Cable News Ratings for Tuesday, September 25, 2012

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1. Ralph Hahn

   Posted September 26, 2012 at 2:54 PM

   @Mark: On the set of “The Five,” Democrats don’t need another panelist at the table. I like Bob Beckel personally and I believe that he’s enough of a Democrat-lib panelist to fight against the other 4. Then again, there are MSNBC shows with nothing BUT liberal Democrats. So, which network is more fair?

2. Ralph Hahn

   Posted September 26, 2012 at 2:57 PM

   See y’all tomorrow. I’ve got things to do.

3. Sicilian Papa

   Posted September 26, 2012 at 2:57 PM

   The media is declaring this race over. Not good news for MSNBC.

   @

   Edith Wilson

   Get a gripe, we have been listening to that racist crap for forty years. We don’t agree with your politics not someones color!!!!!!!!

4. lbsles

   Posted September 26, 2012 at 2:57 PM

   U.S. Officials Knew Libya Attacks Were Work of Al Qaeda Affiliates
   by Eli Lake Sep 26, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

   Sources say intelligence agencies knew within a day that al Qaeda affiliates were behind the attacks in Benghazi, Libya—they even knew where one of the attackers lived. Eli Lake reports.

   The intelligence officials who spoke to The Daily Beast did so anonymously because they weren’t authorized to speak to the press. They said U.S. intelligence agencies developed leads on four of the participants of the attacks within 24 hours of the fire fight that took place mainly at an annex near the Benghazi consulate. For one of those individuals, the U.S. agencies were able to find his location after his use of social media. “We had two kinds of intelligence on one guy,” this official said. “We believe we had enough to target him.”

   Another U.S. intelligence official said, “There was very good information on this in the first 24 hours. These guys have a return address. There are camps of people and a wide variety of things we could do.”

   http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/26/u-s-officials-knew-libya-attacks-were-work-of-al-qaeda-affiliates.html

5. Sicilian Papa

   Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:01 PM

   @

   Mark

   One is Beckel is worth five Alan Combs. Combs is a very nice guy.

6. lbsles

   Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM

   Lucy, who’s lying here?

   White House: Obama believes Libya attacks were terrorism.

   BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Though he has so far declined to use the word, the White House confirmed that President Obama does believe the attack against four Americans in Libya was an act of terrorism.

   “It is the president’s view that it was a terrorist attack,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters en route to Ohio on Wednesday.

   Since then, the administration has used the word “terrorism” to describe the attack — but the president himself as not. In an interview this week on ABC’s “The View.” Obama acknowledged that the incident in Benghazi was more than just a “mob action” but he stopped short of using the word terrorism.

   Asked why, Carney said: “There is no reason beyond his trying to provide a full explanation of his views.”

   http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/09/white-house-obama-believes-libya-attacks-were-terrorism-136717.html

7. Sicilian Papa

   Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM

   @

   Mark 2

   MSNBC will sink like a stone as Obama rises in the polls.

8. Doug Z

   Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:03 PM

   Convicted Felon Soros: Rule of law can rid the world of poverty…

   Just like a Lib that is part of the 1% and was catch steeling-Stock manipulation for a living, convicted felon

9. Mark

   Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:06 PM

   @Ralph Hahn
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   On the set of “The Five,” Democrats don’t need another panelist at the table. I like Bob Beckel personally and I believe that he’s enough of a Democrat-lib panelist to fight against the other 4. Then again, there are MSNBC shows with nothing BUT liberal Democrats. So, which network is more fair?
   —————————
   Maybe you only like 1 Democrat on the panel but I would like to see a show with an equal amount of guys on both sides, that to me is “fair and balanced”. What’s even worse is the guy who is the host is probably the worst of the bunch when it comes to viewpoints, they would be better off making the comedian guy the host of the show.

   As for MSNBC, as I said they have their fair share of righties come on to shows just like Fox. Maybe you don’t like them but they do have guys like Steve Schmidt, Joe Scarbourough, Michael Steele and a bunch of other guys who make alot of appearances who give the POV fromt he right.

   I think in general on both Fox and MSNBC the guys from the other side know their job is just to provide a counterpoint without calling the network out on it’s crap. Nothing against the libs on Fox but they annoy me to no end for not calling Fox out on it’s crap(much like I expect you to complain about the righties on MSNBC not calling MSNBC out on it’s crap)

   The only difference to me between FOX and MSNBC is MSNBC doesn’t put on a charade that it’s fair and balanced

10. lbsles

    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:09 PM

    New book raises questions about Obama’s Handling of Iraq and His Lies.

    Obama constantly tells his weak-minded followers how he ended the Iraq War. The agreement for US troop withdrawal was actually signed by President Bush. All Obama did was follow the Bush agreement.

    Has Obama fulfilled his most famous national security campaign commitment from 2008: to end the Iraq war “more responsibly” than he says we began it? According to this excerpt from Michael Gordon’s new book on Iraq, the answer may well turn out to be no.

    Gordon is considered by many to be the best reporter on the Iraq war and his long-awaited book is likely to shed new light particularly on the last half-decade of U.S. involvement. The excerpt in Sunday’s New York Times covers the Obama administration’s failed effort to negotiate terms for the long-planned-for stay-behind military force. The Obama administration is understandably reluctant to talk about these efforts much, and nowadays when the president mentions Iraq he makes it sound like he never considered anything other than withdrawing all but a handful of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011. However, if that was what the president secretly intended all along, it was not what the administration was officially pursuing for the first several years when it tried, unsuccessfully, to negotiate a new Status of Forces Agreement.

