Peter Jennings' ABC July 4th Special a ratings bomb

Associated Press ^ | July 9, 2002 | DAVID BAUDER

[patriot action]

A Time to Kill is also a leftist movie.

[gridlock]

It's hard to make headway in the ratings when your target audience flips the channel the minute they see your face. I am amazed that any American remotely interested in the Forth of July would keep Peter (Lettuce Roll) Jennings on his TV for even a second.

[patriot action]

He is a very dangerous animal rights activist.

[F16Fighter]

Perhaps if Jennings, draped into the pastel blue of the UN was fired out of an underground silo in the Dakotas would I have watched ABC's version of a July 4th "Special". In that case, I may even have taped it....

[Big Dan]

Luckily I missed that special, but I would not have been surprised to see Jennings pull a "Bono", opening his jacket to reveal an American flag sewn in the lining.

Then add Bono's greasy smirk with Jennings' blinking and finger-rubbing, and the barf alert would be complete.

[Mo1]

Does this mean Peter will have to take ANOTHER pay cut ..

[F16Fighter]

The only flag you'd be seeing in the lining of Jennings' jacket would be that symbol of socialist tyranny -- the UN pastel.

[Saundra Duffy]

Good!

[mil-vet]

SUPER! Jennings is a joke - he is banned from my house, as is most ABC programming BECAUSE of him.

At least I got some good laughs out of ABC running advertisements on ABC radio (the local Rush Limbaugh AM station) saying how supposedly wonderful he is - BWAHAHAHAHA!

The BEST laugh was due to realizing the ads were the direct result of his loss of rating due to his anti-Bush remarks on 9/11!!