The truth about George's Army

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Biggerbrother

Wednesday, August 30, 2000 - 08:58 pm Click here to edit this post

Do all of you George-Haters out there really think that a couple of dozen rednecks in a restaurant in Rockford were enough to sway the vote? Come on. Get real. CBS is playing you for suckers. The rally was only three hours long. How many phone calls could have been made on that dinky little phone during that time? One per minute? That would be a whopping 180 votes.

George did much more to hurt his cause this week than his family did to help it. The real reason he didn't get the boot is that too many people cast their vote on the first night and didn't wait to see how the HG's reacted during the rest of the week.

Jimmer

Wednesday, August 30, 2000 - 09:18 pm Click here to edit this post

I agree. I seriously doubt that Rockford had enough votes to really make an impact. CBS is playing this up and working very hard to get rid of George (and may I say that I congratulate them for it). It's rather tragic how quickly George moved from being a fairly simple but entertaining person to someone who is a complete embarassment.

Bigbromo

Friday, September 01, 2000 - 06:58 pm Click here to edit this post

Yeah, anyway. Rockford is just one big trailer park.

Smashedkat

Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 07:02 am Click here to edit this post

I've done the research. There were less than 800 votes on the Rockford line (more near 700). The line was open 7pm-10pm only and was originally scheduled for one night but CBS requested it go another night so they could film it. Meanwhile, that week the banishment line took over 500,000 calls. So how does 800 measly calls impact over 500,000?! Come on people. I am so tired of hearing this. Unfortunately, CBS never told the truth on this one and the impact on George was devastating.

Koka

Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 08:15 am Click here to edit this post

800 calls on ONE phone line? How about all the other phone lines? Teresa had been going on the radio saying vote out Brittany, then vote out Cassandra because she has never married and had kids. The local CBS television station was in on the act--vote Brittany.
I'm not saying the Rockford vote made a huge difference, but it was alot bigger than that one phone line. Frankly, it's amazing to me that they managed to cram that many calls in three hours on one phone line.

Lafatme

Saturday, September 23, 2000 - 02:02 pm Click here to edit this post

smashed, there were no where near 500k votes. more like 100k