Bush Interview Earned Lowest Rating

[Cambist]

No wonder.

<http://us.cnn.com/2003/US/09/23/bush.media.reut/index.html>

[jbfam4]

1. Interesting take on this:

That is a sorry state of affairs," said Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University. "I think most people, when they heard that the interview was going to happen, just assumed they weren't going to hear anything new that they hadn't already heard."

Maybe people didn't want to hear anymore lies. Faux and Bush....give me a break!

Senator Bennett just said at the hearings that he doesn't believe CNN tells the truth.......he gets his truth from Faux. This coundty is really in trouble!

[Whoa_Nelly]

20. The Bush Interview

was probably slated to air when it did, in conflict with Monday Night Football, etc., because is was planned that way, and Rove probably had the last say in that. Rover knows his boy isn't doing too well in the polls and basically sucks on a global level. So, while it may have been expedient to be "up close and personal", and still throw in all the BS re: Iraq, funding, terrorism, etc., prior to going before the UN Security Council, it was also a good idea that not too many Americans actually tune in on an interviw that would show Georgie Porgie's true speaking abilities, as well as his personal poise and finesse: otherwise recognized as pure idiotic stupidity when it comes to real life dyadic intercourse.

JMHO O8)

[KoKo]

2. Even worse is that anyone who isn't between 18 and 49 wasn't polled!

Guess we can understand now why we have "Whore News." When you cut out a whole half of the country.......you have some problems.

[peterh]

3. I think out here on the left coast….

Sitting through a trashing of da Raiders was immensely more bearable than sitting through a very edited and contrived piece of bullshit.

[Hawkeye-X]

12. Oh sorry about that.

Well, we Broncos fan did enjoy the thrashing of the Raiders -- it was much needed. And with Jerry Porter out, the Raiders are pretty much out of it.

And the whole game -- I didn't even bother to watch Faux. The local rag said that the MNF game on Monday was the 2nd highest rating ever in our area for a football game. The other one being back in '99.

Hawkeye-X

[The Magistrate]

4. There Are A Lot Of Us

Who simply cannot endure the sound of that jackanapes' voice more than a second or two....

[FlashHarry]

6. That baseborn whoreson!

[Dhalgren]

14. I concur!

I tried to watch the trash, but simply could not endure it. I watched football and read some Vonnegut.

[gratuitous]

5. It's a poor musician who blames his instrument

It's a poor network that blames audience apathy for the low ratings of its Sunday evening crapfest.

[haymaker]

7. It took 15 seconds for all my bodily functions to revolt.

I was left there sitting in my own vomit and feces and urine and expectorant. It was horrrrrible, hoooorrrrriiiibbbblle.

[NeonLX]

9. That long?

My functions let go immediately upon hearing the monkey's voice or seeing its image flashed on a screen. Fortunately, I've never had to smell it (the monkey). Not sure what would happen then.

[lebkuchen]

8. Bush continues to imprison Americans through fear mongering

but since the US is closing in on the World Series and football season, those propaganda tactics don't "take" as they do in, say, the month of February, unless there's another terrorist attack to disrupt America's sports schedule.

[Not a robought]

10. A Gilligan's Island re-run was on

so why on earth would I want to watch an interview with chump?

[LynneSin]

18. was it the one with the Harlem Globetrotters

That truly is 'Can't Miss TV'

[bushisanidiot]

11. Could it be because

america hates the lying chimp??

[w4rma]

13. I didn't tune in because he had nothing to say that he hasn't already said

Plus, he speaks with a forked tounge so what he says isn't what he thinks.

[mojowork_n]

15. I tuned in for a minute and a half...

and once again, for the umpteenth million time, wondered what it was, exactly, that qualified such an abysmally inarticulate dumbass for high office...

[jbfam4]

16. His last name

[LynneSin]

17. Maybe they just didn't want to see Brit Hume on his knees...

sucking up to Bush.


:shrug:

[LynneSin]

19. WHOA!!! UPN AND WB both beat out Bush

I mean, Fox routinely beats out some of the Big Three networks, but for UPN and WB to beat them....that's pretty bad!!

The Bush interview trailed an episode of UPN's comedy "The Parkers" and the series premiere of the comedy "Eve," starring the singer of the same name. Those two shows together averaged about 4.49 million total viewers and around a 2.0/6 in the 18-49 group.

[chopper]

21. well, jeez...

i got stuck watching it because my GF wouldn't let me change the channel. at 3 seperate times i came very close to tossing a brick through the TV.

and of course, thanks to Chimpy McGee's economic 'plan', the only thing all of us can afford are bricks. christ.