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March 26, 2014

The Rise and Decline and Decline and Decline and Poop-Eating of MSNBC
— Ace

Eh, MSNBC chiefly exists to provide easy content to right-wing bloggers and Tommy Christopher.

Politico's Dylan Byers charts MSNBC's fall.

There are only so many ways to say MSNBC sucks. Let's try it in graph form.

Pictured (L to R): A black line, a red line, and a yellow line;
and another black line, another red line, and another yellow line

MSNBC suffered harder loses in 2013 -- in terms of both viewership and revenue -- than either of its competitors at Fox News and CNN, according to Nielsen data featured in a new Pew Research report. Primetime viewership declined by a staggering 24 percent (nearly twice the loss sustained by CNN and four-times that sustained by Fox News). Daytime viewership fell by 15 percent, even as it rose at both of the other networks.
On the revenue side, MSNBC was projected to decline by 2 percent, while both CNN and Fox News were projected to experience growth of 2 percent and 5 percent, respectively. MSNBC was expected to bring in $475 million in revenue: less than half what CNN will make and roughly one-quarter of what Fox News will make.

Politico's article is mostly taken from a Pew report on the State of the Media.

In bad news, network newscasts actually gained viewers, but at least NBC lost them:

In the evening, an average of 22.6 million viewers tuned into one of the three commercial broadcast news programs on ABC, CBS or NBC, a 2.3% increase over the average viewership for 2012, according to Pew Research analysis of Nielsen Media Research data. The ABC World News increased 2.2% to 7.7 million viewers on average and CBS Evening News increased 6.5% to 6.5 million viewers. NBC Nightly News, the ratings leader, was the only evening news program to decrease, dipping 0.7% to 8.4 million viewers on average.

Byers' blames MSNBC's woes on the relative decline of the only story the network cares about: Bush Bad, Obama Good (or perhaps, Obama God).

With Bush now out of office for over five years, and Obama's presidency looking like, at best, a "slog" (the media's term), and at worst, an unmitigated disaster (everyone else's term), they're trying to get by on Outrage Porn alone.

And Ronan Farrow. Who was a Rhodes Scholar, you know.

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1 Couldn't happen to a nice group of asshats.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 08:58 AM (bCEmE)

2 Ronan is gay, right?

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at March 26, 2014 08:58 AM (oDCMR)

3 niceR

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 08:58 AM (bCEmE)

4 MSNBC is in dire need of STAR POWER. I note here that Chelsea Clinton seems to be doing nothing currently.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (8ZskC)

5 I am sincerely regretful over what has happened to CNN. They are an incoherent, unwatchable mess.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (659DL)

6 FOX news has lost a greater number of viewers since 2009 than MSNBC and CNN combined!

Posted by: Breathless MSNBC Headline at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (HEo6y)

7 It's expensive to run a ~~vanity press~~ ~~propaganda machine~~ news network, isn't it?

Posted by: huerfano at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (bAGA/)

8 Ronan is gay, right? ---- Whether he's gay or not, he's definitely ghey.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (cFpBs)

9 Decline we must!

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (bCEmE)

10 MSNBC - The Assclown Network!

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (wtvvX)

11 I want you to get physically excited.

Posted by: Ronan Farrow at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (Aif/5)

12 Lonely at the bottom.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 08:59 AM (b1/nQ)

13 My favorite part: Pictured (L to R): A black line, a red line, and a yellow line; and another black line, another red line, and another yellow line

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 09:00 AM (A98Xu)

14 If it's MSNBC, shouldn't all those lines be white???

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 26, 2014 09:00 AM (wtvvX)

15 Does it really matter? Isn't MSNBC being carried along as a "loss leader" by Comcast? After all, they don't have Doctor's offices and Airport lounges with captive audiences to support them like CNN.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 26, 2014 09:00 AM (T2V/1)

16 How about a nightly segment where a hand dressed up with eyes and lipstick delivers funny a comments about George W in an outrageous Mexican accent?

Just spitballin' here...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 26, 2014 09:00 AM (8ZskC)

17 My second favorite part: With Bush now out of office for over five years, and Obama's presidency looking like, at best, a "slog" (the media's term), and at worst, an unmitigated disaster (everyone else's term), hahaha

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 09:01 AM (A98Xu)

18 And Ronan Farrow. Who was a Rhodes Scholar, you know.

And may or may not have been Sinatra's offspring. Depends on the day, I guess.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 09:01 AM (RD7QR)

19 Clown car TV wears out its welcome quickly.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 09:01 AM (LP0Fj)

20 How are CNN's revenues so much higher with same amount of viewers.

Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 09:02 AM (pb5C2)

21 Clown nose off

Posted by: Jon Stewart at March 26, 2014 09:02 AM (kFxpe)

22 Hello, you bunch of Rubes!

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 26, 2014 09:02 AM (gOoFi)

23 Juggling acts seem to be popular.

Posted by: The Suits at a Suit Meeting at MSNBC at March 26, 2014 09:03 AM (8ZskC)

24 19 Clown car TV wears out its welcome quickly.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her Sanity Prod (tm) at March 26, 2014 01:01 PM (LP0Fj)

Particularly when one of the clowns is Rachel Madcow.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 09:03 AM (RD7QR)

25 Vic answered my question. Airports, of course

Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 09:03 AM (pb5C2)

26 With Bush now out of office for over five years, and Obama's presidency looking like, at best, a "slog" (the media's term), and at worst, an unmitigated disaster (everyone else's term),

hahaha

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 01:01 PM (A98Xu)

-----

So.... who all is attending Aces induction into the Sarcastiball Hall of Fame?

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 09:03 AM (nELVU)

27 How are CNN's revenues so much higher with same amount of viewers.
Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 01:02 PM (pb5C2)

CNN International, relatively fixed per cable subscriber fees

Posted by: Jon Stewart at March 26, 2014 09:03 AM (kFxpe)

28 I'm amazed that the networks still have that kind of viewership. I don't think I've watched a network newscast since the first Gulf War, when Dan Rather would be saying "there are unconfirmed reports of..." something I had seen happen live on CNN a few hours earlier.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at March 26, 2014 09:03 AM (JtwS4)

29 From the charts it's a wonder MSNBC can pay the salaries of their staff.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 26, 2014 09:04 AM (9eDbm)

30 Maybe the entire cast could wear tampon earrings for a day. We could call it, like, Tampon Earring Day, A Special Television Event.

Posted by: The Suits at a Suit Meeting at MSNBC at March 26, 2014 09:04 AM (8ZskC)

31 MSNBC is still a profit-center. It's easy and cheap to produce content. Big difference, revenue-wise, between FoxNews and MSNBC is the subscriber fees that Fox commands. Much higher. MSNBC is, I believe, set to renegotiate some of their deals fairly soon. We'll see if they can demand higher fees or not. Subscriber fees (passed on through cable/satcasters) and ad revenue are the big sources of revenue. Ad revenue is why Fox fired Beck, the Left's advertiser boycott actually worked in that Fox decided that firing Beck would lower ratings but they could charge more and get advertiser's with deeper pockets. Firing Beck clearly didn't hurt Fox's bottom line.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:04 AM (ZPrif)

32 Ronan? That is Frank's boy. No doubt in my mind.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 26, 2014 09:04 AM (gOoFi)

33 They're not in it for the money.

Posted by: toby928© at March 26, 2014 09:04 AM (QupBk)

34 I can't believe this Doe Eyed Dope is my kid. That dame turned him into a Fag.

Posted by: Zombie Frank Sinatra at March 26, 2014 09:04 AM (32Ze2)

35

Poop-eating - That's so hot

Posted by: Martin Bashir at March 26, 2014 09:04 AM (kFxpe)

36 What if Rachel Maddow showed her tits? Ugh. Nevermind.

Posted by: The Suits at a Suit Meeting at MSNBC at March 26, 2014 09:04 AM (8ZskC)

37 It might be time for on-air goatse.

Posted by: Rachel Madcow at March 26, 2014 09:05 AM (JQuNB)

38 Is a Rhodes scholar someone who has studied Zimbabwe?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 26, 2014 09:05 AM (/0PJL)

39 18 I vote not. Yes, they look alike. But part of the creep factor in Sinatra's marriage to Mia Farrow was the fact that her dad looked a lot like him (aside from their being close in age), wasn't it? So he looks like his maternal grandfather. Not that I blame him for wanting to distance himself from the Inappropriate Woody.

