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To: LindyBill who wrote (308987)	6/7/2009 8:00:25 PM
From: mph	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793840

Reese baby! Fox is gaining for the simple reason that CNN and the other MSM outlets have gone so far over the top in their unabashed protection and coddling of Barack Hussein Obama that even many hitherto dumb Americans are tired of it. There is a limit to what people are willing to eat without question. Basically, you pushed your agenda too far and lost your creds in the bargain. Loss of marketshare could hardly be a surprise. But please don't project that it's because others are as irrational about Obama as your team was about Bush.

To: LindyBill who wrote (308987)	6/7/2009 8:18:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793840

I have believed for years that it's "comfort and confirmation" that drove conservatives to talk radio. Now it's television, too. How about "comfort, confirmation and NEWS" - CNN and MSNBC having turned into Pravda and abandoned the news business. If you don't like Obama to begin with, all the adoration is enough to make you hurl. I watched CNN off and on during the Bush years. But not now. Here are the best excuses I can think of: maybe a lot of middle-of-the-roaders have just tuned out on all the cable news noise. Maybe other people have better things to do with their lives than listen to pandering pundits. Maybe more generous souls accept that Obama's doing the best he can in a very tough job, and they don't want to hear the details because they know the stars are not shining on America right now. But, then again, maybe all of the above are wrong. Maybe it's simply the need for an enemy, the desire to detest is greater than the power to tolerate; maybe it's the need to blame somebody else for the bad things that are happening in our lives that drives viewers to Fox. Perhaps those viewers are the next generation of the rich socialites in the old New Yorker cartoon, who dressed up to go to the newsreel theatre and hiss FDR. Only now they can do it at home, watching FoxNews. Maybe the joy of defeat is underestimated. Pathetic. Who is seeking "comfort and confirmation" here? And if this list of excuses don't make the cut, will you go and produce another list? Fox beats CNN by 2 to 1 because Dems suddenly decided they don't care about the news? Or maybe Dems are so hip they only watch news on their iphones? Yeah, that must be it. Face it guy: Fox beat you when Bush was in office, and it's beating you like a drum now that Obama is in office. So it can't just be because of party affiliation, can it? Maybe they are just producing a better product. Has this radical notion crossed your mind?

To: LindyBill who wrote (308987)	6/7/2009 8:27:40 PM
From: Alan Smithee	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793840

So... Reese Schonfeld does not see any correlation between CNN's viewership loss and Fox's gain (CNN lost 113,000 viewers and Fox picked up 109,000)? He attributes the gain in Fox's viewership to a rush of conservatives who had not watched Fox before due to their dismay at Obama's election? CNN's viewership loss is due to middle-of-the-road viewers just "tuning out" the cable noise? The man is willfully ignorant and truly clueless.

To: LindyBill who wrote (308987)	6/7/2009 10:00:38 PM
From: Stevefoder	4 Recommendations Respond to of 793840

Fox is gaining, CNN is wilting. Why is this happening when the country still seems about 58-42 in favor of Obama? Has anyone considered that maybe Fox News has better programming?