Joe Gruters was only off by 117.4 million.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee chair made the loony claim that more people watched<\/a> the UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House lawn than watched the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n The numbers are now in. Per multiple reports, Paramount says 8.2 million watched the event on Paramount+. (As noted by Mattew Belloni of Puck, that\u2019s a \u201cfraction\u201d of what marquee sporting events deliver \u2014 and it\u2019s less than the audience for Marshals or Tracker<\/a>.)<\/p>\n And (shocker) it\u2019s far, far less than the Super Bowl LX audience of 125.6 million.<\/p>\n But who cares about the truth? The truth is an annoyance. An impediment. A pesky little thing that gets in the way of preferred narratives.<\/p>\n No matter how outlandish those narratives may be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Gruters was only off by 117.4 million. Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee chair made the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-713183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}