Posted by: Jenny Hates Her Phone at March 26, 2014 09:05 AM (cFpBs)

40 MSNBC exists to:
* Push the White House talking points. Hard.
* Flood the zone with negative stories about Republicans, Tea Party, Christians, etc. as if they were A Big Deal.

I assume they can go on forever thanks to cable channel bundling, ratings be damned.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 09:05 AM (udjuE)

41 How much loss does it take to utterly fail and get shut

Posted by: Gmac at March 26, 2014 09:06 AM (4pjhs)

"Ronan is gay, right?"

He sure doesn't kiss like he's gay....

Posted by: Christh Haythes at March 26, 2014 09:06 AM (DErq5)

43 Bumper sticker for my car:

"SAVE MSNBC ELECT CRUZ 2016"

Posted by: H Badger at March 26, 2014 09:06 AM (n/0Nw)

MSNBC was projected to decline by 2 percent (in revenue).

A lot of smaller businesses wish their revenue decline was 2%. They are holding on by their fingernails and using their capital to staty in business. Because of policies pushed by MSNBC and their socialist buddies in this mis-administration.

Posted by: rd at March 26, 2014 09:06 AM (D+lxs)

45 Firing Beck clearly didn't hurt Fox's bottom line.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 01:04 PM (ZPrif)

I think it was good for Beck's bottom line as well...

Posted by: Country Singer at March 26, 2014 09:06 AM (rIAHP)

46 I think there's clearly room on the right for a competitor to FoxNews. But Comcast, who owns MSNBC, and the others keep refusing to carry BlazeTV. I think it's an abuse of their monopoly power. BlazeTV is doing well without Comcast and the big boys, but it's crazy that Comcast gives me Al-Jazeera and a thousand other channels but simply refuses to carry BlazeTV.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:07 AM (ZPrif)

47 When you suck, you suck.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 26, 2014 09:07 AM (dvRYt)

48 And MSNBC can't be written off as just some crank cable channel since there's a lot of intermingling between MSNBC hooey and the NBC News division.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 09:07 AM (udjuE)

49 Yet CNN is still below them in viewers? That's not hard to believe, I flip to CNN and it's pretty brutal.

When I flip from CNN to the CBC for better coverage, that's saying something.

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 26, 2014 09:07 AM (AC0lD)

50 Frank Sinatra on the top side.
Whelped by a Farrow.
Grew up in Woody Allen's house.
Current MSNBC (right?) "talent".
Next: sex change operation, godhood.

Posted by: On my way to El Paso for a few brewskis at March 26, 2014 09:07 AM (1/4XQ)

51 What if Ed Schultz showed his tits? It would be edgy.

Posted by: The Suits at a Suit Meeting at MSNBC at March 26, 2014 09:07 AM (8ZskC)

52 Anyone know: Is Fox News still banned in Canada?

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 26, 2014 09:07 AM (8MjqI)

53 Hey guys--just cry and scream "THROAT-CUT BABIES!"

Posted by: Shemp Smith, Not Gay at March 26, 2014 09:07 AM (JQuNB)

54 Shaka, when the ratings fell.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 26, 2014 09:07 AM (V4CBV)

55 If MSNBC doesn't pay the leftist blogs royalties for providing them with 85% of their content, they should.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 26, 2014 09:08 AM (SY2Kh)

56 As recently as 2003 I was a semi-regular watcher of MSNBC. In a sense, that graph on the right is the story of my life.

Posted by: Beagle at March 26, 2014 09:08 AM (sOtz/)

57 I haven't watched CNN since the first Gulf War sitting in my fraternity house...Oh yes, and the airport. Can't f'n run from it there.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 09:08 AM (kAniV)

58 I was always told there would be no math on this blog.
Those numbers don't add up.

22 mil out of 320 mil pop, down from what?

How many people watched Walter Cronkite every night? OH, now I remember, there wasn't anything else.

Posted by: Guy Smith at March 26, 2014 09:08 AM (225IM)

59 The folks at the DNC are going to make-whole Comcast for the lack of profitability at MSNBC by giving Comcast a cable-monopoly by approving the TWC acquisition.

Posted by: phreshone at March 26, 2014 09:08 AM (kFxpe)

60 Even though Fox News dominates in their category, I feel like cable news is where people go that have already largely made up their mind about politics.

The network news is where the Left really has a huge advantage, the low info voters go there to be "educated".

Can you imagine the sea change in public opinion that would result if say one of the Networks (ABC,NBC or CBS) decided to follow the Fox News model and ever so slightly tilt to the right?

Posted by: McAdams at March 26, 2014 09:09 AM (IkH8H)

61 All this talk of bottoms and sucking is tickling my privates

Posted by: Ronan the News Reader at March 26, 2014 09:09 AM (32Ze2)

62 Is Fox News still banned in Canada?

Nope, it's available.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 26, 2014 09:09 AM (fOLwM)

63 Revenue isn't the important thing - profit or loss is. And the story doesn't say anything about that.

Posted by: BPSCG at March 26, 2014 09:09 AM (YO6qw)

64 BlazeTV is doing well without Comcast and the big boys, but it's crazy that Comcast gives me Al-Jazeera and a thousand other channels but simply refuses to carry BlazeTV. I believe that Al-Jazeera pays Comcast to carry them.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 26, 2014 09:09 AM (SY2Kh)

65 50 Frank Sinatra on the top side.
Whelped by a Farrow.
Grew up in Woody Allen's house.
Current MSNBC (right?) "talent".
Next: sex change operation, godhood., coke addiction.

Posted by: On my way to El Paso for a few brewskis at March 26, 2014 01:07 PM (1/4XQ)

FIFY

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 09:09 AM (RD7QR)

66 MSNBC is in dire need of STAR POWER. I note here that Chelsea Clinton seems to be doing nothing currently. Posted by: Cicero --------------------- (ahem)

Posted by: Amy Carter at March 26, 2014 09:09 AM (aDwsi)

67 Posted by: The Suits at a Suit Meeting at MSNBC at March 26, 2014 01:04 PM (8ZskC) I laughed but the tampon deal is an example of why no one outside of Womens' Study groups watch this train wreck.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 09:09 AM (A98Xu)

68 53 Hey guys--just cry and scream "THROAT-CUT BABIES!"

Posted by: Shemp Smith, Not Gay at March 26, 2014 01:07 PM (JQuNB)

Mmmmm....say that again, but slower.

Posted by: Kermit Gosnell at March 26, 2014 09:10 AM (DrWcr)

69 Pictured (L to R): A black line, a red line, and a yellow line; and another black line, another red line, and another yellow line *strokes chin thoughtfully* I think I see where you're going with this.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 09:10 AM (mf5HN)

70 Say what you will about us, but we don't require any of our on-air female personalities to chew on a reindeer's nuts.

Posted by: The Suits at a Suit Meeting at MSNBC at March 26, 2014 09:10 AM (8ZskC)

71 I haven't watched CNN since the first Gulf War sitting in my fraternity house...Oh yes, and the airport. Can't f'n run from it there.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 01:08 PM (kAniV)

Heh. I was in my dorm watching. We were drunk and cheering when the bombing started. I actually liked Wolf Blitzer for a few weeks.

