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He forgot the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.

Half of those hits at Daily Kos were probably conservatives seeking ironic humor, I'll wager.

1 posted on 02/27/2009 9:56:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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I don’t hate O’Reilly, but his incessant “the folks” populism is really tedious.


2 posted on 02/27/2009 9:58:41 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Hope you're happy with your "send a message to the RNC" vote)
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I didn’t know CNN had sunk to 15th place.

O’Reilly is a joke to most conservatives, so this is a good sign.


3 posted on 02/27/2009 10:00:32 PM PST by unkus
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These ratings probably have more to do with American Idol and other entertainment venues than news reporting (although, that said, MSNBC is perpetually hideous and unwatchable). We are, after all, still in the “Bread and Circuses” phase of the empire.


4 posted on 02/27/2009 10:06:22 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (The inmates are now officially running the asylum.)
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I like O’Reilly. He shows the ability to continue to educate himself and improve. It looks to me like he’s getting better all the time, and I have been watching his show more regularly.

By the way, Lou Dobbs has also been tearing Dumbo a new one, big time.


5 posted on 02/27/2009 10:10:08 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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6 posted on 02/27/2009 10:12:56 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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I visited Daily Kos frequently in the Fall! It was fun to read how the lunatic fringe was faring.


7 posted on 02/27/2009 10:15:10 PM PST by Marie2 (Ora et labora)
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The reason is really twofold: 1) the socialists got their president, why do they need to watch MSNBC or hit the Daily Kos anymore? Those such outlets are fuelled by hatred - what’s there for them to hate with a marxist in the white house and d’rats in complete control of congress? 2) with the economy falling apart, many others still have a great interest in what’s going on. These MSNBC/Kos people who haven’t completely unplugged actually want to hear some criticism of Obama. Just the way it’s fun for us to look at the Daily Kos or the Huffington Post for a few laughs from time to time, they only have one tv outlet, cable or local, that doesn’t routinely heap praise on Obama for taking a trip to the jon. Of course, that tv outlet is FNC, so they get all that viewership.


10 posted on 02/27/2009 10:36:16 PM PST by cartervt2k
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Most of the folks simply want the truth, even though, these days, the truth can be hard to handle.

Most of "the folks" want to be lied to, be told that everything is gonna be all right, and that Obama will fix it all. The big drop-off at Daily Kos reflects the desire of the parasite class who elected Bammy to now sit back and coast in blissful ignorance while their hero takes care of them.

11 posted on 02/27/2009 10:49:57 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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“...MSNBC, a dismal 23rd.”

I’m proud to say I’m contributing actively to their lack of ratings. I deleted MSNBC from my cable/remote so it skips right over it as if it were an empty channel (which, content-wise, it pretty much is).

Yeah, it’s a little juvenile. But it makes me happy knowing there’s no possibility of accidentally seeing Dobermann or Madcow’s ugly mugs on my tv. :-)


14 posted on 02/27/2009 11:34:57 PM PST by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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Also, unique visitors to the Obama-loving website Daily Kos have declined a whopping 73 percent since last fall -- a disaster.

This needs to be put in context. The visitors to all political websites have probably dropped off since the election. If FR, NRO, etc. have dropped relatively less, then that would mean something.

15 posted on 02/27/2009 11:39:29 PM PST by Plutarch
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MSNBC, CNN, and Daily Kos are all so preposterously propagandistic that EVEN LIBERALS can’t tolerate them!


19 posted on 02/28/2009 12:16:13 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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O’Reilly has created an on-air characterture of himself as spokesman and crusader for the common man. A lot of his audience buys into it. He mixes in tabloid stories to attract the lowest common denominator of TV consumer which includes Democrats and apoliticals. But he'll also have Newt Gingrich or Karl Rove doing analysis. So viewers that like the two-headed dog stories are also absorbing conservative commentary. This is a formula Rupert Murdock first used in his print media. CNN tries to pretend that TV news is not entertainment while FOX exploits it.
20 posted on 02/28/2009 12:36:15 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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The Rocky Mountain News was the more conservative of the two CO newspapers.

CO being a state filled with reasonably young people, just couldn’t sustain two newspapers. Most of the younger generation get their news from the Internet, if they bother at all.


21 posted on 02/28/2009 12:39:46 AM PST by Carley (President Obama ~ Leaving No Tax Cheat Behind)
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Is O’Reilly “tight on” on this?


22 posted on 02/28/2009 12:47:18 AM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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Is O’Reilly “right on” on this?


23 posted on 02/28/2009 12:49:26 AM PST by Salvation ( †With God all things are possible.†)
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The Rocky was the more conservative of the Denver newspapers.


25 posted on 02/28/2009 1:06:58 AM PST by Mom MD (Jesus is the Light of the world!)
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They voted for it, they are going to get it. Good and hard.

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26 posted on 02/28/2009 1:53:53 AM PST by Bon mots
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bookmark


32 posted on 02/28/2009 3:00:50 AM PST by GOP Poet
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I’ve gone to Daily Kos a few times,
I think the majority there are insane.
obamma lamma kool aide drinkers all.


33 posted on 02/28/2009 3:14:29 AM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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Ideology has corrupted the watchdog press that our Founders envisioned.

This line gets repeated almost daily, but for the life of me, I can't recall where the Founding Fathers said, "We are trusting in a watchdog press."

Someone help me here. The existence of freedom of the press in the Constitution does not equal "we are trusting in a watchdog press" any more than the existence of freedom of religion has them saying "We are trusting in watchdog religious denominations."

35 posted on 02/28/2009 3:50:27 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain, Pro Deo et Patria)
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