The pathetic Keith Olberman

Keith Olbermann, for those of you who never watch MSNBC (which would be
most of you,) is the host of the daily 'Countdown' show on MSNBC.
Olbermann is a leftist, ultra-liberal host. He's also in third place,
with barely anyone watching. Consider the most recent ratings, courtesy
of the Drudge Report:

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 2,264,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 349,000

Raab Himself...

Drudge Report ... now there's a reliable source.

Sean Walsh...

Considering his page is FULL of news links that lead to all sorts of
OTHER news websites, yeah I'd say he's kinda reliable...

Bailey Legull...

"Kinda"? See, reporting news isn't like reading tarot cards. An 80%
accuracy rate isn't impressive.

Sean Walsh...

He posts links that go to other webpages.

He's not reporting most of the news on his site - he just links to it.

And didn't he break the Monica story, which ended up being rather true?

Bailey Legull...

So what? Even stopped clocks are right twice a day.

I agree with Raab: find a better source for your ratings or you don't
have an argument here.

Sean Walsh...

Again, I was under the impression he got his numbers from Neilsen and
those official ratings tracker folks and that he just cuts and pastes
those #'s onto his page...

That's right....over 6 times as many people watch O'Reilly than watch
Olbermann. More people even watch Nancy Grace's show on Headline News.

chicagofan...

No wonder we're in the mess we're in! This is depressing... 2M people
actually listen to that robot?
bj

akjack...

You can bet a number of viewers watch to find something they can
disagree with. Olbermann gets a number of viewers who watch to see
him bad mouth O'Reilly.

Don't fret over either of them. What they say won't affect your life.

chicagofan...

I beg to differ; if many of the people who watch the Fox *News* Channel,
take what they hear there literally. I think that has been evidenced by the
voting in the past 2 presidential elections. :(
bj

akjack...

I take that as indication you didn't like the outcome of the last 2
presidential elections. It wasn't Fox News Channel that influenced
the results of those elections. The loser in both elections received
more votes than FNC has viewers. Life must be intolerable for you

tomcervo...

And in the first election cited, more votes than the winner.

wdstarr...

Non sequitur.

who hate Fox News Channel..

Slo...

So? Nine times as many people aren't as smart as those
in the top 10%.

It's pretty entertaining when Keith ridicules O'Reilly for his
petulance, egomania, and dishonesty.

So since Olbermann can't win in the ratings, he does what any low-rated
show does: make fun of the competition to try and get attention. Which
leads us to Saturday's breakfast at the Television Critics Association
press tour.

Olbermann, who is obsessed with Bill O'Reilly, shows up with an O'Reilly
mask. You know, one of those deals with O'Reilly's head on a stick. He
was holding it up over his face, and...no surprise here...raising his
hand in a Nazi salute. In case you hadn't picked up on this, it is the
natural fallback position of any liberal to accuse the conservative of
being a Nazi when they run out of ideas. That's how you know a leftist
has lost an argument: they call you a Nazi.

Unable to get viewers himself, Olbermann has now resorted to riding
O'Reilly's coattails. Olbermann says his show has to take more chances
to compete with Fox. The problem is, they can't compete. Nobody is
watching. His show and the entire channel, thus far, are a complete

Raab Himself...

I dunno .. this posting from you seems to say that at least you are
watching. It's interesting that a guy who you think is so inconsequential
has gotten you worked up so much that you'd write all this.

failure.

MSNBC has been on for 10 years and the ratings are still miserable.
Perhaps NBC will finally pull the plug on the whole operation and put on
another shopping channel or something. And then Keith Olbermann could
go back to doing sports, something he was actually good at.

microsoap...

Sour grapes coming from the fact that O'Reilly's numbers are going flat
while Olbermann's are rising.

Ubiquitous...

*snicker* Take a look at the ratings again. I lined the numbers up
so you wouldn't get confused about their values.

archang...

He was talking about the direction they're going in, not the raw
numbers. O'Reilly's total viewership is down a lot from last year;
Olbermann's is down a little as I read it.

BTW, Olbermann has about a third of his audience in the 25-54
demographic, or about 106K. O'Reilly has a fifth, or about 402K. I
suppose some younger viewers watch O'Reilly, but I bet most of the nearly
two million not in that demo are older. Which isn't necessarily a bad
thing, except in terms of value to advertisers. (Why doesn't Big Splotchy
have a broader appeal that more closely matches America at large,
anyways? You know, aside from being a fact-free bully.)