A Divided Country Gets Rocked …….

As we forecasted, the Russia all the time, that was replaced by North Korea is going to blow us up, is now all about Trump, the Alt Right and his failings. This will go on until Trump says or does something else that they can beat on him for 24/7. After yesterday’s press conference that should be a long time.

The mistake yesterday was in a failure to separate morality. He gave the impression that the protesters of the planned and identified Nazi and racist demonstrators were of equal standing. He needed to separate this and make clear that racism is wrong. To appear to be defending or linking people who carried torches for a reason, is a mistake.

If he separates them and makes clear there is a difference then he can talk about the failure to keep the groups apart. He can say the smart thing was to ignore them and they will lose. He can argue why violence ensued and who was to blame. Instead, he took the opposite approach. This will hurt him and his Presidency and have long term impact. His people will have trouble defending this. The protests will grow.

Do you ever wonder how these protests spring up so quickly all around the country and people have the time to stand there and yell slogans all day? I wonder how many are naive enough to think they are spontaneous?
Don’t you wonder, too, why the media doesn’t investigate that? If they were pro Trump would they?

By the way, if you want further proof the press hates this President, just take a look at yesterday’s press conference to talk infrastructure. Watch how they asked questions and the vehemence with which they did it. Then contrast that with the worst Obama press conference ever.

The end result is a firestorm over the President not agreeing with them. He condemned the right groups again, but this time he said the left was to blame too. This won’t go away now.

A Personal Reflection:

As we reflected on the events of this past week and wrote about them the past few days, I wanted to share two experiences that will share some personal thoughts.

The first reflects back to my time stationed in Ft. Jackson, SC. I went to S.C. Gamecock Football games, which then, as now, was the major sporting event in town.
As the team came on the field they were greeted with the song “Dixie” and the crowd standing as one to cheer.
It struck me in an uneasy manner and I thought it a poor choice. They didn’t do it maliciously or to attack anyone, just to rev up the crowd.
I made the decision to sit in my seat rather than stand and support the moment. I did that for every game the entire season and time I was there.

I say this because today we see people who disagree, and their solution is to tear down symbols they find wrong. I never considered it my role to attack the band, people or event. I chose to attend and sat through a part others stood to cheer. Over time the school changed its entry as life moved on.

The second event involves statues to heroes I didn’t agree with. When the Iron Curtain fell, countries behind it did what we see on the streets in our country today. They tore down Soviet built statues honoring leaders and supposed heroes that they did not like. They destroyed them as they tore them down.
Except in Budapest, where my wife and I had the chance to visit a few years back. In Budapest they removed the statues, in tact, and moved them to a place today called Statue Park. We had the chance to spend a fascinating day visiting that park. There we saw statues of communist heroes and read the words that honored them. In every case we were on the other side of what they did to earn the statue.
As an example, there was a statue to a General who put down the 1956 uprising for freedom. It was fascinating to see the history, how others thought and what was honored. We appreciated history and find it a shame others can’t. They are missing something.
Wouldn’t you enjoy visiting a Statue Park when you travel?
Too bad so many are so shortsighted. Anyway, two personal experiences that are relevant to today that I wanted to share.

CEO’s Quitting the Presidential Board and Lecturing Him:

What is this about? You join a manufacturing board to bring jobs back to America and you quit because the President was too slow to name some groups? You didn’t join a morality board, you joined a job creation board. Leave your politics at the door and meet your commitment (especially since most of you joined the off shoring movement and moved jobs).

And Doug McMillon (CEO of Wal-Mart) spare me your lecturing the President. Try paying your people a living wage and supporting American workers before you lecture others. How many of your workers have to get additional government assistance to survive?

We suspect the reasons for most of these actions are because the CEOs faced threats from the intolerable left to boycott their products. Deplorable. Have the courage to lead and stop letting others bully you.

The Ratings:

Here’s Saturday, Sunday and Monday as well as last week’s morning and evening ratings.

Total Viewers (Live +SD) SATURDAY —- FOX EDGES OUT CNN.

• Total day: FNC: 1.348 | CNN: 1.085 |  MSNBC: 851 | HLN: 270
• Prime time: FNC: 1.674 | CNN: 1.345 | MSNBC: 966 | HLN: 284

	4p:	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	NwsHQ: 1.495	NewsHQ: 1.553	NewsHQ: 1.486	Report: 1.504	Cont: 1.674	Pirro: 1.784	Cont.: 1.564	Pirro: 1.122
CNN	Nwsrm: 1.342	Nwsrm: 1.356	Nwsrm: 1.333	Nwsrm: 1.249	Nwsrm: 1.258	Nwsrm: 1.345	Nwsrm: 1.431	Nwsrm: 1.243
MSNBC	News: 1.109	News: 1.151	News: 1.171	News: 1.306	News: 1.171	News: 990	Maddow: 738	Lockup: 356
HLN	Files: 251	Files: 260	Files: 187	Files: 187	Files: 273	Files: 305	Files: 273	Files: 331

Total Viewers (Live +SD) SUNDAY — FOX AGAIN EDGES CNN.

• Total day: FNC: 1.135 | CNN: 955 | MSNBC: 725  | HLN: 300
• Primetime: FNC: 1.285 | CNN: 987 | MSNBC:  760 | HLN: 394

	4p:	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	NewsHQ: 822	NewsHQ: 856	NewsHQ: 996	Report: 1.154	Watters: 1.560	Hilton: 1.192	FNSunday: 1.105	Watters: 1.104
CNN	Nwsrm: 987	Nwsrm: 1.094	Nwsrm: 1.083	Nwsrm: 1.045	90s: 789	90s: 1.041	Comedy: 1.132	90s: 591
MSNBC	News: 799	News: 945	News: 935	MTP: 924	Joy: 909	News: 745	MTP: 627	Lockup: 362
HLN	Files: 283	Files: 299	Files: 325	Files: 331	Hunt: 384	Hunt: 463	Hunt: 336	Hunt: 311

 

Total Viewers (Live +SD) MONDAY. FOX WINS A CLOSE ONE

• Total day: FNC: 1.620 | CNN: 1.021 | MSNBC: 1.352 | HLN: 247
• Primetime: FNC: 2.600 | CNN: 1.456 | MSNBC: 2.421 | HLN: 289

	4p:	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Cavuto: 1.396	Specialists: 1.618	Baier: 2.207	MacCallum: 2.185	Carlson: 2.819	Five: 2.527	Hannity: 2.453	Carlson: 1.455
CNN	Tapper: 1.238	Blitzer: 1.263	Blitzer: 1.121	Burnett: 1.187	Cooper: 1.466	Cooper: 1.480	Tonight: 1.422	Tonight: 1.049
MSNBC	Wallace: 1.215	MTPDaily: 1.298	Melber: 1.242	Matthews: 1.708	Hayes: 1.826	Maddow: 2.863	O’Donnell: 2.558	Williams: 1.942
HLN	Files: 147	Files: 155	Files: 170	Files: 212	Banfield: 353	TheHunt: 241	KillingMe: 273	Files: 379

 

Numbers for the week of August 7, 2017:  

EVENING NEWS: ABC WINS FOR THE 11TH WEEK IN A ROW. 

	ABC	NBC	CBS
• Total Viewers:	7,837,000	7,588,000	5,781,000