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Gee, maybe the audience for people who want to hear nothing but praise and fawning for Dear Leader is smaller than MSNBC anticipated.

The slide has been on a continuum...which means that as suspected, liberals have a profound learning disability.

The ratings performance of these cable moonbat shows is the best evidence that their business model is pushing an agenda, instead of creating customers. Hopefully the stakeholders will wake-up.

CNN the COMMUNISTS NEWS NETWORK owned by RED TED TURNER and managed by BIG BAD WOLF BLITZER

Thank you Name and Murff, for the tip! It cheered me a great deal. Both of the linked sites have a comments section that have been closed. Hmmmm. Overload?

"Could it be that people are getting sick of being lied to?"

No, I'll tell you exactly why this is happening. We watched these guys during the Bush administration due to our frustration, much like you guys come to this board to vent your frustration and to converse with like minded individuals (I'd imagine the number of hits on this site has increased after BHO came into office). Honestly, now that Bush is out of office, I really don't feel as stressed about the state of politics, therefore, I'm not watching as much liberal news commentary. Nor am I watching as much liberal comedy such as the Daily Show or Colbert Report. The same sentiment holds true with many of my friends and coworkers.

So much for THAT theory!

Wow Joe...way to cover your tracks. You would think you would want to listen even more to hear the Anti-Bush/Blame-Bush drivel just to keep that high you had in January. Or maybe you're just embarrassed to be watching such trash. Either way...you've contributed to the decline in ratings....for that I thank you.

I can't wait for the revolution...

The question, Joe, is what you're going to do when Obama steps in the dog's business. I don't mean the little screwups he's had so far, but a truly colossal one (e.g., Iran detonates a nuclear bomb, a terrorist attack on the U.S.). It's only a matter of time. By the end of this year, Obama's on his own account. Blaming any problems on Bush simply won't cut it anymore. At some point, he becomes a big boy, and accountable for what happens on his watch.

What'll be your take when that happens?

Look at the rest of the ratings, joe. Fox is up. Way up.

glen beck up and up :D

First of all, Mr. Evilwrench, if you read my post, you'd see that what I said applies to conservatives as well. You're all frustrated, I understand that, so, you're turning to Fox news to vent your frustrations. It goes both ways.

And Jay, you mean a collossal screw up like invading Iraq? Understand that we felt exactly the same way when Bush was in office, and we had the same fears. The world is a ridiculously volatile and dangerous place now, and the fact that we haven't destroyed ourselves with nuclear weapons by now is completely amazing. What about when Reagan was in office? Were we not at the brink of a nuclear disaster during the cold war? Yes, we are at the brink of any number of catastrophic events now, and will be until the end of humanity. At this point, all we can do is hope that the guy in charge can somehow avert said events for a few more years. So the question is, do we do this through force, or do we try a different approach and accomplish this through diplomacy? I have no doubt that Obama will first attempt diplomacy, but if this fails, he will not hesitate to use force to protect the interests of the United States.

Or maybe you guys are right and he's actually a terrorist trying to bring down the U.S. government from the inside... if you're right, boy will us liberals have egg on our faces! Whoopsie!

Yeah-- The only true news station is FOX news. All the other stations are biased crap. Oh, wait, maybe viewership of Fox is up because it is the most entertaining TRAINWRECK on tv. Old guys from the Reagan years and highschool educated/self-taught hate machines like Sean Hannity telling you how to think and what to believe. Fox... come on. Hannity still talks about Rev. Wright E-V-E-R-Y night (and look where that got you). Perhaps the ratings are up, and you can thank amused Dems for that. FOX is AMUSING. I like when Glenn Beck cried. (note: the whole thing is set up to rep shock, and get viewers. That's it. It's not news. Olberman is guilty of that too.)

And Jay, you mean a collossal screw up like invading Iraq? Understand that we felt exactly the same way when Bush was in office, and we had the same fears.

No, I mean like a city going up in a mushroom cloud.

And as for Iraq, ask yourself one question: when is the last time you saw a news item on Iraq? I rest my case.

What about when Reagan was in office? Were we not at the brink of a nuclear disaster during the cold war?

No, we weren’t. That would be during the Bay of Pigs crisis, in 1962. So you’re giving Reagan props for winning the Cold War, and removing the Soviet threat? Then we agree he was a great President.

So the question is, do we do this through force, or do we try a different approach and accomplish this through diplomacy?

A different approach? How many UN resolutions did Saddam blow off? How the hell did North Korea manage to get nuclear weapons? Easy – they jerked us off with diplomacy and built the weapons while we talked. And talked. And talked. Just as Iran is doing today. Face it – diplomacy only works when both sides think that they have something to lose if negotiations fail. In their case, that means they deal with our military.

