Randi Rhodes says there have been 5 million hits to Hardball's

[CatWoman]

website since last night.

I guess some people are interested in the truth.

Ole Tweets did good :D

[havocmom]

1. Missed it last night. What happened?

Hope the hits on the site are folks who want truth rather than a denial of service aimed attack by the freepers.

[RobertSeattle]

4. RNC took a 10 second clip out of a 11 minute inteview

and it makes it look like Kerry is saying something he doesn't intend because they cut out the full question and the full answer. Typical cheap shot by the "honor and dignity" RNC.

Just got this from the Hardball email:
If you missed last night's Dowd/Devine smackdown folks it was a humdinger! We lit the place on fire! But have no fear, we posted the whole video of the segment on our blog late last night...Chris was all fired up yesterday when he heard that the RNC was running a web video using a clip from Hardball which he thought was taken out of context...President Bush made an oblique reference to the same clip on Saturday while campaigning in Sioux City, Iowa...We pulled the Bush bite, the original Kerry/Matthews bite, the RNC web video and threw in BC04 Sr. Strategist Matthew Dowd and Sr. Advisor to Kerry-Edwards, Tad Devine...What followed was pure Hardball magic...Watch the full 8 minute video here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5651884/?#040816b But be warned, this segment is extremely hot and I'd suggest you have a fan nearby...

[havocmom]

10. Thank you, RobertSeattle & CatWoman

This business of having to work cuts into my rabble rousing and I get annoyed when I miss the good stuff!

[DU9598]

13. Thanks

That is fun!

[LifeDuringWartime]

16. "MSN Video does not support your operating system"

microsoft can lick my balls

[Selwynn]

21. FUCK MSN(bc) - won't play movie on non-ie browser

Macromedia flash and embedded windows media player works JUST FINE with mozilla, but when I come to the MSNBC site, now they wont' let me play unless I play with their toys.

[ClassWarrior]

24. CALLING WONK!!

Wonk, could you please make this video viewable for all of us not under the spell of the Evil Gates Empire??...

Thanks in advance.

[Warpy]

18. Kee RIST, the first thing out of O'Neill's prissy mouth was a LIE

Kerry was aboard the Gridley from June to June, which is a YEAR. I think it was two days short of 365 days when it pulled into port in the US.

I sincerely hope there is a libel action against this pack of scumbuckets.

[CatWoman]

7. ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x757057

[faithnotgreed]

2. right on! let the guy know he is appreciated/ he IS doing good of late...

[gasperc]

3. Franken spent a bunch of time on it

I just read the transcript. I wonder who the blogger was that brought this to Chris's attention because I doubt he checked his own archives.

[buycitgo]

5. five million?

how can that be?

I hope it's true, cause that show was the best one he's ever done, even though he kept saying that Kerry's vote was a BLANK CHECK to go to war, despite ALL evidence to the contrary. Chris in his all-seeing, omniscient, Kerry-mindreading mode

he's such a jerk, even when he's not trying to be one

she's describing the tweety/dowd contretemps right now

[Atman]

15. A "Hit" is NOT a "visitor"

This is a very misleading stat! If a page has 50 graphic images on it, each time someone views that page, it counts as 50 "hits." A hit is merely a call to the server for a specific bit of information. The real number to be concerned with is "visitors" or "unique visitors." Hits sound very dramatic, and are often misused, often out of ignorance but just as often maliciously. Any way you slice it, though, 5 million hits is a lot of action.

[kentuck]

6. About 5 times as many on the Internet as on cable TV ??

That's an interesting stat.

[buycitgo]

8. he doesn't get a million on TV, I'll bet

but you're right; that was my thought, as well

[kentuck]

17. I was being generous...

probably closer to 1/2 million..?

[pinto]

9. from Hardball's daily email:

Hardball airs tonight on MSNBC at 7p, 11p & 4a ET & 4p, 8p & 1a PT Find MSNBC on your TV http://www.msnbc.com/CableOperator.asp MSNBC also is on your XM satellite radio on channel 130

If you missed last night's Dowd/Devine smackdown folks it was a humdinger! We lit the place on fire! But have no fear, we posted the whole video of the segment on our blog late last night...Chris was all fired up yesterday when he heard that the RNC was running a web video using a clip from Hardball which he thought was taken out of context...President Bush made an oblique reference to the same clip on Saturday while campaigning in Sioux City, Iowa...We pulled the Bush bite, the original Kerry/Matthews bite, the RNC web video and threw in BC04 Sr. Strategist Matthew Dowd and Sr. Advisor to Kerry-Edwards, Tad Devine...What followed was pure Hardball magic...Watch the full 8 minute video here http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5651884/?#040816b But be warned, this segment is extremely hot and I'd suggest you have a fan nearby...

We'll follow this up hard tonight with Dem strategist Steve McMahon, GOP strategist Rick Davis, Time magazine's Jay Carney and some other folks.

We'll also talk to Stormin' Norman Schwarzkopf about Iraq, President Bush's new troop deployment plan announced yesterday (which would essentially concentrate our military in the Middle East) and the war on terror generally....

Definitely a break out the TV tray & pop the popcorn kind of night my friends...And if you've got Tivo, set it!

Chris hosts the show tonight from Los Angeles...

Did I mention we have the segment posted on our blog from last night??

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/

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[buycitgo]

11. time to pat tweety on head, and HARD...ball?

keep it up, chris!

he won't, though.

look for some real Kerry bashing tonight

ratings from May 14

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 1.2
CNN LARRY KING 1.1
FOXNEWS HANNITY/COLMES 0.9
FOXNEWS GRETA 0.9
FOXNEWS SHEP SMITH 0.9
FOXNEWS BRIT HUME 0.8
CNN AARON BROWN 0.8
CNN PAULA ZAHN 0.7
MSNBC HARDBALL 0.4
MSNBC OLBERMANN 0.4
MSNBC NORVILLE 0.2
CNBC DENNIS MILLER 0.1

I don't know how ratings points translate into ratings, but a site I just checked said that, as of late July, Fox's ratings were UP thirteen percent, and MSNBC's down nine

[rocktivity]

22. "We'll follow this up hard tonight

with Dem strategist Steve McMahon, GOP strategist Rick Davis, Time magazine's Jay Carney..."

And if McMahon isn't on his game, I say we follow HIM up hard with five million hits Kerry web site!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Nightjock]

12. That was refeshing!

If we had a real media it would be like that every night and Bush could not sweep everything under the rug.

[UdoKier]

14. I watched the video - that's the best they can do?

If anything, the video makes him seem consistently hawkish to me. The reasons for the votes on the IWR and the $87 bil have been explained, and anybody who doesn't understand those reasons by now iwll not be affected by this ad.

Remarkably ineffective, considering how desparately they pieced together little snippets of out-of-context interviews.

I hope everybody does watch this. Maybe it will make them curious to find out what Kerry was talking about when they cut him off.

[ObaMania]

19. Make that 5 million and 1!

.. let's see if Tweety mentions it tonite!

[nolabels]

20. Randi Rhodes has FIRE coming from her throat

Most times I can turn the radio on low and catch a midday nap (us old guys, ya know)her commentary on that fraud posing as a potus woke me from my slumber. The kind of reasoning she comes in with is really stirring, She is a very valuable asset for the cause :thumbsup:

[CatWoman]

23. She had one of Kerry's daughters on earlier

and Teresa will be on later in the show.