CNN focus group results show pretty conclusively that the mere mention of the word “hope” triggered an immediate negative response from Republicans and independents. And Obama’s discussion of “health care” caused independents to turn on the him like cornered wolverines.
Fascinating research from CNN that should scare the hell out of President Obama and his team.
The also-ran news network conducted a focus group during the State of the Union Address. They hooked participants up to devices that allowed them to register their reactions in real time to everything the President said.
The results show pretty conclusively that the mere mention of the word “hope” triggered an immediate negative response from Republicans and independents. And Obama’s discussion of “health care” caused independents to turn on the him like cornered wolverines.
It’s fun to watch. Professionally speaking, that is.
New Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown showed up on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Sort of. Actor Jon Hamm of AMC’s Mad Men portrayed Brown as a sexy, gyrating, and stripping senator who comes to life in Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Robert Byrd, Barbara Boxer, and Barney Frank’s sexual fantasies.
New Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown showed up on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Sort of.
Actor Jon Hamm of AMC’s Mad Men portrayed Brown as a sexy, gyrating, and stripping senator who comes to life in Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Robert Byrd, Barbara Boxer, and Barney Frank’s sexual fantasies.
“Thank goodness I like a good laugh,” the new senator told National Review Online. “That was pretty funny. I wish I could host SNL some day. I’ve been watching it since I was young. Jon Hamm is great.”
Ouch. MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer and Melissa Francis get smacked up the side of the head by Judd Gregg. But the funny thing is, we don’t think they even suspect how bad they looked.
Ouch. MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer and Melissa Francis get smacked up the side of the head by Judd Gregg. But the funny thing is, we don’t think they even suspect how bad they looked.
All this time we thought Chris Matthews said those crazy things just because he’s a liberal. But maybe Jon Stewart is right. Maybe Matthews is a drinking liberal, always a dangerous combination (see Kennedy, Ted).
All this time we thought Chris Matthews said those crazy things just because he’s a liberal. But maybe Jon Stewart is right. Maybe Matthews is a drinking liberal, always a dangerous combination (see Kennedy, Ted).
The numbers are in. Fox News absolutely destroyed the competition the night of Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts. Gloat, O’Reilly, gloat. You deserve it. Fox News deserves it. And most of all, MSNBC deserves it.
The numbers are in. Fox News absolutely destroyed the competition the night of Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts.
Gloat, O’Reilly, gloat. You deserve it. Fox News deserves it. And most of all, MSNBC deserves it.
Is Scott Brown going to pose for another nude centerfold? This and other important questions asked by Jay Leno and answered by America’s newest senator.
This and other important questions asked by Jay Leno and answered by America’s newest senator.
McClintock didn’t take kindly to MSNBC blowhard Ed Schultz’ suggestion that he would stuff the ballot box to defeat Scott Brown in the recent Massachusetts election. The California Republican took to the floor of the House of Representatives to rip Schultz a new one.
We love Congressman Tom McClintock. The state of California would have been a lot better off if he had been elected Governor instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Radio Equalizer notes that McClintock didn’t take kindly to MSNBC blowhard Ed Schultz’ suggestion that he would stuff the ballot box to defeat Scott Brown in the recent Massachusetts election. The California Republican took to the floor of the House of Representatives to rip Schultz a new one.
In response, Schultz blasted McClintock for having the temerity to suggest that he had advocated anything improper, such as, you know, voting twenty times.
Sadly for Schultz, the people watching McClintock’s speech on C-SPAN probably outnumbered those listening to his radio show.
First, here’s McClintock on the floor of the House.
And now here’s Schultz pathetic, bombastic response.
One final comment:
Ed says, “You can’t even say anything in ‘gist’ anymore.” The word is “jest”, Ed.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has recovered from his election night depression and is now attacking anyone who continues to be as blind as he once was. That includes delusional Congressman Alan Grayson
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews has recovered from his election night depression and is now attacking anyone who continues to be as blind as he once was.
That includes delusional Congressman Alan Grayson (D-NeverNeverLand), who says Democrats can still pass ObamaCare via the reconciliation maneuver.
“You know you can’t do it,” Matthews responds. “You’re pandering to the netroots right now. I know what you’re doing.”
Matthews is hilarious. He’s like a jilted lover who now hates everything about the woman he used to worship.
Fox News was the top cable network in primetime last week, averaging the most total viewers between January 18th-24th. The last time FNC topped USA and came in first was during the week of the 2008 presidential election.
