Creepy: Eric Bolling Publicly Celebrates His Outranking Of Deceased Mark Haines On Mediaite’s Power Grid

by Colby Hall | 10:48 am, June 28th, 2011

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Eric Bolling is not afraid to show his enthusiasm. His judgment, however, on what, when and where are the most appropriate times to share his enthusiasm is questionable at best. Take for example his recent comment on his personal Twitter feed that celebrated his recent leapfrog over recently deceased CNBC host Mark Haines on the Mediaite Power Grid. In fairness, he did qualify the comment with “no disrespect meant to (his) old friend…” So, at least there is that.

Mark Haines was the founding anchor of CNBC’s signature show Squawk Box who he died suddenly just a month ago. His passing was marked by all of his network peers, but perhaps most relevantly in this story by Fox News Chief Roger Ailes, who released the following statement after his passing:

Many of us at both FOX News Channel and FOX Business Network who knew and worked with Mark Haines are deeply saddened by the news of his passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”

The Mediaite Power Grid ranks over 2,000 participants in the world of media across many different categories — including TV Hosts and Anchors. While most of the data that goes into the rankings gets updated on a continual basis, the updating of the actual entries on database occurs on a monthly basis. Haines’ entry in the Power Grid is scheduled to be removed by month’s end.

Eric Bolling has been mentioned by many media outlets (including this one) as a possible 5pm replacement once Glenn Beck leaves later this week. But public gaffes are not something that Fox News management appreciate and one has to wonder if something like this would hurt his chances.

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“Creepy” is the succinct, wholly accurate description of Bolling.
Sanders Youth

Very typical of a Fox host to piss on the recently deceased. But this is the real reason he tweeted this:

How bad are Bolling’s ratings?

He’s this close to hosting the lowest-rated weekday, primetime program in all of cable news. (That includes offerings from CNBC, CNN, Fox Business Network, Fox News, Headline News, and MSNBC.)
In a nation of 122 million 25- to 54-year-olds — the coveted demographic most TV shows want as viewers — Bolling only attracts 14,000 of them, or roughly 0.01 percent.
Competitors such as MSNBC routinely beat him in the ten o’clock time slot by nearly one million viewers.

Here’s how bad Bollling’s ratings are: For the months of April and May this year, his Follow the Money averaged just 47,000 viewers, according to Nielsen data. Only his Fox Business lead-in, America’s Nightly Scoreboard, saved Bolling (and just barely) from hosting the lowest-rated primetime program on all of cable news.

Also, among male and female viewers between the ages of 18-34, Bolling has just 1,000 of them tuning in. (No, that’s not a typo.)
THE REAL ROYAL KING

Sanders Youth said:
Very typical of a Fox host to piss on the recently deceased. But this is the real reason he tweeted this:

How bad are Bolling’s ratings?

He’s this close to hosting the lowest-rated weekday, primetime program in all of cable news. (That includes offerings from CNBC, CNN, Fox Business Network, Fox News, Headline News, and MSNBC.)
In a nation of 122 million 25- to 54-year-olds — the coveted demographic most TV shows want as viewers — Bolling only attracts 14,000 of them, or roughly 0.01 percent.
Competitors such as MSNBC routinely beat him in the ten o’clock time slot by nearly one million viewers.

Here’s how bad Bollling’s ratings are: For the months of April and May this year, his Follow the Money averaged just 47,000 viewers, according to Nielsen data. Only his Fox Business lead-in, America’s Nightly Scoreboard, saved Bolling (and just barely) from hosting the lowest-rated primetime program on all of cable news.

Also, among male and female viewers between the ages of 18-34, Bolling has just 1,000 of them tuning in. (No, that’s not a typo.)

Indeed, keeping him on the air is a type of welfare.
Emma

What a total lack of class.
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No disrespect, but Eric Bolling is a stupid jackass. RIP Mark Haines.
Leftist Asshat

I never heard of Mark Haines or Eric Bolling, but I’m going to take the bait Colby Hall left for us Leftists and bash Bolling because he works for Faux News. Now that we got rid of Beck, we need to pick off another Faux News employee using our Alinsky tactics.

Keep on picking those targets, freezing them, personalizing them and polarizing them Colby!
Moderate

“CNBC host Mark Haines on the Mediaite Power Grid”

I had no idea anyone wasted their time looking at that stuff.
espo222

Not only is Bolling clueless, he’s a moron. That is like Debbie Wasserman Shultz bragging that she was a more powerful democrat than Ted Kennedy, a month after he died. Yeah Eric, no kidding, the guy is dead. This guy needs to go, immediately. He wasn’t even man enough to apologize for his perceived racist remarks last month, he said that “we got lose with our language.” Fess up, be a man and take your medicine. This guy is nothing more than a fake-tanned, fake-toothed Beck wannabe with a facial tic. Eric, you still haven’t addressed the specualtors who are driving up gas prices or Ross Mandel who swindled hundreds of millions or Lenny Dykstra or Goldman or anything that your show SHOULD be doing, like following the money!!! Fox, please kick this guy off the air, Beck will be gone soon and this guy needs to go to, in order to resume your standing as a serious news outlet.
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Bolling is a racist bot who should be fired immediately.
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Eric Bolling is the definition of creepy
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Here you go being an @sshole again Eric….hehe…I’m shocked.
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