After several months of soaring ratings, the numbers have dipped a tad over at Fox News. But they’re not complaining, because the numbers are in absolute freefall at MSNBC.
Looks like the election of President Obama is the best news Fox News has heard in years.
The accompanying chart looks at the top 10 cable TV shows for Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Source: MediaBistro, Nielsen Media Research
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Maddow’s show is so much better than Keiths. She has that constant “Im liberal and smarter than you” smirk but its a lot less annoying than Keiths “The sun went down, its Bush’s fault” shtick.
Keith trying to prove he went to the Ivy League Cornell (rather than the Cornell-Agriculture school) was sad. By Keiths reasoning, NC State students claim their basketball team is in the top 5.
Why are you lying about Keith Olbermann? He openly states that he went to the Cornell Ag school, primarily because he and his family couldn’t afford the tuition to the business school. Of course, Keith could then sign up and attend any of the classes the ‘wealthier’ students attended … and he did very well, graduating in the top 10 in his class. So, what’s the big deal? BTW – most of the USA’s current problems ARE Bush’s fault. At least Keith has the stones to say it. Why do people hate those who tell the truth? It’s so sad that Americans love lies so much. I guess the truth scares them. Poor idiots. It doesn’t say much for the future for this great country. Maybe if more people paid attention to what Keith is telling them, we wouldn’t be in this situation – and we certainly would have NEVER invaded IRAQ. What a complete disaster. Now, the ultra-conservatives have to figure out whose blood they can make money from after we leave Iraq. They’re just sick, perverted vultures. Wake up before there’s nothing left. Learn to take care of one another and stop preying on the meek. Remember, they will inherit the earth.
If you hear it on fox, it is so. If you hear it on mslsd or cnn, You have to go elswhere to find out if it is true. They should stick to running LOCKUP! There you will soon find all the liberals!! Obama hates america, period!! Soon he will just be another lame duck, alla Jimmy Carter! A racist president will never succeeed! His legacy will be, see? Money really can buy you the presidency!!
PLease try and live in the present. Obama has had almost a year. His solution for all of our “problems” is to get the gov. involved, apoint a czar and throw money at it. Wake up before there’s nothing left, is actually what I hope happens.
The problems we have are the DEMS fault. They have been in power since 2006. Why are Dems so stupid they have not realized they took control 4 years ago!
lets see olber(bearing)mann the liberal limbaugh! he hates bush and the repubs. as bad as rushhates the clintons, obama, and the dems.
this is a man who voices his opinion yet never allows oppossing views. must be hard to prep for a show when you only have guest who agree with you.
at least the democratic dike at 9 pm will let the otherside speak. msnbc is so far left that some time it makes fox look middle of road.sad part is they try to act as if they are above it. they spin thing just as fox does.
as a ind. i watch all to try to get my slant. one can be as bad as the other. hopfully so day news channels will move away from agendas and hold all politians accountable
Gee Olbermann is right where he belongs, but where is pissy chrissy matthews? He call in sick with the curse maybe?
This really does not surprise me at all. The only news I watch in the Fox News Channel. Olbermann and Matthews make me so mad that I want to throw things.
You have Hannity and O’Reilly together getting more viewers than all of CNN and MSNBC combined. That’s embarassing.
People are more likely to pull over and watch a trainwreck than to watch a news story on it. It’s too bad truth is so boring.
Hannity’s jaw implant would collapse if he ever told the truth. O’reilly’s incredibly boring I don’t know what people see in him. And folks watch Beck to see what it looks like when the inmates run the asylum; that guy is a horror-show. A wannabe baptist preacher spewing hell-fire and damnation and in the long run looking absurd. I’m fully convinced that people only watch that garbage because they *know* it’s not news.
Please enumerate the Hannity lies. I would like to see how they compare to the Obama lies.
All I can say is that the truth is not relative. It can’t be created or destroyed. Just as it was in the 90’s with all of Clinton’s “scandals” and the right-wing paranoia that came with it, none of what they claimed about him was true or ever came to fruition. And so it will be with Obama. But when none of Fox’s crazy claims about Obama never come to pass, the right-wing loons still will never give up. You and your ilk will never admit that you were wrong. That Obama is just another Democrat with policies that you don’t like, instead of whatever crazy conspiracies that you attribute to him this week (dealing in reality, I generally can’t keep up with all the new ones).
The right-wing has such an intense fear that their hold on this country is tenuous, that when they lose power they fear the Democrats will do good, responsible things (running the country competently…etc…) that will ensure a supermajority for decades. They’re right.