In a week dominated by coverage of the earthquake in Haiti and the U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, FNC drew an average of 3.2 million total viewers in primetime (Mon-Sun).
Fox News' Rupert Murdoch has a lot to smile about
Scott Brown wasn’t the only winner in the Massachusetts senate election. Fox News came out on top, too.
MediaBistro.com reports on the network’s remarkable ratings:
Fox News was the top cable network in primetime last week, averaging the most total viewers between January 18th-24th. The last time FNC topped USA and came in first was during the week of the 2008 presidential election.
In a week dominated by coverage of the earthquake in Haiti and the U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts, FNC drew an average of 3.2 million total viewers in primetime (Mon-Sun).
Fox was ranked 3rd in total day. CNN was 22nd in primetime and 19th in total day, and MSNBC was 25th in primetime and 31st in total day.
Fox News probably won’t be able to hang on to the top spot now that the election is over, but the thought of Keith Olbermann grinding his teeth over last week’s ratings is probably enough to keep Rupert Murdoch smiling for years.
We’re not sure what Matthews thought Obama may have become, since he’s constantly reminded us for the last year that Obama is America’s first black president and that’s the only reason conservatives don’t like him. But that’s what the MSNBC host said.
We’re not sure what Matthews thought Obama may have become, since he’s constantly reminded us for the last year that Obama is America’s first black president and that’s the only reason conservatives don’t like him. But that’s what the MSNBC host said.
We’re just trying to imagine how Matthews would have howled if, say, Rush Limbaugh had made the same statement.
Damn it. Now what’s CNN going to do with all that stationery that says “The Most Trusted Name In News”?
The chant goes up at CNN: "We're number two! We're number two! We're number two!"
Damn it. Now what’s CNN going to do with all that stationery that says “The Most Trusted Name In News”?
Politico reports a survey that’s nothing but bad news for the original cable news network:
A Public Policy Polling nationwide survey of 1,151 registered voters Jan. 18-19 found that 49 percent of Americans trusted Fox News, 10 percentage points more than any other network.
Thirty-seven percent said they didn’t trust Fox, also the lowest level of distrust that any of the networks recorded.
There was a strong partisan split among those who said they trusted Fox — with 74 percent of Republicans saying they trusted the network, while only 30 percent of Democrats said they did.
CNN was the second-most-trusted network, getting the trust of 39 percent of those polled. Forty-one percent said they didn’t trust CNN.
Each of the three major networks was trusted by less than 40 percent of those surveyed, with NBC ranking highest at 35 percent. Forty-four percent said they did not trust NBC, which was combined with its sister cable station MSNBC.
Thirty-two percent of respondents said they trusted CBS, while 31 percent trusted ABC. Both CBS and ABC were not trusted by 46 percent of those polled.
The White House is expected to dispute the validity of the survey because, of course, Fox is not a real news network and, therefore, couldn’t possibly be trusted by anyone.
Let this be a warning to you, O’Reilly. Just because Air America has gone belly up and just because conservatives are on the ascendancy and just because Fox has huge ratings, that’s no reason to think things are ok, says Dennis Kucinich. The libs are always out there dangling the threat of the Fairness Doctrine over conservatives’ heads.
Let this be a warning to you, O’Reilly. Just because Air America has gone belly up and just because conservatives are on the ascendancy and just because Fox has huge ratings, that’s no reason to think things are ok. The libs are always out there dangling the threat of the Fairness Doctrine over conservatives’ heads.
Kucinich: You know what? Be careful, Bill, about crowing about your success right now because people are going to start calling for the Fairness Doctrine to come back if they feel their point of view is not being adequately represented.
Oh, that madcap Dennis Kucinich. What a cut-up. What a card. Someone get this guy a newspaper so he can read about the election in Massachusetts last week.
You just know you’re in for some big laughs when a Media Matters article starts out like this: “Not content with its lapdog coverage of President Bush over the past decade, the Beltway press has adopted a new, super-soft way to deal with Bush’s former vice president, Dick Cheney, as well as GOP media star Sarah Palin.
You just know you’re in for some big laughs when a Media Matters article starts out like this:
“Not content with its lapdog coverage of President Bush over the past decade, the Beltway press has adopted a new, super-soft way to deal with Bush’s former vice president, Dick Cheney, as well as GOP media star Sarah Palin. Journalists have set aside what had been decades’ worth of guidelines and embraced special new rules for how Cheney and Palin get treated.”
