Cable News Ratings for Thursday, February 21, 2013

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1. Mark2

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 3:58 PM

   @Rod D

   That’s for January. You compare Jan 2013 to Jan 2012. Right now it’s the end February, so I’m comparing numbers from the end of Feb 2011, Feb 2012, to Feb 2013.

   In other words, I’m not going t compare Feb 2013 to July 2011. You have to compare similar time periods.

2. Ratboy

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 3:59 PM

   @ Mark2
   Posted February 22, 2013 at 3:34 PM
   @Ratboy “NBC Falls To Fifth Place — Behind Univision — During February Sweeps”

   That’s what happens when you let Comcast take over.

   Got’em!!!

   Yea you got em alright, this from a 2009 article about the CEO of Comcast so I guess them libs cant run a biz huh?

   These are Brian L. Roberts’ last 10 polit­i­cal con­tri­bu­tions listed in News­meat: Arlen Spector(D), Michael Ben­net (D) in Col­orado Sen­ate pri­mary, twice for Robert Brady(D) in pri­mary, Hillary Clin­ton (D) in pri­mary, John L. Lewis (D) in pri­mary, three times for John F. Kerry (D) in pri­mary, and Edward J. Markey (D) in primary.

3. Mark2

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:05 PM

   @Ratboy

   Don’t worry Comcast will always make money in the end.

4. usa8888

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:24 PM

   hey, Rat–I guess you don’t have any right wing GOP accomplishments to mention and you can’t tell me how cutting spending grows the economy and creates jobs… I am waiting…if everyone in the GOP is as uninformed about the GOP’s accomplishments as you, no wonder they lost big time.

5. d.d.

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:32 PM

   Featherweight 4 8’s

   Like I said before, you get nothing more than a yawn from me , until you quit your rote nonsense.

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   Moody’s just downgraded the U.K. to AA1 from AAA in a classic Friday night, after-hours move.

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   “Beyond a certain level, debt is a drag on growth.” That’s the blunt message delivered in 2011 by researchers at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a multinational institution based in Switzerland. There’s debate about exactly where that threshold level lies, but the US may have already crossed it.

   The BIS economists, led by Stephen Cecchetti, concluded that the danger zone for government debt is when it reaches about 85 percent of GDP. By their measure US public debt had reached 97 percent of GDP as of 2010.

   The US has window of opportunity – but perhaps a relatively short one – to address its fiscal problems. Failure could lead investors to conclude the US has no sustainable plan for servicing its debts.

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   Friday night fun. You can all hash out the news.

6. Matthew

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:35 PM

   Now, the question is due to EPA restrictions how much more does it cost to pump that oil compared to last year or 2008? And how much more does it cost to refine that oil due to EPA restrictions today, then it cost in 2008?

   I don’t know, feel free to share such specific data, if you can find it. I can tell you that the cost of production has spiked since early 2000, not just since 2008. Part of this is meeting regulations, but an even bigger part is that most of our production growth has been from onshore tight sources, deep water sources, and oil sands, all of which are more costly and inefficient. For example, North Dakota’s boom with Bakken shale is a tight source.

   Most of these policy proposals are band-aids, which fail to deal with two major problems: the quality of domestic oil sources, and rapid demand growth in industrializing nations.

   We like to use these phrases like “our oil,” but there’s no such thing as ‘our oil’ in a market that respects private property. That’s not our oil, that oil belongs to whichever private entity is selling it, and we’re competing on the global market against people who are willing to shell out a high price for said oil.

   This is why, for example, solutions such as Keystone are a red herring; TransCanada’s own hired economist, Ray Perryman, told Forbes magazine that full implementation of Keystone would reduce the average price of gasoline in the United States…by around 4 cents. Hooray. The purpose of such a project is to more efficiently move their (currently undervalued) resource to the Gulf, refine it into diesel, and sell it on the world market, not to sell cheap gas to Americans.

