Cable News Ratings for Monday, August 13, 2012

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1. XYZ

   Posted August 14, 2012 at 1:52 PM

   Wow, good night for MSNBC prime.

2. twins fan

   Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:09 PM

   goodthing I didn’t bet boss 1

3. Letmethink

   Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:09 PM

   Early Start/Starting Point still sinking. Surprised with those ratings Solidad was chosen for debates.

4. Ratboy

   Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:12 PM

   @ twins fan
   Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:09 PM
   goodthing I didn’t bet boss 1

   yea but Tingles didnt get the bump and you would have thought he would. Boy, the Five missed 2 mil by thiiiiiiiiiiis much!!!!

5. Stan T

   Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:15 PM

   NEWS FLASH! Bob Beckle likes the Ryan Medicare plan! After attacking it for months, once Bob realized that the medicare voucher plan is OPTIONAL, he now likes it. Gee, how many other people would like the Ryan Medicare plan if the media and the dems were telling the truth about it?

6. Dbackes610

   Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:16 PM

   A quite comment section,oh wait it’s because msnbc did well. Notice no faux news hate going on?

7. lbsles

   Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:17 PM

   you can cut the cheese, you can cut the cake but messnbc still can not cut it.

   The home of boss of no one and his butt buddy jeffiee poo pooo.

8. rhembo

   Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:17 PM

   CNN has thrown in the towel. Word is they’ll be switching to more reality, entertainment and tabloid type shows.
   MSNBC is my preference so I’m glad for their solid ratings.

9. Stan T

   Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:17 PM

   Hmmm….MSNBC’s number are decent…but then the Olympics just ended, how many tuned in looking for the Olympics, realized it’s over, tuned out, but still got counted?

10. Jayson

    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:21 PM

    @Stan

    LOL. Nice try. Rating didn’t swell like this during the Olympics.

11. rhembo

    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:24 PM

    Unlikely..MSNBC primetime lineup was not preempted for the olympics

12. lbsles

    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:27 PM

    Over a Million Illegals Poised to Come Out of Shadows

    Tuesday, 14 Aug 2012 11:18 AM
    By Henry J. Reske

    Some 1.7 million young illegal immigrants are poised to come out of the shadows and live and work openly in the United States as a result of a sweeping executive order signed by President Barack Obama. On Wednesday immigration officials will begin accepting applications to defer deportations, The New York Times reported.

    Obama’s executive order sidestepped Congress that failed to pass the Dream Act and was a major peace offering to the Hispanic voters after the administration deported 1.2 million illegals in the last three years. The order grants two-year deportation deferrals, work permits and other benefits such as a driver’s license and Social Security number to illegals brought to the United States as children, the Times reported.

    Immigration rights groups have been swamped with requests for information on the program and government officials are expecting the biggest jump in paperwork since three million immigrants applied for legal status under a 1986 amnesty.

    The Migration Policy Institute estimates that about 1.2 million people are eligible to apply now, with another 500,000 reaching the minimum eligibility age of 15 in coming years, the Times reported. The largest number of eligible applicants is in California, Florida, New York and Texas.

    The order does not give legal status or a path to citizenship and those applying must be in school, be high school graduate or have served honorably in the military. Those with criminal records will be rejected, the Times reported.
    Hazar Parra, who came to the United States when she was 7, worried that her application might expose her mother to deportation. “My mom decided I should do it,” she told the Times. “Basically, for me to do better and succeed, she’s willing to risk everything.”

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/illegal-immigration-legislation-amnesty/2012/08/14/id/448500?s=al&promo_code=FC04-1

13. lbsles

    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:29 PM

    Cory Booker: I’ve Been Sidelined By Obama Campaign

    Rising Democratic star Cory Booker admitted on Tuesday that he has been sidelined by President Barack Obama’s re-election team after criticizing his party for attacking Mitt Romney’s business record.

    Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., has hardly been seen on the national stage since his comments — and he told the Wall Street Journal he won’t have a star role at next month’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.

    During a May 20 interview on Meet The Press, Booker said he found attacks on Romney’s record at Bain Capital “nauseating.” After complaints from the Obama campaign he issued a video the following day walking back the comments.

    http://www.newsmax.com/newswidget/Booker-sidelined-Democrats-Newark/2012/08/14/id/448469?promo_code=F492-1&utm_source=Newsmax&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1

14. TheBoss1

    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:37 PM

    As usual, I was right. At least Apple had the good sense not to challenge me on it. But, Hillbilly …. sorry, buddy. You gotta pay up. I do take PayPal! But since Hillbilly was the only one to man up and take the bet, I guess I’ll let you off the hook! (After all, your post on SNAP coupons earns you a reprieve. I was THAT impressed with your fair-mindedness). But I won’t be that nice next time !

    Oh, by-the-way, Rachel was brilliant last night in her analysis of Paul Ryan’s impact on the GOP ticket. She actually made MY argument… Outside of the conservative echo-chamber (where Ryan is a God), the average American (who doesn’t live-and-die politics like us nuts) only knows Ryan as that “budget guy who wants to kill Medicare.” And that is a killer. Plus the fact that he is a (unofficial) Republican leader of the least popular Congress in the history of our republic. That doesn’t give him any brownie points with the American public.

