Insurrection hearings

Happened again said:
about 20M people tuned in...an absolute yawn. I suppose at the end of the day, you can't simply say that JAN 6 was a bad day - you have to pretend that the republic itself was on the brink of extinction - Tanks at the steps of the capitol building and helicopters flying over head waiting to carry off the VP once his dr. evil duties had concluded. On top of that, ours (yours) tax payer dollars are being expended on a Reality TV show grade production. Since when do lawmakers use teleprompters in committee. You can't make this up. Hopefully congress coordinated with the NBA to deconflict their schedules..
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It was the top 3 shows on TV last night for two hours, easily outpacing Fox's denial show. For a part of Fox's show, they had a denier (Hannity I think) speaking and interviewing in one portion of the screen with a muted block in another portion of the screen following along with the hearing broadcast. When the hearing broadcast switched to recorded footage of the rioters breaking into the Capitol, Fox switched that block to a passive view of the hearing room.
 
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espola said:
about 20M people tuned in...an absolute yawn. I suppose at the end of the day, you can't simply say that JAN 6 was a bad day - you have to pretend that the republic itself was on the brink of extinction - Tanks at the steps of the capitol building and helicopters flying over head waiting to carry off the VP once his dr. evil duties had concluded. On top of that, ours (yours) tax payer dollars are being expended on a Reality TV show grade production. Since when do lawmakers use teleprompters in committee. You can't make this up. Hopefully congress coordinated with the NBA to deconflict their schedules..
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It was the top 3 shows on TV last night for two hours, easily outpacing Fox's denial show. For a part of Fox's show, they had a denier (Hannity I think) speaking and interviewing in one portion of the screen with a muted block in another portion of the screen following along with the hearing broadcast. When the hearing broadcast switched to recorded footage of the rioters breaking into the Cap[itol, Fox switched that block to a passive view of the hearing room.
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Seems all this insurrection talk has the local trumpist in here all a buzz. Lol! Maybe I’ll watch it sometime. Will they have live interviews?
 
Desert Hound said:
And understanding the concept of a predetermined outcome.

Ds thinking....went something like this.
- need to get T
- lets do a hearing
- we cannot have anyone actually question what we are doing right?
- yep
-so lets make sure we disallow anyone the Rs want to put on the committee
-wont that seem overly partisan?
-hmmm your right. Lets pick 2 Rs that hate T and will fit in will with the Ds
-oh...and lets hire a TV producer to make sure this all looks good.
- what if some of us forget stuff?
- no worries we have telepromters for you all to read from.

And the above in a nutshell is how the dog and pony show was set up.

There are a few problems though.
- most don't care
- most realize it is purely political
- almost everyone is very concerned about the economy, inflation, crime. You know...important things the the Ds and the Prez have completely blown.

But for the diehards...they cannot wait to get spoonfed their propaganda. Espola and Husker were sure the first impeachment would work. Then even more convinced the 2nd attempt would work. They dont learn...and so now are banking on this.
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Now you are just making stuff up.

Oops, my bad. I said "now".
 
espola said:
It was the top 3 shows on TV last night for two hours, easily outpacing Fox's denial show. For a part of Fox's show, they had a denier (Hannity I think) speaking and interviewing in one portion of the screen with a muted block in another portion of the screen following along with the hearing broadcast. When the hearing broadcast switched to recorded footage of the rioters breaking into the Capitol, Fox switched that block to a passive view of the hearing room.
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I understand 38 million watched Uncle Joe's State of the Union speech...
 
I want to know if Ivanka is going to fire (or maybe sue) the person responsible for the cadaverous makeup she wore in her testimony. At first, I didn't recognize her, and then my next thought was "Is she sick? In shock?".
 
espola said:
It was the top 3 shows on TV last night for two hours, easily outpacing Fox's denial show. For a part of Fox's show, they had a denier (Hannity I think) speaking and interviewing in one portion of the screen with a muted block in another portion of the screen following along with the hearing broadcast. When the hearing broadcast switched to recorded footage of the rioters breaking into the Capitol, Fox switched that block to a passive view of the hearing room.
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nice spin...20M across that many channels. On a typical night CBS,NBC, ABC average 18-20M. the hearings, broadcast on primetime on a thursday night took in 11M viewes. The smart business move for the networks would be to take a hard pass on broadcasting the next charade.

