Dennis Miller and Joe "dead intern" Scarborough in ratings toillet...again

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 1.7
FOXNEWS HANNITY/COLMES 1.4
FOXNEWS GRETA 1.4
CNN LARRY KING LIVE 1.1
FOXNEWS SHEP SMITH 1.1
FOXNEWS BRIT HUME
CNN PAULA ZAHN 0.6
CNN AARON BROWN 0.6
MSNBC HARDBALL 0.5
MSNBC OLBERMANN 0.4
MSNBC NORVILLE 0.3
MSNBC SCARBOROUGH 0.3
CNBC DENNIS MILLER 0.3
CNBC MCENROE 0.3

[SoCalDem]

1. The "Swirly Twins" can keep each other company

:)

[wtf]

3. hmm

Didn't o'reilly used to pull mid 2's? This is great! :)

[cybildisobedience]

2. Did McEnroe even start yet?

That would be a heck of thing -- if Dennis Miller's puke-fest draws as many viewers as a show that isn't even on the air yet!

[obnoxiousdrunk]

4. It was on

yesterday.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

7. is mcenroe a rw-er too?

i know nothing about him

[Manix]

17. ..not sure, but has the qualities of a RWer...loud and obnoxious.

[wicket]

21. He was wearing a Kerry pin on the set

So I'm guessing he's a liberal :)

http://mediamatters.org/items/200407070004

[name not needed]

18. Johnny Mac is on our side.

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=NEW+YORK&st=NY&last=mcenroe&first=john

And so is Kirk Hammett, guitarist for Metallica, who is tonight's guest.

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=San+Francisco&st=CA&last=Hammett&first=kirk

As is last night's guest, Will Ferrell.

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=Los+Angeles&st=CA&last=ferrell&first=will

[wicket]

24. what time is his show on?

I definitely want to tune in! :)

[name not needed]

29. 10 pm eastern time

[wicket]

19. He's liberal

According the NY Times. He even was wearing a Kerry pin! :D

http://mediamatters.org/items/200407070004

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

23. i know john fugelsanc is going to be a regular on his show

and he's a solid leftie - backed nader in 2000, backed dean, now w/ kerry

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. They really should get a clue!

Forget Faux and beef up what's successful! I've never watched Miller, have no wish for it. Scarborough is even marketed as a "conservative point of view". Can't quite figure out the Paula Z though. :shrug:

Why isn't Lou on the list?

[okieinpain]

6. the thing I don't understand is none of msnbc's shows have come close

to the numbers donahue was getting. but they won't go back to that format for some reason. I always thought that the money was the bottom line, but I guess msnbc has something different to prove.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. File This Under "Well Duh!"

Bad shows with awful hosts get bad ratings.
The Professor

[TrustingDog]

9. Saw Swiller last nite with Leno as a guest...

I thought Leno seemed a bit 'cool' towards the Menace and the Swiller was sucking up to him embarrassingly transparent. What a loser, I actually felt twinges of feeling sorry for him.

[LittleApple81]

10. We need to help Olbermann... he is a ray of light... n/t

[Qutzupalotl]

25. Olbermann's show is good

He's funny and not biased that I can see...except maybe towards sanity.

The format is a little screwy, with the counting down and the bombastic music, but he more than makes up for it.

[Rooktoven]

32. That bombastic music is Beethoven's ninth

a tad more interesting than standard "news" fare.

[whistle]

11. Wait a minute, what is a 1.7? Is that a percentage or an index....

...none of those listed look very impressive. How does CBS/NBC/ABC nightly news compare? As for FOXNews, that just shows how dumb American cable audiences are. I have never watched Dennis Miller or McEnroe, ever!

[PROGRESSIVE1]

14. CBS/NBC/ABC get about a 10.0 each.

[cjbuchanan]

22. That is their rating

A rating point represents 1,084,000 viewers. The numbers might seem low, but that is pretty much the viewership for cable news.

[cjbuchanan]

12. Most Ironic thing of all

MSNBC canned Donahue and he was getting a 0.7 rating.

Always a smart move to cancel your most popular show.

[Manix]

13. ..love to see that scumbag Miller get canned!!

[Sagan]

15. MSNBC are inept media whores...

Why inept? Because they can't even keep up the pretense of being "fair and balanced". By cancelling Donahue and by keeping far lower rated (though right wing) shows, they PROVE that they have zero journalistic integrity.. Further, they prove that they're not even in it for the money.

They're in it to prop up Chimpco, plain and simple.

[Maestro]

16. God it makes me sick to see all those freepers and neocons

that flock to those stupid faux news shows! :mad: It is nice to see Scarface down in the ratings though.

[Mz Pip]

20. I've tried watching Miller

but rarely can last more than 5 minutes. He thinks he's brilliantly funny. But he's not.

MzPip
:dem:

[wicket]

27. He's nauseating

It turns out all of those years he was funny on SNL doing weekend update wasn't because of him, but the writers. His stuff is painful to watch now.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

31. he owes his career to barry crimmins

his former head writer who had this to say about him:

"No longer the youthful and sassy anchor of SNL’s "Weekend Update" of all those years ago, Miller has become a national father figure. And what a lousy dad he is. Listening to his act is no longer something we look forward to; it is more like getting stuck in the back seat of your pop’s station wagon while he lectures you on "Americanism" through 30 miles of heavy traffic. In front of your friends.

But give Miller credit; he has accomplished something that almost no one before him has ever been able to do. He has actually become so vile that he is not even suitable company in Hollywood. He can now make a game-show host shudder in revulsion. This works well for the self-involved Miller. Why waste time considering the true horror and long-term ramifications of the violence he so blindly supports when we could instead be focusing on the assault of cold shoulders he has sustained on Rodeo Drive? Yeah, Dennis, enough of this massacre-of-innocents stuff, let’s talk about you.

As cocksure as Miller is in his new political alliance, he’d better watch himself — he could be headed toward a 21st-century version of Hitler’s "Night of the Long Knives." So long as church-state integrationist John Ashcroft is the attorney general, a purge of the potty-mouthed Miller is never a distant possibility.

The beauty of Dennis Miller is that everything he’s doing is on tape. What he has been saying will be available for review by people for a long, long time. He has carved a place for himself on the Rushmore of wrong-headedness, and there he will stay for years to come, a glowering, reactionary oaf for the ages. He’s ready for his close-up, Mr. Murdoch"

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/02731746.htm

[wicket]

33. who, that's brutal!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. It Doesn't Make Me Feel Much Better To Know Fox Owns The Ratings...

NT

[napi21]

28. I have to ask the same as another poster. WHERE is Lou????

I watch Lou EVERY NIGHT!!!!! If I'm not home to watch him at 6:00pm, I watch him at 11:00pm. Is his show considered in a different class (it is!!!!) than the rest of these talking heads?

[TahitiNut]

30. It makes no difference. Corporations (uber alles) will still pay for ads.

Ratings (theoretically) have one and only one purpose: to sell advertising time.

The Busholini Corporatist Cabal will pay for advertising if only to reach their "core." The only time it'd make a difference is if they found another slack-jawed, drooling, brain-dead reichbot as a substitute brownshirt that might get better ratings.