Posted by: Country Singer at March 26, 2014 09:10 AM (rIAHP)

72 I note here that Chelsea Clinton seems to be doing nothing currently. You say that like she ever did something.

Posted by: blaster at March 26, 2014 09:10 AM (5Dx9L)

73 Recovery Summer VI could be the smash reality hit of the season for MSDNC.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2014 09:10 AM (FcR7P)

74 "I assume they can go on forever thanks to cable channel bundling, ratings be damned."

The establishment GOP have repeatedly shot down every legislative proposal for a la carte cable channels, where you would have the opportunity to pick what you want to have piped in, and pay for only that.

Almost as though the establishment GOP don't believe their own rhetoric about consumer choice. And almost as though there were a political/media status quo with which they were privately pretty happy.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 09:10 AM (noWW6)

75 52 Anyone know: Is Fox News still banned in Canada?

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 26, 2014 01:07 PM (8MjqI)

It comes bundled with the gay channel on our television bundle, because well, the two are such a natural fit....

Posted by: Stateless Infidel at March 26, 2014 09:10 AM (AC0lD)

76 Viewership is down put revenue is up?
So fewer people are paying more to see less?

The trend is your friend.
So eventually no one will watch and the cable networks will have infinite revenue?

That can't go on like that.

Posted by: Smith's Accountant at March 26, 2014 09:11 AM (225IM)

77 I'm available, damnit! Why can't you see what is right in front of you?

Posted by: Olbie at March 26, 2014 09:11 AM (aDwsi)

78 Now, Ronan don't have the God-given talent of his daddy, true dat.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 26, 2014 09:11 AM (gOoFi)

79 59 The folks at the DNC are going to make-whole Comcast for the lack of profitability at MSNBC by giving Comcast a cable-monopoly by approving the TWC acquisition.

Posted by: phreshone at March 26, 2014 01:08 PM (kFxpe)

Comcast is the center of evil in Philadelphia so it just makes sense.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 09:11 AM (RD7QR)

80 Let them have a cable monopoly. I'll stick with satellite

Posted by: SH at March 26, 2014 09:11 AM (pb5C2)

81 78 Now, Ronan don't have the God-given talent of his daddy, true dat.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 26, 2014 01:11 PM (gOoFi)

Or the testosterone.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 09:11 AM (DrWcr)

82 Yeah, the finances of Blaze are still opaque. Beck's radio show is the cash cow and I think he's using that to bankroll the other operations. But supposedly Beck has 300+ employees down there now working all the media operations coming out of Blaze. TV, radio, books, website. live plays, live shows. Dude is king of all media. But he wants on cable. That's the big money. He wants to get 25 cents from every cable TV house in America once a month. MSNBC gets about that, I think. 100M *12 months * 25 cents = $600M in annual revenue. That's just from subscriber fees. And 25 cents per months is what a 3rd tier channel gets. Industry rumors are that Al-Jazeera waived its fee. It's run as a money-losing charity by the govt of Qatar to spread Islam.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:11 AM (ZPrif)

83 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 26, 2014 09:11 AM (PYAXX)

84 BlazeTV is doing well without Comcast and the big boys, but it's crazy that Comcast gives me Al-Jazeera and a thousand other channels but simply refuses to carry BlazeTV.

Comcast owns MSDNC - they certainly aren't going to give access to a channel which clearly exposes them.

Posted by: phreshone at March 26, 2014 09:11 AM (kFxpe)

85 Heh. I was in my dorm watching. We were drunk and cheering when the bombing started. I actually liked Wolf Blitzer for a few weeks.

Posted by: Country Singer at March 26, 2014 01:10 PM (rIAHP)

One night a few of us were sitting around drinking and watching tv when my friend came in and said "what are you watching. Put the damn war on"

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 09:12 AM (kAniV)

86 Is a Rhodes scholar someone who has studied Zimbabwe? At two lane university.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 09:12 AM (b1/nQ)

87 >>If MSNBC doesn't pay the leftist blogs royalties for providing them with 85% of their content, they should.

And there's Mika **reading off texts from the White House in real-time** to rebut what her Republican interviewee has just said.

Also, Alex Wagner just married WH chef Sam Kass, who apparently wields a lot more power than a regular old chef since he's part of the Obama/Jarret inner circle, golfing with O. and Michelle's right-hand man on her Let's Move initiative. I'm sure Alex is totes objective in her reporting. Uh huh.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 09:12 AM (udjuE)

88 I note here that Chelsea Clinton seems to be doing nothing currently.

Ms. McCain is looking for a gig too. It could be the most sensational TV duo since Parker/Spitzer.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 26, 2014 09:12 AM (fOLwM)

89 Scat, you wingnuts!

Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2014 09:12 AM (oJUxt)

90 What if we had Rachel Maddow chew on a reindeer's nuts a way of highlighting the exploitation of women by, uh, laplanders? We could run it as a four-part special.

Posted by: The Suits at a Suit Meeting at MSNBC at March 26, 2014 09:12 AM (8ZskC)

91 About time for Ed Schultz to leak a sex tape and get people talking again.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 26, 2014 09:13 AM (+lsX1)

92 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 01:11 PM (ZPrif) Huh, that answers a lot of questions I had. Thnaks.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 09:13 AM (A98Xu)

93 Call Katie Couric's agent and see if her colon is still available.

Posted by: The Suits at a Suit Meeting at MSNBC at March 26, 2014 09:13 AM (8ZskC)

94 I tried to move them to scat but they didn't. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Martin Bashir at March 26, 2014 09:13 AM (oFCZn)

95 I wonder how bad their revenues would be were it not for the bundled packages put of by the cable companies. AlGore seems to do alright with that network that only pets and the insane watched.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 26, 2014 09:13 AM (32Ze2)

96 Their target audience just wants to hear "Our side is teh awesome, Republicans are teh Suxxor". Now that it's become obvious that Obama and democrats in general are awful shitfails who are also corrupt beyond belief, it isn't as much fun anymore. Just a theory.

Posted by: eleven at March 26, 2014 09:14 AM (GXZgZ)

97 California State Senator Leland Yee (D) scandal is growing:

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/03/sen_leland_yee_arrested_on_bri.php

Posted by: Chin Ho played by Kam Fong at March 26, 2014 09:14 AM (idA6q)

98 That would be "seemed" to do alright

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 26, 2014 09:14 AM (32Ze2)

99 88 I note here that Chelsea Clinton seems to be doing nothing currently.

Ms. McCain is looking for a gig too. It could be the most sensational TV duo since Parker/Spitzer.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 26, 2014 01:12 PM (fOLwM)

The thought that flashed into my head is probably inappropriate for the hour after lunchtime.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 09:14 AM (RD7QR)

100 ESPN gets $5+/month per subscriber. 100m*12 months *$5/month = $6 Billion in subscriber fees. Cash fricking machine.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:14 AM (ZPrif)

101 Say what you will about us, but we don't require any of our on-air female personalities to chew on a reindeer's nuts. Posted by: The Suits ------------------- Right. You casually forget to mention the Maddow fellow.

Posted by: The Reindeer at March 26, 2014 09:14 AM (aDwsi)

102 >>I note here that Chelsea Clinton seems to be doing nothing currently.

She's got an executive gig at the Clinton Global Initiative, no doubt boning up on the good works portion of her CV in preparation for political career.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 09:15 AM (udjuE)

103 Maybe that weather fellow can talk about sharting again. Wait, that wasn't MSNBC. But it sounds like something they'd do.

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 09:15 AM (A98Xu)

104 It seems to be a Rhodes Scholar you have to be connected in some way. The kid of those terrorists, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert, was also a Rhodes Scholar. He is not a shill for Chavisism.

