Cable News Ratings for Thursday, December 6, 2012

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1. Ratboy

   Posted December 7, 2012 at 4:12 PM

   @ 1966
   Posted December 7, 2012 at 2:32 PM
   @ratboy
   winter storm here tomorrow night thru sunday nite ir your lucky it will hit you also.

   NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

2. Kendall

   Posted December 7, 2012 at 4:49 PM

   @BevAG

   I read your responses from Tuesday’s posts. Thanks for engaging in a real conversation. (I hate it when people throw bombs at one another)

   With regard to unions, this is the problem as I see it:

   Public-sector workers (specifically Teachers, Police, and Fire-Fighters) are under-paid. They perform an extremely important service to our society. And, they are paid peanuts. Why? Because we don’t want to pay more taxes…period. That creates budget shortfalls because the state isn’t getting enough revenue from businesses due to “tax-incentives”. If we all paid more taxes, state budgets would be balanced (assuming the elected individual was not a crook), and there would be no need for people to form unions. But, that’s not our nature (most of us). We want all of the benefits that the public-sector provides, but without having to pay for them.

   “When you tax the rich, they then have less incentive to create more jobs. Most rich know it’s beneficial to create jobs. They want to increase their portfolios. There will always be some that aren’t interested, but at least they’ll be spending. They’ll increase their portfolios in other ways than the obvious creation of jobs.

   Since the rich have extra disposable income, they can spend a lot of money. They create jobs in other ways than the obvious opening a business to create jobs.”

   Your argument sounds reasonable on its face. But, here where I get confused:

   If your argument is true, we should always see the lowest job growth during a period of the highest taxes on the rich. And, we should see the highest job growth during a period of the lowest taxes. If you can’t point to a period in history when that was the case, I would appreciate it. Furthermore, when taxes go up on the rich early next year, we should see little or no job creation until rates are once again reduced (2, 4, 6, 8 years from now…whatever the case may be).

3. Mark2

   Posted December 7, 2012 at 5:00 PM

   @AppleStinx “Read carefully: Only 2 programs from cable news channels on the daily cable list: The Five and O’Reilly Factor.”

   -Read Carefully: The only 2 political news shows to make the Top 50 Cable shows list are Jon Stewart and Colbert.

   -Ouch!!! That’s gonna leave a mark!

4. RedBarSoup

   Posted December 7, 2012 at 5:07 PM

   Yeah, rilly….MsNBC is all News, News, News….yeah, rilly.

   Who in here said it was….? BTW it’s really….no idea what “rilly” means.

   @Applestinx

   You just posted a link with them RANKED in Cable Rankings total for Thursday….yet only mentioned Oreilly and The Five but forgot to mention The Colbert Show and Daily Show. You can’t post a link with them ranked in it and be like “they don’t appear on any cable news program”. They are/were ranked in the very link you posted….yet seemed to ignore them. They are just the same as Oreilly and The Five, entertainment shows that that has a spin on the news. So you are telling me the only difference is that The Five and Oreilly are on a “NEWS” station? That’s stupid.

5. RedBarSoup

   Posted December 7, 2012 at 5:10 PM

   Whenever someone in here tries to point out how bad the Democrats are on anything, ESPECIALLY on the debt ceiling, just tell them about Mitch McConnell filibustering his won bill….HA!

6. Jeff

   Posted December 7, 2012 at 5:15 PM

   Did ya see Sen. Claire McCaskill have a whiplash moment presiding over the Senate as that Idiot Sen McConnell Filibustered his own bill in an instant?

   There was quite a reaction in the Senate as the Minorty leader of the Republicans mad a complete fool out of himself.

7. AppleStinx

   Posted December 7, 2012 at 5:16 PM

   RedBarSoup wrote: “You just posted a link with them RANKED in Cable Rankings total for Thursday….yet only mentioned Oreilly and The Five but forgot to mention The Colbert Show and Daily Show.”

   I originally posted: “Only 2 programs from cable news channels on the daily cable list: The Five and O’Reilly Factor.” Well, are “The Colbert Report” or “Daily Show” on a cable news channel? Yes or No.

8. Jeff

   Posted December 7, 2012 at 5:17 PM

   After Years Of Operating As GOP Communications Arm, Fox Attacks GOP Communications

   For the second day in a row, Fox News host Gretchen Carlson criticized the GOP for failing to effectively communicate its ideas, especially following its defeat in the 2012 presidential election. But while Carlson’s comments were directed at the Republican National Committee, Fox itself has acted as the communications arm of the GOP for years, a practice that has opened the network to heavy criticism, especially following Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s recent loss.

   On the December 6 edition of Fox & Friends, Carlson claimed that “Republicans actually have a legitimate message” on the issue of raising taxes and cutting entitlements, going so far as to ask if “we need a better mouthpiece for the Republicans to be able to communicate.” On today’s show, Carlson revisited her comments, saying that the RNC should do a better job of getting the message out because there “has been a lot of discussion about the communication of the Republican ideas and the effectiveness of that during the campaign.”

