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Smug Scarborough Gloats Over Beating Fox in Ratings... After 20 Years of Losing
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 11/20/2020 9:45:01 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

In recent weeks, Fox News has been losing audience, as some viewers have become disenchanted with the network's increasingly Trump-skeptical tone. Morning Joe has been a beneficiary of this trend, beating rival Fox & Friends in the ratings for the first time in almost 20 years.

Joe Scarborough et al. thus have an interest in encouraging Fox News to continue down the path that has benefitted Morning Joe. And thus it was that on today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist lavishly praised FNC personalities who have criticized the efforts of the Trump team to contest the election results.

Scarborough also made a not-so-subtle ratings brag, saying his show has played "the long game [of supposed truth-telling]" and that "I think this show is, you know, a good example of how you play the long game. And it ends up working out well for you."

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1 posted on 11/20/2020 9:45:01 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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Of course Scarborough praises Fox News people who criticize Pres. Trump’s election challenges: that helps drive down Fox’s ratings!

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 11/20/2020 9:46:20 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

play the long game?? hahahahahaha what a maroon


3 posted on 11/20/2020 9:46:47 AM PST by southernindymom ( )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Please help:

LOST THE LIBERAL MEDIA CRITICISM PING LIST!

Able to salvage just a few names. Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the list.


4 posted on 11/20/2020 9:46:56 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Viewers didn’t flock to Joe, Fox’s viewers turned them off.


5 posted on 11/20/2020 9:47:36 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Blerg! He’s so ugly, inside and out.


6 posted on 11/20/2020 9:49:25 AM PST by Irenic
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Since Fox has sold out and turned their backs on their main viewing audience, losing the rating war to CNN and MSNBC will no longer be a big deal. It will happen on a regular cycle.


7 posted on 11/20/2020 9:49:30 AM PST by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Lol. None of those viewers who left Fox went to you, Bunky.

Lori Kaye Klausutis unavailable for comment.


8 posted on 11/20/2020 9:50:05 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You didn’t do it Jackass....WE DID


9 posted on 11/20/2020 9:50:12 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

We can take comfort in the fact that YOU didn’t beat them, Joe. Fox took aim at their own feet with double-ought buckshot and pulled the trigger, You had more viewers because Fox hung themselves. No, you didn’t beat them; they beat themselves.


10 posted on 11/20/2020 9:51:13 AM PST by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Are we going to Scarborough's Fair and Balanced analysis...

No, we are sage but we don't have the thyme.

11 posted on 11/20/2020 9:51:42 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He didn’t “beat” fox. His numbers didn’t increase, people just stopped watching fox.


12 posted on 11/20/2020 9:52:16 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Joe S.: ‘We did everything, all the losing and more, so that we could win 20 years later under a mass exodus from Fox News, as it became a clone of MSNBC.’


14 posted on 11/20/2020 9:52:40 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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Good one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AwsrrROCx4


15 posted on 11/20/2020 9:53:08 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Kind of like the Colorado Rockies or Cleveland Barons boasting about beating the Montreal Canadiens back in the late 1970s because Guy Lafleur or one of the other Montreal players put the puck in their own net, lol.


16 posted on 11/20/2020 9:55:31 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

You didn’t gain viewers numbnuts


17 posted on 11/20/2020 9:56:59 AM PST by Skywise
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Who is he?


18 posted on 11/20/2020 9:58:30 AM PST by Exit148
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

For the first time since Lori Klausitis died


19 posted on 11/20/2020 9:59:44 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: Exit148

Some intern killer.


20 posted on 11/20/2020 9:59:47 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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