Posted by: Pug-delicious! at March 26, 2014 09:16 AM (vFh9Q)

105 It could be the most sensational TV duo since Parker/Spitzer. Posted by: Waterhouse at March 26, 2014 01:12 PM Porker/Psycho?

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 26, 2014 09:16 AM (igKtt)

106 How long until Weiner has his own MSNBC show?
Who will they pair him with
Weiner-Parker
Weiner -Spitzer

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 09:16 AM (kAniV)

107

O/T Definitely late to the blog.

If the NRSC does not make a dozen commercials with Braley's "Farmer from Iowa" and "{30 years fighting tort reform," they are the stupid party.

The Republicans should make Braley and sour puss Reid the face of Senate Democrats in every Senate election nation wide. Just like we were stuck with Akin in 2012.

Posted by: rd at March 26, 2014 09:16 AM (D+lxs)

108 101 Say what you will about us, but we don't require any of our on-air female personalities to chew on a reindeer's nuts. Posted by: The Suits ------------------- Right. You casually forget to mention the Maddow fellow. Posted by: The Reindeer --------------------------- 90 - Okay, I withdraw the above comment.

Posted by: The Reindeer at March 26, 2014 09:16 AM (aDwsi)

109

Call Katie Couric's agent and see if her colon is still available.

My colon is always available. ;-)

Posted by: Ronan Farrow at March 26, 2014 09:17 AM (EDWuJ)

110 >>> "I note here that Chelsea Clinton seems to be doing nothing currently."

"Ms. McCain is looking for a gig too. It could be the most sensational TV duo since Parker/Spitzer."

I don't own a television, thank goodness.

But I would buy one if there were a reality series involving Chelsea Clinton and Meghan McCain in one of those wilderness survival scenarios, where they're dropped off on a remote inhospitable island by helicopter with only a week worth of provisions.

And then no one ever comes back for them.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 09:17 AM (noWW6)

111 Blackfish got boffo numbers at CNN. Maybe we could do a special to blow the lid off the inhumane treatment of weasels by big city zoos.

Posted by: The Suits at a Suit Meeting at MSNBC at March 26, 2014 09:17 AM (8ZskC)

112 Fox, while down 6%, still drew more viewers (1.75 million) than its two competitors combined (619,500 at MSNBC and 543,000 at CNN).[the pdf at one of the links.) [...] The ABC World News increased 2.2% to 7.7 million viewers on average and CBS Evening News increased 6.5% to 6.5 million viewers. NBC Nightly News, the ratings leader, was the only evening news program to decrease, dipping 0.7% to 8.4 million viewers on average. ******* We always talk about the cables but it is the networks that still hold the cards--and even though NBC lost viewers they still have the most and significantly more than the biggest cable--FOX.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 09:17 AM (RJMhd)

113 [Is Yee the guy who was captured non compos mentis in a furry costume amok at a children's party? Or was that Washington state?]

Posted by: *tries to forget stuff like that* at March 26, 2014 09:17 AM (1/4XQ)

114 I haven't watched CNN since the first Gulf War sitting in my fraternity house...Oh yes, and the airport. Can't f'n run from it there. Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 01:08 PM (kAniV) True story: Several years ago, I was stuck in an airport on a Sunday during the NFL playoffs. All the flights were delayed and it was impossible to get close enough for anyone, let alone me, to see the games on the only restaurant in that terminal. This was pre NFL on your phone, laptop, tablet, what have you, so it's not like everyone could watch on their own devices. People kept going up to the various airline counters and asking that the tvs be changed from CNN. The airline people kept saying no, sorry, we can't do that.
It was getting rather testy and there were multiple plots underway to hoist someone up to try changing the channels directly when a maintenance door opened, a guy walked out with a remote and changed all the tvs to the game. Needless to say, he was hailed as a conquering hero.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 09:17 AM (mf5HN)

115 Fatty and the Fake?

Posted by: Minnfidel at March 26, 2014 09:17 AM (igKtt)

116 Nothing says, "talcum my tooshie," like close-shorn genitalia.

Posted by: Ronan Farrow at March 26, 2014 09:18 AM (oJUxt)

117 The establishment GOP have repeatedly shot down every legislative proposal for a la carte cable channels, where you would have the opportunity to pick what you want to have piped in, and pay for only that.

Almost as though the establishment GOP don't believe their own rhetoric about consumer choice. And almost as though there were a political/media status quo with which they were privately pretty happy.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 01:10 PM (noWW6)

Such a fertile field for improvement and the party of stoopid steps on their dicks every fucking time.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 26, 2014 09:18 AM (qh77P)

118 My colon is always available. ;-)

Posted by: Ronan Farrow at March 26, 2014 01:17 PM (EDWuJ)

HELLLLOOOOOOOO!!!

Posted by: Barney Frank at March 26, 2014 09:18 AM (kAniV)

119 Chelsea Clinton is on a bunch of boards like her parents. They don't do it for free and it requires no special talent except to fill a seat. Besides money these board members get all sorts of perks, which include but are not limited to, loans which are later forgiven.

Posted by: Pug-delicious! at March 26, 2014 09:18 AM (vFh9Q)

120 Consumers are hitting their limit on monthly cable bill, so Comcast, et al, are resisting adding channels and raising fees. Comcast and the others held fast against FoxSports 1 and 2 when they launched and demanded big new fees. Fox Sports 1 was Speed and only got 25 cents a month or so. Fox demanded $1 per month per sub and Comcast said go to hell. Fox folded. Problem is FoxSports big on TV sports rights for Nascar, MLB, etc on the assumption of huge new fees from Comcast, etc, that haven't happened yet. So that's a potential train wreck. I think Fox still thinks they will get the higher fees in the next year or two. If they don't they are in trouble, cause they owe Nascar and MLB and others billions.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:18 AM (ZPrif)

121 Could've sworn the prison shows got better ratings than that.

Posted by: wth at March 26, 2014 09:19 AM (wAQA5)

122 Chelsea Clinton is on a bunch of boards like her parents. They don't do it for free and it requires no special talent except to fill a seat. Besides money these board members get all sorts of perks, which include but are not limited to, loans which are later forgiven. Posted by: Pug ---------------- All supported by deductible donations. A giant money laundering scheme.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at March 26, 2014 09:20 AM (aDwsi)

123 @116 A thorough wax job is just good manners where I come from.

Posted by: "Consent", Chicago-style at March 26, 2014 09:20 AM (1/4XQ)

124 I haven't watched CNN since the first Gulf War
sitting in my fraternity house...

----

which reminds me.......

Who was the the guy that was interviewing Bibi during a scud attack. He FREAKED THE FUCK OUT on air when he got a whiff of Patriot Missile exhaust and thought it was Iraqi gas???

Who was that???

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 09:20 AM (nELVU)

125 CNN: News for Airports. Who needs ambient music, we have ambient news.

Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 09:20 AM (o+SC1)

126 At midnight, Missouri dispatched another fluffy bunny, aka, a rapist/murderer, to Hades.

Posted by: Pug-delicious! at March 26, 2014 09:21 AM (vFh9Q)

127 Modern media landscape -- if you can get a cable show to reliably get 1% of Americans to watch you have a top 20 hit show.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:21 AM (ZPrif)

128 Doez youze guyz know where that one commenter got his tip about the IRS delaying releasing Lois Lerner's emails until after the elections? I can't find it.

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2014 09:21 AM (/FnUH)

129 Over at weasel zippers there is a video of TFG speaking before the EU where, at the conclusion, he gets tepid golf clap applause from one person. Too funny!

