Never a dull day …

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With the Trump presidency there is never a dull day. He’s tweeting, speaking off the cuff, reacting to a perceived slight or like yesterday keeping a promise.

For twenty plus years Presidents made a campaign promise that we would move our embassy to Jerusalem. Add the senate voted unanimously to do so and congress overwhelmingly did. How were we to know they really didn’t mean it? We trusted our leaders and what they told us, but Nancy Pelosi herself yesterday said we were crazy. You see, she voted to move the embassy, but when Trump announced she went ballistic.

So wait, you mean a President’s promise, senators vote, the house agrees but they don’t mean it? I guess it’s kind of like a sanctuary city thing. You pick and chose what to follow. How were we to know that all three branches didn’t mean it?

Guess what Washington? The President we have actually means what he says. He may have an ego too big, a twitter finger that is too quick and a mouth that speaks before thinking, but he means what he says.  Maybe you should start voting for what you believe,too and stop misleading us.

As far as internationally, what does this mean? Well it could drive the middle east radicals to action (not that they weren’t already trying to get us). It may lead some more in the area to be anti American, but the peace process hasn’t exactly made much progress the past 70 years. Who knows, maybe this will show them we are serious and actually lead to some good. It certainly wasn’t working the other way.

One more message from this. Teresa May, the leader of England, is no Maggie Thatcher. Maggie and Ronald Reagan were a team standing side by side. Theresa May immediately said the move was wrong. By the way, you can add  the Pope to that. If three people lead to the fall of the Iron Curtain and our winning the cold war — without a shot being fired — it was Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul. The current Pope immediately went the other way.

Vote To Impeach Trump

They had the vote in the house on the impeachment amendments we shared a few weeks ago. It went down of course, but know that 58 Democrats voted for impeachment.

ABC Is Embarrassed

ABC is really embarrassed about the Brian Ross report. Yesterday they announced upon the end of his four week suspension that Ross would be not allowed to comment or cover the President. What else do you do on ABC? They spend every newscast day and night attacking him. What’s Brian going to talk about?
ABC said they need to be fair. Really? You better fire about 125 more writers and on air personalities tomorrow then.

John Conyers Resigns

As he does, he announces he wants his son to take his seat.
It turns out there is one other person going for the seat. His nephew.
You can’t make this stuff up.

Al Franken

It looks like today he is going. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. His arrogance leads no room for compassion. A phony.
By the way, everyone turned on him yesterday. There is far more to this story. Unless the Democrats think this is a way to impact Alabama’s race. You see, in Minnesota they have a Democratic Governor, and his appointed replacement is locked to be a liberal Democrat.
Alabama would be a true pick up and Republican loss.

The Tax Bill

The NYT had a full analysis and said the blue states will get less of a benefit and may get hit from the tax bill. They, of course, are blaming the President and the bill.
Hey NYT, there’s another side. Tell the blue states to lower their spending, cut taxes. Maybe even stop being sanctuary cities. How about that?

Here’s one example. In Blue NYC the Mayor has increased spending by 20% since he took office (4 years). He added 25,000 employees. When a downturn comes how is he going to pay for this? His solution will be to raise taxes.  You see they don’t save for a rainy day. They spend everything. A surplus? Don’t return it to the taxpayers you overcharged, find a program to fund.
Don’t worry it will be Trump and the Republicans fault.
And, they’ll want people in low tax states to pay for it. In their world the careful state spenders and savers, should pay a higher federal tax because they want to spend.

The Ratings

Below are ratings for the weekend, Monday and Tuesday; as well as the full week rankings and Sunday News Shows.

Total Viewers Tuesday. Fox wins 4-8 while 9-11 are very close races. 

  • Total day: FNC: 1.899 | CNN: 846 | MSNBC: 1.428 | HLN: 211
  • Primetime: FNC: 2.946 | CNN: 1.011 | MSNBC: 2.571 | HLN: 287
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.620		 Five:
2.458		 Baier:
2.622		 MacCallum:
2.323		 Carlson:
3.156		 Hannity:
3.227		 Ingraham:
2.449		 Bream:
1.500
CNN Tapper:
978		 Blitzer:
1.091		 Blitzer:
866		 Burnett:
923		 Cooper:
1.095		 Cooper:
972		 Lemon:
965		 Lemon:
779
MSNBC Wallace:
1.409		 MTPDaily:
1.378		 Melber:
1.601		 Matthews:
1.954		 Hayes:
2.038		 Maddow:
3.214		 O’Donnell:
2.455		 Wlms:
1.645
HLN Michaela:
59		 S.E.Cupp:
66		 Banfield:
93		 Banfield:
118		 CNNSpcl:
178		 Files:
278		 Files:
405		 Files:
429

