Cable News Ratings for Tuesday, November 20, 2012

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1. Ratboy

   Posted November 22, 2012 at 6:17 PM

   It ain’t your birthday yet!!!!!

2. sunshine

   Posted November 22, 2012 at 7:27 PM

   ***Happy Thanksgiving***

3. RedBarSoup

   Posted November 22, 2012 at 7:47 PM

   Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

   With that out of the way. I overheard my family talking about the Obamaphone and I have never heard of it before. They were talking about how he won the election by giving out money like “Obamaphone” and such, I heard this and was curious. So glad that I researched it and found out that it was crap. How can the media (both sides) get away with misleading the public so much like this? I had 4 people at Thanksgiving thinking Obama was just giving out free phones to the blacks/unwealthy. People should research things before they go out thinking crazy stuff like that…just get educated. Google searching “snopes Obamaphone” is not hard to learn the truth.

4. Coffee Steve

   Posted November 22, 2012 at 8:11 PM

   I seem to have mis-placed my clown suit

   and HAPPY (PRE) Birthday to 1966

5. 1966

   Posted November 22, 2012 at 8:52 PM

   @coffee steve
   ratboy is giving me a mansion( which I will invite hillbilly over for a one nite stay for a small fee)what are you getting me? of course hillbilly you may bring a guest. and your invited to coffee steve.

6. 1966

   Posted November 22, 2012 at 8:58 PM

   @coffee steve
   there will be plenty of FREE COFFEE to.

7. Pete S.

   Posted November 22, 2012 at 11:01 PM

   RBS posted… …“Obamaphone” and such, I heard this and was curious. So glad that I researched it and found out that it was crap. How can the media (both sides) get away with misleading the public so much like this?
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   What’s crap?? My wife & i stood in a line tonight in walmart for 4 hours waiting to buy our $40 droid phones (early black friday). We were 3rd in line. 1st in line was a woman who at one point speaking to someone else, pulled out her phone and clearly referred to it as her “obama phone” followed by a chuckle from her. My wife and i quietly joked that it must be a pretty crappy phone for her to be replacing it. And it actually didn’t look like too bad of a phone from what i could briefly see.
   What would you guess she meant by “obama phone”? And why would she call it that?

8. AlexInLA

   Posted November 22, 2012 at 11:40 PM

   There is one problem with the Obama Phone: It doesn’t exist.

   Since 2009, there has been an urban myth that Obama created a program to provide free phones to low-income Americans at taxpayer expense. There is, in fact, a government program that will provide low-income people with a free or low cost cell phone. It was started in 2008 under George W. Bush.

   The idea of providing low-income individuals with subsidized phone service was originated in the Reagan administration following the break-up of AT&T in 1984. (It was expanded and formalized by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.) The program is paid for by telecommunications companies through an independent non-profit, not through tax revenue

9. Justin

   Posted November 23, 2012 at 1:04 AM

   Ratboy. the articles you cited are absolutely false. Andrea Mitchell Reports is not afraid to criticize the president and their morning show (Morning Joe) is lead by a conservative, Joe Scarborough.

   Name me a single liberal on Fox News with a show since Alan Colmes was fired? And send me a link to pro-Obama reporting on Fox News. IT just doesn’t happen. Nice try. Keep living in the bubble.

10. RedBarSoup

    Posted November 23, 2012 at 1:42 AM

    Alex you are actually incorrect to…sort of….

    Get educated Pete S.

    Since Snopes is going to say the same thing I will say I’ll just copy and paste it from there….

    How would you contact emergency services if there was a fire or a serious injury? How would you contact a potential new employer, or keep in touch with a current one? How would you contact your utility company about a power outage, or a doctor about your sick child?

    Those types of questions prompted the Federal Communication Commission to implement the Lifeline benefit program for income-eligible consumers in 1984. That program had two parts: Lifeline Assistance, which provided discounts on basic monthly landline telephone service at the primary residence of qualified telephone subscribers, and Lifeline Link-Up, which provided discounts on the initial installation fee for landline telephone service at the primary residence of qualified telephone subscribers.

    primary residence of qualified telephone subscribers, and Lifeline Link-Up, which provided discounts on the initial installation fee for landline telephone service at the primary residence of qualified telephone subscribers.

    As cell phone usage has increased and cell phone service fees have dropped, the Lifeline program has been expanded to include wireless technology. Prepaid cell phone companies have spun off government-approved subsidiaries (such as Safelink Wireless, Assurance Wireless, and Reachout Wireless) to specialize in providing Lifelife-covered telephone services to qualifying participants.