Posted by: navybrat at March 26, 2014 09:21 AM (JgC5a)

130 Ooops.... Looks like I repeated the basic premise of the post.

Posted by: eleven at March 26, 2014 09:21 AM (GXZgZ)

131 Such a fertile field for improvement and the party of stoopid steps on their dicks every fucking time. Posted by: Captain Hate at March 26, 2014 01:18 PM (qh77P) The GOP talks a good game about freedom, but that's as far as it goes.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at March 26, 2014 09:22 AM (JQuNB)

132 Don't know how tinfoil hat this is -- Since October 2013, my regular TV broadcast (though my antenna) has been sporadic. Never, in the 30+ years I have lived using the antenna receiving the Chicago market broadcasts, have I had reception problems. The digital transition was easy, did not make a difference at all. Where I am getting tinfoil suspicious is that the only station that comes through when there is a weak signal is the NBC affiliate. This is making me crazy -- not crazy enough to pay cable fees ($120/mo basic), but very irritable.

Posted by: Mustbequantum at March 26, 2014 09:23 AM (MIKMs)

133 WashTimes IRS article http://t.co/ypMNp7ozIa

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:23 AM (ZPrif)

134 "Or the testosterone." Nor that. True as well.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 26, 2014 09:23 AM (gOoFi)

135 My colon is always available. ;-) Posted by: Ronan Farrow at March 26, 2014 01:17 PM (EDWuJ) Cheater!

Posted by: Jon Lovett at March 26, 2014 09:23 AM (vFh9Q)

136 @120 - once upon a time Speed actually showed a few things worth watching, if you show me DTM and Aussie Supercar and SCCA runoffs I'll watch but I couldn't give a crap about NASCAR, and I don't watch stick-and-ball sports unless forced to do so by other commitments.

Posted by: JEM at March 26, 2014 09:23 AM (o+SC1)

137 Dude, US Farm Report. Guaranteed audience right there.

Posted by: Some Other Suits at a Suit Meeting at MSNBC at March 26, 2014 09:23 AM (EDWuJ)

138 my theory is that ABC NBC CBS are picking up viewers from cable as people follow their master's voice -- from Fox news:

The president is also telling uninsured Americans that if price is a problem, maybe they should cut out other utilities, such as cell phones and cable TV.

During a March town hall meeting hosted by Univision and Telemundo, Obama said of the uninsured, "it may turn out that they just haven't prioritized health care."

Posted by: mallfly at March 26, 2014 09:23 AM (bJm7W)

139 18 I'm with Jenny (@ 39). Ronan wishes he was Frank's kid (don't we all) for obvious reasons, but he looks just like his mom & her father. He really looks nothing like Frank but the superficial coloring (which given that his mom & maternal grandfather are/were blue eyed blondes doesn't mean much).

Posted by: Dancing Queen at March 26, 2014 09:23 AM (6B4ha)

140 Does that left image say MSNBC or MSNDC? At first I thought it was a joke, but I couldnÂ’t tell on the linked article, either.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 26, 2014 09:23 AM (WX3R9)

141 "There are only so many ways to say MSNBC sucks." I don't think "sucks" is correct. They leave a trail like someone with dysentery, and ignore the people walking behind who have to wade through the smell and crap on the road.

Posted by: ExSnipe at March 26, 2014 09:23 AM (LKJt3)

142 Industry rumors are that Al-Jazeera waived its fee. It's run as a money-losing charity by the govt of Qatar to spread Islam. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 01:11 PM (ZPrif) AJz is a big Ikhwan concern and some of the other Gulf monarchies are in a huge internecine fight with them over the Brotherhood. Not to mention Egypt sentencing over 500 to death. So we have Shia v Sunni generally, Sunni v Sunni over the Brotherhood, and the usual scores of sharia death penalties being implemented informally all over the world to enhance the spread and dominance of Islam.

Posted by: Beagle at March 26, 2014 09:24 AM (sOtz/)

143 WashTimes: IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Wednesday that he wonÂ’t be able to produce all of former employee Lois G. LernerÂ’s emails and those of other key employees by the end of this year, pushing it beyond this yearÂ’s congressional elections.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:24 AM (ZPrif)

144 $120/mo basic WTF? Seriously?

Posted by: eleven at March 26, 2014 09:24 AM (GXZgZ)

145 "Over at weasel zippers there is a video of TFG speaking before the EU where, at the conclusion, he gets tepid golf clap applause from one person. Too funny!" Hey, I didn't get a harrumph outta that guy. Or that guy. Or this go over here. Her either....

Posted by: Prezzy FoShizzle at March 26, 2014 09:24 AM (gOoFi)

146 And coming out of retirement for a special engagement! Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 26, 2014 09:24 AM (PYAXX)

147 Obama just said tanks and planes had nothing to do with winning the Cold War. It was simply ideals yo.

Posted by: Adam at March 26, 2014 09:25 AM (Aif/5)

148 Washington Times Ace

Posted by: Barney Frank at March 26, 2014 09:25 AM (kAniV)

149 Pull my finger

Posted by: the invisible hand at March 26, 2014 09:25 AM (QupBk)

150 So what you're saying is the story of MSNBC is really the story of Obama.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2014 09:25 AM (g1DWB)

151

I'd love to cross Chelsea Clinton with Ronan Farrow.

Something tells me that would require artificial insemination.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 09:26 AM (DrWcr)

152 What with the clash of Clintonian goofy looks with hollywood cutey looks- sort of like breeding a Bassett Hound with a Pomeranian- C'mon. I don't think Pomeranians are *that* goofy looking.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at March 26, 2014 09:26 AM (PYAXX)

153 It was getting rather testy and there were multiple plots underway to hoist someone up to try changing the channels directly when a maintenance door opened, a guy walked out with a remote and changed all the tvs to the game. Needless to say, he was hailed as a conquering hero. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 01:17 PM (mf5HN) I use to have one of those thingies (technical term) that could change the channel of any TV anywhere. Airports were the most fun.

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 09:27 AM (bCEmE)

154 sort of like breeding a Bassett Hound with a Pomeranian- Posted by: naturalfake at March 26, 2014 01:25 PM (KBvAm) I kinda want a Bassettanian now.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 09:27 AM (mf5HN)

155 @148 The eye of the master fattens his cattle.

Posted by: Just a carnivore at March 26, 2014 09:27 AM (1/4XQ)

156 >>I use to have one of those thingies (technical term) that could change the channel of any TV anywhere. You had a wife?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2014 09:28 AM (g1DWB)

157 MSNBC - The Assclown Network!

Posted by: Vortex Lovera at March 26, 2014 12:59 PM (wtvvX)

That's...actually an intriguing idea. Let's call Ed Schultz and see what he thinks about putting facepaint on his ass.

Posted by: Some Other Suits at a Suit Meeting at MSNBC at March 26, 2014 09:28 AM (EDWuJ)

158 I knew there were people out there watching CNN and MSNBSnot and now I know how many they are. Not many. I wonder if these remaining few just don't know how to change the channel on their sets, or perhaps whether their remots are broken entirely. Are they being "subjected to offensive speech or material as an involuntary audience" to quote the Daily Caller report on the UCSB vice-provost who wrote recently on the subject of aggressive sixteen year olds triggering blameless contract lecturers,

Posted by: MTF at March 26, 2014 09:28 AM (LISuA)

159 once upon a time Speed actually showed a few things worth watching, if you show me DTM and Aussie Supercar and SCCA runoffs I'll watch

The original Speedvision was fantastic, though I wonder if it was actually profitable.

