January 22, 2012

What happened with FOX news last night?

I am a political junkie.

Thanks to having 4 DVR tuners, I recorded and watched MSNBC, CNN and unfortunately FOX's political coverage last night. CNN and MSNBC provided coverage until midnight (and beyond on CNN). And then both stations repeated their coverage in the morning hours. Both CNN and MSNBC were excellent.

But FOX?


FOX (to the best of my knowledge) ran a program barely over 2 hours long. Even taking their right wing propaganda partisan view aside, the coverage was short and weak. Right wing viewers had to be upset.



But why?


Were they taking marching orders from the GOP establishment to mute the results? Was this a sign the GOP was telling their "puppets" on the FOX news set to downplay the results because their favorite nominee (Romney) was taking a beating?


I can't wait for the TV ratings to come out. I think its possible MSNBC and CNN could legitimately see a ratings bump because they were the only mainstream cable stations providing coverage deep into the night.


It was very strange. And I wouldn't put it past FOX news to try and censor the results, or underreport a big story if the GOP establishment thought it was unfavorable.

This was a very big GOP primary. It was huge news, especially for Republicans. This should have been FOX's night. This is right up their alley. FOX news is the GOP propaganda channel. They certainly have the resources and should have been "blowing out" the coverage to their ignorant, right wing based TV viewers last night. But it was exactly the opposite.

Could you imagine CNN or MSNBC only providing roughly 2 hours of coverage for the South Carolina Democratic Primary in 2008?


On a good note. It was real good to see MSNBC WIPE-OUT FOX news ON A WEEKEND when it comes to all day political coverage. I hope the ratings were strong enough for them to further move network programing away form weekend prison porn. And give us real news.

January 21, 2012

First exit poll results from CBS News

Early exit poll results from CBS News



Are the debates important?

64% yes, 34% no




53% made up their minds in the last few days





What is the most important issue?

61% economy

23% cited the deficit

8 % abortion

4% health care




Overall 78% are very worried about the economy




Which candidate ran the most unfair campaign?

30% Romney

26% Gingrich

14% Paul

(Santorum not mentioned)


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57363377-503544/south-carolina-primary-exit-polls-2-3rds-say-debates-matt

January 21, 2012

Its nice to see MSNBC slowly acknowledge that actually news occurs on weekends.

Lineup Today includes

8-10 Chris Hayes

12-1 Alex Wagner

1-2 Andrea Mitchell

2-3 News Nation

3-4 Martin Bashir

4-6 Daily Rundown

6pm South Carolina Primary


And for those of us, who are seeking our usual weekend prison porn fetish fix.... MSNBC still doesn't disappoint.

Lockdown comes on at midnight!! Tonight they are going to a North Carolina women's prison!!!! Wooo, I can't wait!

January 21, 2012

New endorsement for Romney...... RICH KIDS!

The fall election seems to be getting easier by the day.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/kids-endorse-a-presidential-candidate_n_1218867.html?ref=politics&ir=Politics

January 4, 2012

I thought the GOP was supposed to be enthusiastic.

So far with 97 percent of the vote, about 118,000 people have voted. That is exactly the same total that the GOP had in 2008. And 2008 was clearly not a republican year. In addition, after 5 years of campaigning, Romney has about 25 percent of the vote and roughly 30,000 total votes. In 2008 he had 25 percent of the vote and 30,000 total votes.

Despite all of the doom and gloom, nothing has changed.

December 24, 2011

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December 21, 2011

1 out of every 100 Americans are in Prison.

Watch this short Youtube video discussing the plight of American Prisons.

The United States imprisons more people than any other nation on earth.

They call the U.S. Prison system... the new slave trade.


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December 16, 2011

FOX News got their marching orders..... destroy Gingrich to help Romney win the nomination.

This debate is about as biased and one-sided as possible. The moderators are intent on taking down Gingrich. So far I have seen no attacking questions against Romney. This goes right line with the Rasmussen Poll today that "mysteriously" all of a sudden had Romney leading in Iowa.


The GOP propaganda machine at its best. To be honest, I wish we had a TV network, polling outfit and overall operation this slick and successful.

December 14, 2011

Obama's gallup approval number and why it's important.

Here is a list of incumbent Presidents (1980-Present) and what their public approval rating was just prior to election day.


Jimmy Carter 9/15/1980- 37%


Ronald Reagan 10/29/1984-58%


George Bush Sr. 10/14/1992-34%


Bill Clinton 10/29/1996-54%


George Bush 10/29/2004-48%


Barack Obama’s approval rating today is 45%. He is just 3-5 % points away from being assured of re-election based on modern historical trends. In fact even at 45%, and against no opponent for contrast, he would "generically" be just about 50/50 for re-election! Throughout his entire Presidency thus far, Obama’s approval ratings have never been consistently in the 30s, which is a sure sign of defeat.




http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Job-Approval-Center.aspx

December 11, 2011

Is there something going on in Indiana that I don't know about?

In 2008 Barack Obama won in Indiana by the smallest of margins.

Indiana is a very conservative state. George Bush carried the state by more than 20% points in 2004. It is considered a colossal achievement for any Democrat to carry the state in a Presidential election. The last Democrat to win in Indiana (prior to Obama) was Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.


It has been conventional wisdom that Indiana will not be in play in 2012. Because of very strict vender/phone calling laws, polling in the state is difficult and rare. Most pundits have gone along with the idea that Indiana will return to the GOP column next year.

So why did Obama sit down and do a "one on one" interview with a local Indianapolis TV news anchor at the White-House last week? It looked like the President was doing serious outreach campaigning in a 'very local" manner towards residents of Indiana.

This went completely unnoticed in the National media. (But not to me!) Unless the White House has numbers different from conventional wisdom, the interview made no sense. I could see doing local interviews for news stations in Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio etc. But why Indiana?



Here is the link.

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/politics/obama-gridlock-frustrates-me-too





Obama invited a local TV news-anchor to fly to the Whitehouse for interview!
Clearly, they know something about Indiana, that the rest of us do not.