roxsteady says:

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Is this article about CNN? Actually the reason you should care about real news is because today’s reporters are not really competent. I posted this info on this site on Saturday. Since 1959 pirvate sector job growth under Republicans is 5.4% but, under Democrats private sector job growth is 11.7. What I didn’t mention was that I read this on the dailykos. And where did the dailykos get those numbers? From the Bureau of Labor Statistics. My point is that the press seems less interested in covering relavant stories. While Republicans are screaming right now about jobs it would be helpful for the public to know exactly who’s good at creating them and who is not. As for primetime cable news ratings being important. They’re really not.

Cable News Ratings for Friday, December 4, 2009
Prime Time
FNC – 2,265,000 viewers
CNN – 832,000 viewers
MSNBC –596,000 viewers
CNBC – 210,000 viewers
HLN –591,000 viewers

Now, below are broadcast news ratings. I chose the week of Thanksgiving where viewership is usually lower. They still crush the cable channels in total viewers. As you can see cable ratings are still very low by comparison.

Total Viewers: NBC: 9,680,000 / ABC: 8,190,000 / CBS: 6,220,000

It’s telling that the blogs and other news sites are where you get journalism and the news shows are where you get Baloon Boy, Octo mom, and social secretaries.

roxsteady says:

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Wow Jim! Strong market numbers as well. I sense some skeptics here and some who appear to be immune to facts but, before I drop a few more nuggets on you all, I do have an update on Beck. He’s lost 30% of his younger viewers.

Now, further proof of Republican incompetency. From Think Progress: And by the way, this is why Liberals think the right is chock full of idiots.

Today, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) appeared on Fox Business and unleashed an angry tirade against the Democratic majority in Congress. As Fox host Alexis Glick fawned over the senior Republican senator — praising his characterization of Democrats’ policy ideas as “doggone stupid” — Hatch agreed that Democrats are trying to “socialize the country.”

But, here’s what Think Progress found:

While the country continues to face enormous economic problems — like a double-digit unemployment rate and the number of Americans on food stamps hitting an all-time high — there is little evidence that a return to the policies pursued by conservatives that Hatch favors would do anything to improve the situation.

During the last year of President Bush’s term, the median household income in the United States dropped 3.6 percent to $50,303, the sharpest drop since the government began keeping records in 1947. During Bush’s tenure, the number of Americans in poverty increased 26.1 percent, while child poverty jumped 21.4 percent. In total, the Bush years saw 8.3 million people fall into poverty.

There was one group, however, that did well under the Bush years Hatch seems to yearn for. The Congressional Budget Office found in 2007 that families “earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush’s tax cuts,” prompting the New York Times to conclude that “rich families were the undisputed winners from President Bush’s tax cuts.”

Now, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume that many of the same people who showed up at tea parties, and acted out in those embarrassing town halls back in August don’t make more than $250,000 dollars a year so, my question is, why are they whinning about taxes when they’ve received a tax cut? Whether you have a job or are on unemployment you’re able to keep more of your money. That is stupidity.