Posted by: Waterhouse at March 26, 2014 09:28 AM (fOLwM)

160 For motorsports in America it's FoxSports, NBCSports and MavTV. MavTV is picking up some of the 2nd tier series that FoxSports dropped when they took over Speed. The audience for motorsports is niche. And the audience for non-Nascar motorsports in America is niche of niche. FoxSports has Nascar, Supercross, and Monster Trucks (laugh, but it does good biz). NBCSports has Nascar, IndyCar, and F1 MavTV (owned by Lucas Oil) has everything that has a motor and Lucas Oil sticker on the side. MavTV is a channel owned and operated entirely to increase sales of motor oil.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:28 AM (ZPrif)

161 You had a wife? Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2014 01:28 PM (g1DWB) Youse funny!

Posted by: Tami [/i][/b][/u][/s] at March 26, 2014 09:28 AM (bCEmE)

162 ESPN has basically ditched all motorsports. Not enough money in it.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:29 AM (ZPrif)

163 Well we made it 97 comments till some peckerhead blew out the margins. You suck

Posted by: NativeNH at March 26, 2014 09:29 AM (huNSF)

164

They leave a trail like someone with dysentery, and ignore the people walking behind who have to wade through the smell and crap on the road.

Can you tell me more about this trail? I'm asking for a friend.

Posted by: Martin Bashir at March 26, 2014 09:30 AM (EDWuJ)

165 It would take more than artificial insemination to knock her up. She has been with this guy since college and married for what -- 4 or more years? I suspect she is having problems conceiving.

Posted by: Jon Lovett at March 26, 2014 09:30 AM (vFh9Q)

166 and, and from the Common Core "Adventures in Lines and Charts for Middle School":

Study the three lines on this chart... in your own words, explain which line represents the number of people who illegally voted for Mitt Romney, witch line represents Mrs Obama's trip to China, and which line was drawn by dipping a mouse's tail into the inkwell and letting him run across the page. Justify your answers by spying on your parents for the IRS.

Posted by: mallfly at March 26, 2014 09:30 AM (bJm7W)

167 Tastes like chicken...

Posted by: Marty Bashir at March 26, 2014 09:30 AM (JQuNB)

168 167 It would take more than artificial insemination to knock her up. She has been with this guy since college and married for what -- 4 or more years? I suspect she is having problems conceiving.

Posted by: Jon Lovett at March 26, 2014 01:30 PM (vFh9Q)

You're assuming that she's trying to be punished with a baby.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 09:31 AM (DrWcr)

169 some peckerhead blew out the margins.

No, no , it's just ice cream!

Posted by: the penguin at March 26, 2014 09:31 AM (fOLwM)

170 Sometimes I wish I was a professional human breeder. I'd love to cross Chelsea Clinton with Ronan Farrow. And get Chas Bono.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 09:31 AM (b1/nQ)

171 164 ESPN has basically ditched all motorsports. Not enough money in it.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 01:29 PM (ZPrif)

Pretty much roll with opinions on pretty much any little meaningless thing you can imagine..and 'breaking news'

Posted by: ESPN at March 26, 2014 09:31 AM (M+evy)

172 Do the right thing MSNBC. Only Saint Olb of the Moobs can save you. Beg his forgiveness on air and all will be made right.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at March 26, 2014 09:31 AM (dvRYt)

173 >>Over at weasel zippers there is a video of TFG speaking before the EU where, at the conclusion, he gets tepid golf clap applause from one person.

Dang! You'd think amongst his entourage of 900 someone would've remembered to pack a swooning, fainting Obama fan whom he could heal with the power of a speedy request for some space, a drink of water and paramedics.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 09:31 AM (udjuE)

174 A cable channel with a burning firelog on its screen 24/7 would have better ratings than MSNBC.

Posted by: dantesed at March 26, 2014 09:32 AM (88xKn)

175 Our voices will triumph over Russian tanks.

Posted by: Barak at March 26, 2014 09:32 AM (Aif/5)

176 What are all those line, things - all over that... thing. Charts? Really? That's just , I don't know... crazy.

Posted by: Ronan Farrow at March 26, 2014 09:32 AM (MNq6o)

177 $120/mo basic WTF? Seriously? Posted by: eleven at March 26, 2014 01:24 PM (GXZgZ) Yup. Daughter has basic Comcast with internet (although I did not get Comcast internet because too much downtime for homework for another kid). Lots of teaser rates advertised, but my basic AT&T internet broadband alone is $36/mo.

Posted by: Mustbequantum at March 26, 2014 09:33 AM (MIKMs)

178 >>>Come on people. Let's make this happen.<<<

Look what happened with the Kennedy inbreeding. Instead of killing off young women and other people, now they're just killing off themselves.

Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2014 09:33 AM (oJUxt)

179 It may be performance issues on his part. She looks like the bastard child of Hillary and Webb Hubbell. I could imagine that face could cause flaccidity.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 09:33 AM (kAniV)

180 Chin Ho played by Kam Fong at March 26, 2014 01:14 I can't believe somebody else noticed this. Always cracked me up at the beginning of Hawaii 5-0 when they ran that credit.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2014 09:34 AM (g1DWB)

181 "A cable channel with a burning firelog on its screen 24/7 would have better ratings than MSNBC." SHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Not so loud. You'll give people ideas.

Posted by: Burning Firelog Channel at March 26, 2014 09:34 AM (gOoFi)

182 Is it time to say that I do not watch TV. If possible, I will turn the other way when it's on.
Except for stuff like biathlon or MotoGP or Volvo Ocean Race... but I s'pose those are never on.
I was in a bar and an NFL game was on a few years back. Players from both teams were wearing pink. And this was before the N-word stick. What a bunch of b**ches in heat.

Posted by: Crabby old white guy who will still whip your a** at March 26, 2014 09:34 AM (1/4XQ)

183 The Rethuglicans have thwarted and distracted the American people from facing the ongoing planet murder of global warming. We'll discuss this on our power panel following this word from General Electric.

Posted by: Missy Chrithews at March 26, 2014 09:34 AM (bUmSq)

184 BREAKING: I've decided, at long last, to come out a teh ghey. Whut? It only works once?

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at March 26, 2014 09:34 AM (JQuNB)

185

106 How long until Weiner has his own MSNBC show?
Who will they pair him with
Weiner-Parker
Weiner -Spitzer

======================================

I'm hoping for Fluck-Weiner

Non-stop entertainment.

Posted by: Rush Limbaugh at March 26, 2014 09:34 AM (LISuA)

186 It would take more than artificial insemination to knock her up. She has been with this guy since college and married for what -- 4 or more years? I suspect she is having problems conceiving.
Posted by: Jon Lovett at March 26, 2014 01:30 PM (vFh9Q)

You're assuming that she's trying to be punished with a baby.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 01:31 PM (DrWcr)

Or that having Slick as a father doesn't make her extremely dysfunctional about sex.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 26, 2014 09:35 AM (qh77P)

187 >>You're assuming that she's trying to be punished with a baby.

Chelsea's the Einstein who spoke out in support of abortion by claiming her grandmother said she would have had an abortion had it been available in her day.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 09:35 AM (udjuE)

188 Chin Ho played by Kam Fong at March 26, 2014 01:14 I can't believe somebody else noticed this. Always cracked me up at the beginning of Hawaii 5-0 when they ran that credit. Sum Ting Wong played by Wei Tu Lo.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 09:35 AM (b1/nQ)

189 thanks Barney Frank.

Posted by: ace at March 26, 2014 09:36 AM (/FnUH)

190 Chelsea's the Einstein who spoke out in support of abortion by claiming her grandmother said she would have had an abortion had it been available in her day. --------- Ace! Fire up the time machine!

Posted by: Adam at March 26, 2014 09:36 AM (Aif/5)

191 Chelsea's the Einstein who spoke out in support of abortion by claiming her grandmother said she would have had an abortion had it been available in her day.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 26, 2014 01:35 PM (udjuE)

Ah, that's right. I'd forgotten about that.

Posted by: Insomniac at March 26, 2014 09:36 AM (DrWcr)

192

176A cable channel with a burning firelog on its screen 24/7 would have better ratings than MSNBC.

Posted by: dantesed at March 26, 2014 01:32 PM (88xKn)

Bitch, please.

