"The largest decline was suffered by Greta Van Susteran's On The Record (-22%), followed closely by O'Reilly (-21%). Hannity & What's His Name took the Bronze (-17%). Of the MSNBC programs opposite those losers, Olbermann's Countdown was the biggest gainer (55%), which I'm sure doesn't bother O'Reilly at all."
(W's dot dailykos dot com slash story slash 2006 slash 3 slash 1 slash 111723 slash 4980)
Olbermann's is one MSNBC program that has bucked the general trend and increased its key demographic audience in 2006. Compared with the same quarter a year earlier, Olbermann saw a 67% rise among viewers 25 to 54 in the fourth quarter of 2006 (also see News Investment) and a 60% rise in the overall audience.
Even with the drop in overall prime-time audience, some shows did see gains. "Lou Dobbs Tonight," for instance, grew 30% in the fourth quarter of 2006, while Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer's shows saw 15% and 18% growth.
"If Fox News's declines were one major change in the cable news landscape, the other big shift came at MSNBC, where viewership by any measure grew in both daytime and prime time in 2006."
Good point lt5lee makes. FACTS rather than neocon bullshit.
Think about how much better the world would be today without the neocon fuckups. $500B richer with a military that's not stretched to the limit. A contained/neutralized Saddam. Allies that still support us. No black ops in Iran. Diplomacy rather than lunacy. Greater national unity rather than the divisive polarized country we have today.
The only downside? Stewart & Colbert wouldn't be as funny.
liberalss simply lie. Clintons fired 93. They are free to fire whoever they want to fire. I really hope he sticks it out. This is ignorance gone to seed.
i'm so tired of this clinton fired 93 talking point. and neo-con sympathizers who repeats this deceptive argument is an uninformed fool regurgitating the bile the white house puts out there. it's more complicated than that daytraderaz1.
Its only complicated to a liberal. He hired them and he can fire them for any reason he chooses. That is the hard fact you will simply have to accept.
They answer to national law, though hired and fired by the President. No administration is allowed to make them to bend the law. They were told to prosecute Democrats on false charges and drop charge against Republicans who had broken the law. They refused like decent honorable people & were fired for it. That's politicizing the Justice Department & unprecedented bad behavior. But right wing media outlets don't tell the full story, keeping people uninformed. Hey, just like daytraderz1.
Why do you throw around the word liberal like its something people should be ashamed of? Oh and yes he can fire them, BUT NOT FOR PARTISAN POLITICS!! AND THEY CANT LIE ABOUT IT!! EXPECIALLY THE ATTOURNY GENERAL, THE ONE PERSON WHO'S JOB IT IS MAKE SHURE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS WORKING PROPERLY!! I digress. So next time you think you want to hurt a liberals feelings...look at your own party and see what it has done to your county and realize that my party is not as bad as you thought.
Wendi, a common neocon tactic is to attack people for their perceived political beliefs rather than the content of their posts. Everything this side of right-wing crazy is liberal.
They think it's masculine to act this way and it detracts from the factual debate they can't win.
Only neocons are blind to the facts of this case - political firings, obstruction of justice and its repurcusions.
Presidents can fire Fed Prosecutors. But Bush says HE didn't fire them. Rove/Golding/Sampson/McNulty/Bush/Cheney were ALL in on the firings because Rove was pissed about loosing the midterms. The Polls showed Republican Corruption as a leadinf factor.
These are the cold hard facts neocons don't want to talk about.
Liberals do tend to lie quite alot, don't they? like how they lie about WMD's and not wanting to start a war then getting us stuck in that war as they lying more and more about how well it is going. Liberals are so terrible after lying about knowing nothing having to do with warning memos with regard to catastrophies like 9/11 and the levees in New Orleans. I hate liberals who lie while behind frustrated, injured, underpaid, tramatized, and overdeployed troops inorder to make them...
...look like they really freaking care about those who sacrifice in the name of our country only to lock them into a crappy hospital right across the street. I hate how liberals lie about no-bid contracts for Hiliburton and Blackwater in order create more chaos and demoralize our troops while lining their own pockets with the resources of another nation. Those Lying Bastards...
You miss the point. He hired them. He can fire them. For any reason. If they are not following the policies the president desires..he can fire them. This was true for Clinton. It is true for the Bush administration. In order to be a liberal, you must be convinced that something is wrong. Something is wrong. Something is wrong.
You missed the point daytrade. He hired them, he cannot fire them for political reasons then lie about it.
Bush Sr., Reagan, Clinton all fired the previous slate of Fed Prosecutors when the took office. They didn't cherry pick those that wouldn't knuckle under to pressure to prosecute Dems.
Olberman has the lowest ratings of all the news shows..,why dont you listen to rush or hannity,mabey you will learn something.I bet you are just another liberal who wants my tax dollar to pay your rent ,food ,education,health,etc because you cant stand on your own two feet. Someday you will grow up!
