MSNBC knocking on CNN's door, FoxNews clearly ahead in cable news ratings

Drudge Report ^ | December 16th, 2005 | Matt Drudge

[Peach]

My husband is not a good loser and he's on a bigtime losing streak so to keep him playing, I think I'll let him win a few games tonight :-)

Do you like playing online with other players? I play backgammon on the computer sometimes and haven't played online with other players for years; it was sort of intimidating to me.

[Tempest]

Damn it all. We should be making sure that Dennis Miller is on that list!

[BigSkyFreeper]

First time I played backgammon, I played with a lady who was an avid backgammon player and I told her I had never played it before. I won the first game, I was psyched, and I said, lets play another, and she beat the pulp out of me. LOL

Some games like Chess I don't like playing against other people.

[Sprite518]

I disagree. This is why at 10PM I watch the one show outside of FOX News on MSNBC. The show is SCARBOROUGH, and its the only show on MSNBC that is gaining grond.

[Sprite518]

Wacht JOE SCARBOROUGH on MSNBC at 10PM. Its the only good show outside of Foxnews.

[Sprite518]

Yes Special Report is my favorite News show on Fox. I have been watching it for some time now.

[Sprite518]

Bill has gone back to old Bill since the election. I have enjoyed his show recently again. Prior to the election I was pretty upset with the way he treated the Swift Boat Vets.

[JoeV1]

Not so if you compare the ratings with the same period last year. You are correct in saying they have slipped from last month or even several months before that but that is because this is an election year.

Meanwhile the ratings of the major nets have slipped every single year for over 12 years while the cable news outlets have soared over the same period.

[JoeV1]

"Shepard Smith sucks and blows, simultaneously,"

Isn't this a distinction without a difference?

[Smartaleck]

Can't say I watch Scarborough.

And I agree with most of what your assesment.

Sean does have some interesting guest on and I like the scraming heads up to a point. O'reilly is about the same.

Sometimes he gets on a rant much like the Dems.

I never thought of Colmes being smarter? And, to me he's the king of talking points.

Linda Vester is worth watching just because she's pleasing to the eye. E.D. Hill tends to get on my nerves........she seems to come up with some contrary remark just to be contrary sometimes.

[Echo Talon]

yea I don't get MSNBC where I live...

[John Lenin]

Best thing to do Hank is not watch his show. I refuse to watch people who annoy me.

[Hank Rearden]

Best thing to do Hank is not watch his show. I refuse to watch people who annoy me.

Oh, of course. Absolutely right.

But last night I flipped on the tube a little after 11pm when getting home from work. It'd been left on FNC from the morning.

Laura Ingraham was on, so my remote-button-finger was naturally frozen and unusable. But, sure enough, the first words I heard out of Hannity's mouth were ". . . . but, but we got rid of the rape rooms - we got rid of the plastic shredders Saddam used to feed people into!"

He, and millions of others, were using the same lines, the same arguments, over a year ago when Saddam was captured.

And a couple of weeks ago, my car radio came on (left on the Fox-affiliate station KVI from the morning), and there was our Philosopher Buddy again - first words I heard? ". . . marriage is a union between one man and one woman . . ."

Really? Gak.

His brain apparently filled up a couple of years ago, and there's no room left for new or original thoughts.

Good 'ol Sean. Thank God for Michael Medved.

[Hank Rearden]

Isn't this a distinction without a difference?

I assume you must have seen the little tabloid-twit at some point, right? Got the 'tude, striding "manfully" all over his little set because he doesn't have the dignity to SIT HIS ASS DOWN AND REPORT THE NEWS like Brit Hume, a gentleman with true dignity and credibility.

He's an unwatchable twerp who does indeed suck and blow simultaneously. Don't get me started.

[MikefromOhio]

I never watched him anyway....

[CDHart]

Maybe I'll have to give him another chance. I sometimes listen to his radio show if I can't get Rush, but even with that I wasn't very impressed.

Carolyn

[JoeV1]

I never watch S Smith anyway because he's on against Seinfeld reruns.

[Melas]

Sorry guys, Jesus did NOT look like a 5-foot-tall Palestinian gunman.

What did he look like?