Cable News Ratings for Friday, June 22, 2012

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1. Ralph Hahn

   Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:12 PM

   WOW! Monday, FNC has(past)Friday on its mind. Breaking news! And, where is CNN?

2. Ralph Hahn

   Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:13 PM

   Thursday’s numbers and posts have disappeared.

3. Ralph Hahn

   Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:19 PM

   They’re back.

4. lbsles

   Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:24 PM

   http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/06/25/really-maddow-claims-shes-an-objective-reporter/

5. lbsles

   Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:27 PM

   http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-may-new-home-sales-2012-6

6. lbsles

   Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:28 PM

   http://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-rate-developed-emerging-markets-2012-6

7. lbsles

   Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:31 PM

   Gluskin Sheff chief economist David Rosenberg has remained bearish on the U.S. economy since the financial crisis ended in 2009, and now he puts it in stark terms.

   “We are living in a modern day depression,” Rosenberg tells Yahoo. “Never in the post-World War II experience have I seen a recovery languish as badly as this one.”

   The Fed’s expansionary fiscal and monetary policy has done little to help, he says.

   Read more: Gluskin’s Rosenberg: ‘We’re Living in a Modern Day Depression’

8. lbsles

   Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:35 PM

   “If the president of the United States can choose to enforce or not enforce a law because he likes them or doesn’t like them, what about us? We don’t have the ability to choose which laws we obey or not. Without consequence. He does. The only consequence for him is at the ballot box.” -Rush Limbaugh

9. lbsles

   Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:35 PM

   “It’s a dictator’s wet dream to do what Obama is doing. If he doesn’t agree with the law, voila, it’s no longer enforced. It may as well not even exist. That’s who he is, folks.” -Rush Limbaugh

10. lbsles

    Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM

    http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/06/25/supremes_rule_against_libs_on_pacs

    RUSH: The Supreme Court today reaffirmed its two-year-old decision allowing corporations to spend freely to influence elections. Citizens United. When they get past Arizona here and they get to this, whatever good vibe they got from Arizona is gonna be totally destroyed. They are going to be livid over this.

11. lbsles

    Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:39 PM

    Big Sis to AZ: Drop Dead
    June 25, 2012

    RUSH: Janet Napolitano has just sent out a directive: Don’t call us about illegals, Arizona. We’re suspending whatever agreements we had with you. We’re not helping you enforce federal immigration law.

12. lbsles

    Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:40 PM

    Rasmussen: Only 22% Thinks Government Has Consent of Governed

    RUSH: Poll: “22% Believe Government Has Consent of Governed.” It’s a Rasmussen Report. Just 22% believe the government has the people’s consent. That’s not very many people. In other words, most people believe that we don’t matter. Government is out of control and on its own. Only 22% think things are working. And they’re the minority.

    There’s your Obama base.

13. lbsles

    Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:40 PM

    Obama Losing White Support

    RUSH: I had a story last Friday that might be worth reminding you of today, like the wedding stuff. “Obama’s White Support Is Too Low to Win.” It’s by David Paul Kuhn. “President Obama does not currently have enough white support to win re-election even if he retains his minority base from 2008.” Is that likely to change? Well, I’m just asking. By the way, when Richardson was talking about millions of kids just got their health care, he’s talking about these 800,000 that Obama just legalized. That’s what he meant. There weren’t millions of kids that got health care last week. There wasn’t any new implementation of Obamacare. It was Obama’s amnesty for 800,000, which will be more.

    “Obama’s White Support Is Too Low to Win.” Pull quote. It includes white Hispanics, yes. “Whites helped give Obama his capital. He began his presidency with at least six-in-10 whites behind him. His white support first fell, as with independents, below 50 percent in the summer of 2009. … In 2010, whites backed GOP House candidates by a 60-38 margin. It gave Republicans a historic landslide. The white margin two years ago roughly matches the break-even point today. That’s because presidential electorates are browner and blacker, though possibly not enough for Democrats.”

    He’s dividing the country, and he’s going for the fringe of every minority group. That’s not the right way to put it. He’s trying to build a winning coalition among real fringe minority group. (interruption) Why is he running? Have you ever heard of power? He’s running for power, finish the job in America. He’s got no opposition in his second term. If he chooses not to run again, don’t have to worry about reelection. If he cancels the elections in 2016, and if he tries that, the biggest obstacle he’s gonna run into is the Clintons. Oh, no, no. But white support, too low to win. As I said Friday, they announced this last November, Thomas B. Edsall, they announced, the Obama campaign announced they were not gonna seek the votes of the white working class, the bitter clingers.

