So, I was doing some late evening reading and came across Dan Riehl’s post on this week’s cable ratings. Dan’s focus is primarily Sarah Palin’s premiere, but that’s not my focus tonight.
No, instead, I bring you sheer boosterism of Dear Leader Erickson. Shameless, I know.
But I *do* have a point … John King USA sucks without Erick.*
John King, USA was way down Thursday night, with just 81,000 viewers in the demo and 482,000 total viewers. That was the lowest total viewers rating from 6pmET-MidnightET.
Erick wasn’t on Thursday night. Close enough to causation for me.
G’night all.
Aaron B. Gardner
* Sorry for the edit, that sentence just wasn’t flowing for me.
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Wing Zero (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 10:52PM EST (link)I actually sat down at McDonalds to see Erick.
They had CNN on when I got home. Wife was out with her Parents and that was dinner for the night.
He wasn’t there. I wasted time and calories… it was a sad day for me.
1-21-09 – We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.
OH!
Wing Zero (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 10:54PM EST (link)Erick,
Without going into finances that are none of my business… how does being a talking head pay?
I’m only interested in the technical side of it. Do you get X amount a year… or X amount a show… or promise to do so many segments a year…
I’ve always wondered how that worked. I would to have some “inside baseball” knowledge.
1-21-09 – We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.
Well, you're 1 in 81,000 Wing Zero. ;) nt
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 10:55PM EST (link)conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
“We’d be much better off if We The People had desired small government enough to keep it.” acat
Follow @Aaron_RS
I sat there for 1/2 an hour
Wing Zero (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 11:02PM EST (link)When is Erick going to be on?
If a level headed conservative is going to be on CNN, I’ll support the guy. They hired Erick because they thought he’d help bring ratings to the show.
I remember the days before Rush and the Internet. My dad would would watch the news and tell me how every show would go.
“Son, they have 5 democrats and one republican, and they find the craziest one they can.”
I don’t know what I’d do without Fox and RS and Talk radio.
1-21-09 – We are so screwed… Wait… maybe not just yet.
No Balance. No interest. No audience.
Flagstaff (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 3:17PM EST (link)I hope nobody gave up their day jobs.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
How's this for a title?
kyle8 (Diary) Friday, April 2nd at 11:39PM EST (link)“Dude, who stole my cable show?”
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
America Rising
medamorphus (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 12:39AM EST (link)Forward to all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHtySaX7PRo
Senator Grassley: Please stifle yourself
texasgalt (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 3:07AM EST (link)Senator Grassley is up in 2010.
Conservatives will likely be grinding their teeth over this
guy for another 6 years. Grassley is 76.
Here’s his latest little gift. Conservatives wishing to make their feelings known about the senator’s nibbling around on the health care bill can do so here.
I suppose this is what you get in Iowa. At least Senator Grassley is pro-life.
Typical out-of-touch Republican
Flagstaff (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 3:27PM EST (link)thinking. “I was against it, but I contributed to it by pushing one of its provisions that add to its cost.”
And about any demand that we tell them “a specific item that is wrong in the bill”–That’s like being asked to identify a mistake somewhere in the first five volumes of a not-well-researched encyclopedia. It’s possible, but it misses the point, which is that the WHOLE DANG THING IS BAD.
Repeal, then replace some of it.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
Out of touch and without the sense to even suspect it. -nt
texasgalt (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 4:54PM EST (link)Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how'd you like the bill?
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 10:49PM EST (link)nt
On the Constitutionality of the Healthcare Bill
loganyung (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 8:04AM EST (link)If current law makes it illegal to purchase healthcare across state lines, doesn’t that, by definition, mean that you can’t use the Commerce Clause to justify the personal mandates in this bill?
Makes sense to me.
Flagstaff (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 3:28PM EST (link)No telling what the SC will say.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
Iran's Ahmadinejad: Yes we can.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 8:34AM EST (link)Iminthemoodfor Abigwhompinjihad speaketh……..