    From that basic framework, rumors like the ones encapsulated in the Examples cited above have circulated, claiming that “the Obama administration created a program to give free cell phones paid for by taxpayer money to welfare recipients.” All the elements of such statements are erroneous or exaggerated:

    • The Lifeline program originated in 1984, during the administration of Ronald Reagan; it was expanded in 1996, during the administration of Bill Clinton; and its first cellular provider service (SafeLink Wireless) was launched by TracFone in 2008, during the administration of George W. Bush. All of these milestones were passed prior to the advent of the Obama administration.
    • The Lifeline program only covers monthly discounts on landline or wireless telephone service for eligible consumers. It does not pay cellular companies to provide free cell phones to consumers, although some cellular service providers choose to offer that benefit to their Lifeline customers.
    • Lifeline discounts are not available only to “welfare recipients” — these programs are implemented at both the state and federal levels, so qualification criteria can vary from state to state, but in general participants must have an income that is at or below 135% of the federal Poverty Guidelines, or take part in at least one of the following federal assistance programs: ……..

11. RedBarSoup

    Posted November 23, 2012 at 1:43 AM

    So guys, guess what. You on the right, blame your precious savior Reagan for starting that one.

12. Jeff D.

    Posted November 23, 2012 at 4:27 AM

    Ed is rumored to be replaced but with who or what? Can’t be any worst.
    After all Ed is just a script reader that says whatever the unions
    tells him to say.
    Did you know he failed sa a conservative radio talker?

13. Jeff

    Posted November 23, 2012 at 4:57 AM

    @politically weary, actually it’s Pollyanna types like you that sit in criticism of others that real just irrelevant and not too bright. I could be off on my assessment based on your posts but either way I could care less about what you think about me or my opinions.

14. Ratboy

    Posted November 23, 2012 at 5:47 AM

    Good Morning!!
    hey CoffeeDude, I think your clown suit may still be at the cleaners. Navy Dude used it to wipe off his bike after the rain storm!

    1966, I may have to scale back a little because when I scaned it and tried to send it it sait that the file was to big! Boy and it was a nice one too!!!!!!!

    Waiting for the stove repairman this morning. I found out that 2 hours and 45 minutes to cook a pizza is NOT normal! Hey, I do low and slow cooking so I thought………….well you know!

15. Raz

    Posted November 23, 2012 at 6:02 AM

    Justin, liberals on Fox…..Bob Beckels, Juan Williams and Alan Colmes just to name a few. If Mr Colmes was truly fired, he would never be able to be invited back on Fox…which you always see him on one show or another to provide the liberal point of view. Could say Mr Oberman do that on MSNBC? I think not.

16. Pete S.

    Posted November 23, 2012 at 6:24 AM

    RBS, my somewhat long post just disappeared. not typing it again. nothing to get “educated” about. just wondered what you thought she meant.

17. Mark

    Posted November 23, 2012 at 6:49 AM

    @Raz

    MSNBC(like Fox) has few opposing viewpoints on the payroll. Besides Scarborough, probably Steve Schmidt and Michael Steele would be the most notable names but they also have SE Cupp and Ron Christie(work on Cheney’s staff). Beyond that they have many recurring guests who are Conservative/Republicans(Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins, Republican Strategist John Feehary, Matt Kibbe president of Freedom Works among a few others)

    I know conservatives will say well those guys don’t count because we don’t like them, but many liberals would say the same about the lefties Fox has on.

18. Mark

    Posted November 23, 2012 at 6:56 AM

    I pointed this out many times before lefties on Fox and righties on MSNBC basically fill the same purpose. They sort of give the “other sides” POV without really calling the host out on all the BS they spew and it gets annoying when you watch the network saying you could do a much better job calling the people out who oppose your views then the guy they use to speak for the “other side”. It also seems like the lefties on Fox and righties on MSNBC seem to be more moderate then the hosts(who generally shift tot he extreme view of the parties the station panders to)

19. Mark

    Posted November 23, 2012 at 7:07 AM

    @Pete S.
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    RBS, my somewhat long post just disappeared. not typing it again. nothing to get “educated” about. just wondered what you thought she meant.
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    Usually some words trigger posts not to be posted, ab0rtion(spelled correctly with a “o” instead of the “0″) for instance spelled correctly seems to do that to me. I also find alot of times links to certain websites cause deletion as well. In general when it happens to me I just hit the “back button” on my browser and the post will re-appear in the “leave a reply” box and I go in and try find the word/words that cause the problem

20. Coffee Steve

    Posted November 23, 2012 at 8:56 AM

    Good Day Everyone, been shopping all morning, and man do I feel old

    @Ratboy & 1966

    Mansion? Free Coffee? On my way…..

    @Rats
    Its the heating element dude, 20 bucks easy to install and a lot cheaper than those repair dudes