[PhilDragoo]

Leno began cracking on "When Presidents Attack" and "lemme give you an idea how few watched it" when I clicked him off.

One of the longshoreman puts on a suit; but all of them are united in sabotaging the economy.

Not my idea of a comic bit.

[TheLion]

I personally watched C-Span. I can get the speech without all the side comments. You can always get the spin later. Fox is rightly getting many converts. The liberal left will only let the public view something when they think it is in their best interest.

[Drango]

Here in Northern California, PBS showed cartoons...

[Moonmad27]

How it must gall the NY Times to admit that the President's speech was actually seen (and appreciated) by the people, despite the networks' best efforts to keep the speech unheard and unseen.

[CyberAnt]

And ... what no one has mentioned is that "Clear Channel" which houses such greats as Rush Limbaugh and Roger Hedgecock, carried the speech live to almost every car driving home on the West Coast - in the 5 p.m. time slot.

[AFPhys]

These figures of 17million also do not include the radio audience. I personally searched out a radio station that carried the president's speech, and I'm sure many others who found the demonetworks were not carrying the speech did likewise.

[Always Right]

The Fox News Channel, CNN and MSNBC were watched by average audiences of 4.5 million, 2.6 million and 1.2 million people, respectively, during the speech. Those networks had average audiences last month of 2 million, 765,000 and 452,000 people on Mondays between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Nearly 8.5 million people watched the speech on the Fox broadcast network.

I realized Fox News was beating CNN, I did not realize Fox was beating CNN that bad.

[The Great Satan]

The networks said they did not carry it because the administration did not expressly ask them to

Strategery. Dubya knew the lib networks would take a pass, exposing millions of new viewers to Fox. It's called "building your base." Gotta think more than one move ahead if you want to outsmart Dubya.

[Lion's Cub]

This is good news.

But I think millions more would have watched if they'd known about it.

Hopefully, lots of people who saw it brought it up at work the next day so that those who didn't know about it got a chance to be ticked off with the alphabets :)

Of course, the really bad news is that we have 28.4 million brain-dead who watched the ABC-NBC-CBS fare...