MSNBC viewers leaving in droves since Election Day

Since Election Day, far-left propaganda network MSNBC has lost an eye-popping 54% of their primetime viewership according to Nielsen Media Research.

While the leftist network averaged 1.1 million viewers in October, by Wednesday, the day after Election Day, and the following Thursday and Friday, the average viewership circled the bowl at 736,000 viewers. That's about as many people that can fit on the roof an India train bound for Delhi. 

Perhaps Trump's landslide victory was just too much for them to bare.

Meanwhile, like them or not, Fox News Channel's viewership grew by 61% over the same time period as MSNBC had an overall drop of 31%.

MSNBC also dropped 26% of its year-to-date totals, but things got even worse in primetime, as per Nielsen. For starters: 

During the primetime hours of 8-11 p.m. ET, MSNBC averaged 1.8 million total viewers in October but viewership of "Alex Wagner Tonight," "All in with Chris Hayes" and "The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell" have averaged only 808,000 total viewers since election night. The 54% drop represents more than half of the network’s primetime viewers, and MSNBC is also down 51% from its year-to-date totals while Fox News is up 58% in primetime compared to 2024 averages.

MSNBC is also down 16% among total day viewers and 57% during primetime among the critical demographic of adults age 25-54, which is most coveted by advertisers.

A veteran TV news executive anonymously said that MSNBC’s audience appeared to love to hate Trump during his first administration – but that doesn’t seem to be the case any longer.

"As its poor post-election night ratings show, MSNBC should not expect a ‘Trump Bump’ this time around. Even liberals are rejecting its condescending tone and the divisive rhetoric of its new standard-bearer, Joy Reid," the longtime TV news executive said.

Will her days in the public eye be numbered?

MSNBC personalities have not taken Harris’ loss particularly well, as hosts and pundits have repeatedly tried to assign blame for President-elect Trump’s landslide victory. 

The American people have spoken both at the ballot box and with early voting.

People are tired of the claptrap and racism spewed by such MSNBC lunatics like Joy Reid, who never met a white man she didn't hate.

Perhaps someone on the far-left will buy the network before it is fully flushed down the bowl.

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Bill O'Reilly gone from Fox News

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Bill O'Reilly is no longer going to be the Fox News icon--he's done. He has been forced out as a prime-time host after it has been disclosed that multiple settlements involving sexual harassment allegations have been made against him.

O'Reilly's ouster ends his two-decades as the most popular and influential cable TV commentator.

"After a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the company and Bill O'Reilly have agreed that Bill O'Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel," 21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News, said in a statement.

To the credit of Fox News Channel, they stood by O'Reilly even after the allegations of sexual harassment were piled on. He reached settlements with five women to the tune of around $13 million.

Apparently, after more than 50 advertisers abandoned O'Reilly's show, "The Factor," it was time for Fox to call it quits. 

The New York Times reported that inside the company, women were outraged and questioned whether Fox executives were "serious about maintaining a culture based on 'trust and respect,' as they had promised last summer when another sexual harassment scandal forced the ouster of Fox News' chairman, Roger Ailes."

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O'Reilly, 67, didn't comment on his status since he left on vacation last week, but his attorney issued a statement Tuesday calling it a "smear campaign" by liberal opponents. It said that Mr. O'Reilly "has been subjected to a brutal campaign of character assassination that is unprecedented in post-McCarthyist America.

With the 8 p.m. spot empty, Fox will move Tucker Carlson in that time-slot and move "The Five" from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Beginning May 1st, Eric Bolling will debut a one-hour program at 5:00 p.m. Martha MacCallum's show, "First 100 Days" will remain permanent. Perhaps they will rename it "First 1461 Days" to cover President Trump's first term in office.

O'Reilly's departure follows that of Roger Ailes who, nine months ago, was forced out as chairman after a sexual harassment lawsuit by former host Gretchen Carlson and at least six other women, all of which he denied. One of those women is Megyn Kelly who also clashed with O'Reilly and has since left Fox for liberal NBC last December.

