Long Term Trend of O'Reilly vs. Olbermann TV Ratings:
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Long Term Trend of O'Reilly vs. Olbermann TV Ratings:
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When was the last time, if any time that Olbermann has beaten O’Reilly in the ratings? It doesn’t look like the left-wing lunatic is that successful.
blazermaniac… you are an idiot. here’s an analogy to help lesson your idiotism… the dark knight… a movie… has grossed 1 billion dollars world wide. mama mia… another movie… a musical… where people sing… has grossed 500 million world wide. just because dark knight has made more doesn’t mean mama mia is a failure. in fact both are very successful. try to use the brain your god of the heavens gave you and think in those terms. both o’reilly and olbermann… are loud and passionate… (one clearly wrong based on whatever stupid side you decide to be on) and both are successful.
It’s astonishing that people do not seem to understand why FOX News gets fairly high ratings compared to other news channels. There is only one blatantly bias network and that is FOX News. Thoughtful viewers will tend to tune into all the major networks from time to time but the vast majority of those on the right would rather burry thier heads in the sand and have thier news filtered through the the RNC talking points machine before being presented.
All the channels have bias hosts but that is called commentary and it may or may not be bias… that is to be expected. The difference is that FOX News holds sweeping bias accross all of its reporting. Just switch back and forth from FOX and the other networks after a big political event, you may be astonished to see the striking difference. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS all strive to deliver fair and balanced reporting along with commentary. FOX News is the only one that seems to feel the need to call themselves fair and balanced. It’s like saying “Trust Me”. If you have to say it, it’s probably not so. So, FOX gets a virtual manopoly on right wing viewers and the rest end up splitting time accross all the others. It’s not surprising that they get more raw viewers as often as they do.
Here is all the evidence you need to show that the FOX News audiance is skewed far to the right. They conducted a poll after the Vice-Presidential debate that showed Palin winning 88% to 12%. All the polls conducted from polling institutes and other networks showed a double digit win for Biden and were fairly consistent. As usual, FOX was the only one with results so skewed that they hold no value. FOX isn’t interested in delivery Fair and Balanced reporting, they are only interested in making some effort to make it seem that way.
If you view it as comedy (like Rush Limbaugh) then you may enjoy it, it can be rather amusing to see obvious truths contorted in such creative ways. If you want more intelligent and objective reporting look elsewhere.
JC,
I don’t agree. At least Fox News and O’Reilly host people and interviews of opposing view.
MSNBC and Olbermann is an echo chamber. The only people they host are strongly left, saying ‘you’re correct Keith’.
Huge difference when it comes to objectivity.
after the debate I watched both fox and msnbc. the great olberman was listing what he called palin’s lies and never said a word about biden’s major lies. some lies can be argued but some of biden’s were just lies. olberman only talks about bush and o’reilly, he has to much hate..
Wait just a minute here Gene. You are wrong. Biden only introduced information that he thought was to be correct. That Palin gave information she knew nothing about. She ungodly uses lies and deceit just like the rest of the McCain Campaign.
Keith Olbermann’s report is bias but so what. Fox has been reporting Bias information and lies and deceit for many years now. It’s about time one of the other cable news networks decided to put Fox to the challenge. They are liars and deceivers over there and they get what they deserve. Olbermann’s reports are FACTUAL BASED not Fiction like Fox.
Nearly everything Olbermann reports is confirmed by other networks and that makes them TRUE. NOT Oriely’s, his are proven to be lies and deceit.
You people need to change the channel, who watch FOX, and get a REAL WORLD REPORT. You are living in a fantasy world and just what FOX wants you to do. As long as they keep you away from The Truth you will never know The Truth.
The FOX SIN NETWORK NEEDS TO LEAVE THIS COUNTRY and NOW. It has been a part of destroying our Great Land.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL,
Manny Whitlock – Godspace By SoonerManny @ Myspace
When Obama/Biden attain power lets hope they install Manny Whitlock as chairman of the FCC. Go Manny! Let’s get rid of FOX, then we can start on others…
Manny and Prober
Even Olbermann’s own network YANKED him off true election coverage along with his leg tingling pal Matthews!! The reason that Fox News has the best ratings across the country and always will is that regular Americans can tell the difference between real news and liberal bias.
Points to be made to show Fox’s true Fair and Balanced nature… When Obama went on Brit Hume’s show unannounced right after all of the politicians had just met with President Bush on getting the Rescue Bill passed. This was a perfect opportunity for Hume and Fox news to hit him with gotcha questions, that would make him look bad like Couric and Gibson did to Palin but did he, no. Hume was a consummate professional. Check out the transcript or better yet the video.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,428542,00.html
Yes the shows like Hannity and Olbermann are biased that is what they are supposed to do but overall it is a well know fact the mainstream media is liberally biased. Like when they failed to report on Harry Reid costing companies and Americans Billions this week with his big mouth!!