Total Viewers. Monday, Fox returns to lead. Win 4-10. Basic tie at 11.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.919 | CNN: 853 | MSNBC: 1.342 | HLN: 193
  • Primetime: FNC: 2.991 | CNN: 1.048 | MSNBC: 2.383 | HLN: 236
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.684		 Five:
2.593		 Baier:
2.597		 MacCallum:
2.334		 Carlson:
3.126		 Hannity:
3.254		 Ingraham:
2.592		 Bream:
1.436
CNN Tapper:
981		 Blitzer:
1.176		 Blitzer:
1.021		 Burnett:
1.050		 Cooper:
1.172		 Cooper:
1.012		 Lemon:
956		 Lemon:
675
MSNBC Wallace:
1.269		 MTPDaily:
1.320		 Melber:
1.651		 Matthews:
2.089		 Hayes:
2.005		 Maddow:
2.932		 O’Donnell:
2.204		 Wlms:
1.453
HLN Michaela:
72		 S.E.Cupp:
53		 Banfield:
71		 Banfield:
140		 HowItRlly:
215		 HowItRlly:
308		 Files:
186		 Files:
254

Total Viewers Sunday, Fox wins a low viewing night.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.058 | CNN: 709 | MSNBC: 607 | HLN: 241
  • Prime time: FNC: 944 | CNN: 590 | MSNBC: 644 | HLN: 374
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC NwsHQ:
836		 Gutfeld:
811		 NwsHQ:
994		 Report:
1.099		 Levin:
945		 Hilton:
945		 FNSunday:
942		 Levin:
586
CNN Nwsrm:
698		 Nwsrm:
833		 Nwsrm:
693		 Nwsrm:
781		 Nwsrm:
743		 Bourdain:
492		 Bourdain:
537		 Bourdain:
454
MSNBC News:
688		 News:
816		 MTP:
739		 KasieDC:
750		 KasieDC:
756		 Spcl.:
734		 Lockup:
442		 Lockup:
295
HLN Files:
197		 Files:
213		 Files:
183		 Files:
291		 Files:
349		 RllyHpnd:
381		 RllyHpnd:
392		 Cuomo:
315

Total Viewers Saturday, Fox dominates the night.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.336 | CNN: 758 |  MSNBC: 671 | HLN: 284
  • Prime time: FNC: 1.705 | CNN: 784 | MSNBC: 635 | HLN: 339
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC NwsHQ:
987		 NewsHQ:
1.105		 NewsHQ:
1.040		 Report:
1.120		 Watters:
1.697		 Pirro:
1.858		 Gutfeld:
1.561		 Watters:
975
CNN Nwsrm:
678		 Nwsrm:
858		 Smerc:
731		 AxeFiles:
867		 Nwsrm:
897		 TrumpSpecial:
864		 Ling:
591		 Ling:
525
MSNBC News:
695		 News:
745		 AMJoy:
717		 Maddow:
731		 O’Donnell:
699		 Williams:
725		 Lockup:
481		 Lockup:
351
HLN Files:
276		 Files:
283		 Files:
261		 Files:
372		 Files:
374		 Files:
288		 Files:
354		 Files:
379

The Week of December 3:

Americans prefer watching Fox News in 2017. Not only was Fox News the No. 1 basic cable network in total day, but it was able to dethrone ESPN this past week in prime time. The top 10 in day parts:

Basic Cable Top 10 – Prime Time (total viewers)

  1. Fox News (2,470,000)
  2. Hallmark Channel (2,261,000)
  3. ESPN (2,231,000)
  4. MSNBC (1,967,000)
  5. Freeform (1,439,000)
  6. HGTV (1,244,000)
  7. History (1,232,000)
  8. TBS (1,204,000)
  9. Discovery (1,197,000)
  10. USA (1,191,000)

Basic Cable Top 10 – Total Day (total viewers)

  1. Fox News (1,530,000)
  2. Hallmark Channel (1,188,000)
  3. MSNBC (1,061,000)
  4. Nickelodeon (1,009,000)
  5. ESPN (847,000)
  6. CNN (762,000)
  7. Investigation Discovery (762,000)
  8. Adult Swim (741,000)
  9. HGTV (668,000)
  10. Freeform (667,000)
On the business news side, Fox Business defeated CNBC in total business day viewers this past week, and was led by Lou Dobbs Tonight, who had the most-watched show on business news for the 67th consecutive week.

The Sunday News Show numbers for December 3:

Network Program Total Viewers A25-54
NBC Meet the Press  3.568 M
 1.015 M
CBS Face the Nation (1/2 hr)  3.421 M 702 k
ABC This Week   3.019 M 783 k
FOX Fox News Sunday  1.485 M 472 k
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