I have no doubt that Obama will first attempt diplomacy,

I have no doubt either, but then, every President always attempts diplomacy first. Nothing is more risky to a President than war, and no President ever wants to go to war. What President has ever fared well as a result of a war? Lincoln? Nope. Wilson? Nope. Roosevelt? Nope. Truman? Nope. Kennedy/Johnson? Nope. Bush 41? Nope. Bush 43? Nope.

but if this fails, he will not hesitate to use force to protect the interests of the United States.

I hope you’re right, but I’m afraid that’s where we part paths. I wish I shared your faith, but I don’t. I see Obama as a weakling, a spokesmodel for liberal fashionistas, who I fear will wring his hands, give stirring speeches, and ...let it go at that. That’s obviously the assessment of Putin, Kim, and DinnerJacket, since they’ve each tried it on with Obama and received no pushback. The problem is that even if he isn’t a weakling, he’s impressed some nasties that he is. That means he’ll have actually have to splatter somebody to establish street cred before they take him seriously. No one takes threats seriously from PeeWee Herman. He’s gotta deliver first, and until and unless he does so, people will laugh him off.

In any case, I’m glad we agree that the President has a duty to protect the United States militarily when in his reasonable judgment we face a threat.

Or maybe you guys are right and he's actually a terrorist trying to bring down the U.S. government from the inside... if you're right, boy will us liberals have egg on our faces! Whoopsie!

Straw man alert. No one said he’s a terrorist. Obama has friends who are terrorists, but said he himself is.

Coming from Australia I can't quite understand the explanation for MSN and CNN dropping. It's down because Bush is gone? They only watched to see Bush get his lumps? Therefore most have no interest in politics any more? Pretty infantile viewing audience, surely?
Just can't buy it.
Every problem has a very simple solution which is inevitably dead wrong. There has got to be a myriad of explanations for such a cataclysmic slide.

Congratulations! You correctly commented on the four people I'd love to bitch slap today!

Obama, Cooper, Obie, and Maddow.

Dude, your on fire -- go for double or nothing!

Dinosaur Media Update via Drudge:

GIVING UP: Stephen Colbert to guest-edit NEWSWEEK...

"So much for THAT theory!"


I think your "theory" may be right.
You and your buddies probably did bring down the ratings 30 and 55%. (!)

"I have no doubt that Obama will first attempt diplomacy..."
So what kind of diplomacy are you imagining that BO could use?

A more enlightened brand of diplomacy than what we have (stupidly) been using with N Korea?
Provide Iran with nuclear technology?

Have you worked out a "theory" on this?

Coming from Australia I can't quite understand the explanation for MSN and CNN dropping. It's down because Bush is gone? They only watched to see Bush get his lumps? Therefore most have no interest in politics any more?

Couple reasons for the decline in my view. One is that MSNBC and CNN were (and are) so utterly predictable in their Bush-bashing and Obama-worship that it’s gotten tiresome, even for diehard liberals and other anti-Americans. It’s like retelling the same joke over and over. It’s kind of the Muslim fanatics signing off with “Death to America, death to Israel, blah blah.” It’s formulaic now, and boring.

Second, and even more important, I do think that it’s true that leftists living in America were driven by the desire to oppose Bush himself, more than the desire to implement any specific policies of their own. Evidence: Obama so far has pretty much continued Bush’s policies (on FISA, Iraq, Afghanistan, Predator drone strikes, extraordinary rendition (now expanded, btw), Gitmo), and yet most of the left has uttered barely a peep. During the Bush years they were whipped up into a frenzy by the MSM, but now they’re rudderless. Leftists are faced with either a) tacitly agreeing that Bush was right all along, or b) criticizing the Messiah. Neither option is palatable to them, because they’d have to admit that they were conned.

Pretty infantile viewing audience, surely?

I’m not touching that one.../g

I smell a bailout followed by a government takeover. "I don't want to run the cable news business, but CNN is too big to fail."

I don't think it matters to most of us. I am very careful when channel surfing to never, even by accident, watch a second of Poop sCooper, Madcow, Tweety, or Suckoff Unterman. The liberals who must watch them are either just as brain dead as they are or too fat and lazy to reach for the remote.

...leftists living in America were driven by the desire to oppose Bush himself, more than the desire to implement any specific policies of their own.
Jay Guevara

Bingo.

