Anderson Cooper's Ratings Plunging Like A Teabag
I think Cooper ruined his career giggling about how hard it was to talk when s*cking balls. Sounded like the voice of experience. While his ratings are down overall, I'll bet they're higher than ever in San Francisco.
CNN suck-up, literally and figuratively, Anderson Cooper, the man who popularized the dismissive "teabagger" slur against tea party protesters this year, is in trouble. His rating are down 62% in total, and 72% in the key 25-54 demographic. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving liberal. The Business Insider (via drudge. Also Riehl World View via Instapundit) is besides itself in reporting the bad news: Anderson Cooper's Ratings Plummet
The respected [by whom?] CNN anchor has seen his numbers slip significantly through the past year. His 10 p.m. show, "Anderson Cooper 360," has declined 62% in total viewers and 70% in adults 25-54 from November 2008, according to Nielsen figures.
Last month, in Cooper's time slot, Fox News' "On the Record" attracted an average viewership of 1.9 million while "360" averaged 672,000; repeats of MSNBC's "Countdown" and HLN's Nancy Grace show averaged 655,000 and 458,000, respectively.
But in the ad-friendly 25-54 demo, those same repeats won out over Cooper with 224,000 (MSNBC) and 214,000 (HLN).
Cooper -- who became an overnight sensation during his Hurricane Katrina coverage -- surely deserves better ratings. From the start of 2009, he began losing a huge chunk of his nightly audience.
He doesn't deserve better ratings, and don't call me Shirly.
The article goes on to ask "what happened?", but fails to identify liberal media bias so deep that even Democrats are flocking to FoxNews to know what's going on. The article even identifies CNN as a "centrist" news outlet! (canned laughter):
So what happened? Let's see: There's no presidential election to ramp up ratings; there's heavy competition from centrist CNN's noisier rivals (see: Fox News, the No. 1 cable news channel); there's people catching up on DVR-ed TV shows in the late evening; then there's the loss of Lou Dobbs in the 7 p.m. anchor chair, among other possible factors.
Work those blue eyes, Coop!
It's not the eyes, it's the bias! Here's the segment where, at least on a national level, the homosexual anchor popularized the "teabagger" slur that is popular in the gay community:
Once Cooper uttered it, it was picked up by the kook fringe with an addictive enthusiasm. The political pundits repeat it incessantly, doing their best to mainstream the crude term. Left-wing blogs have been the most enthusiastic, unable to mention any protest without the term. Which makes sense since they don't have a substantive argument against the movement. Once they utter the word, which appears often times even in their headlines, they have already lost the argument. It is an utterly demeaning and dismissive slur.Maybe that's got something to do with the ratings dip? Maybe???
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