The message that Rupert Murdoch and his sons are sending is that there is now a change in the company's culture and harassment is unacceptable.

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Hypocrisy TV

Chris Matthews of MSNBC said that President Obama should deny conservative media outlets press credentials to the White House press briefings because of how they covered the presidential election and because they say really negative things about him and Hillary Clinton.

Matthews was particularly upset with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity, calling him a "rabid Trump supporter who has spread lies and hate" adding that there is "no place for bigoted, racist, xenophobic, alt right white men" on TV [spreading their venom against the greatest president who ever lived].

In order to pacify this situation, Fox News should be denied White House access, he argued to his audience. 

Matthews called the media "abusive" and said they are totally wrong about Hillary Clinton. "She is the most honest person I know," said the man who got tingles when Obama was elected. 

The MSNBC newsman worried before the election that if Hillary won, the crazy conservatives would burn down Washington.

Everything in italics is false. 

On the other hand, Sean Hannity of Fox News attacked Megyn Kelly for supporting Hillary Clinton in the presidential election, a charge she denied. 

Hannity had a guest on his show claiming that Hillary Clinton is an "evil, bi-sexual sex freak." He went on to describe how he would get men and women for her sexual pleasure.

Hannity also claimed that Michelle Obama deleted tweets praising Hillary Clinton during the email scandal implying that she wanted to distance herself from Hillary. This proved to be a false claim.

He also said the "abusively biased media was so wrong about Trump," but Matthews may have hinted at it, but never made that claim, nor did he say that Hillary is the most honest person he knows.

Now Hannity wants to refuse press credentials to all the media who attacked him during the campaign.

Is that really any different than what the left loves to do to us?

It's a very real possibility that Trump won the election because people are smarter than Hannity gives them credit for--they often can see through the muck and mire of their bias and make good decisions. Sometimes even the left can too--they became so apathetic in general over Clinton that many didn't even vote.

But Hannity is way out of line suggesting that some of the press should be banned from covering the White House.  He is unfair and unbalanced.

Sometimes it feels like Hannity is nothing more than a conservative version of Chris Matthews without the tingles.





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Conway says Dems should call for calm, warns Reid to be "very careful"

Kellyanne Conway, President-elect Trump's senior adviser called on Democratic celebrities, including President for now Obama, and un-indicted felon Hillary Clinton, to go public and call for an end to violent protests over the democratic election results.

Conway also warned Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (aka "Hairy Weed") to "be very careful" about his personal attacks on Trump.

"I am calling for responsibility and decency. I hope President Obama says, 'Cut it out,'" she said on "Fox News Sunday." 

"Everybody is looking for a peaceful transition, and you have the Senate minority leader acting like a garden variety political pundit" [with the voice of a little girl].

"I think that the president of the United States, Secretary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, perhaps, others can come forward and ask for calm and ask for a peaceful transition and ask their supporters, which are masquerading as protesters now--many of them professional and paid by the way, I'm sure--ask them to give this man a chance so that this country can flourish," Conway added.

Conway, the first female to run a successful presidential campaign, warned Reid, who thankfully is about to retire in January, to "be very careful about characterizing someone in a legal sense" regarding the attacks he levied on Trump. She said, however, that she was not suggesting legal action was pending, [but if he wanted to, Trump could make Harry disappear].

Reid, in his supreme lack of infinite wisdom, said that Trump has the responsibility for healing a divided, post-election America and that he was "a sexual predator who lost the popular vote and fueled his campaign with bigotry and hate."

In truth, it wasn't bigotry and hate that fueled Trump's campaign, it was the failed policies of Obama and the left that did the fueling. The election, as they say, was a referendum on Obama, and the fact that Clinton was his political clone with a much shriller scream.

In typical intolerant liberal fashion, the nation-wide protests of the democratically decided election were violent and paid for, possibly by George Soros. In Portland, Oregon, one protester was shot, but I suspect he wasn't just singing "We Shall Overcome."

In another incident, a man was taken from his car by a pair of black men as a crowd on the sidelines watched the two punch and kick him because they assumed he voted for Trump. 