“You (world powers) can cut your own throat, jump up or down, issue statements and declarations and pass resolutions… but don’t think you can stop the progress and building of the Iranian nation.”
Yes We Can.
Imadinnerjacket should start using it.
Really.
An added zinger would be if they ‘change’ the Iranian nuke program logo to something red white and blue in a circle.
Call the program “High-tech Operations for Persian Electricity”…… or, H.O.P.E.
I’d actually laugh.
Toby Dials, Kenny has an idea.
Flagstaff (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 3:29PM EST (link)Cartoon opportunity.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
The Obama campaign was really saying "Yes, Weaken!"
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 10:57PM EST (link)but nobody was paaying attention.
My Easter wishes to all of you.
Tbone (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 9:46AM EST (link)To you Christians, rejoice in the Resurrection of our Lord.
To all others, rejoice in the beheadings of your chocolate rabbits.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Tbone, with each bite of the chocolate rabbit....
penguin2 (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 10:23AM EST (link)I’m going to think it is one of the Dems disappearing. I know, I have to work on my Christian charity.
God’s Blessings upon you in the Promise that is Easter, Tbone.
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
When Good stands up to Evil, Evil blinks. – Vassar Bushmills
Conservative Education: Suggested Reading List
Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots
53% trust Reps more than Dems on Health Care
redneck_hippie (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 11:18AM EST (link)uh oh!
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/trust_on_issues
Speaking of TV,
GregInFla (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 1:06PM EST (link)I wrote a short diary about a TV show last night, requesting your inputs on how you would finish the story. Please read and contribute your political insights to make the mission possible.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
Drudge Headline: MAObama Freaks Out Against Woman Daring To Say America Is "Overtaxed"
Ausonius (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 10:16PM EST (link)And it is from the Washington Post!!!
See:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/04/obamas-17-minute-2500-word-res.html
An excerpt:
“Halfway through, an audience member on the riser yawned.
But Obama wasn’t finished. He had a “final point,” before starting again with another list — of three points.
“What we said is, number one, we’ll have the basic principle that everybody gets coverage,” he said, before launching into the next two points, for a grand total of seven.
His wandering approach might not matter if Obama weren’t being billed as the chief salesman of the health-care overhaul. Public opinion on the bill remains divided, and Democratic officials are planning to send Obama into the country to persuade wary citizens that it will work for them in the long run.
It was not evident that he changed any minds at Friday’s event. The audience sat politely, but people in the back of the room began to wander off.”
So for 17 minutes and over 2,000 words, BIG BRObama berates a woman daring to believe that America is overtaxed, daring to question the wisdom of raising over a trillion dollars for a program that a majority does not want, especially during a recession.
Who lacks confidence?
Is that the way to convince people?
Ausonius: 310-395 A.D. Teacher, Poet, Consul, General, Farmer.
Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.
Cato@rock.com
Wow
hickorystick (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 11:43PM EST (link)it must have been like that Star trek episode where the guy lies on the table and the light with the wound circles completely empties his mind.
Seems the questioner, Doris, struck a nerve.
texasgalt (Diary) Saturday, April 3rd at 10:32PM EST (link)I hope her taxes are in order.
Lefty rocks and fires - wow, uh, a smidge outside
texasgalt (Diary) Monday, April 5th at 2:20PM EST (link)They had the gun on him – a blistering 32 mph.
I know, I know . . . . but ridicule is part of HIS game and that makes the
ONE fair game for the same.
Doc's links of the day
Doc Holliday (Diary) Monday, April 5th at 8:29PM EST (link)here we have an AP story that says Obama was cheered at the National’s opening day with only a smattering of boos. They “keep it real” by telling us that a video of Bush was simply booed. See, Obama throws a wild pitch and still it is Bush’es fault.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i0E2IuaYSgmx1gCr9ODWHFL6ybWQD9ET59L80
Here we have cops in California barging into a persons home, banging on the door, breaking through the window. They see no need to identify themselves as cops and they say they don’t need no stinking warrant.
Molon Labe!