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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
I get that it's pretty easy to assume CBS is doing that, but there's been so many America's Votes that went the obvious way because people chose the more popular way. I don't think CBS plays as a big a part as people make it out.
BB11-Coup D'etat went to Jeff, he was easily America's fav player. CBS didn't need to rig anything there.
BB8-the season of America's player-people hated the Dustin/Jameka/Amber side. They wanted Evel Dick to win. CBS didn't have to play a part in ensuring he remained in the game. I have a hard time believing the public didn't wanna see Dick get the best of those 3.
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While I wouldn't be surprised to see the voting results are legit, I disagree heavily with CBS not playing a huge part. First, the Coup D'etat was rigging the game itself and was obviously going to go to Jeff. He was, like you said, easily America's player. But he got that way with a good edit. He was a hot-headed very homophobic person, including saying gay people should not be allowed around children, and yet of course Big Brother never showed that towards the likely very liberal fanbase during his seasons. Same with a lot of the animosity that season stemming from comments of a contestant, who was in an alliance with Jeff, calling Kevin a beaner (despite not even being Mexican) several times.
Not much different with Dick. I think they could have very easily made him come across as a complete #######. Instead they would show something annoying from the other players (not hard to do when you have thousands of hours of footage), cut to Dick being a dick but throw in some rock music and just when it looks like he's crossed the line show him crying about his relationship with Danielle.
Far from the only players to get edits like that and of course CBC can't actually air Jeff calling someone a ###### and homo (a little bit because of FCC regulations and a little bit because they wouldn't have time to show anything else
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This video illustrates the editing tricks pretty good, skip to like half way through.
Spoilers for this season, a bit of a tie-in to what I said above:
Spoiler!
It appears that this house, Aaryn in particular, is pretty racist. The joke last page about it being close to Aryan might not be too far from reality now
. I liked her early on was a bit disappointed with her talking about David this episode because it just seemed poor strategy. Wonder if they stick with that storyline or show her as the bigot she is.