Ignorant, thats funny,why are you going to insult someone who pays to help keep food on your table and heat in your house? If it wasnt for tax payers like me,you would probably have to work for a living. Its so funny how you liberals see hate in everything that dosent support your view. Theres no hate,i'm just tired of paying for people like you. Also,if you dont like it here why dont you move to france! ENOUGH SAID!
people use the "immature line" when they know they have been made a fool of and have nothing else to come back with!! keep pretending your important and mabey someone will believe it.
Oreilly's ratings are dropping like a stone, Olberman is rocketing upwards.
Surprises even me, since my opinion of Americans isn't very high. Overweight, self-indulgent, self-absorbed tv-watchers. Their culture:wealth ratio is the lowest on the planet. Egyptians, Greeks Zimbabwe, Malaysia, India upper 90's, US under 10.
This is a bullshit non story and Olberman is even worse than anderson cooper. what a hack.
pv65 4 years ago
That's great pv that you have an opinion, but no facts and no factual references. Here's a fact for you:
2006 Ratings:
Olberman rose 55%
O'Reilly dropped 21%
mediabistro*com
lt5Iee 4 years ago
As gas prices reach new highs, SO DOES REPUG CORRUPTION:
GONZO-GATE!!
BROWNIE-GATE!!
IRAQ-GATE!!
VPLAME-GATE!!
usus53 4 years ago
"The largest decline was suffered by Greta Van Susteran's On The Record (-22%), followed closely by O'Reilly (-21%). Hannity & What's His Name took the Bronze (-17%). Of the MSNBC programs opposite those losers, Olbermann's Countdown was the biggest gainer (55%), which I'm sure doesn't bother O'Reilly at all."
(W's dot dailykos dot com slash story slash 2006 slash 3 slash 1 slash 111723 slash 4980)
OILegionnaire 4 years ago
Olbermann's is one MSNBC program that has bucked the general trend and increased its key demographic audience in 2006. Compared with the same quarter a year earlier, Olbermann saw a 67% rise among viewers 25 to 54 in the fourth quarter of 2006 (also see News Investment) and a 60% rise in the overall audience.
(same site)
GODrunk 4 years ago
Even with the drop in overall prime-time audience, some shows did see gains. "Lou Dobbs Tonight," for instance, grew 30% in the fourth quarter of 2006, while Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer's shows saw 15% and 18% growth.
(same website)
GODrunk 4 years ago
"If Fox News's declines were one major change in the cable news landscape, the other big shift came at MSNBC, where viewership by any measure grew in both daytime and prime time in 2006."
W's dot stateofthenewsmedia dot org slash 2007 slash narrative_cabletv_audience dot asp?cat=2&media=6
GODrunk 4 years ago
none plus one is a 100 percent increase. way to go pmsnbc.
pv65 4 years ago
Good point lt5lee makes. FACTS rather than neocon bullshit.
Think about how much better the world would be today without the neocon fuckups. $500B richer with a military that's not stretched to the limit. A contained/neutralized Saddam. Allies that still support us. No black ops in Iran. Diplomacy rather than lunacy. Greater national unity rather than the divisive polarized country we have today.
The only downside? Stewart & Colbert wouldn't be as funny.
usus53 4 years ago
liberalss simply lie. Clintons fired 93. They are free to fire whoever they want to fire. I really hope he sticks it out. This is ignorance gone to seed.
daytraderaz1 5 years ago
i'm so tired of this clinton fired 93 talking point. and neo-con sympathizers who repeats this deceptive argument is an uninformed fool regurgitating the bile the white house puts out there. it's more complicated than that daytraderaz1.
daveulrich 4 years ago
Its only complicated to a liberal. He hired them and he can fire them for any reason he chooses. That is the hard fact you will simply have to accept.
daytraderaz1 4 years ago
They answer to national law, though hired and fired by the President. No administration is allowed to make them to bend the law. They were told to prosecute Democrats on false charges and drop charge against Republicans who had broken the law. They refused like decent honorable people & were fired for it. That's politicizing the Justice Department & unprecedented bad behavior. But right wing media outlets don't tell the full story, keeping people uninformed. Hey, just like daytraderz1.
daveulrich 4 years ago
Well said Dave.
Republican prosecutors being fired by Pat Robertson Law school graduates?
Didn't go over too well.
Not only is it unethical to fire prosecutors that wouldn't knuckle under to Rove influence, they lied to congress about it...fed offense. Oooops.
Even honest repugs don't like this...what few there are.
bushitman 4 years ago
Why do you throw around the word liberal like its something people should be ashamed of? Oh and yes he can fire them, BUT NOT FOR PARTISAN POLITICS!! AND THEY CANT LIE ABOUT IT!! EXPECIALLY THE ATTOURNY GENERAL, THE ONE PERSON WHO'S JOB IT IS MAKE SHURE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM IS WORKING PROPERLY!! I digress. So next time you think you want to hurt a liberals feelings...look at your own party and see what it has done to your county and realize that my party is not as bad as you thought.
