New Year — Same Chaos

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If you thought after a year things would quiet down with the President and White House, you were wrong! Boom the Bannon book leaks.

The impact of the book will be more long term on Bannon than the President. Bannon’s small base, if forced to choose between Trump and him will side with the President. After the Roy Moore debacle, the Bannon train has to go off to the side for a while. His credibility is gone.
The comments he made last night praising the President in a radio interview just lends to added poor messaging from him.  “The President of the United States is a great man. You know I support him day in and day out”, he said. The old saying, “with friends like that …” applies here.
Maybe Bannon and Moore can spend some time together for the rest of the year and give us a break.

Hypocrisy 2018

For months, in fact even before the administrations tax plan was released, the Democrats attacked it as a plan for the wealthy. You remember that rhetoric was a constant drum beat from the left and MSM.
We kept asking how that can be, if they are losing the most with the SALT deduction. They are losing the high mortgage deduction.  You remember, but the left kept saying it.
Well yesterday Governor Cuomo of NY, a probable candiate for the Dem nomination in 2020, gave his state of the state speech. Here’s the opening line in today’s report on his speech:
“Gov. Cuomo in his State of the State Address Wednesday took on President Trump and Mayor de Blasio, proposed a work-around to the federal-tax overhaul that disproportionately affects wealthier New Yorkers ..”
WHAT? How does the MSM allow him to get away with that? After months of daily pounding that this would hurt the middle class and help the wealthy  you are worried about the wealthy leaving your state because the new taxes hurt them the most?

At another point he suggested reducing personal-income tax rates. Imagine that.
That is an impact we hoped would occur. Get the big tax states to stop taxing their citizens at such high rates, reduce spending and allow the working people to keep more of their earned income.
Let’s see what happens.

Trump’s “Bigger Button”

The tweet the President made in reaction to Kim Un Jong’s tweet about a button his desk, set off an unbelievable cry from the left and MSM. Hillary’s former PR person asked Twitter to take away the President’s account, because he was so dangerous. Why? Because he smacked back at Jong saying don’t threaten the U.S., we have more and better weapons.

For the record we found his tweet amusing, and did not think it put my life or yours in danger. We prefer a stronger approach to Jong than Bush and Obama took. After all what did their appeasement approach produce? It produced a nut job leader who doesn’t think the U.S. will do anything.
To the left and MSM, be afraid. But, be afraid of Kim Un Jong far more that your own President. Kim is the threat.

The Ratings

FRIDAY. Fox wins day and night. Win time slots 4-9. MSNBC wins 10 & 11.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.413 | CNN: 541 | MSNBC: 870 | HLN: 218
  • Primetime: FNC: 1.608 | CNN: 549 | MSNBC: 1.240 | HLN: 269
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.237		 Five:
1.851		 Baier:
1.869		 MacCallum:
1.514		 Carlson:
2.023		 Hannity:
1.429		 Ingraham:
1.367		 Bream:
989
CNN Tapper:
615		 Blitzer:
606		 Blitzer:
588		 Burnett:
604		 Special:
688		 80s:
522		 80s:
438		 80s:
451
MSNBC Live:
718		 MTPDaily:
900		 Melber:
973		 Matthews:
1.274		 Special:
1.005		 Maddow:
1.251		 O’Donnell:
1.463		 Wlms:
1.025
HLN Michaela:
42		 Special:
52		 Files:
124		 Files:
256		 Files:
313		 Files:
256		 Files:
239		 Files:
323

Total Viewers SATURDAY. A DOMINANT FOX NIGHT.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.143 | CNN: 541 |  MSNBC: 464 | HLN: 317
  • Prime time: FNC: 1.294 | CNN: 365 | MSNBC: 385 | HLN: 364
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC NwsHQ:
896		 NwsHQ:
935		 NwsHQ:
965		 Report:
1.068		 Watters:
1.373		 Pirro:
1.306		 Gutfeld:
1.203		 Watters:
829
CNN Nwsrm:
538		 Nwsrm:
582		 Nwsrm:
576		 Nwsrm:
603		 90s:
345		 90s:
380		 90s:
370		 90s:
341
MSNBC News:
556		 News:
508		 Hayes:
306		 Maddow:
405		 O’Donnell:
473		 Hedlnrs:
347		 Lockup:
335		 Lockup:
298
HLN Files:
304		 Files:
309		 Files:
294		 Files:
322		 Files:
378		 Files:
332		 Files:
382		 Files:
500

Total Viewers. SUNDAY, New Year’s Eve. CNN wins the night.

  • Total day: FNC: 1.326 | CNN: 1.063 | MSNBC: 448 | HLN: 288
  • Prime time: FNC: 1.693 | CNN: 1.704 | MSNBC: 440 | HLN: 314
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC NwsHQ:
809		 Five:
1.057		 NwsHQ:
1.006		 Report:
1.017		 AmerNYE:
1.315		 AmerNYE:
1.741		 AmerNYE:
2.023		 AmerNYE:
2.284
CNN Nwsrm:
537		 Bourdain:
588		 Nwsrm:
542		 Special:
674		 NYEve:
1.243		 NYEve:
1.754		 NYEve:
2.116		 NYEve:
3.024
MSNBC News:
458		 News:
482		 MTP:
499		 KasieDC:
519		 Special:
467		 AMJoy:
415		 AMJoy:
438		 Special:
312
HLN Files:
236		 Files:
233		 Files:
222		 Files:
259		 Files:
287		 Files:
334		 Files:
320		 Files:
319

Total Viewers MONDAY. New Years Day. Low viewership. Fox wins close. 

  • Total day: FNC: 1.098 | CNN: 564 | MSNBC: 568 | HLN: 259
  • Primetime: FNC: 714 | CNN: 510 | MSNBC: 653 | HLN: 259
4p: 5p: 6p: 7p: 8p: 9p: 10p: 11p:
FNC Cavuto:
1.035		 Five:
1.200		 Baier:
1.356		 Special:
1.019		 H.Levin:
723		 Hannity:
797		 Special:
624		 Bream:
781
CNN The 70s:
579		 The 80s:
565		 Cont.:
—		 The 90s:
574		 Cont.:
—		 The 80s:
473		 Cont.:
—		 The 70s:
455
MSNBC Yrs10Most:
488		 MTP:
536		 Melber:
548		 Matthews:
819		 Hayes:
518		 Movie:
720		 Cont.:
—		 Movie:
462
HLN KillingMe:
185		 KillingMe:
188		 KillingMe:
203		 Special:
189		 Files:
201		 Files:
267		 Files:
310		 Files:
389

The Week of December 25.
Bowl games drove ESPN to first. 

Basic Cable Top 5 – Prime Time (Total Viewers)

  1. ESPN (6,439,000)
  2. Hallmark Channel (2,208,000)
  3. Fox News (1,589,000)
  4. USA (1,481,000)
  5. TNT (1,342,000)

Basic Cable Top 5 – Total Day (Total Viewers)

  1. ESPN (2,340,000)
  2. Hallmark Channel (1,275,000)
  3. Fox News (1,191,000)
  4. Nickelodeon (958,000)
  5. Discovery (896,000)

It was a relatively quiet week for cable news ratings-wise. While Fox News earned its usual Top 5 spot in total viewers, MSNBC fell to No. 9 in prime time and No. 10 in total day, while CNN fell to No. 18 in prime time and No. 14 in total day.

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