Choosing to Ignore the March for Life, Again!

It looks like a good portion of main stream media chose to ignore the March for Life again! A big deal is made of college football player, Manti Te’o's imaginary girlfriend to the point that it is a major discussion on TV news programs for days. Katie Couric gets hive fives for nailing the first interview with Mr. Te’o. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands take part in the March for Life against abortion on Friday, Jan. 25th and Fox News is just about the only media outlet that gives the March any news coverage. I do not think C-Span even bothered to cover it.

I did not know anything about the March for Life until I started watching Fox News when my cable company starting airing the cable news station in 2001. Just think, the March for Life came into being in 1974 against the 1973 Roe vs Wade Supreme Court pro abortion decision! The march against abortion is more than equal to the Manti Te’o story. With the Obama administration being so pro-choice/death (baby killing), the media news folks should be presenting the dissenting position.

Cable News Ratings War: Fox News Still the Victor, Al Sharpton not so Hot and CNN’s Big Losses

In the cable news wars, all the cable news networks have lost viewers, but some way more than others. Despite viewer loses, Fox Cable News network is still the King over MSNBC and CNN combined. Al Sharpton gave MSNBC a glimmer of hope in the early days of his program, but he has lost some ground. His 6:00 P. M. cable news rival Bret Baier of Fox News, has almost 3 times the viewers. Poor CNN’s John King has less viewers than Mr. Sharpton. CNN’s HLN network’s  also has bad viewer ratings.

What is happening with CNN? As th0se in charge make more and more changes, the viewer ratings continue to decline. It now has lower viewer ratings than the low rated MSNBC. Bill O’Reilly remains the prime-time cable news king beating the mess out of Ed Schultz and Anderson Cooper. Go here to see what I am talking about.

This Week’s Cable News Ratings: Fox Still on Top

Lately when I listen for about 20 to 30 minutes of Al Sharpton’s radio show, I hear callers complementing him for his TV ratings for his MSNBC cable news program, Politics Nation. Mr. Sharpton is beating the competition, CNN and CNN’s sister station, HLN in the 6:00 P. M. (eastern) time slot. But all one has to do, is look at  all the numbers that represent viewers to see that it should still be pretty embarrassing for those at the non Fox News cable stations. Mr. Sharpton explains it away by saying that Fox News has a strong loyal right-wing base.

Well,  I do think it is true to say that people on the right are far more into news and politics oriented TV programming than people on the left.  MSNBC would love to have a strong left-wing loyal base, but that still has yet to happen. Fox News’s Bret Baier has more viewers by 5 points at the 6: P. M. time slot than CNN’s John King and MSNBC’s Al Sharpton combined. Go here to view the cable news ratings scoreboard for Wednesday, Dec. 21st. Also see The Scoreboard: Tuesday, December 20  and The Scoreboard: Monday, December 19.

Politichicking Ladies

Saturday Night Live alumnus, Victoria Jackson is very much the conservative and is now on an online TV program called PolitiChicks, which is somewhat like a conservative alternative to The View. Well The View is not 100% liberal/left. There is Elizabeth Hasselbeck who gets some conservative support in relation to family matters and support of the military sometimes from her otherwise liberal  buddy Sherri Shepherd.

PolitiChicks came on the scene just last month. Besides Victoria Jackson, the other fiercely conservative activists are Anne-Marie Murrell, Jannique Stewart and Jennie Jones. Read more about PolitiChicks here.

Get a taste of PolitiChicks

The Hasselbeck/Maher Confrontation

Bill Maher was on the View yesterday and Elisabeth Hasselbeck confronted him about him making women  in general (in the citation, it was Ms. Hasselbeck)  the butt of nasty jokes. His jokes and comments are quite vulgar in reference to Republican and conservative women. In his monologues on his HBO program, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” he called Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann vulgar names associated with female genitalia. Read more and view a video clip here.

Since Bill Maher was on a morning broadcast network TV program, he could not be his usual self. If he had the freedom he has on HBO, ABC would have had to cut the sound to keep viewers from hearing the foul language that would have flowed from his mouth. Real Time did its last show this past Friday before going on holiday hiatus. That is a good thing for Ms. Hasselbeck confronting Bill Maher, because if Real Time were on again this Friday, he would cut loose on her with the vulgarities something awful! Her husband would have to do something painful to him to her uphold her honor.