It seems that the author Eric Boehlert is upset that Sarah Palin “Hasn’t allowed herself to be interviewed by a single independent political journalist since she launched her book in November. Instead, she mostly communicates with the mainstream media via Facebook. And now that she’s signed on to join the Fox News staff, the chances of Palin ever speaking with the serious press seem to be less than zero. That lack of openness stacks the deck and leads to dreadful bouts of stenography; of literally recording what controversial Republicans say, and nothing more.”
Yes, of course, the media has treated Palin so kindly that she ought to sign up for all kinds of interviews because we’re sure you are really interested in openness.
Dick Cheney also get’s nothing but love from the media and a super-soft treatment? Well that explains the 5,000 times that the MSM replayed Alan Grayson’s distasteful remarks about “blood dripping from Dick Cheney’s teeth” doesn’t it?
The Media Matters article ends with the bizarre claim that “The press has never cared what a former VP had to say about current events… or what a failed VP candidate had to say just months after losing.” And “Traditionally, pundits and reporters disdain political losers … But for Cheney and Palin, the rules have been generously reworked.”
Hmmmm, let’s see here. Isn’t Al Gore a former Vice President and a political loser? We would have sworn that pundits and reporters pay an inordinate amount of attention to his global warming weather crap.
But we must be wrong. Because Media Matters says so.
The whole “jobs created or saved” storyline created by the White House was silly to begin with. But it becomes even funnier when Obama sends his advisors out to talk it up on the Sunday talk shows and they quote wildly different numbers.
The whole “jobs created or saved” storyline created by the White House was silly to begin with. But it becomes even funnier when Obama sends his advisors out to talk it up on the Sunday talk shows and they quote wildly different numbers.
Politico.com reports:
The discrepancy was pointed out by a Republican official in an email to reporters noting that “Three presidential advisers on three different programs [gave] three different descriptions of the trillion-dollar stimulus bill.”
Valerie Jarrett had the most conservative count, saying “the Recovery Act saved thousands and thousands of jobs,” while David Axelrod gave the bill the most credit, saying it has “created more than – or saved more than 2 million jobs.” Press Secretary Robert Gibbs came in between them, saying the plan had “saved or created 1.5 million jobs.”
We know three jobs that shouldn’t be saved and never should have been created.
Despite CNN’s non-stop coverage of the continued horror in Haiti, the left wing network found time to ask this burning question, “Has Obama lost France as an ally?”
Former BAFs (Best Amis Forever) in happier times
Despite CNN’s non-stop coverage of the continued horror in Haiti, the left wing network found time to ask this burning question, “Has Obama lost France as an ally?”
According to CNN, “President Nicolas Sarkozy called the new president ‘my buddy’ and tried urgently to be the first world leader to meet with him…” but “…after a year in office, France’s honeymoon with Obama seems clearly over.”
In case you’re wondering how anyone could dislike the Greatest President In History, especially since the left is constantly reminding us of how much the world loves us now that The One has come, the article gives at least three reasons:
1. “First there were published reports that Sarkozy didn’t think Obama knew his briefing books during the G-20 economic summit.”
2. “Then came widespread sniping along official corridors here that Obama was not measuring up when dealing with world leaders, like Russia’s Dimitri Medvedev.”
3. “And then members of Sarkozy’s government openly complained about how long it was taking Obama to make up his mind about Afghanistan.”
But just to make sure that we know who is really to blame, CNN asks the penetrating question, “So one year on, has President Obama, like his predecessor George W. Bush, lost France as an ally?”
Damn that George Bush. He probably caused the loss in Massachusetts, too.
The New York Daily News dug up this mug shot of ABC News correspondent Bianna Golodryga from back in May 2000 when she was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated in the great state of Texas.
Remember that episode of Seinfeld where Jerry met a beautiful girl at a party, but she turned ugly unless she was under just the right light.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xi9kgnvjQEKind of like ABC News correspondent Bianna Golodryga, who just announced her engagement to remarkably nerdish White House budget boss Peter Orszag.
The New York Daily News dug up this mug shot from back in May 2000 when she was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated in the great state of Texas.
If only good lighting could make Orszag’s budget numbers look a little prettier.
You know the world is spinning out of control when Jon Stewart not only rips Keith Olbermann for his absurd comments about Scott Brown, but defends a gaggle of other conservatives.
