Tuesday, October 20, 2009

the indecisive President




Seems like all the b.s that the Big O has been spewing over the past 10 months or so if finally catching up to him.

There is so much talk about the Big O inheriting the worst economy since the 30's. This came right after the Big O responded to the news story about the deficit hitting $1.4 trillion. Rewind two or three months beforehand. The Big O and his spin team sprinted across the finish line with a $787 Billion stimulus bill. They cried that it was needed now claiming that it would keep unemployment under 8%. When unemployment hit 9.5% in June, The Big O's co-spinner, Bad Mouth Biden said that "we misread how bad the economy was." I guess it how you consider was was.

Now the Big O is deflecting the economy issue with the health insurance issue. This also helps block making a decision on troop increases in Afghanistan. So what does The Big O do to help ease the pain of making a decision? He parties! Last night a huge tent was set up on the South Lawn to hear Sheila E. What will the next distraction be? I can't decide....

ratings bowling

Based on the current Cable News ratings, with Fox News increasing their viewership by over 20%, I guess Fox News is not a news channel. Must be my imagination.

Fox News had another dominant quarter, claiming the top 10 cable news programs in third quarter 2009 and growing even more against their third quarter 2008 ratings, while CNN and MSNBC lost huge portions of their audience.

Fox News averaged 2.25 million total viewers in prime time for the third quarter...that's up 20% over the previous year...more than CNN (946,000, down an incredible 30%) and MSNBC (788,000, down 10%) combined. CNN losing to MSNBC.

Bill O'Reilly has led all cable news programs with an average of 3.295 million total viewers for the quarter. That is up 12% over the previous year. Sean Hannity (2.603 million, up 9%), Glenn Beck (2.403 million, up 89%), Greta van Susteren (2.150 million, up 16%), and "Special Report with Bret Baier" (1.997 million, up 20%). The top five.

At MSNBC, Keith Olbermann averaged 1.087 million total viewers, down 12% from the previous year and Rachel Maddow Show averaged 996,000 total viewers. CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 averaged 1.005 million viewers, down 17% from the previous year and Lou Dobbs averaged 658,000 total viewers, down 24%. Larry King and Campbell Brown were were both down in total viewers.

CNN is bleeding in viewer loss. In the primetime adults 25-54 demo, they dropped 39% compared to third quarter 2008, averaging just 287,000 viewers.

I guess since Fox News does not exist, the viewers are going to the Cartoon Network.