7. buckethead 44

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:45 PM

   first time coming here do fox always win

8. usa8888

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:48 PM

   D.D. couldn’t answer the questions so no wonder the right wingers are in such disarray…

9. usa8888

   Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:50 PM

   D.D. when are the right wingers going to stop obstructing Obama’s job creation programs????

10. usa8888

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:52 PM

    Another question for right wingers: If a legitimate rape results in baby out of wedlock, is it illegitimate or legitimate? Feel free to call lian Ryan on this one….

11. Matthew

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:56 PM

    ALSO: The cost of labor in North America vs. the cost of labor in OPEC nations.

12. Stan T.

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 5:05 PM

    buckethead 44
    Posted February 22, 2013 at 4:45 PM
    first time coming here do fox always win

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    Welcome buckethead….no, fox doesn’t always win…just 99% of the time…but if you listen to the lefties here, you’d think MSNBC is catching Fox News…but then they’ve been saying it for 12 years, ever since Fox News became #1…lol

13. Bobbyv

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 5:13 PM

    BO talked about Jessica’s Law tonight. Someone is going to have to explain to me the rationale for not passing.

14. Stan T.

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 5:25 PM

    I find it interesting…all the Fox Haters talked repeatedly how bad it was that Fox hired ex politicians like Sarah Palin, Karl Rove and Herman Cann….but they didn’t say a word about MSNBC hiring David Axlerod and Robert Gibbs…and of course we know Axlerod and Gibbs aren’t going to be biased when talking about obama….ROFL

15. Rod D

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 5:41 PM

    Karl Rove is an ex-politician? That’s news to me.

16. Cathy

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 5:48 PM

    This is a major problem.

    Pentagon grounds F-35 fleet over engine issues
    Aaron Mehta, Military Times5:55p.m. EST February 22, 2013

    Kyra Hawn, a spokeswoman in the Pentagon’s Joint Program Office, said a routine inspection Tuesday revealed a crack in a turbine blade of a Pratt & Whitney F135 engine installed in an F-35 test aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

    Now USA8888 is going to tell you that a Senior in Aerospace Engineering doesn’t know anything about this and his opinion is better. But I’ll tell you all what many of the Seniors in Aerospace Engineering at U of M are saying.

    “Because of the limited time the F-35s have been out. This crack is a sign of a problem in the manufacturing or it’s a design flaw. Never are good but let’s pray it’s a manufacturing problem.”

    The F-35 is to be the answer to our aging fighter jets. Again USA8888 is going to tell you, we don’t need fighter jets, we have drones. Well, I drone can’t shoot down another country’s fighter.

17. Cathy

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 6:02 PM

    Matthew: Keystone are a red herring;

    Hey 4 cents is 4 cents. Will Keystone increase jobs in the U.S.? Will it help the U.S. economy? Our economy needs all the help it can get.

18. Stan T.

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 6:15 PM

    Cathy
    Posted February 22, 2013 at 6:02 PM
    Matthew: Keystone are a red herring;

    Hey 4 cents is 4 cents. Will Keystone increase jobs in the U.S.? Will it help the U.S. economy? Our economy needs all the help it can get.

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    and where he is wrong about it is that Canada wants to sell us the oil that passes through the keystone pipeline as opposed to selling it to china…so it would be our oil passing through the pipeline, so the oil would be coming to us…

    But he is right about one thing…the reason it’s expensive to drill oil here is because the government wont let us drill where the oil is easiest to get, because liberals want the price of oil high because it keeps the price of gasoline high…who would want to buy an electric car if gasoline is a dollar a gallon?

19. usa8888

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 6:22 PM

    I don’t know which usa8888 Cathy is talking about, but I have never said anything about not needing F-35′s…

20. Stan T.

    Posted February 22, 2013 at 6:25 PM

    Did you know that last night, Anger Manaagement, Charlie Sheen’s new series on FX, beat out all of MSNBC’s hosts…that’s gotta hurt.

    And yes, you can probably get more news out of watching Anger Management than from watching Rachel Maddow….