You know the world is spinning out of control when Jon Stewart not only rips Keith Olbermann for his absurd comments about Scott Brown, but defends a gaggle of other conservatives.
Fer Christ’s sake, Rachel Maddow is one woman who refuses to hear the message in the Massachusetts election. Deaf as the proverbial doornail. How far to the left does someone have to be to make Chris Matthews look rational?
Fer Christ’s sake, this is one woman who refuses to hear the message in the Massachusetts election. Deaf as the proverbial doornail. How far to the left does someone have to be to make Chris Matthews look rational?
Let’s just hope the rest of the Dems are as deaf as she is.
Media Matters, the rabid left wing media “watchdog” group, ran a lengthy, lengthy, lengthy story about Fox and Friends’ biased coverage of the White House’s bribery alleged bribery of Big Labor last week. It carried the shocking headline “Fox & Friends described as fact that the excise tax extension given to unions was a ‘bribe’ for support and votes.”
Hating on Fox News is one thing, but c’mon.
Media Matters, the rabid left wing media “watchdog” group, ran a lengthy, lengthy, lengthy story about Fox and Friends’ biased coverage of the White House’s bribery alleged bribery of Big Labor last week.
It carried the shocking headline “Fox & Friends described as fact that the excise tax extension given to unions was a ‘bribe’ for support and votes.”
We’re right there with you, Media Matters. How dare those bastards at Fox News be so dishonest? Why, it’s almost like promising that all healthcare negotiations would be carried on C-Span or something crazy like that.
On second thought, if it had been on C-Span Fox News could have proved it was a bribe and removed the sliver of doubt to which Obama apologists like Media Matters so desperately cling.
It think that there are a number of factors here,” Sally Quinn contended. “It’s not quite as black and white as it may seem. First of all Scott Brown is a hunk. And, I think that the fact that he posed semi-nude for a magazine gave him a huge advantage in public recognition.”
Sally Quinn is still alive? Well, we’ll be dipped.
As surprised as we were to find out that the Washington Post columnist is still alive, Bill O’Reilly was even more surprised to find out she’s a complete idiot.
“It think that there are a number of factors here,” Quinn contended. “It’s not quite as black and white as it may seem. First of all Scott Brown is a hunk. And, I think that the fact that he posed semi-nude for a magazine gave him a huge advantage in public recognition.”
O’Reilly was surprisingly kind in pointing out the stupidity of the contention that a 20-year old photo spread could boost anyone’s name recognition today.
Damn, win or lose, this has been one fun election. Can’t remember the last time we saw anything as funny as the way libs are twisting and turning.
Jon Stewart hilariously rips democrats ineptitude in Massachusetts.
If you like to laugh at democrats, this great Jon Stewart monologue is for you. Here’s a taste: “The Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because, once again, they glued their balls to their thighs.”
Desperate times call for desperate words at MSNBC. So Keith Olbermann called Scott Brown a racist.
Desperate times call for desperate words at MSNBC. So Keith Olbermann did his finest Captain Queeg impression last night, saying:
Lost in the angst about Obama and Coakley is the little-recognized, real headline of this book. You heard Scott Brown speculating, talking out of his bare bottom, about whether or not the President of the United States was born out of wedlock. You’ve heard Scott Brown respond to the shout of his supporter that they should stick a curling iron in Ms. Coakley’s rectum with the answer, “We can do this.”
You may not have heard Scott Brown support a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage or describing to two women having a child as “just not normal.” You may not have heard Scott Brown associating himself with the tea party movement, perhaps the saddest collection of people who don’t want to admit why they really hate since the racists of the south in the 60s insisted they were really just concerned about states rights. You may not have heard Scott Brown voting against paid leaves of absence for Massachusetts Red Cross workers who had gone to New York to help after 9-11.
In short, in Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model tea-bagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees.
At any other time in our history, this man would have been laughed off the stage as an unqualified (sic) and as a disaster in the making by the most conservative of conservatives. Instead, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is close to sending this bad joke to the Senate of the United States.
Excuse us, Keith, but that’s “Senator Irresponsible, Homophobic, Racist, Reactionary, Ex-Nude Model, Tea-Bagger” to you.
The voters of Massachusetts, Keith, Massachusetts. Bastion of liberal thought and left wing lunacy.
What a hate-filled, irrational screed. Is it any wonder no one watches this clown anymore?
