What did he say? This AM the MSM was all over the President. Still seething over his charge that President Obama did not call the families of fallen soldiers, they found a new attack mode.
This one, was that he called and insulted a widow of a solider killed in Niger. The charge was made by a Democratic congress person who has called for the President’s impeachment and said he was unstable.
The President said, no way did he say what she said he did, and that she was pulling things out of context. He said he had proof.
Who’s right? We don’t know. We know this. The President is not the smoothest in what he says, and the Democrats and MSM will say and do most anything to get him. It appears the MSM ran this AM with the story as their lead, because they want it to be true. If you replace Trump with Obama how would they have covered it? Think about that.
Think too how they would have handled the calls to families issue if Obama had called every family and Trump didn’t. It would have been totally different wouldn’t it have?
The MSM coverage is, we believe, just reinforcing Trump’s support among his base. They see a MSM out to get him and immediately jump to his defense. The media doesn’t care. They are so convinced Trump should not be President they jump on any and every thing to attack.
News that should have bigger today:
ISIS on the run. US-backed militias have completely taken ISIS de facto capital — Raqqa. This is a major blow to the jihadist group. This administration has them on the run and there should be coverage and credit.
The NFL ratings continue to decline week to week and year over year. Yet doesn’t it seem to you that the MSM hasn’t exactly covered this from all sides.
The same judge in Hawaii who blocked President Trump’s travel ban did it again with the latest attempt. The ban yesterday was just hours before it was to take effect. Hard to believe a single federal judge in Hawaii can change national policy over and over.
Just days after saying he would no longer provide subsidies to the insurance company (for Obamacare) he said he would support a bi-partisan agreement that would do that.
The Clinton Foundation announced it would not be returning the money Harvey Weinstein gave them. Surprise!
The Ratings:
Here’s a review of the weekend, Monday and the week of Oct. 9th.
Total Viewers (Live +SD) ANOTHER DOMINATE SATURDAY BY FOX.
- Total day: FNC: 1.161 | CNN: 608 | MSNBC: 531 | HLN: 270
- Prime time: FNC: 1.547 | CNN: 507 | MSNBC: 441 | HLN: 330
| 4p: | 5p: | 6p: | 7p: | 8p: | 9p: | 10p: | 11p: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FNC | NwsHQ: 769 |
NewsHQ: 901 |
NewsHQ: 850 |
Report: 998 |
Watters: 1.506 |
Pirro: 1.699 |
Gutfeld: 1.437 |
Watters: 1.142 |
| CNN | Nwsrm: 705 |
Nwsrm: 660 |
Smerc: 634 |
AxeFiles: 587 |
Nwsrm: 639 |
WndrList: 521 |
Bourdain: 362 |
WndrList: 304 |
| MSNBC | News: 589 |
News: 594 |
AMJoy: 578 |
Maddow: 598 |
O’Donnell: 522 |
Wlms: 547 |
Lockup: 255 |
Lockup: 247 |
| HLN | Files: 234 |
Files: 255 |
Files: 254 |
Files: 267 |
Files: 291 |
Files: 348 |
Files: 352 |
Files: 326 |
Total Viewers (Live +SD). SUNDAY. FOX WINS.
- Total day: FNC: 1.001 | CNN: 602 | MSNBC: 447 | HLN: 295
- Prime time: FNC: 952 | CNN: 615 | MSNBC: 373 | HLN: 429
| 4p: | 5p: | 6p: | 7p: | 8p: | 9p: | 10p: | 11p: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FNC | NwsHQ: 718 |
Gutfeld: 835 |
NwsHQ: 836 |
Report: 1.073 |
Levin: 1.085 |
Hilton: 977 |
FNSunday: 794 |
Levin: 650 |
| CNN | Nwsrm: 469 |
Nwsrm: 511 |
Nwsrm: 431 |
Nwsrm: 583 |
Nwsrm: 558 |
Bourdain: 699 |
Ling: 589 |
Ling: 530 |
| MSNBC | News: 391 |
News: 441 |
MTP: 584 |
KasieDC: 633 |
KasieDC: 539 |
Dateline: 356 |
Lockup: 225 |
Lockup: 263 |
| HLN | Files: 248 |
Files: 257 |
Files: 197 |
Hunt: 279 |
Hunt: 372 |
HLNSpcl: 455 |
RllyHpnd: 460 |
RllyHpnd: 376 |
Total Viewers (Live +SD). Monday Fox wins but Maddow wins #1 show.
- Total day: FNC: 1.705 | CNN: 748 | MSNBC: 1.163 | HLN: 166
- Primetime: FNC: 2.229 | CNN: 840 | MSNBC: 2.102 | HLN: 169
| 4p: | 5p: | 6p: | 7p: | 8p: | 9p: | 10p: | 11p: | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FNC | Cavuto: 1.520 |
Five: 2.272 |
Baier: 2.050 |
MacCallum: 2.027 |
Carlson: 2.574 |
Hannity: 2.577 |
FNTonight: 1.534 |
Carlson: 1.193 |
| CNN | Tapper: 773 |
Blitzer: 930 |
Blitzer: 847 |
Burnett: 949 |
Cooper: 901 |
Cooper: 767 |
Lemon: 851 |
Lemon: 717 |
| MSNBC | Wallace: 1.050 |
MTPDaily: 1.152 |
Melber: 1.331 |
Matthews: 1.752 |
Hayes: 1.651 |
Maddow: 2.622 |
O’Donnell: 2.029 |
Wlms: 1.423 |
| HLN | MichaeLA: 74 |
RllyHpnd: 74 |
RllyHpnd: 94 |
S.E.Cupp: 54 |
Banfield: 154 |
RllyHpnd: 138 |
RllyHpnd: 215 |
Files: 244 |
FOR THE WEEK OF OCT. 9: The Baseball Playoffs lift the sports cable channels. Fox wins news. ABC wins Morning and Nightly News.
Fox News finished the week of October 9th as the No. 1 basic cable network in total day. This is the 5th straight weekly win for FNC. TBS, which boasts a MLB playoffs-heavy schedule, finished at the top of the basic cable heap in prime time.
Basic Cable Top 5 – Prime time (Total Viewers)
- TBS (3,315,000)
- FS 1 (2,923,000)
- ESPN (2,722,000)
- Fox News (2,170,000)
- MSNBC (1,565,000)
Basic Cable Top 5 – Total Day (Total Viewers)
- Fox News (1,401,000)
- TBS (1,093,000)
- ESPN (1,042,000)
- Nickelodeon (1,007,000)
- MSNBC (877,000)
The Morning News Numbers for the week of Oct. 9, 2017:
- Total Viewers: ABC: 4,211,000 / NBC: 4,130,000 / CBS: 3,491,000
- A25-54 viewers: ABC: 1,384,000 / NBC: 1,473,000 / CBS: 919,000
| ABC | NBC | CBS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| • Total Viewers: | 8,649,000 | 8,148,000 | 6,266,000 |
| • A25-54: | 1,823,000 | 1,852,000 | 1,327,000 |