There was frothing at the mouth by the right-wing utopian idealogues (like Reagan) in the 1960’s over medicare. In reality their biggest issue with medicare was that they knew it would work, that people would like it, and that it would become part of the social fabric and that offends their ideoligical viewpoint on governance. Well medicare isn’t going anywhere and the same will be true of our healthcare bill in congress.
Once the Democrats push through their policy agenda, the people will realize that the country has been run by unethical, juvenile, crooks for the past 8 years and you’ll be lucky to find 10 Republicans in the Senate. Maybe then we can have a new, valid opposition party in this country.
That’s the whole point though – scream from the rooftops that what you see WILL happen {given what is known} thereby assuring it WON’T actually occur!!!
As to social safety nets, do you really believe people wouldn’t have saved for retirement?
Or that a TRUE free market {which manages to provide low costs, ie: LASIK} would be *worse* than the ponzi schemes gov’t cooked up?
And the moral obligation bs doesn’t play – if gov’t hadn’t inserted itself we’d take care of each other like we used to!!!
No, their biggest fear with Medicare was that it would eventually become bankrupt and the federal government would have issues dealing with costs that extend beyond revenue. Just like the universal health care we are talking about today. Liberals want to do what makes them feel good and not consider the consequences.
Olbermann and Maddow put together just manage to beat Fox’s #6, by the population of a very small town. That’s gotta be worth a non-sexual victory hug.
and a very liberal commenter at my site ( Ducky, for those of you hear who ‘know’ who he is!) suggested that CNBC was lucky to get rid of Glenn Beck because he had brought their ratings down! !!! Beck’s skyrocketing right now!
Z, Since Glenn Beck came to Fox, I have never once missed his show.
Olbermann and Matthews are proof that a–holes with lips do exist!
Rocky(I mean Rachel)Maddox isn’t far behind!
Well shazam sgt carter will just geta look at how the COMMUNISTS.NEWS.NETWORK is falling too darn bad to TED TED TURNER and BIG BAD WOLF BLITZER
The moonbats still love Olbie but that didn’t save Air America. He doesn’t have much to say without President Bush to whine about does he?
Olberman is a joke. He and MSNBC believed that their appeal to liberals was working. What they didn’t realize was that a good portion of their viewership weren’t liberals. There were contrarians, people who are never happy with the current power. Now Olberman spends his days defending the man and all his contrarians have left his viewership and are watching FOX.
maddow, a good role model if you have a son and want him to be a girl.what kind of people watch missy obermann…chrissy matthews…rocky maddow.GO FOX
Look up the word IDIOT in the dictionary. Its got Olbermanns picture there.
Finally I know who that person (Maddow) is. Sometimes I will surf the channels during FOX NEWS commericals (to see what BS they are putting out) and I saw her. Is she really a female? I wasn’t sure when I saw her.
Back when the Bush/Cheney duo were in office Olbermann was actually entertaining. He spoke the truth on the debacle also known as the Iraq War. Hannity would have the weasely Karl Rove on every night and it was just too much.
However, Keith has turned into a knee jerk Obama supporter with no credibility. The garbage he spews has no basis in fact. Since O’reilly and Hannity make me want to vomit, I have no where else to turn at this time of the night.
Watching someone who comes across as emotionally disturbed lash out & project everyday really ain’t funny. I can’t stand the guy, but Olby really should seek some help. His mother just died, his father is in poor health, & he seems unhappy at the best of times, he really is hard to watch. If his rating are anything to go by, I am not alone in that opinion.
Sensationalism sells but to call Fox lies “News” is a bit much. It should be called Fox Fun News or something so people would know most of the garbage they spew is pure rubbish.
Itemize some of the lies please.
I guess I should have said crap instead of rubbish.
MSNBC presents only one side of the argument. They have one token conservative of any significance, Pat Buchannan, and they talk over him because they don’t have an intelligent rebuttal. Fox, on the other hand, has several well respected liberals that can articulate their positions very well. They at least make you examine your own position on the topic of discussion.
The vitriol and comtempt Maddow and Olbermann spew every night make me very uncomfortable. They both like to blame the conservatives or anyone else who disagrees with their opinions – town hall meetings – but nobody does more to foment division more than those two.
Also, I plan on boycotting all of the companies that do business in Canada, that are pulling their adds from the Glen Beck show. President Obama demonstrated a racist point of view when he weighed in on the Professor Gates affair without even knowing the facts. Why can’t the American media call a spade a spade?