Conway called for peaceful demonstrations suggesting that some of the violent protesters are former Clinton-backers or paid professionals and "there for nefarious reasons."

"They are booing and spitting on us," Conway said. "I don't like it."

Conway said that Trump would consider amending ObamaCare "out of respect" for the president, after he met with the Celebrity in Chief on Thursday. However, that might not sit well with those who voted for him as he promised a complete repeal of ObamaCare.

"Mr. Trump has made it very clear what his health care plan would look like, and it's not ObamaCare," Ms. Conway told Fox News. And she also made it clear that Trump plans to get rid of the mandate that forces people to buy the plan.

The "stupidity of the American voter" was overestimated by Jonathan Gruber.

We shall also see what becomes of the proverbial wall that has been promised in his campaign. I hope Trump delivers on that, but it's going to be interesting to see if Mexico pays for the damn thing. More importantly, if he is able to stem the flow of illegal immigration, I don't care if it's a wall that does it or better border security.

The election victory of Donald Trump was spectacular. The defeat of Hillary Clinton and the look on her face was wonderful. 

But the tears shed by liberals who thought Hillary was a foregone conclusion to take over where Obama left off was priceless.




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How it adds up for the election so far

With just three weeks to the presidential election, Donald Trump is trailing Hillary Clinton in the polls, which makes the prediction easy that Trump will say the polls don't matter, the election's rigged and Hillary should be in jai.

As it stands, Hillary has a six-point lead over Donald, 45-39 percent, according to a useless poll of likely voters, a poll that doesn't matter to Trump because he's behind. Gary "Good Weed" Johnson stands at 5 percent and Green Party Jill "Spoiler" Stein is at 3 percent.

In a head-to-head matchup, Hillary is up at 49-42 percent, an edge that's slightly above the margin of error, but it still doesn't matter to Trump because as far as he's concerned, the election is rigged and there's absolutely no reason for any American to go out and vote. "Hillary's gonna win, folks. She's gonna win, I can tell you."

The third and final debate will be tomorrow on Fox News Channel and moderated by Chris Wallace. This is the first time Fox will be moderating a presidential debate because the media is rigged folks, that I can tell you. Believe me.

According to the polls, a large gender gap exists. Among men, Trump leads by 7 points and Clinton is ahead by 17 points among women. She also leads among non-whites, you know, those who the party of the KKK, Bull Connor, Robert Byrd and George Wallace have convinced will be better served by them. 

Hillary also leads among naive voters under 30 (+19). Johnson and Stein are supported by one in five, young, pot smoking socialists who have no knowledge of economics. College degree whites also favor Clinton by 9 points, but whites without a college degree but a chip on their shoulder favor Trump by 27 points. He's also favored by veterans by 17 points and religious people by 16 points. Hillary has the atheist vote cornered along with the seriously uninformed voter vote.   

Trump has a slight lead with independents at 7 points but only 80 percent of Republicans back him--the other 20 percent back Stephen Harper, the former conservative Prime Minister of Canada.

For both Trump and Clinton, supporters are about equally matched on strength of support and interest, but if Donald Trump doesn't try throwing in a few different words in his speeches, the strength of support and interest may fade. 

Believe me, folks.

Temperament is a different story. About 61 percent of voters say Clinton has the temperament to serve effectively as POTUS while 61 percent of voters say Trump does not. 

He plans to bomb the s**t out of those who say he does not.

Clinton leads Trump by voters who believe she has the judgment to serve (53-46 percent), while Trump is the opposite (37-60 percent) but the truth is, neither candidate will ever replace Judge Judy or Charles Krauthammer.

Many voters do not believe the media is being fair to the candidates. Fifty-one percent say the news coverage of Trump has been fair  (46 percent) or biased in his favor (5 percent), but 43 percent say it's been unfairly biased against him.

After further exploration, it seems more likely that Donald Trump has been biased against himself as some of the topics his ego refuses to let go of continue to hurt him.

Only 11 percent of voters believe Clinton has been treated unfairly by the media, and those voters would say the same thing if Hillary was caught on video having sex with a Girl Scout against her will.


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