I think of media personalities such as Olbermann et al. as donut holes - the nothingness in the center of a donut. The donut hole doesn't exist without the donut. Once the donut is gone... The donut hole's entire existence is created, defined, and depends on one thing. But it, in itself is nothing at all.

who's sick of "still bushed", obie sounds like a broken record, and i'm only channel surfing past it and he's still bashing bush and cheney. obie needs to come out of the past.

Why did that scene in "Anchorman" come to mind ...

You know, the one where he's "overgrown" and "unkempt" ... wandering the streets and sucking on a carton of warm sour milk?

Or maybe you guys are right and he's actually a terrorist trying to bring down the U.S. government from the inside... if you're right, boy will us liberals have egg on our faces! Whoopsie!

Posted by: Joe the Plumber at June 3, 2009 2:10 PM

Not that you'd know, because you stopped watching the news after Obama got elected, apparently.

And no, Obama's not a terrorist, he's a statist of some undetermined sort. As for bringing down America, well, people who have had their own country brought down by statists now think so, and are laughing at idiots like you.

Josef- "Honestly, now that Bush is out of office, I really don't feel as stressed about the state of politics, therefore, I'm not watching as much liberal news commentary. Nor am I watching as much liberal comedy such as the Daily Show or Colbert Report. The same sentiment holds true with many of my friends and coworkers."

No doubt. You know how this story ends. Like after Karensky was ousted or the Saigon Embassy fell. The suspense is over, from here on in, it's 5 year plans, production quotas and may day parades. The "liberal" media just need some show trials to spice up current affairs. For now, kick back and enjoy the purges.

Cooper and Maddow's average audiences have been sliding since January following last year's historic presidential election…

Am I over reading this or does there appear to be something biased in this last sentence from the POLLING source? 'historic presidential election?' hmm.

Anyway, I haven't had cable tv for years so I have no idea what's happening. I get my tv for free, oh, and it's in analog, so come June 12, I will lose everything but the local FOX channel. Won't that be a laugh riot when CBS, NBC, ABC lose a few million viewers?

First off great blog, I've been reading it for quite awhile.

With that said it's all about negativity, that's ALL MSNBC has to offer. Negativity is contagious and the democratic party is not entirely made up of extreme left-wing moonbats like Olbermann and Madcow.

I'm a democrat, but a moderate, and if the republican party can get it together or a viable conservative 3rd party can emerge I'm bailing and coming on over. I'm finding myself more and more conservative than I thought I was. Socialism will do that in a hurry.

I made a mistake voting for Obama and I can't speak for all those like me, but the Olbermann's of the world are doing a fine job convincing 'me' that the right side of the aisle is where I need to be.

I'm one democrat, not to be confused with a liberal, that's fed up with all the negativity, a socialist agenda, and criticizing people who are no longer in office and their competition from other news networks ( Fox ).

I wish you the best Eric H. the pull from the dark side can be strong, but conservative kung fu is stronger, hell even Chavez is calling B. Hussein a socialist.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525055,00.html

Actually the reference to kung fu is in respect to the grasshopper himself passing. RIP David Carradine

I think it should also be considered that most moonbats only pay attention to the news during election time.

DUmmies (Moonbats) Plan To Censor Fox News Via Remote Control
http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/

They're terrified of the "propaganda" coming from televisions in public places and believe they have a right to turn them off with this device. http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php

Where will you be when your laxative starts working? I believe Keith Obamaerman just found out!

RE: Posted by: Eric H. at June 4, 2009 5:48 AM

Eric - come on over!

I know you said you are not a true Liberal - but keep this quote from Ronaldus Maximus in mind: "Well, the trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, it's that they know so much that isn't so"

We don't thrive on fear and negativity over here on the Right - we are eternal optimists that truly believe in this country, and in freedom and prosperity for all.

Don't take our word for it - check it out for yourself....I'm sure you'll agree, and I'm sure you'll tell us what you think.

Kathleen, the DUmmies over there are also trying to work each other up the courage to demand from businesses that they change their channel in the waiting rooms/bars, etc. They've had mixed results, depending on where they live. Unless they're lying about any success.

"If you don't think and vote liberally when you are young... you have no heart. If you don't think and vote more conservatively when you are older... you have no brain."
It happens to everyone. But recent developments have accelerated the age-related thinking process in a lot of people. Things are changing fast, and even a younger guy like myself can see that this country is much different than it was when I was a child.
And don't think of it as "changing sides"... think of it as coming of age, and beginning to think like an adult. Enjoy your time here!

Unless they're lying about any success.

Karin, they would lie about what they had for breakfast if it made them seem like anything other than the tepid cowards they truly are.