Posted by: Paint Drying on a Wall at March 26, 2014 09:36 AM (EDWuJ)

193 Paste eating is much healthier.

Posted by: Slow Uncle Joe Biden at March 26, 2014 09:37 AM (Dwehj)

194 "Chelsea's the Einstein who spoke out in support of abortion by claiming her grandmother said she would have had an abortion had it been available in her day. " Right. Wait, what?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 26, 2014 09:37 AM (gOoFi)

195 The establishment GOP have repeatedly shot down every legislative proposal for a la carte cable channels, where you would have the opportunity to pick what you want to have piped in, and pay for only that. Cite? Know who introduced an al la carte bill in the Senate? John McCain. I'm sure he'll be relieved to learn that he's no longer a member of "the establishment". Oh, and know who opposed al la carte? FreedomWorks.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 26, 2014 09:37 AM (SY2Kh)

196

"With Bush now out of office for over five years, and Obama's presidency looking like, at best, a "slog" (the media's term), and at worst, an unmitigated disaster (everyone else's term), they're trying to get by on Outrage Porn alone."

Outrage is a fine emotion, gets the base energized, opens wallets, and all of that. It is exhausting, though. Like suspense it can only go on so long before the normal person relaxes and begins to wonder if anything is actually happening. "Where's the doom? I was expecting an earth-cleansing doom and everything looks pretty much the same as ever."

Now, there are some who need the outrage, its their crack, their addiction and they will be there every day to get their hit. That's MSNBC's core audience and they are catering to this group. They find themselves just one little network in a sea of left-wing cable and broadcast choices, so they cater to the niche that needs their outrage daily - red, bleeding, and writhing.

And they order by the metric ckuf-ton from the Outrage Outlet so I want them to continue on this path.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Buy Four Outrages, get a Rightous Indignation Free! at March 26, 2014 09:37 AM (hLRSq)

197

Typical Politico. The story of MSNBC's failure is really the story of Obama.

Hey Dylan, you'll soon be able to write the same article about world peace.

Posted by: MTF at March 26, 2014 09:37 AM (LISuA)

198 >>>You're assuming that she's trying to be punished with a baby.<<<

Chelsea is totes obsessed with diarrhea, -- and her father is Bill Clinton, -- so she may not be entirely clear on where babies come from.

Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2014 09:38 AM (oJUxt)

199 She looks like the bastard child of Hillary and Webb Hubbell. I could imagine that face could cause flaccidity. You know how to get the turtle to stick his head out of the shell, don't you Chelsea?

Posted by: Hillary at March 26, 2014 09:38 AM (mf69i)

200 I'm lovin' that headline!

Posted by: Martin B. at March 26, 2014 09:38 AM (jjaLl)

201 In many ways, the story of those two red lines is the story of ObamaÂ… Â…they are crossed with impunity.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 09:39 AM (HsTG8)

202 Chin Ho played by Kam Fong at March 26, 2014 01:14

I can't believe somebody else noticed this. Always cracked me up at the beginning of Hawaii 5-0 when they ran that credit.

Posted by: JackStraw

Same here. My brother always works in "Kam Fong as Chin Ho!" when he's imitating an asian throwing a hissy fit. Not that he ever does that. And not that it would be funny as shit if he ever did. Because that would be racist.

Posted by: Ronan Farrow at March 26, 2014 09:39 AM (MNq6o)

203 I think the reason the networks beat the cable news hands down is that most people turn on TV news for the local show. Then they just stay tuned for national/international stuff. If you had the mega bucks to create a conservative news network, one that handled local news shows, it would make a big difference.

Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at March 26, 2014 09:39 AM (dfYL9)

204 You're assuming that she's trying to be punished with a baby. Wouldn't the baby be the one being punished...?

Posted by: Brother Cavil at March 26, 2014 09:39 AM (naUcP)

205 13

Pictured (L to R): A black line, a red line, and a yellow line; and another black line, another red line, and another yellow line

Posted by: Seems legit at March 26, 2014 01:00 PM (A98Xu)

Telling figures, indeed!

Posted by: "Spectrum" presenter at March 26, 2014 09:39 AM (o1CfD)

206 I saw some dummy argue this morning that the "demographics that count" watch MSNBC. Seriously.

Posted by: Mega, AoS Commenter of the Millennium at March 26, 2014 09:39 AM (hHFOx)

207 Doez youze guyz know where that one commenter got his tip ******* Ace is learning Italian!!

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 09:39 AM (RJMhd)

208 Chelsea's the Einstein who spoke out in support of abortion by claiming her grandmother said she would have had an abortion had it been available in her day. Hah....never heard that. What a dunce.

Posted by: eleven at March 26, 2014 09:40 AM (GXZgZ)

209 Plus, it's Pew, so you know it's about 1000x worse for Democrats than they're admitting.

Posted by: Geraldine Ferraro at March 26, 2014 09:40 AM (epWQP)

210

Know who introduced an al la carte bill in the Senate? John McCain. I'm sure he'll be relieved to learn that he's no longer a member of "the establishment".

==============================

I'm no expert but I've always assumed he does that periodically to extort money from The Disney Company and Comcast for his campaigns. He knows no one who gets campaign donations from those companies will ever vote for his half-serious proposal.

I would though. I'd love a la cart channel purchases.

Posted by: MTF at March 26, 2014 09:40 AM (LISuA)

211 SCOAMF is an unmitigated disaster. I wonder if he knows it or is oblivious? I think he doesn't realize that he's beat Jimmy Carter as worse POTUS.

Posted by: Carol at March 26, 2014 09:40 AM (gjOCp)

212 I use to have one of those thingies (technical term) that could change the channel of any TV anywhere. My phone has an IR function that can do the same. I rarely use it, but it works.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 26, 2014 09:40 AM (SY2Kh)

213 you can't lean forward without paying the price...that being poop eating

Posted by: ButtenutProdigy at March 26, 2014 09:40 AM (FpBe1)

214 I saw some dummy argue this morning that the "demographics that count" watch MSNBC. Seriously.

Posted by: Mega, AoS Commenter of the Millennium at March 26, 2014 01:39 PM (hHFOx)

Yes, left wing fucking loons, just like the on air "talent"

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 09:40 AM (kAniV)

215 Sock fail at 204.

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 09:40 AM (MNq6o)

216 That Fox News revenue bars rises like me when I watch Megyn.

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 09:41 AM (GQ8sn)

217 "demographics that count" And don't you ask us which ones we're talking about because we ain't saying.

Posted by: MSNBC at March 26, 2014 09:41 AM (gOoFi)

218 Know who introduced an al la carte bill in the Senate? John McCain. I'm sure he'll be relieved to learn that he's no longer a member of "the establishment". Oh, and know who opposed al la carte? FreedomWorks. Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 26, 2014 01:37 PM (SY2Kh) No confidentiality. So if your choices are only alJizz, France24, and Fox Sports, you could be profiled for your viewing choices. Public libraries have been fighting this for a very long time.

Posted by: Mustbequantum at March 26, 2014 09:41 AM (MIKMs)

219 Next up on the power panel: who's better at fellating Preznit Awesom-O? HINT: the staff is favoring exuberance over technique.

Posted by: Chrissy Buttchews at March 26, 2014 09:41 AM (bUmSq)

220 Did everyone see that Piglosi's daughter is on Twitter going all "the government created teh Internets and conservatives using the Internet to attack ObamaCare is hypocrisy!!!!!"

My goodness are these people stupid.

Posted by: Jay in PA at March 26, 2014 09:41 AM (3LaGb)

221

Chelsea is totes obsessed with diarrhea

You don't say...

