Delusional Keith Olbermann defends his rapidly eroding ratings

The delusional Keith Olbermann seems outraged – absolutely outraged – that several media outlets said his program is in danger of being canceled due to low ratings.

He refuted the vile rumor that his ratings are spiraling downward at an ever-increasing rate.

“First the small picture on how conservatives come to believe the crazy, nonsensical, totally fact-free things they believe,” Olbermann said. “How they transform discernible, provable lies into their wishful thinking version of the truth.” He then insisted that stories of his plummeting ratings are a figment of conservatives’ imaginations and even bragged that the program’s audience has grown.

Just one problem. OIbermann is flat-out lying. His ratings are going down. Big time. For example, here’s a comparison of Thursday, February 5 of this year and Thursday, February 4 of last year.

Of course, we know critics will say, “Well, sure, but one night doesn’t prove anything.” To which we say, “Shut the hell up, morons. These numbers are pretty damn indicative of the overall trends.”

Network/Host                   2-5-2009         2-4-2010
Fox, O’Reilly                        3,839,000          4,176,000
CNN, Brown                         1,497,000            585,000
MSNBC, Olbermann              1,475,000            917,000
HLN, Grace                          1,285,000            967,000

Bottom line: Olbermann’s audience is rapidly dwindling away, no matter how he chooses to spin it otherwise.

As the chart shows, a year ago his total audience often approached 1,500,000 viewers (on Thursday, February 5, 2009 it was 1,475,000). This year it usually comes in under 1,000,000 total viewers (on Thursday, February 4, 2010 it was a mere 917,000).

Obviously, the same math used by the President to explain how ObamaCare won’t grow the deficit is being used by Olbermann to explain how his ratings are growing instead of shrinking. And we suspect the same math is also being used to explain the number of jobs created or saved and maybe even how the world is heating instead of cooling.

Aha! It’s Lib Math. It all makes sense now.

Source: Nielsen Media Research via MediaBistro.com

Tagged as: Keith Olbermann, MSNBC

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