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[b]CABLE NEWS RACE
TUES. NITE, JUNE 05 2012

FOXNEWS OREILLY 3,108,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,973,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,802,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,441,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,147,000
FOXNEWS FIVE 1,590,000
CMDY DAILY SHOW 1,516,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,256,000
CMDY COLBERT 1,226,000

Viewership of the ABC, CBS, and NBC nightly evening newscasts all grew year-over-year, with 22.5 million people on average watching one of the three, up about 4.2% from 21.6 million in 2011. Additionally, close to one-quarter of the growth came from the 25-54 age group, with each newscast

Jon Stewart Fast and Furiously takes down Fox News for their outrage over President Obama’s executive action

Fox News and other Conservative media outlets have been doing handstands over President Obama’s executive action on Operation Fast and Furious, deeming it as a step toward “lawless dictatorship”. Fast and Furious, a ridiculously dumbfounding operation which was implemented to track guns in Mexico, by sending guns to Mexico has come to national attention — but one the many problems which is pointed out in one of Stewart’s clips is, that their own mouthpieces and politicians “don’t know” what the f*****g’ problem is — but it’s Obama’s fault — it always is. Darrell Issa recently admitted that there is no evidence that the White House in the mind boggling operation known as ‘Fast and Furious.’

While targeting President Obama’s decision as a ‘lawless dictatorship’ they’ve neglected to remember some of their own politician’s decisions as Republicans cheered it on. The feigned outrage from Republicans is deafening, but not so much that Jon Stewart can’t take them down a peg or ten.

Watch. This is brilliant:

March 26, 2012 is the day Bill O'Reilly was interviewing Caroline Fredrickson about the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's signature legislation, The Affordable Care Act.

"If I’m wrong I will come on, and I will play — I will play your clip. And I will apologize for being an idiot. But I think you’re desperately wrong."

“I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica.”
— Rush Limbaugh on President Obama’s health care law, 2010

On the concluding night of the Republican National Convention, Fox News’ coverage brought in its highest ratings with 9 million total viewers (more than its cable competitors as well as broadcast networks). It was also the network’s 3rd highest-rated 10 p.m. slot in more than 15 years. CNN and MSNBC brought in just over 4 million viewers combined.

10-11PM Coverage — Total Viewers

Fox News: 9,057,093
ABC: 4,442,908,000
NBC: 3,847,498
CBS: 3,729,691
CNN: 2,327,376
MSNBC: 1,876,459

10-11PM Coverage — 25-54 Demo

Fox News: 2,575,383
ABC: 1,612,407
NBC: 1,463,902
CBS: 1,506,553
CNN: 903,838
MSNBC: 625,712

RNC 2012 Ratings Lag Far Behind 2008's

by Tony Lee 31 Aug 2012

On Wednesday, nearly 20 million viewers tuned in to the 10 p.m. hour for Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republican National Convention. Four years ago, 37 million people -- 17 million more viewers -- tuned in to view Sarah Palin’s RNC address in Minnesota.

According to Nielsen, only FOX News and ABC improved their ratings from Tuesday night, when nearly 22 million viewers tuned in to see Ann Romney speak. Meanwhile, viewership across every network was down from 2008. According to Nielsen, FOX News was down 1.5 million viewers, NBC 3.5 million, CNN nearly five million, ABC three million, CBS two million, and MSNBC about two million.

Nielsen's numbers reveal that a “vast majority” of viewers of all the networks were 55 years of age or over. On Tuesday, the RNC’s first night, Nielsen estimated that nearly 15 million of the 22 million viewers who watched the convention were 55 years of over. On the other hand, only 1.5 million viewers who were aged 18 to 34 watched convention Tuesday's coverage.

And consider this: On Wednesday, the fourth episode of “Honey Boo Boo,” a show described as being about a “redneck” family and their “Toddlers and Tiara” daughter, pulled a 1.3 rating among the 18-48 age demographic

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