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60minman 84M
14577 posts
11/5/2009 6:24 am
"Legitimate" Results.............are you legitimate?


.......Aside from the World Series, the only thing of interest on the Boob tube was Tuesday's election coverage. I was pleased in general with the results. Republicans won in 2 of the 3 important races. Additionally for the 31st time the Gay/Lesbian gay marriage initiative was defeated by voters. Perhaps Maine is not as liberal as I had once thought. I fail to understand the Gay rights lobby saying they are denied the privilege of getting married. Hog wash they can get married anytime they want, all they have to do is find a partner of the opposite sex and get married........OK back to the subject of this blog. Yesterday the Drudge report released its ratings for viewership of the networks covering the Election.

Fox News Channel 4,043,000 viewers
MSNBC 974,000 viewers
Headline News 842,000 viewers
CNN 826,000 viewers

I find these results stunning. For a network to be touted by the White House as not being a "Legitimate News Organization" is absolutely amazing. How much longer do we, the viewing public, have to put up with MSNBC, HN, and CNN. They need to take their bias and pack up and leave. Their commentators are crude, uninformed and consistently ignore the truth as they spin their hateful liberal trash to an ever dwindling audience.......Go ahead White House keep telling us that Fox is not legitimate. Apparently not many are listening, myself included.

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."....T. Paine


Hawkslayer 88M
13351 posts
11/5/2009 7:05 am

Richard - I wish you'd stick with writing about your experiences at the bash. I find them to be so much more interesting and exciting than this constant repetition. Do you recall that old song? Tell me the old old story.

Alfie...

It only takes a drop of ink to make a million people think. There are many stories.


60minman 84M

11/5/2009 9:36 am

Hi Alfie.....You and Ann were missed this year. The overall attendance was down some this year but the fun wasn't. I like that old hymn also as you would imagine.

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."....T. Paine


60minman 84M

11/5/2009 9:47 am

Hi Flirty.... yes I see the other stations when I am flipping through the channels. As far as PBS is concerned anything with the word "Public" in front of its title I am suspect for it recieves government assistance. Seems like if was all that good it would be 100% funded by viewers/sponsors. I do contribute annually in my State because they do have some very good programing..... Fox does not make fun of people like the others do. They are objective and always give the other side an opportunity to respond. Why do you think their viewership is so overwhelming?

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."....T. Paine


60minman 84M

11/5/2009 10:05 am

Karin thanks for commenting. Many at the bash are dear to me so I am not sure what you mean. At any rate my political views are just that. Just like yours are yours. They have no bearing on my personality. I do not base my likes or dislikes of a person based on political viewpoints. If that were the case I would never talk to my liberal, progressive who enjoys paying taxes, Brother of mine. Yes it was a pleasure meeting you. I was disappointed not being able to ask you about your catering business as I have a catering/food service backgroung also. Maybe next time......

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."....T. Paine


60minman 84M

11/5/2009 10:09 am

MsJoe .....You and Joe were missed. Thanks for your comment and yes Fox seems to spin things more objectively than the others IMHO.....How did Joe like the Series? I hate it when the Yankees win......LOL

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."....T. Paine


60minman 84M

11/5/2009 2:08 pm

Sleekbeauty opposition to Obama/Pelosi care is not considered news by those little networks. Thats why they are so little........

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."....T. Paine


60minman 84M

11/5/2009 2:12 pm

Flirty my comment to Ms Joe was about the spin commentators use not news reporting. I guess what I am saying is the other networks select what news it wants us to see. Fox does not it reports it all....Why else do liberals try and denigrate Fox?

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."....T. Paine


bikenski 80M

11/6/2009 6:08 am

Heard an interview with Helen Thomas on the CBC a couple of days ago. She doesn't think the Obama people should go to war with Fox. I agree with her, although I suspect that Real Americans would disagree with our reasons.

From what I've seen of Fox News, I concluded that The Daily Show is more legitimate as a news source.

One the the ironies of life is that much of the success of Fox can be attributed to the popularity that commie-lib series The Simpsons.


ackman1465 73M

11/6/2009 2:58 pm

60min: I don't think that audience numbers lend "legitimacy" to a broadcast. After all, in the late 1930's didn't the German Socialist station have numbers like those that you are touting for Fox, now???????

I'm ever amazed at the concept of Fox news as a legitimate/unbiased/valuabvle news source. You know that I listen to their programming much of the day. It is the ONLY "news" station which qualifies its broadcasts,... with the likes of "we report, you decide....", and "Fox News, fair and balanced". WHY don't the other outlets feel it necessary to qualify the balance or fairness of their broadcasts???? [Me thinks thou doest protest too much.....]

Fox News.... remember, 60min, I listen to it often... is almost exclusively an OPINION broadcast.... Hannity, Limbaugh, Beck, Levin..... is what they spout anything more than their own opinions??? Oh, sure, the broadcasts have interspersals of "news" on the top and bottom of the hour.... but THAT, folks, is the closest that Fox comes to simply reading NEWS STORIES... that is, facts and details... information which requires NO SPIN... and which has no need for opinion......

Let me step off my soapbox for now.... Mark Levin is coming on soon...

P.S. I LOVE the ads for non-hybridized seeds that I'm encouraged to buy, so that I will have suitable nourishment after the apocalypse or whenever it is that I should plant them!!!!!


60minman 84M

11/6/2009 3:43 pm

MMMMmmmmm me thinks Ackman has lost his touch no mention of the babes on Fox......are they a little to foxy for him?

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."....T. Paine


bikenski 80M

11/6/2009 3:45 pm

Ackman: one interesting datum about Fox is the audience they attract. Appears to be disproportianately comprised of white males over 50. Probably tells you something.


60minman 84M

11/7/2009 2:08 am

bike I beleive that is the major demographic for all news shows. Anyone younger watches Entertainment Tonight and American Idol.

"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."....T. Paine