Wendigoa90 4 years ago
Wendi, a common neocon tactic is to attack people for their perceived political beliefs rather than the content of their posts. Everything this side of right-wing crazy is liberal.
They think it's masculine to act this way and it detracts from the factual debate they can't win.
usus53 4 years ago
Only neocons are blind to the facts of this case - political firings, obstruction of justice and its repurcusions.
Presidents can fire Fed Prosecutors. But Bush says HE didn't fire them. Rove/Golding/Sampson/McNulty/Bush/Cheney were ALL in on the firings because Rove was pissed about loosing the midterms. The Polls showed Republican Corruption as a leadinf factor.
These are the cold hard facts neocons don't want to talk about.
bushitman 4 years ago
Liberals do tend to lie quite alot, don't they? like how they lie about WMD's and not wanting to start a war then getting us stuck in that war as they lying more and more about how well it is going. Liberals are so terrible after lying about knowing nothing having to do with warning memos with regard to catastrophies like 9/11 and the levees in New Orleans. I hate liberals who lie while behind frustrated, injured, underpaid, tramatized, and overdeployed troops inorder to make them...
blaed 4 years ago
...look like they really freaking care about those who sacrifice in the name of our country only to lock them into a crappy hospital right across the street. I hate how liberals lie about no-bid contracts for Hiliburton and Blackwater in order create more chaos and demoralize our troops while lining their own pockets with the resources of another nation. Those Lying Bastards...
blaed 4 years ago
blaed, you are simply deluded and living in an alternative universe.
daytraderaz1 4 years ago
Wendi...see what I mean? Check out daytrade's posts. They're a perfect study in factless attack tactics employed by these rightwingers.
usus53 4 years ago
You miss the point. He hired them. He can fire them. For any reason. If they are not following the policies the president desires..he can fire them. This was true for Clinton. It is true for the Bush administration. In order to be a liberal, you must be convinced that something is wrong. Something is wrong. Something is wrong.
daytraderaz1 4 years ago
You missed the point daytrade. He hired them, he cannot fire them for political reasons then lie about it.
Bush Sr., Reagan, Clinton all fired the previous slate of Fed Prosecutors when the took office. They didn't cherry pick those that wouldn't knuckle under to pressure to prosecute Dems.
Got it?
usus53 4 years ago
usus..keep re-reading my post until it makes sense. I tried to keep it simple, but perhaps even this simplicity is too much for some.
daytraderaz1 4 years ago
Nice sarcasm, somehow it makes you appear more human daytrade.
I understood your post - it's just that it's factually incorrect, so I corrected you.
Perhaps low self-esteem makes it difficult for you to be corrected. That's the price of stupidity or high ego:ability rato.
usus53 4 years ago
olberman needs to go back to doing the sports report! o'reily is the best.
mikezz5 5 years ago
YOUR LOST SON
radioshck 4 years ago
Olberman has the lowest ratings of all the news shows..,why dont you listen to rush or hannity,mabey you will learn something.I bet you are just another liberal who wants my tax dollar to pay your rent ,food ,education,health,etc because you cant stand on your own two feet. Someday you will grow up!
mikezz5 4 years ago
WOW. you sound so ignorant. How old are you? Rush? Hannity? LOL. You have a lot of hate in your heart. I know your kind.
radioshck 4 years ago
Ignorant, thats funny,why are you going to insult someone who pays to help keep food on your table and heat in your house? If it wasnt for tax payers like me,you would probably have to work for a living. Its so funny how you liberals see hate in everything that dosent support your view. Theres no hate,i'm just tired of paying for people like you. Also,if you dont like it here why dont you move to france! ENOUGH SAID!
mikezz5 4 years ago
your projecting. paying for people like me? LOL. You have no idea who your talking to. LOL. You are so immature. LOL.
radioshck 4 years ago
people use the "immature line" when they know they have been made a fool of and have nothing else to come back with!! keep pretending your important and mabey someone will believe it.
mikezz5 4 years ago
a fool of? LOL. Your full of nonsense.
radioshck 4 years ago
Oreilly's ratings are dropping like a stone, Olberman is rocketing upwards.
Surprises even me, since my opinion of Americans isn't very high. Overweight, self-indulgent, self-absorbed tv-watchers. Their culture:wealth ratio is the lowest on the planet. Egyptians, Greeks Zimbabwe, Malaysia, India upper 90's, US under 10.
usus53 4 years ago
tell that to George Bush... he's the one promoting Democracy all over the world (in Iraq for example)
sundropdave 5 years ago
Criminals in government protecting each other, what a democracy we live in.
SpyMasterP 5 years ago