Cable News Ratings for Thursday, August 16, 2012

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1. Coffee Steve

   Posted August 17, 2012 at 2:57 PM

   Only Maddow maintained, Fox still up, and who is CNN?

2. Coffee Steve

   Posted August 17, 2012 at 2:59 PM

   Sunday at 9PM, Jaun Williams will be having a Fox News Special on Education, seems like a worthy program to watch.

3. AppleStinx

   Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:06 PM

   ‘Piers Morgan’ and ‘AC360-10pm’ dead last in the demo. ‘Erin Burnett Outfront-7pm’ was tops on CNN.

4. Coffee Steve

   Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:10 PM

   @AppleStinx

   I think the only way to save CNN is to shut down for a month, fire everybody, hire some real journalist like Cooper and Blitzer then come back as CNN2 and spend a month promoting real News.

5. G Canada

   Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:14 PM

   Wow, Fox Rocks!
   Huge ratings…OMG for Fox

6. d.d.

   Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:14 PM

   I actually watched one of those shows yesterday ….CRIME INC: A DEADLY HIGH
   It was on synthetic marijuana, the human consequences of it’s use & the tremendous amount of money being made selling it . One dinky little store in Duluth, MN. made $17,000 a day. Taxes paid to the Federal government from manufactures & stores that sell these products runs in the hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

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   Same-old , same old, Illinois

   Illinois House expels Rep. Derrick Smith over bribery charge

   State lawmakers today kicked out a West Side Democrat accused of taking a $7,000 bribe, marking the first expulsion from the Illinois House since 1905.

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   The Cook Political Report has some new changes.

   http://cookpolitical.com/

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   Coffee,

   Juan Williams is a big believer in charter schools. He’s done an excellent video about Chicago charter schools.

7. lbsles

   Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:15 PM

   SE Cupp thrashes MSNBC host’s ‘racist code’ conspiracy theory

   MSNBC is on quite a roll this week – first one of the hosts called Mitt Romney a ‘criminal’ who has likely committed a felony. Then another host said Mitt Romney’s use of the word ‘angry’ to describe Barack Obama was really just racist code to fire up the racist republican base. SE Cupp stepping in and thoroughly dismantled the allegation.

   In the segment, The Cycle co-host Toure said of Romney, “You notice he said anger twice. He’s really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man. This is part of the playbook against Obama, the ‘otherization,’ he’s not like us.”

   “I know it’s a heavy thing, I don’t say it lightly, but this is ‘ni**erization,’ he added. “You are not one of us, you are like the scary black man who we’ve been trained to fear.”

   After playing the audio, Glenn jumped in, “You talk about a conspiracy theorist, you know, me being a conspiracy theorist, I didn’t get the decoder ring in the box of cereal.”

   In the segment,fellow co-host S.E. Cupp, however, shot back “Certainly you were implying that Mitt Romney and the base will respond to this dog-whistle, racially-charged coding, and hate Obama, the angry black man?”

   When Toure said that was “absolutely” what he meant, Cupp said, “Joe Biden made the overtly racial comment and has a history of making bigoted remarks. Mitt Romney was responding to the comment. Yet he is the one responsible for the whole Republican history of racism in politics?”

   It’s nice to know that even though S.E. is outnumbered, she is bringing at least one lone, sane voice to the wasteland of journalism that is MSNBC.

   Watch video:
   http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/08/17/se-cupp-thrashes-msnbc-hosts-%E2%80%98racist-code%E2%80%99-conspiracy-theory/

8. lbsles

   Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:19 PM

   Secret ‘Menu’ Details Perks at DNC Convention for Obama Bundlers
   Obama loves rewarding those 1%ers that support him.

   From ABC News:

   Those seeking invites to the most lavish receptions at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, “gold ticket” access to “dialogues,” and private breakfast briefings with party luminaries, can expect a hefty price of admission.

   A list of high-end convention packages circulated by the Charlotte in 2012 Convention Host Committee, and obtained by ABC News, shows that those and other perks are being offered to donors who raise $1 million or donate $100,000 to the convention’s nonprofit planning arm.