Not airing on Fox certainly helped MSNBC and CNN. Fox people had to secretly watch the hearings somewhere.

End of the day, the hearings were a bust - average american doesn't care, unless soemone was going to talk about gas prices and responsible gun laws.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Do you now, first time for everything.
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You just can't help yourself,
You just have to attempt to add something to a conversation and continually fail miserably.
Just do your job, be quiet until Magoo posts some nonsense and put a like sign on his post, now shut the hell up.
 
Lion Eyes said:
You just can't help yourself,
You just have to attempt to add something to a conversation and continually fail miserably.
Just do your job, be quiet until Magoo posts some nonsense and put a like sign on his post, now shut the hell up.
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Poor thing you are still hurt after all these years.
 
Happened again said:
nice spin...20M across that many channels. On a typical night CBS,NBC, ABC average 18-20M. the hearings, broadcast on primetime on a thursday night took in 11M viewes. The smart business move for the networks would be to take a hard pass on broadcasting the next charade.

Not airing on Fox certainly helped MSNBC and CNN. Fox people had to secretly watch the hearings somewhere.

End of the day, the hearings were a bust - average american doesn't care, unless soemone was going to talk about gas prices and responsible gun laws.
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They weren't running any commercials, so the size of the audience was irrelevant to their bottom line. Fox followed suit, apparently to keep any of their viewers from channel surfing during the ads, so we know it hurt them proportionally as badly.
 
espola said:
They weren't running any commercials, so the size of the audience was irrelevant to their bottom line. Fox followed suit, apparently to keep any of their viewers from channel surfing during the ads, so we know it hurt them proportionally as badly.
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Fox News is so far in front of CNN & MSLSD they can play the made for tv hearing on their business channel and bounce back to first with out skipping a beat...
 
Lion Eyes said:
Fox News is so far in front of CNN & MSLSD they can play the made for tv hearing on their business channel and bounce back to first with out skipping a beat...
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"Amongst cable news networks, MSNBC led the pack with 4.2 million total viewers, followed by CNN’s 2.6 million viewers. Fox News, which didn’t cover the hearing itself, averaged nearly 3 million viewers during the two-hour block. Fox Business (to which Fox News anchors’ actual news coverage was relegated) drew 223,000, while CNBC averaged 160K. "

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Thursday Ratings: Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Draws 19 Million Viewers

In the latest TV ratings, ABC led the primetime Thursday coverage of the House Select Committee on January 6th’s first public hearing. ABC’s two-hour coverage averaged 4.9 million total viewers, TVLine has learned. Of the other broadcast networks, NBC tallied 3.6 million viewers, while CBS drew...
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Pence's lawyer's advice --

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"Conclusion

If the Vice President implemented Professor Eastman's proposal, he would likely lose in court. In a best-case scenario in which the courts refused to get involved, the Vice President would likely find himself in an isolated standoff against both houses of Congress, as well as most or all of the applicable State legislatures, with no neutral arbiter available to break the impasse. "
 
espola said:
"Amongst cable news networks, MSNBC led the pack with 4.2 million total viewers, followed by CNN’s 2.6 million viewers. Fox News, which didn’t cover the hearing itself, averaged nearly 3 million viewers during the two-hour block. Fox Business (to which Fox News anchors’ actual news coverage was relegated) drew 223,000, while CNBC averaged 160K. "

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Thursday Ratings: Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Draws 19 Million Viewers

In the latest TV ratings, ABC led the primetime Thursday coverage of the House Select Committee on January 6th’s first public hearing. ABC’s two-hour coverage averaged 4.9 million total viewers, TVLine has learned. Of the other broadcast networks, NBC tallied 3.6 million viewers, while CBS drew...
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Yeah understood. Daily, nightly weekly, monthly, Fox News is so far in front of CNN & MSLSD they can play the made for tv hearing on their business channel and bounce back to first with out skipping a beat..
The other two networks shared the made for TV investigation...
Have either one or both networks (CNN, MSLSD) combined had more viewers than fox for longer than an evening?
 
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