America LOVES FOX NEWS.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I love it when people get excited that Fox is "#1 in cable news," where they get a whopping 1.8 million average viewers. #1 in broadcast news (NBC)gets 8.6 million viewers which is 377% higher than Fox news. The combined audience for broadcast news (CBS, ABC and NBC) is 25m.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I love it when people get excited that Fox is "#1 in cable news," where they get a whopping 1.8 million average viewers. #1 in broadcast news (NBC)gets 8.6 million viewers which is 377% higher than Fox news. The combined audience for broadcast news (CBS, ABC and NBC) is 25m.

Source?

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Nielsen National Ratings - you can google it if you need confirmation. TV by the numbers and media bistro websites usually publish them.

[Karee 4,191]

I love it when people get excited that Fox is "#1 in cable news," where they get a whopping 1.8 million average viewers. #1 in broadcast news (NBC)gets 8.6 million viewers which is 377% higher than Fox news. The combined audience for broadcast news (CBS, ABC and NBC) is 25m.

Kinda apples and oranges. CBS, ABC, and NBC have a national 30 minute news program once a day M-F.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I have problems with FOX when they bring Mark Fuhrman on the show, and when they start bashing Muslims. I stay for the blondes, the short dresses, and the low camera angles.

The hottest chicks in news are on FOX. FOX caters to male hetrosexuals.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Kinda apples and oranges. CBS, ABC, and NBC have a national 30 minute news program once a day M-F.

And Fox's #1 program (an hour long program) gets 3 million. Network channels have only marginally higher penetration than a basic channel, like Fox or CNN so the comparison is pretty valid.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Kinda apples and oranges. CBS, ABC, and NBC have a national 30 minute news program once a day M-F.

She's right, though. Diane Sawyer gets twice the viewership (at around 8 million viewers) that Bill O'Reilly does (more than 3 million viewers), even with multiple time slots.

[Karee 4,191]

And Fox's #1 program (an hour long program) gets 3 million. Network channels have only marginally higher penetration than a basic channel, like Fox or CNN so the comparison is pretty valid.

You win. I give. I'm gonna spend the next 4 days getting drunk and trying to figure out what Kip is going on about RUB and the jews. I'm think he's probably right, but haven't had the will to research it.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

America was dumb before. You just want to blame it on the right now.

Not this dumb. Not even close. Not so dumb to let a guy that compares his inability to make his home-state's the VA primary ballot with one of the darkest days in this country's history label himself an intellectual or, worse yet, a historian. I mean, really, how fcuking stupid has this nation become? Especially over there on the side of the political spectrum where FOX actually passes as a News Network. Ran across this piece in the paper today - pretty neat assessment of just how fcuked up this country really is.

Corn just as high as a crackpot's eye

By Daniel Ruth, Times Columnist

In Print: Friday, December 30, 2011

There are probably many reasons why Newt Gingrich has suddenly found his political fortunes dropping off a cliff faster than Hosni Mubarak's, not the least of which is equating his own self-inflicted failure to get on the Republican presidential ballot in his home state as a fate comparable to the worst military defeat in a single day in American history.

It was Gingrich, displaying all the grasp of U.S. history of an Afghan goat herder, who argued that his inability to submit 10,000 valid signatures to get on the Virginia ballot was somehow a tragedy on a par with the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, which claimed 3,000 lives, decimated the Pacific Fleet and plunged the nation into World War II.

And this silly man insists on referring to himself as a "historian"?

Sigh. Gingrich's illiterate hubris makes John Travolta's Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter look like Arnold Toynbee.

Gingrich described his ineptitude as an "unexpected setback," as if a man aspiring to oversee the federal government had no idea that state law requires 10,000 signatures to qualify for the primary.

It could very well be that even Iowans, getting ready to caucus in one of the phoniest, most contrived political exercises on the election calendar, won't abide a level of amour propre that would make Charles de Gaulle, Muhammad Ali and Donald Trump look like whimpering wallflowers.

Elections scholars years from now may well alight on what to call the 2012 campaign for the presidency. "The Politics of Stupid" may well win the day.

In recent weeks, I've been obsessed with wondering how other Republican icons might react to this bunch of Bowery Boy dunces vying for votes.

Really now, can you remotely fathom Dwight Eisenhower, or Abraham Lincoln, or Barry Goldwater, or Teddy Roosevelt, or Bob Dole, or Ronald Reagan or even Richard Nixon sharing a debate dais with the current crop of GOP candidates and not thinking to themselves: "Holy Toledo! These people are certifiably full of twaddle."

How long do you think Ike would have put up with Gingrich juxtaposing his Virginia ballot screw-up with the sacrifices of the Greatest Generation before he pulled a George Patton and slapped the former House speaker silly into next Sunday?

