Originally posted by: Shanti
Originally posted by: miguel
Originally posted by: Shanti
LOL.
She is a better public speaker though.
That is true. Bush is a horrible speaker, he lacks charisma. He does appeal to the average joe though because he's very normal when he talks. Doesn't look like he's acting. We shall see next november.
If only he would say nuclear properly, I wouldn't cringe so much.
Originally posted by: kage69
Heh, I thought this thread was about her having 'the bald eagle.'
Frankly, I'm disappointed... :disgust:
"Hey look at how crappy real people live while I'm an heiress to the Hilton fortune and never have to do a lick of work and have servants to wipe my ass"
Originally posted by: lozina
I don't know, Bush may not have linguistic skills but at least he'll usually make some sense... Paris just says the most assinine things.
I watched neither, what's that say about me?
Originally posted by: Genesys
Originally posted by: lozina
I don't know, Bush may not have linguistic skills but at least he'll usually make some sense... Paris just says the most assinine things.
I watched neither, what's that say about me?
i dont know, the President has a special talent with words...strategery remains [and probably always will] my favorite thing that he has said.
Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Personally, I'd rather watch Paris single-handedly piss off middle America, than listen to Bush drone on and on about his vision of spreading peace and freedom, his rampant homophobia and how he's got a log in his eye (or is that a speck?) ... or whatever other idiot ideas pass through the two brain cells he has left after twenty years of hard drinking.
making fun of poor and working people?
Originally posted by: Drensch
making fun of poor and working people?
Paris Hilton is all talk. Bush is all Action.