[PATRIOT1876]

Bread & circuses not enough?!

Give the peasants cake and circuses...

[bgill]

What’s a world cup?

[miss marmelstein]

Things are looking up!

[ConservativeStatement]

I've had three friends from different states tell me that whatever teams had recently won (I know one was Colombia), that cars drive past stop signs, people wave their nation's flags in support, honk cars horns incessantly, etc. which are all violations of road rules. But little is done. Imagine if the average American decided to blast a car horn and ignore stop signs because of a domestic celebration. I wonder how many of these people celebrate the 4th of July or Veteran's Day with such passion.

[eyeamok]

When I was in school the boys played football and the Girls played Soccer. Not much has changed

[sasquatch]

I’ll bet a nickel that the emails show up in October.
That should provide enough time for a cleanup.
Will they show unannounced in a box in the White House
or on Lerner’s kitchen table??

[AD from SpringBay]

ESPN has been hyping the World Cup for weeks...

It's not just ESPN hyping the world cup - most of television media has as well. The media giants smell money and just what we need is another distraction in the form of more time spent in front of the screens... wouldn't want the American public to have time to see what's going on around them.

[KC_Conspirator]

This is bad news. I know the soccer haters are going “yay”, but 5% more people are watching the World Cup than care about the IRS targeting Americans. This also says something bad about our media, that compose of many more outlets than ESPN or sports media; if only 12% of Americans care about the IRS scandal, then the media are clearly ignoring this and not reporting to American. Sigh

[falcon99]

“… 12% who are following the IRS lost emails story..” Gee, could it be that the number is so low because the MSM is ignoring the issue/scandal, and when not ignoring, excusing it.

[Colonel_Flagg]

I’m interested in both, and USA matches are drawing audiences equal to the NBA Finals.

[dead]

12% who are following the IRS lost emails story and 26% following events in Iraq

Three quarters of our nation's citizens are as useful as ferns.

[mkboyce]

This is a good thing.

Sports are great. Slavishly following them to the detriment and neglect of more important matters is not.

[hinckley buzzard]

The title is backward: The story reveals more interest in the World Cup than in the IRS emails. Last Thursday at noon the American team played Germany before 18 million American viewers. That is not a trivial audience.

One wonders why the anti-soccer faction is so defensive. It's only a game boys and girls.

[snowstorm12]

The ratings should be through the roof with the way they are hyping this soccer world cup. They are telling everyone they need to watch on almost every news channel all day long. With that amount of free advertising plus having the built in audience of espn, the ratings should be much higher than they are.