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Obama pushed the Sunday talk show ratings down
The Charleston Daily Mail ^ | Sept. 26, 2009 | Don Surber

Posted on 09/26/2009 10:40:13 PM PDT by Mustang Driver

The numbers are in for President Obama’s carpet-bombing of the Sunday TV talk shows.

Obama drew fewer viewers than the shows normally draw

His numbers (with last season’s averages in parenthesis):

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; obama; obamathon; tv

1 posted on 09/26/2009 10:40:13 PM PDT by Mustang Driver
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To: Mustang Driver

Good. Sunday shows are Democratic propoganda shows anyway. However, David Letterman had the highest ratings since the 90’s and that is rather sad.


2 posted on 09/26/2009 10:43:47 PM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: Mustang Driver

Hopefully the media will soon move on to their next new political toy.


3 posted on 09/26/2009 10:43:48 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: napscoordinator

Well, when you are in the dumps, you can only go up.


4 posted on 09/26/2009 10:47:07 PM PDT by ABQHispConservative (A Blue Dog Democrat is an oxyMoron!)
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To: napscoordinator

Mainly because Conan is a bomb, I would guess. Me? I got no use for any of the late talkers (or Sunday shows).


5 posted on 09/26/2009 10:47:47 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Mustang Driver

AFAIC, 0bama can go to town on Sunday talk shows and Letterman plus whoever else wants him on TV. Maybe Chrissie Matthews and Keith Olbermann can have a Leg Tingler Special with 0bama. Just leave our kids alone.


6 posted on 09/26/2009 10:50:39 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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To: napscoordinator
However, David Letterman had the highest ratings since the 90’s and that is rather sad.

I sort of assumed Letterman was more politically sophisticated than a high school sophomore. Guess I was wrong.

7 posted on 09/26/2009 10:53:34 PM PDT by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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To: Mustang Driver

8 posted on 09/26/2009 10:54:29 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Hello, Mr. President we honor you today For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say "hooray!)
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To: napscoordinator
" David Letterman had the highest ratings since the 90’s and that is rather sad."

Actually, it was the highest rating since the Oprah appearence several years ago. And, you have to dig a little into the numbers to really appreciate what happened.

Obama was on Leno earlier this year, about two months(ish) after the inauguration. That appearance garnered a metered rating of 11.2. What's a metered rating? I have no idea, but that's the ratings-speak in the industry.

But, when Barry was on Letterman last week, the metered rating for that show was 5.6 - a 50% decline from the number he posted for Leno. So, while Obama's appearance was a boom to Letterman, he performed very poorly compared to just a few months ago. In short, people are getting sick of seeing him the the tele.

9 posted on 09/26/2009 10:58:15 PM PDT by OldDeckHand (No Socialized Medicine, No Way, No How, No Time)
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To: napscoordinator

The Fidel schtick is not working too well on the American-Americans, I guess.


10 posted on 09/26/2009 11:17:34 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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American-Americans

Very good. I like that.

11 posted on 09/26/2009 11:22:48 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Mustang Driver

Other than his demonstrated ability to harm this nation, the one other thing Obama is an expert at is, destroying his own credibility.

Funny how that works.


12 posted on 09/26/2009 11:26:17 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Ded Kennedy, Stealing from the middle class for nearly 40 years to end poverty.)
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To: Mustang Driver

He needs to get one ‘ Obama Channel’ and subsidize it


13 posted on 09/26/2009 11:32:26 PM PDT by woofie
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To: woofie

He can probably get all the moey he needs from ACORN.


14 posted on 09/26/2009 11:35:36 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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Heh, heh, heh...can you imagine if Palin agreed to go on five shows on one day? Ratings through the ROOF as people watched one and tivo’d another!

Be funny if that happened next weekend. Would love to be a fly on the wall when Rahm/Axelrod/Obama had temper-tantrum meltdowns.


15 posted on 09/26/2009 11:45:25 PM PDT by FreeStateYank (I want my country and constitution back, now!)
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To: Mustang Driver
ouch! That's gotta hurt.

I would pay anything to see his reaction when he gets the news:D

16 posted on 09/27/2009 3:12:03 AM PDT by lmarie373 (*These little guys might look cute and cuddly, but trust us: they will kill you.-on emanuel brothers)
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