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/10/03/business/fi-moneyblog3
Only a fool and a liberal thinks that any other channel than Fox news presents balanced commentary. Fox news is the only station that has conservatives on it’s network. That’s why people tune in because you get both points of view. The other stations are all liberal all the time. So when you tune into Fox you get a diversity of opinion. There is no diversity on the other news channels.
That of course is why 60% of the people believe that the media are cheerleading for obama.
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MSNBC is a sad excuse for a news operation. I cant watch them anymore they are obviously all on the Obama payroll except for Buchanan and Scarborough. People are pissed at Fox and call them heavily biased to the right. They could be perceived that way, but they are the only channel that lets you know anything negative on Obama. The best show on cable news Special report with Brit Hume. They call it both ways. Olbermann that guy is full of hate.
Right wingers – whine all you want about MSNBC … just look at the scoreboard (polls) … Americans are tired of all the GOP BS .. when was the last time McBlame won a National Poll? … they have lost another 3 polls today and that makes about 17 straight national polls they have lost(realclearpolitics.com) … they are probably gonna have to resort to mud slinging now because the hype and the misquoting and the lack of actual content just ain’t working so well … we will now see what lowlifes they really are …
C-Man
The only “poll” that matters is what happens on election day. If McCain loses there, then you can talk all you want about what Americans want.
Just a matter of time JohnM … it’s coming and most of America knows it’s coming .. even McBlame knows it coming .. he doesn’t have even one battleground state in his pocket … no more GOPs after Nov 4 .. Joe Six-Pack just ain’t buying all their lies …
I think that one of my friends said it best a while back. He commented that a long time ago he used to like Olberman somewhat. But whenever someone, like himself, who just wants the news Fair and Balanced and not the Jim Jones type of kool-aide drinker stuff that Olberman gets from Daily Kos and spews out as news it is just not possible to endure him anymore.
After the debate the other night, I flipped it from Fox over to MSNBC and Olberman was all but cross examining a distraught looking Maddow. He kept asking her forceful slanted hate filled —totaly over the top questions—will someone please tranquilize that man— and he was practically foaming at the mouth to get Maddow to say that Biden won…she just kept saying “I don’t know…”
It was one of those rare moments when I think even Maddow wanted to say….”Why don’t you let me have an independent thought you gas bag!”
She squinted at him as if he were an embarrassment.
Olberman is a vindictive man who makes himself try to look smarter and better than other people by mocking them and ridiculing them. He is an insecure bully who has obtained power. He is the character Andy Griffith played in the movie, “A Face In The Crowd.”
But the difference with Olberman is that he is not funny. He is like the guy in high school who calls girls pizza face and can’t contain himself at the thought of how brilliant that was…He does not care that if they are struggling with acne…in Olbermann’s world crushing other people is fine as long as it gets him attention.
He is an insulting buffon who thinks he is witty and hilarious. One of those loud weirdly bespectacled whackos at conventions who tells jokes that are not funny but laughs harder and louder at them than anyone else. I remember John Chancellor and men like that. They were newsmen back when NBC commanded respect. Keith Olbermann has all but peed on John Chancellor and David Brinkley’s graves.
GE’s stock is a dissaster and that company is in free fall.
People like Olberman are freakshows who whore in a lot of interest, but over time the damge to NBC will last far beyond the days of Keith Olbermann.
MSNBC is a loser network. Even Lou Dobbs bet Chris “tingle up my leg” Matthews last week.
Olberman can’t come anywhere close to beating O’Reiley…but hey what all you rabid FOX haters could do is just change your strategy. Instead of getting all worked up and frying your nervous systems over how horribly O’Reilly pulverizes Olbermann…instead why don’t you thump your chest over how badly Olbermann stomps Nancy Grace…that way at least you can feel like he is a real winner and not have to curse about Fox and do all that hyperventalating…
Tom, you are the idiot! Olbermann is just one of many Obama Cheerleaders. He did enough to get booted from MSNBC’s main anchor coverage, along with Matthews. They still have their own shows, so NBC didn’t quite eliminate them. And the only poll that matters is on November 4th. If McCain loses that poll, then that’s it. As for losing all of these polls, keep in mind that most of those polls have liberals all over them.
You are all wrong wrong wrong AGAIN.
Fox News has hot babes and that’s why I watch it. Who wants to watch Keith O. and his lack of humor.
I love hot blondes (brunettes too) that are smart and wear sexy clothes.
That was sure alot to say about one dude … the thing is that none of that will matter after the GOPers go down the drain on Nov 4 .. then he will get to hear Keith O crow and hear O’Reilly whine and throw temper tandrums for the next 4 yrs …
I hope Obama outlaws Fox News when he’s elected.
That will show who is in charge of the media.
We need a takeover.
Does it really matter if Obama is elected. The GOP will take over congress in two years and we will be back to hell again.
Let’s vote for a democratic control in two years also or we’re doomed.