Q: What Does A Stealth Liberal Need, To Succeed?
By Mitch Berg
A: A conservative lead-in.
Anderson Cooper – famous for impeccable silver-gray executive hair and his ability to throw politically-correct tirades on cue, and who is most famous for chuckling “it’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging” about a story about the Tea Parties – is getting clobbered in the ratings (empasis added):
The respected [sic] CNN anchor has seen his numbers slip significantly through the past year. His 10 p.m. show, “Anderson Cooper 360,” has declined 62% in total viewers and 70% in adults 25-54 from November 2008, according to Nielsen figures.
Last month, in Cooper’s time slot, Fox News’ “On the Record” attracted an average viewership of 1.9 million while “360” averaged 672,000; repeats of MSNBC’s “Countdown” and HLN’s Nancy Grace show averaged 655,000 and 458,000, respectively.
But in the ad-friendly 25-54 demo, those same repeats won out over Cooper with 224,000 (MSNBC) and 214,000 (HLN).
Wow. That’s a pretty precipitous dropoff. What on earth could have caused it?
Cooper — who became an overnight sensation during his Hurricane Katrina coverage — surely deserves better ratings
[Oh, really? Do tell – Ed.].
From the start of 2009, he began losing a huge chunk of his nightly audience.
So what happened? Let’s see: There’s no presidential election to ramp up ratings
[What? Fox’s competing show has a Presidential race to cover? Please elaborate – Ed.];
there’s heavy competition from centrist [sic] CNN’s noisier rivals (see: Fox News, the No. 1 cable news channel); there’s people catching up on DVR-ed TV shows in the late evening; then there’s the loss of Lou Dobbs in the 7 p.m. anchor chair, among other possible factors.
There’s that.
And the whole “incurring the wrath of everyone to the right of Arne Carlson with his moronic “tea-bagging” crack”.
But yeah. Dobbs.
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:37 am
You should really just come to terms with what you’re actually accomplishing, Mitch. Let Angryclown diagram it for you:
Spittle-soaked right-wing demonstrations hyped by FAUX News = licking some dude’s Harry Balzac.
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:03 am
Doesn’t Cooper travel with a Latino masseuse or personal assistant or whatever? More liberal projection.
December 3rd, 2009 at 8:16 am
Perhaps you will learn the truth from Angryclown’s poem titled “Anderson Cooper.”
Anderson Cooper
by Angryclown
Anderson Cooper
Likes it in the pooper.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:00 am
Jon Stewart moving to CNN?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wt0ZaXu_CA
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:55 am
I just can’t figure this Cooper thing out, AC. Is he insulting the tea partiers by saying that they are like him? Or is this some top v bottom insult? That wouldn’t fit in with the cooper-pooper line, but I still like the poem.
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:19 am
I remember Anderson Cooper when he hosted the short-lived reality TV show “The Mole.” The show had lots of twists and was riddled with deception. No wonder he was so good on it.
Did anyone else notice that Angryclown has the same initials as Anderson Cooper? Makes me wonder.
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:49 am
Angry Clown
Does it with a frown
Like that, Golfdoc?
December 3rd, 2009 at 11:51 am
Perhaps the network will try and “restructure” Coop’s show… maybe start with retitling it “The Misadventures of Anderson Cooper”, move the location to Atlanta, Georgia, and have him reassigned to the state’s special jackassary unit.
December 3rd, 2009 at 12:16 pm
“Anderson Cooper
Likes it in the pooper.”
The slogan banner on AssClown & Son business cards.
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
And the whole “incurring the wrath of everyone to the right of Arne Carlson with his moronic “tea-bagging” crack”.
Doubtful, since the teabaggers haven’t yet mastered the remotes for their talkin’-pickchur-boxes. It would help if they stopped pointing it at their microwaves. BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!!!
December 3rd, 2009 at 1:46 pm
I have to wonder if old Tim in Stp will be one of the tea party protesters as soon as a Republican steps into the presidential office. I wonder if unsustainable spending will suddenly become a real concern.
December 3rd, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Har har har! Tea-baggers no know how to use mysterious boob-tube control-without-strings. It’s like you folks never learned when the “Bush stoopid” material didn’t work for you twice.
Go get your shinebox.