14. lbsles

    Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:42 PM

    Boy these folks are getting desperate.

    One of my responsibilities as chief operating officer of this campaign is to sign off on travel costs — so I see every expense for a hotel room or plane ticket.

    If you win Dinner with Barack, I’ll be the one approving your flight arrangements from your town to your dinner with the President and First Lady.

    Managing the logistics of these dinners is tough, but we do it because giving supporters a seat at the table — literally — is a huge priority for this campaign. You guys are out there knocking on doors, making calls, and working hard to re-elect the President. You deserve a thank you.

    Plus, the donations you chip in make a huge difference in getting us ready for the long haul to November.

    The contest ends tomorrow night — so donate $3 or whatever you can right now to be automatically entered for a chance to join the President and First Lady for dinner:

    https://donate.barackobama.com/Dinner-with-the-Obamas

    And don’t forget — I see the hotel bills, too, so don’t break in to that minibar.

    Good luck,

    Ann Marie

    Ann Marie Habershaw
    Chief Operating Officer
    Obama for America

15. lbsles

    Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:43 PM

    Reuters Poll: 73% of Independents Oppose Obamacare
    Sunday, 24 Jun 2012 03:59 PM

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/independents-oppose-healthcare-law/2012/06/24/id/443279?s=al&promo_code=F48C-1

16. lbsles

    Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:47 PM

    Poll of the Day: Obamacare remains unpopular — RealClearPolitics polling average of the health care bill: 49.4% Oppose, 38.6% Support. The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week, perhaps even Monday, on the bill’s constitutionality.

17. lbsles

    Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:50 PM

    On PBS’s Friday night “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks, often considered to be a moderate voice in politics, said that attacking President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder for the Fast and Furious program “is a winner for the Republicans”

    In his weekly segment with syndicated columnist Mark Shields, Brooks explained that while he generally supports the concept that presidents have the ability to exercise executive privilege, using it under these circumstances might have been a mistake.

    “I’m in general a defender of executive privilege,” Brooks said. “I think it’s important for an administration to be able to have conversations about policy that will be private, so they can have a normal deliberative process. In this case — whether legally the administration is on solid ground in invoking it — that is a gray area. Politically, I think it’s stupid.”

    http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/23/david-brooks-obamas-use-of-executive-privilege-politically-stupid-a-winner-for-the-gop/

18. lbsles

    Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:52 PM

    A single internal Department of Justice email could be the smoking-gun document in the Operation Fast and Furious scandal — if it turns out to contain what congressional investigators have said it does.

    The document would establish that wiretap application documents show senior DOJ officials knew about and approved the gunwalking tactic in Fast and Furious. This is the opposite of what Attorney General Eric Holder and House oversight committee ranking Democratic member Rep. Elijah Cummings have claimed.

    It appears that email would also prove senior DOJ officials, likely including Holder himself, knew in March 2011 that a Feb. 4, 2011 letter from the DOJ to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley falsely denied guns were permitted to “walk” into Mexico. The DOJ allowed that false letter to stand for nine more months, only withdrawing it in December 2011.

    During the June 24 broadcast of Fox News Sunday, House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa cited the email as a “good example” of a specific document his committee knows Holder is hiding from Congress.

    “The ATF director, Kenneth Melson, sent an e-mail. And he had said to us in sworn testimony that, in fact, he had concerns,” Issa said. “And we want to see that e-mail because that’s an example where he was saying, if we believe his sworn testimony, that guns walked. And he said it shortly after February 4, and [on] July 4. When he told us that, we began asking for that document.”

    But the details of it surfaced first when Grassley mentioned it for the first time publicly during a June 12 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where Holder was testifying.

    “He [Melson] immediately sent an email warning others, ‘back off the letter to Sen. Grassley in light of the information in the affidavits,’” Grassley explained.

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/25/atf-leaders-email-could-be-fast-and-furious-smoking-gun-and-holder-admitted-obama-cant-shield-it/#ixzz1yqPfOymb

19. Rick

    Posted June 25, 2012 at 2:56 PM

    Am I reading the tables correctly. Looks like Anderson Cooper was on at 11:00 instead of EB Outfront.

    Was extended coverage of the Sandusky verdict on at that time?

    Is AC going to be broadcasting the entire night to get ratings up?

20. Coffee Steve

    Posted June 25, 2012 at 3:23 PM

    Has CNN lost it’s “Big Story” syndrome? Usually they took the lead on big stories, but the past few ones Fox has maintained the lead