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Preview For This Week's Top 10 Conservative Idiots
Last edited Mon Feb 5, 2018, 03:16 PM - Edit history (3)
So we know that President Trump’s claim Thursday morning on Twitter was inaccurate. “45.6 million people watched,” he wrote, “the highest number in history.” It isn’t the highest number in general (there is no highest number), and it isn’t the highest number for a presidential speech (the biggest in the last few decades was from Bill Clinton’s 1993 speech to a joint session of Congress), and it isn’t the highest number for a State of the Union address (Barack Obama’s viewership in 2010 was bigger).
State of the Union addresses — and other presidential addresses to joint sessions of Congress, like Trump’s last year — are fairly popular, by current standards. The viewership generally lands somewhere around where the Oscars are, a good bit above the Grammys. (Especially this year, when Grammy viewership sagged back down to where it had been in the mid-aughts.) It’s not at Super Bowl levels of interest, but, then, few things are.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/01/trumps-speech-ratings-were-even-worse-than-you-might-have-thought/?utm_term=.edd905c2fe48
State of the Union addresses — and other presidential addresses to joint sessions of Congress, like Trump’s last year — are fairly popular, by current standards. The viewership generally lands somewhere around where the Oscars are, a good bit above the Grammys. (Especially this year, when Grammy viewership sagged back down to where it had been in the mid-aughts.) It’s not at Super Bowl levels of interest, but, then, few things are.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/01/trumps-speech-ratings-were-even-worse-than-you-might-have-thought/?utm_term=.edd905c2fe48
*Trump voice* Terrible ratings! Sad!
*audience laughs and applauds*
This week on the Top 10 - we'll talk about the reaction to the reaction to the State Of The Union and Paul Ryan's epic fail, disclose our ties to Russia, release our own memo, tell you about the epic fail that ensues when the Alt Right actually gets questioned, and we'll introduce you to an actual Illinois Nazi. Plus we'll debut our new segment: Top 10 Investigates, where we'll go undercover in an Alt Right Fight Club and talk about white supremacy coming soon to your local college campus. Plus in our weekly sermon of all things holy, "Holy Shit", we'll tell you about how Pat Robertson almost met God, and other ways the Christian right is still defending Trump. And in "I Need A Drink" we'll discuss the sensitive topic of emotional support animals. All this plus the next installment of our Shithole World Tour as we visit the central American nation of El Salvador! Plus we're celebrating Black History Month and we'll top off this week's edition with a live performance from The Roots!
Top 10 Conservative Idiots: Wednesdays at 2:00 PM /shameless self promotion