    “I raised questions about some of these developments as they unfolded (see here, here, and here) and now Gordon’s reporting is pulling back the veil to answer some of those questions.”

    The picture is not very pretty. Gordon documents:

    1) A president unable to engage in effective personal diplomacy at crunch time because he had failed to invest in the hard work of retail diplomacy along the way.

    2)A team whose wild over-confidence contributed to the failure to react in a timely manner to an unraveling situation. In one of the most devastating items in the piece, Gordon quotes Vice President Biden: “I’ll bet you my vice presidency Maliki will extend the SOFA,” he added, referring to the Status of Forces Agreement the Obama administration hoped to negotiate.”

    3) A team paralyzed by infighting and poisonous civil-military relations. Gordon reports that Thomas Donilon, Obama’s national security advisor, criticized Admiral Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for presenting military advice that ran counter to what the White House wanted to hear.

    http://shadow.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/25/new_book_raises_questions_about_obamas_handling_of_iraq

11. Doug Z

    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:11 PM

    Edith Wilson
    Posted September 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM

    HOW COULD ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON , DECLARE fOX AS A’QUOTE’ BETTER NETWORK. Is it because it’s the most racist network and that’s WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR AND THEY EXPRESS YOUR TRUE FEELINGS. We need to pray for the Fox watchers.

    When Libs have no intelligent speech , they use race. It comes easy for they are the racist.

12. Sicilian Papa

    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:13 PM

    @

    Doug Z

    Is everything cool between us. I never had a problem with you. If you don’t like me I can live with that. People usually have to meet before they dislike me or think I’m sick.

    I read your posts and I think they are good.

13. Doug Z

    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:13 PM

    lbsles

    Please sum up post. I am not smart enough to read it and Libs will not take the time

14. Mark2

    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:15 PM

    @SP

    Fox News producers actually want Obama to win…it would guarantee their high ratings for the next 4 years.

15. lbsles

    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:15 PM

    After WaPo Columnist Exposes Obama Skipping Intelligence Briefings, WaPo Columnist Attempts to Explain Away Obama Skipping Intelligence Briefings

    Let it not be said that columnists don’t have clout.

    Take, for example, Washington Post op-ed columnist Marc Thiessen’s Sept. 10 piece saying President Obama has failed to attend his daily intelligence briefing “more than half the time.”

    Thiessen’s column was based on numbers from the Government Accountability Institute, which he described as a “new conservative investigative research organization.” (It’s now being called a “nonpartisan” research group.)

    Karl Rove’s Operation Crossroads super PAC picked up on the analysis when it blistered Obama in an ad for his supposed inattentiveness to foreign policy and cited Thiessen’s Post column.

    Next thing you know, as Kessler points out to us, the White House schedule started looking a little different. On Sept. 14 (four days after Thiessen’s column) and every workday since, through Monday, it listed Obama — and sometimes Vice President Biden — as being briefed.

    Asked about that recent uptick in Obama’s “attendance, ” White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said Tuesday afternoon: “As we’ve said countless times, the president reads the PDB every day and most days he’s in D.C. has an Oval [Office] session.” Vietor added that the scheduling had “nothing to do” with Thiessen’s column.

    More interesting obumbles shenanigans also posted here:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/obamas-briefings-are-showing/2012/09/25/e04339ce-073e-11e2-858a-5311df86ab04_story.html?wpisrc=nl_fedinsider

16. Doug Z

    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:16 PM

    Mark2 I never see Michael Steele anymore . He did kick A. MSNBC Does not have any conservatives on. Repubs do not count.

17. Doug Z

    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:17 PM

    lbsles

    when you post I think I am at an intelligent briefing

18. Doug Z

    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:18 PM

    Sicilian Papa
    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:13 PM

    @

    Doug Z

    Is everything cool between us. I never had a problem with you. If you don’t like me I can live with that. People usually have to meet before they dislike me or think I’m sick.

    I read your posts and I think they are good.

    Did I write that./

19. lbsles

    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:21 PM

    Obamanomics: Household Incomes Fall in August…Down 8.2% Under Obama

    How can this be? Obama is the self-proclaimed hero of the middle class.

    In another sign that the economic recovery under President Obama is not producing gains for average Americans, median household incomes fell 1.1% in August to $50,678, according to a report released Tuesday by Sentier Research.

    Since the economic recovery started in June 2009, household incomes are down 5.7%, the Sentier data show, and they are down more than 8% since Obama took office.

    Earlier this month, the Census Bureau released its annual report showing that the number of people in poverty was nearly 3 million higher in 2011 than in 2009, an increase of 6%.

    That report also found that average incomes for middle- and lower-income households fell in 2011 after adjusting for inflation. They rose only for the wealthiest 20% of households.

    The average inflation-adjusted income for households in the middle 20% is now lower than it’s been since 1995, the census report found.

    And a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this month found that the number of uninsured climbed 1 million in the first three months of 2012 compared with last year.

    The number of people in the labor force has fallen more than half a million in the past two months, with the participation rate down to 63.5%, a rate not seen in the past 30 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

    Almost 83,000 signed up for federal disability benefits in September, and more than 736,000 have joined in the first nine months of this year, according to the Social Security Administration. That’s a higher enrollment rate than the first nine months of the Obama presidency.

    On the other hand, the Consumer Confidence Index climbed in September to 70.3, a nine-point increase from August, according to the Conference Board.

    http://news.investors.com/092512-626958-household-income-down-82-under-president-obama.aspx

20. Sicilian Papa

    Posted September 26, 2012 at 3:21 PM

    It was under your name last night. I was taken aback because I have never had a cross word with you. Forget…move on.