   But no organization has pushed the message of the Republican Party as strongly as Fox News. In fact, the network came under criticism following November’s election that its constant political activism on behalf of the GOP may have harmed the party’s electoral results. The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf noted that Fox chose to push baseless attacks on President Obama instead of informing conservatives about the real state of the election. Salon.com’s Alex Pareene suggested Fox “knows it’s constantly lying to its audience” which is “clearly bad for the [conservative] movement in the long term.”

   Criticism of Fox as a partisan, political outfit as opposed to a news organization reignited recently after Foreign Policy columnist Tom Ricks criticized the network’s attempt to attack Obama over the September 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. Ricks noted that the story “generally was hyped, by this network especially” and accused Fox of “operating as a wing of the Republican Party.”

9. Bobbyv

   Posted December 7, 2012 at 5:54 PM

   Doesn’t it bother anyone that people are so quick to stand on their high horses about media bias only about Fox? When have you seen stories about the bias of the media in the D’s favor, except by someone on the right?

10. Stan T

    Posted December 7, 2012 at 5:58 PM

    Mark2
    Posted December 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM
    @AppleStinx

    Wrong!!!

    Jon Stewart finished in the Top 25 and Colbert finished in the Top 40, while Beckel & the Four and O’Reilly finished 98th and 99th out of 100.

    Ouch!!! That’s gotta hurt!

    ***************************************

    Why? Stewart and Colbert are entertainment shows…you know. While Fox News is a news station. and where did MSNBC show up on the list? What? they didn’t show up at all?

11. RedBarSoup

    Posted December 7, 2012 at 7:00 PM

    Why? Stewart and Colbert are entertainment shows…you know. While Fox News is a news station.

    You are dumb. You just pointed out Stewart and Colbert a individual establishments, calling them entertainment shows, yet when you talk about Oreilly and The Five (which is what we were talking about) you clump them up into Fox News and not individual shows. If you had actually known what you were talking about and knew how to get across a point you would have said Oreilly and The Five are ALSO entertainment shows just like Colbert and Stewart…..but then again, you probably did it that way so it could fit your agenda.

    I originally posted: “Only 2 programs from cable news channels on the daily cable list: The Five and O’Reilly Factor.” Well, are “The Colbert Report” or “Daily Show” on a cable news channel? Yes or No.

    Why does it MATTER if they are on a cable news channel…..? They are entertainment shows just like Colbert and Stewart. OK…..

    OK…I’ll let you have it…..but…

    Two “news” shows that aren’t even on a news channel beat BOTH those shows by TRIPLE the amount in the Adults 18-49 rating (Live+SD). “OUCH!!!”

12. AppleStinx

    Posted December 7, 2012 at 7:07 PM

    RedBarSoup wrote: “…Two “news” shows that aren’t even on a news channel beat BOTH those shows by TRIPLE the amount in the Adults 18-49 rating (Live+SD).”

    That’s fine. I see nothing wrong with that being written.

13. cathy

    Posted December 7, 2012 at 7:24 PM

    Jon Stewart and Colbert are news shows? Think not, they are – Political Comedy – .

    But then again maybe that’s your joke that all news shows are just comedy.

14. Party2nite

    Posted December 7, 2012 at 7:28 PM

    Oh no.. Fox gaining back some speed and MSNBC kinda losing it… Let’s see what next week brings..

15. cathy

    Posted December 7, 2012 at 7:31 PM

    who cares what the government calls a legal marriage. Heck, my daughter played on a hockey team where the goalie had two mommies. They are nice ladies even though they are Obama supporters.

16. RedBarSoup

    Posted December 7, 2012 at 7:34 PM

    Jon Stewart and Colbert are news shows? Think not, they are – Political Comedy – .

    But then again maybe that’s your joke that all news shows are just comedy.

    OMG OMG OMG. What are people drinking in here? What’s in the water? Who said they are news shows?

17. 1966

    Posted December 7, 2012 at 7:35 PM

    when I was out tonite people were laughing about the world ending on dec 21 .but another person said all the planets would be in perfect alignment on dec21 at 11:11 am . is this true?and that this hasn’t happened for 2000 years.

18. RedBarSoup

    Posted December 7, 2012 at 7:36 PM

    who cares what the government calls a legal marriage.

    Plenty of people do, do you know the some of the privileges that some married couples get?

    Heck, my daughter played on a hockey team where the goalie had two mommies. They are nice ladies even though they are Obama supporters.

    WTF!? WTF does that have to do with ANYTHING? What does that have to do with your first sentence? I’m 100% dumbfounded how that relates to anything you just said.

19. Mark2

    Posted December 7, 2012 at 7:38 PM

    @StanT “Why? Stewart and Colbert are entertainment shows…you know.

    O’Reilly and Hannity are entertainment shows as well, so what’s your point?

    All four of them are entainment shows that cover the news. All four are opinion shows as well. However, Stewart and Colbert actually provide the viewer with more facts than just opinions like that of O’Reilly and Hannity.

20. RedBarSoup

    Posted December 7, 2012 at 7:38 PM

    planets would be in perfect alignment on dec21 at 11:11 am . is this true?and that this hasn’t happened for 2000 years.

    …..Just use Google? But yes. Only scary thing about it is how the Mayans were able to pinpoint it to such accuracy.