"Accuracy in Media" blames poor Tucker Carlson ratings on Rachel Maddow

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200508010007

Accuracy in Media (AIM) editor Cliff Kincaid blamed Media Matters for America and regular guest Rachel Maddow for the lagging ratings of MSNBC's The Situation with Tucker Carlson. MSNBC has announced that Carlson's show will lose its prime-time slot and move to 11 p.m. ET.

In his August 1 column posted on AIM's website (http://www.aim.org/aim_column/3904_0_3_0_C/), Kincaid correctly noted that The Situation is averaging only 200,000 viewers per night, but suggested that the show's unpopularity was not the fault of its host. Kincaid lamented, "The problem with the Carlson show is the format, which places too much emphasis on his guests, including a regular named Rachel Maddow," an Air America Radio host whom he described as "a lesbian with hair so short that she looks like a man." Kincaid went on to claim that Media Matters "dictated" the show's format by writing a letter to MSNBC president Rick Kaplan encouraging the network "to allow some progressive voices to be heard" on Carlson's show. "This is apparently how Maddow got to be a regular," Kincaid wrote.

While Media Matters did send a letter on June 6 to Kaplan noting the heavily conservative slant of MSNBC's prime-time lineup and asking for balance on Carlson's show, the letter specifically pointed out that "a discussion between two conservatives and one progressive is not 'balanced.' " Given that The Situation's initial format was precisely the one that Media Matters recommended against -- consisting of Carlson with Maddow and a second conservative, Jay Severin -- it can hardly be said that we "dictated" the show's format.

Though Severin has since left the show, The Situation has continued to pit Maddow against Carlson and another conservative on several occasions. During the week of July 25, conservatives Monica Crowley and G. Gordon Liddy were among the guests who appeared alongside Carlson for the majority of the program.

Cliff Kincaid is the Editor of the AIM Report and can be reached at [e-mail]

[comsymp]

1. My God, it's always someone else's fault with these guys-

Guess there was no easy way for Kincaid to bring up The Clenis® this time~

[jane_pippin]

2. Oh, inverted world!

So Tucker's ratings suck and it's Rachel's fault?

Riiiight.

How about this: Tucker's an idiot, the format of the show is just stupid, and pretty much nobody watches MSNBC anyway.
Clearly, it's the smart lesbian who makes sense that's ruining it.

:rofl:

[Hugin]

3. Ahahahahahahahahahahaha!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

*ahem* WRONG!

It's because T. Carlson is a ****!

I warned them... They did not listen.

So, who wants a pool on when "The Situation"
"Millers" out?

[Justitia]

4. "a lesbian with hair so short that she looks like a man."

:wtf:

I suspect Kincaid's penis is so small he looks like a woman when naked.

[Bucky]

5. That's like blaming failure in Iraq on me not putting a flag on my car

Except I have a flag on my car. And we're still not winning over their hearts and minds. What's up with that. Can't they see I've got a damn flag on my car? Jeeze, maybe we should just nuke Mecca. Surely that will teach 'em not to let me win over their hearts and minds.

Those ungrateful little collaterals...

[otohara]

6. The Creator of Desperate Housewives is GAY and

so are most of the writers. How does Kincaid explain the popularity of DH, Will & Grace, Six Feet Under, and other shows with those homosexuals?

It's that little fuck Tucker Carlson who's the problem. It's the host not the homo.

[JimmyJazz]

7. That "fair and balanced" thing will fuck with their peanut sized

brains every time.