   The cash-for-access formula has been a longtime staple of national political conventions, and though Democrats told ABC News they have tried to shift the focus to access for grassroots supporters this year, critics say the menu of perks for donors is a reminder that those giving big dollars can still expect special treatment.

9. Coffee Steve

   Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:20 PM

   @d.d.

   Read Williams Books, Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate, and the one I had my Daughter read last year Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary

   They are great reading d.d.

   By the way d.d. & Rats, O’Reillys “Killing Kennedy” come out in 2 months, if it’s as good as his other, we’re in for a treat.

10. lbsles

    Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:21 PM

    “Obama’s only hope was to avoid talk of the economy; Ryan forces him to talk about budgets nonstop.” -Doug Urbanski

11. lbsles

    Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:22 PM

    “There’s a great sense of humility and honor that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan show out on the trail. Wait until November 6th. There’s a Chick-fil-A moment coming.” -Doug Urbanski

12. Coffee Steve

    Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:22 PM

    @lbsles

    Did you see Al Roker of the Today show, like totally trash Matt Lauer? They have alot of trouble over there in peacock land lbsles.

13. lbsles

    Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:24 PM

    Romney To Obama: “Take Your Campaign Of Division And Anger And Hate Back To Chicago

    “Everywhere I go in America, there are monuments that list those who have given their lives for liberty. There’s no mention of their race, their party affiliation or what they did for a living. They lived and died under a single flag fighting for a single purpose. They pledged allegiance to the United States of America,” Mitt Romney said at a campaign event in Ohio on Tuesday evening.

    “So, Mr. President, take your campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago and let us get about rebuilding and reuniting America,” Romney said.

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    CNN ditched coverage of the speech after Romney’s line about Chicago.
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14. lbsles

    Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:25 PM

    http://prospect.org/article/medicare-myths-debunked

15. lbsles

    Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:26 PM

    Morning Jay: Democrats Vulnerable on Medicare

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/morning-jay-democrats-should-brace-mediscare_649975.html

16. lbsles

    Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:28 PM

    What’s wrong with CNN? Rewind to 1991, the first night of the First Gulf War. American attack planes are dropping laser-guided missiles on strategic targets in Baghdad. CNN, with Peter Arnett reporting from Baghdad and Bernard Shaw anchoring from the US, owns the story. So much so that then-NBC News President Michael Gartner gave up on his own news division’s coverage of the outbreak of war and ordered them to carry the CNN feed for the remainder of the evening. (A decision, predictably, that led to Mr. Gartner’s eventual dismissal).

    CNN was in that position because its founder, Ted Turner, imagined that it might be, someday. When the day came, it wasn’t luck. It was, to alter Branch Rickey’s phrase, the residue of Mr. Turner’s leadership.

    Fast forward to last Sunday. There’s an episode of the “Newsroom” airing on HBO. In it, a “Newsroom” producer shows his fellow “Newsroom” staffers how CNN Headline News anchor Nancy Grace and her production staff shamelessly hype and distort the Casey Anthony story for maximum ratings impact. No one at Time Warner (which owns HBO and CNN) said to anyone at HBO: “you can’t say that about another division of this company.” What was the point? What “Newsroom” creator Aaron Sorkin wrote into last Sunday’s episode wasn’t wrong. It was true.

    In a little over twenty years, CNN devolved from the most important television news organization in the world to another channel to skim through or skip over.

    http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/08/17/the-collapse-of-cnn/

17. Suikostinger

    Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:33 PM

    This lbsles guy is scary eh?

18. Robbie

    Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:36 PM

    You can tell we are getting closer and closer to the election. Both FOX and MSNBC’s numbers are inching higher. Going to be a nasty election, which is too bad. Both sides are polar opposites, the electorate really has a choice on which direction they want to go.

19. Robbie

    Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:37 PM

    Suikostinger, I think you and I do not agree politically, but we both agree on this one…very scary!

20. Ratboy

    Posted August 17, 2012 at 3:41 PM

    @ Coffee Steve
    that was no boo boo in Thurs room that was a YIKES!!!