But Gingrich, who makes the paranoid gadfly Lyndon LaRouche seem downright intellectually rigorous, is hardly alone.

For years all manner of racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic claptrap showed up in the pages of numerous newsletters associated with the grumpy, libertarian Ron Paul. The newsletters have become a sort of "Lunatic Fringe for Dummies" manifesto for white supremacists, anti-Zionists, survivalists and, well, the entire Hedley Lamarr gang recruitment scene in Blazing Saddles.

And what has been Paul's defense for his appeal to the black helicopter/Trilateral Commission/Federal Reserve-as-Lucifer crowd? For the most part, the candidate has insisted he had no idea who was contributing to the newsletters published under his name and never bothered to read them.

And yet Paul, who possesses all the attention to detail of Mr. Magoo, feels he is uniquely qualified to manage the complexities of the federal government?!?!

Still, Paul seems to get a pass, maybe because he comes off as the addled uncle, who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt, racing through the house yelling "Charge!" in Arsenic and Old Lace. Yet just a few years ago Barack Obama was held to account by the mouth-foaming right wing when his former minister Jeremiah Wright went all H. Rap Brown on everyone and said a bunch of goofy stuff.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry barely knows what state he governs and has no idea how many U.S. Supreme Court justices there are.

Poor Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, the Gracie Allen of the hustings, can't seem to open her mouth without flunking the FCAT.

Meanwhile, former Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum has steadily risen in the Iowa polls, essentially by convincing people he should be president of the United States because he says grace before every meal.

Little wonder then that Mitt Romney continues to be the default candidate whenever one of the literal front-runners du jour reveals himself to be more uninformed, unfit and unelectable than Archie Bunker.

Tuesday night, Iowans will deliver their verdict in a political endeavor more closely akin to selecting Miss Congeniality. If the polling holds its course, Newt Gingrich, the Bluto of the hustings, will probably wind up somewhere between Who's on First and What's on Second, a defeat of historic proportions.

Think of it as the "The Louse That Bored."

Edited December 31, 2011 by Mr. Big Dog

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Not this dumb. Not even close. Not so dumb to let a guy that compares his inability to make his home-state's primary ballot with one of the darkest days in this country's history label himself an intellectual or, worse yet, a historian. I mean, really, how fcuking stupid has this nation become? Especially over there on the side of the political spectrum where FOX actually passes as a News Network. Ran across this piece in the paper today - pretty neat assessment of just how fcuked up this country really is.

I thought his home state was Georgia.

Or, even Pennsylvania where he was borne.

Edited December 31, 2011 by ☼

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I thought his home state was Georgia.

Or, even Pennsylvania where he was borne.

True, my bad. Not his home state. Still, the comparison he came up with should make void any claim he makes to be a "historian". He knows nothing about history if he thinks that his ineptitude to make the VA primary ballot is anywhere near as disastrous as was Pearl Harbor. It wasn't. He ain't that important. The country will do well without him anywhere near any elected office. In fact, the country will do better without him near any elected office than with him in one.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

True, my bad. Not his home state. Still, the comparison he came up with should make void any claim he makes to be a "historian". He knows nothing about history if he thinks that his ineptitude to make the VA primary ballot is anywhere near as disastrous as was Pearl Harbor. It wasn't. He ain't that important. The country will do well without him anywhere near any elected office. In fact, the country will do better without him near any elected office than with him in one.

You are right. He is registered to vote in Fairfax County, Virgina.

CORRECTION: As a result of misreading the voter history report generated by VERIS, Newt Gingrich’s general-election voting history was misstated below. He did, in fact, vote in every general election from 2003 to 2010, voting absentee in three of them. The information about primary elections is correct.

Gingrich, who is registered to vote in the Dranesville district of Fairfax County,

http://bearingdrift.com/2011/12/27/newt-gingrich-no-show-voter-to-virginia-elections/

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

You are right. He is registered to vote in Fairfax County, Virgina.

Thanks. Didn't actually know that. I just thought that it came up in some article I read somewhere that he failed to get on the ballot in his home state. That's where my statement came from. I know that he's from GA. But apparently he likes to vote often.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Thanks. Didn't actually know that. I just thought that it came up in some article I read somewhere that he failed to get on the ballot in his home state. That's where my statement came from. I know that he's from GA. But apparently he likes to vote often.

If you are going to work in D.C., Virginia is the place to live, and Fairfax is just across the Potomac.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

If you are going to work in D.C., Virginia is the place to live, and Fairfax is just across the Potomac.

I know. Also read through the link you provided and it seems that Newt prefers not to vote at all. God, he loves this country!