It is because… “Liberalism is a mental disorder”
How can you even consider killing an unborn and still call it a “right”.
Stupid.
Keith O……..is a NUT! Still SPEWING NONSENSE………as if he’s the so-called expert! What a JOKE! At any time, especially when his ratings are in the PITS(WHICH IS ALL THE TIME)…….he’ll take EVERY opportunity to take pot shots at Palin……of whom he feels ‘threatened’ by……And he will take pot shots at Beck……WHO SURPASSES HIM IN RATINGS EVERY SINGLE DAY……..! Keith, maybe the Gluten went to your brain cells…….because Your sarcastic spewing of jealous rants has TURNED AMERICANS OFF!!! START WATCHING FOX….You just might learn something about WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON in this Country….instead of the CRAP that you SPEW IN a Cable SHOW! I cannot believe that YOU’re STILL on the air. It’s funny…..You dress ultra conservative-like……YET you BASH EVERYTHING THAT’s CONSERVATIVE……I believe that’s hypocritical! Rachael Maddow is so uptight that she just can’t let her hair down and be REAL……You two are just DISGUSTING and have a BIG CHIP on your shoulders NOT to mention YOU are SEXIST!!! It’s too bad you two don’t have the ’substance’ to make your nonsense serious. You are losing….Americans are smarter and wiser than you………!
Please do us all a favor and remove the caps lock key from your keyboard. Thank you.
Wake up MSNBC. What ever happened to fair non-particial news coverage? Keith Olbermann’s and Chris Matthews’ narrow minded news coverage always criticizing anyone not on their far left has turned so many of us listeners off. No wonder your ratings are tumbling. How about cleaning up your act?
Keith Olbermann….Beck envy! Must I say more
right wing robots, believe anything that people call christian want to spew, only in disguise your bigotry, you all are more concerned with stopping abortions then feeding the poor and doing jesus work…….i dont think jesus would want a kid in this world that would be unwanted……and therefore live a bad life………the right is in trouble and better take a long hard look at themselves………i watch fox sometimes but just for entertainment…..to watch beck spew his hatred and get all you religious haters and riled up……………WWJD?
steven, you have no idea what jesus would have wanted. When you said u dont think jesus would want an unwanted child born into this world, thats what you want, and not jesus! there is a big difference. And just because people are concerned with stopping abortion doesnt mean they also dont want to feed the hungry. Wise up.
A common theme from reading these replies is the libtards cannot form a complete sentence let alone defend their position in any way. It’s not worth the time to attempt to talk sense into these “useful idiots.”
Do You have any pull w/ ESPN? Can you get Chris Berman moved to MSNBC, so I longer have to watch him on ESPN ?
ok I give up. I admit it I mainly watch fox but will flip to overman-mad-redux just to see what the libs are up to: and its always the same:bash bush,bash palin, bash fox,bash republicans,bash limbaugh, then interview some left wing teen age blogger no ones ever heard of or some lib errr “progressive” fish wrap hack that agrees with overman (“I’ve never been out of 30 rock or had an interview since espn”) blah,blah,blah. how much longer, now that msnbc has lost it’s GE cover before they just pull the plug on the whole mess?
dab – I would occasionally watch {all} cable news during Clinton & Bush, but during this last election cycle I REALLY saw the bias when reading the Las Vegas Review-Journal, {excellent op-eds that validated the notion that most of the MSM had a decided liberal bent} so I decided to try an experiment.
I DVR’d all the main shows on MSNBC & FOX, and watched them all for about a month or so.
I soon noticed a common bent on both channels – MSNBC’s hosts/pundits were hateful and dismissive of other views whereas on FOX, they would use logic to refute other views.
Yes, I do notice when a host will get some pundit to espouse an extreme view/harsh criticism the host agrees with but can’t say on FOX, but MSNBC is so smarmy, I just can’t watch it!!!
FOX is the only one who will TRY to be fair and MSNBC shows have only paper tigers to rail against now – never questioning Obama after drilling Bush for every wrong, real or not!
Watching Oblerman and Maddow speak is like watching a smirking North Korean recording a propaganda film. Really, Fox can’t be blamed. It is just that Oblerman and Maddow are so very awful, so bigoted, so hateful and so Left wing. Oblerman plays the declining, bitter T.V. personality who has been a drag on every program he’s been on. Maddow plays the seething, sarcastic “educated” personality reporting through the myopic intellectual prism of being lesbian.
I think Jean Paul Sartre wrote the pilot: “Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.”
Olberman = Douchebag