    Ryan may be the worst choice in the history of presidential tickets.

    Oh, by-the-way, if you want to know what stocks will go up tomorrow and who to bet on in the opening week of the NFL, don’t hesitate to ask.

    

15. TheBoss1

    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM

    @Stan T … come on buddy, sometimes you got to take it on the chin like a man. Or, as I like to say, sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear gets you.

    The bear got you. Man up.

16. TheBoss1

    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:47 PM

    @Stan T … you’ve got to love the intellectual inconsistency and downright disingenuity of conservatives.

    For example, they want to “save” Medicare by allowing Americans to chose among private insurers as an option, but they refused to allow Americans the choice of a “public option” in the Health Care bill.

17. lbsles

    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:49 PM

    “Obama is conducting a war on seniors. Medicare, if untouched, is bankrupt in 11-1/2 to 12 years, and what is Obama doing? How is Obama ‘saving’ it? He isn’t. He’s taking $711 billion out of Medicare. When all is said and done, it’ll lose close to a trillion dollars.” -Rush Limbaugh

18. Laurence Glavin

    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM

    An interesting night at MSNBC: the two showings of “Hardball”: 1.6 million total. The primetime showings of Ed, Rachel and Lawrence: one-million-plus each total viewers. (Ed got 700k during th 11:00 pm Eastern showing, prime time on the West Coast). One takeaway…I can’t recall seeing sombody have a better time doing his job than Lawrence O’Donnell last night. There was an interesting tidbit at Media Matters.org: they had audio of Rush Limpbaugh saying than CNN had LITERALLY NO VIEWERS. Dumbass…doesn’t he understand the meaning of “literally”? CNN may be a distand third behind fellow news channel MSNBC and the Fox Right-Wing Propaganda Network, but it DOES cume several hundred-thousand a show, which is (imagine me doing Stephen Colbert’s schtick of punching away at an adding machine) MORE THAN ZERO.

19. lbsles

    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:52 PM

    Flashback: Obama Admits He Cut Medicare

    RUSH: Listen to this sound bite, folks. November 9th, 2009. This is Obama’s first year. And he’s being interviewed by our old buddy Jacob Tapper at ABC News. And they’re talking about Medicare cuts in Obamacare. Listen to this

    TAPPER: One of the concerns about health care and how you pay for it: One third of the funding comes from cuts to Medicare.

    ************
    OBAMA: Right.
    ************

    TAPPER: A lot of times, as you know, what happens in Congress is somebody will do something bold; and then Congress, close to election season, will undo it.
    TAPPER: Are you willing to pledge that whatever cuts in Medicare are being made to fund health insurance, one third of it, that you will veto anything that tries to undo that?

    OBAMA: Yes! I actually have said that it is important for us to make sure this thing is deficit neutral, without tricks. I said I wouldn’t sign a bill that didn’t meet that criteria.

    RUSH: Here is Obama admitting the $700 billion in Medicare cuts. Our old buddy Jacob Tapper asks him head on: “One of the concerns about health care and how you pay for it: one third of the funding comes from cuts to Medicare.” Obama: “Right.” Tapper: “Are you willing to pledge that whatever cuts in Medicare are being made to fund health insurance, one third of it, that you will veto anything that tries to undo” those cuts? Obama: “Yes!”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t5Ha7RNpn24#t=0s

20. lbsles

    Posted August 14, 2012 at 2:55 PM

    Do Democrats Know Obama Cut Medicare?

    RUSH: Are you sick and tired yet of hearing how Paul Ryan wants to kill Medicare? You know what’s going to kill Medicare is Medicare. Medicare is going to eat itself. Medicare is going to implode if something isn’t done about it, unless somebody does something to save it. And I’ll tell you, I had a thought develop yesterday when we were discussing the $700 billion that Obama cuts from Medicare. It’s not just that he took $700 billion from Medicare. He put that $700 billion elsewhere. Obama is robbing Medicare. Obama is the guy that’s robbing money from Medicare.

    By the time it’s all said and done, when you factor interest over a number of years, you could accurately say that Obama is taking a trillion dollars out of Medicare and putting it elsewhere in Obamacare. It’s not just an accounting move. It’s a real transfer of money, in order to keep the overall reported cost down. I remember yesterday having so much trouble convincing people of this, because the meme is out there that Ryan’s budget cuts Medicare.

    They live off of a playbook that’s very simple. Republicans equal what? Starving kids. Cutting Social Security. Kicking the elderly out of their homes. They believed it. They have uttered this by rote for so many decades that they believe it. Conservative Republican equals cuts. It’s almost robotic. And when you hit them with, “No, no, Ryan doesn’t cut any money out of Medicare. It’s Obama, $700 billion.” They’re floored. They don’t have any idea what to do. Really, it’s almost like Rachel Maddow and Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz are hearing it for the first time. I’ll have the sound bite coming for you in just a second.