Posted by: Martin Bashir in Sweatpants at March 26, 2014 09:41 AM (EDWuJ)

222 No, srlsy, why would anyone watch that s**t?
Try this instead?
http://preview.tinyurl.com/pqqo6po

Posted by: Crabby old white guy who will still whip your a** at March 26, 2014 09:42 AM (1/4XQ)

223 Do you have a link, navybrat? I didn't see that video on weasel zippers

Posted by: .87c at March 26, 2014 09:42 AM (bC1RB)

224 Actually, MSNBC is much more competitive in the 18-49 demographic that advertisers care so much about. Even occasionally beats Fox in the demo. That's not a dummy argument. The 18-49 demo ratings are the industry standard used to measure success. Advertisers are willing to pay more for younger viewers. A low-rated show can survive if it does well in the demo, despite otherwise low ratings.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:43 AM (ZPrif)

225 Those MSNBC graphs look suspiciously like My Desire To Clean My House graphs.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 26, 2014 09:43 AM (IXrOn)

226 205 I think the reason the networks beat the cable news hands down is that most people turn on TV news for the local show. Then they just stay tuned for national/international stuff. If you had the mega bucks to create a conservative news network, one that handled local news shows, it would make a big difference. Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at March 26, 2014 01:39 PM (dfYL9) ************ Damn hell of an idea. There was talk once upon a time of the Republican presidential candidate circumnavigating the networks and going straight to the local medias--they usually are more conservative--almost anyone would be relative to The New Yawker networks.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 09:43 AM (RJMhd)

227 My goodness are these people stupid.

Posted by: Jay in PA at March 26, 2014 01:41 PM (3LaGb)

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And apparently ..... its genetic.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 09:43 AM (nELVU)

228 A bit OT but my daughter went to an open house at a Catholic High School here in Baltimore where they passed out brochures and such. When you opened the main brochure they had famous alumni. The two largest pictures were of Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Mikulski. Truly frightening.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 09:44 AM (kAniV)

229 And apparently ..... its genetic. Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 01:43 PM (nELVU) RRRAAAAAYYYYCCCIIIISSSSTTT

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 09:44 AM (mf5HN)

230 Off-topic: does anyone know of a good summary of the Justina Pelletier case in Connecticut/Boston? Is there a possibility that MassCare given Massachusetts the habit of seeing more illnesses as psychological?

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 26, 2014 09:44 AM (WX3R9)

231 Am I reading this right?

Advertisers on MSNBC spent some $400 million in 2013 to reach an average of barely 500,000 viewers?
Nearly a million dollars per viewer?

That can't be right.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 26, 2014 09:45 AM (VjL9S)

232 Chin Ho played by Kam Fong I can't believe somebody else noticed this. Always cracked me up at the beginning of Hawaii 5-0 when they ran that credit. Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2014 01:34 PM (g1DWB) Ha! Me, too. I trying to catch up.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 09:45 AM (5lCDF)

233 "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said the fault of struggling to sign up on the Obamacare exchanges didnÂ’t lie with the faulty website, but with the people who werenÂ’t Â“educated on how to use the Internet.Â” Explaining the reasoning behind the latest Obamacare delay, Reid said too many people just didnÂ’t know to use their computer properly and needed more time. " That's it. We don't know how our computers operate yet.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 26, 2014 09:45 AM (gOoFi)

234 Well Politico--doesn't seem to buy the MSNBC has the better demographics argument. But now Obama's presidency has turned into a slog, and MSNBC isn't compelling. Prime time is just hours of what often seems like feigned outrage. And the daytime strategy -- giving shows to kids in their 20s and 30s, in an apparent bid to reach the youths -- is comically bad, and rendered absurd at every commercial break when the catheter ads come on.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 09:45 AM (RJMhd)

235 I read somewhere that 50% of MSLSD's revenue is profit. Which is about 25 times the profit of the evil oil companies. Fascinating, isn't it.

Posted by: Mega, AoS Commenter of the Millennium at March 26, 2014 09:46 AM (hHFOx)

236 OT: Surveillance camera train crash porn (That's thing, isn't it?)

http://tinyurl.com/m7a6ezf

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 09:46 AM (MNq6o)

237 233 Am I reading this right? Advertisers on MSNBC spent some $400 million in 2013 to reach an average of barely 500,000 viewers? Nearly a million dollars per viewer? That can't be right. Posted by: RoyalOil at March 26, 2014 01:45 PM (VjL9S) No, sounds about right.

Posted by: Government Jobs Initiatives at March 26, 2014 09:46 AM (5lCDF)

238 ;If dementia was setting in on Harry Reid, how would anyone notice?

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 09:47 AM (kAniV)

239 Did everyone see that Piglosi's daughter is on Twitter going all "the government created teh Internets and conservatives using the Internet to attack ObamaCare is hypocrisy!!!!!" I see your internet faux irony and raise you a bunch of dead white guys in a room in Philadelphia like a hundred years ago.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 09:47 AM (659DL)

240 Off-topic: does anyone know of a good summary of the Justina Pelletier case in Connecticut/Boston?

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Mom and Dad got royally fucked.

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 09:47 AM (nELVU)

241 But I would buy one if there were a reality series involving Chelsea Clinton and Meghan McCain in one of those wilderness survival scenarios, where they're dropped off on a remote inhospitable island by helicopter with only a week worth of provisions. And then no one ever comes back for them. Posted by: torquewrench at March 26, 2014 01:17 PM (noWW6) Call it, "Donner Party for Two"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 09:48 AM (HsTG8)

242 Chin Ho played by Kam Fong

Zulu as Kono

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 26, 2014 09:48 AM (/0PJL)

243 233 Am I reading this right? Advertisers on MSNBC spent some $400 million in 2013 to reach an average of barely 500,000 viewers? Nearly a million dollars per viewer? That can't be right. Posted by: RoyalOil at March 26, 2014 01:45 PM (VjL9S) ********* Holy crap--I think you are reading it right. MSNBC was expected to bring in $475 million in revenue: less than half what CNN will make and roughly one-quarter of what Fox News will make.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 09:48 AM (RJMhd)

244 That's it. We don't know how our computers operate yet.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 26, 2014 01:45 PM (gOoFi)

The Searchlight Strangler ends up chatting with his NAMBLA buds and can't get anything legit done.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 26, 2014 09:48 AM (qh77P)

245 228----"There was talk once upon a time of the Republican presidential candidate circumnavigating the networks and going straight to the local medias--they usually are more conservative--almost anyone would be relative to The New Yawker networks." Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 01:43 PM (RJMhd)@@* -------------------------- THAT is an excellent strategy. Of course, it takes so much travel and time....but I think it has to be pursued. And not just during campaigns, but 24/7/365. Get people out there everywhere on the local news.

Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at March 26, 2014 09:48 AM (dfYL9)

246 Good God this assclown can drone on. He is saying absolutely nothing but he's taking forever to say it.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2014 09:48 AM (g1DWB)

247 let's just let Rachel Maddow make all the decisions, that's the ticket

Posted by: Phil Griffin at March 26, 2014 09:48 AM (FpBe1)

248 Having coffee. Just thought I'd drop in and see what's happenin'.

Posted by: Soona at March 26, 2014 09:49 AM (VZ4v0)

249 Am I reading this right?

Advertisers on MSNBC spent some $400 million in 2013 to reach an average of barely 500,000 viewers?
Nearly a million dollars per viewer?

That can't be right.

Posted by: RoyalOil

Damn marketplace! It's driving the cost of propaganda through the roof!

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 09:49 AM (MNq6o)

250 Hypocrisy is a bunch of "scientists" flying to remote world locations to meet and decry carbon footprints and global warming and such.

Posted by: Biff Boffo at March 26, 2014 09:49 AM (YmPwQ)

251 Naaa...that can't be right. wtf.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 09:49 AM (RJMhd)

252 Of course, it takes so much travel and time.... HA! Skype waves.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 09:49 AM (659DL)

253 The age demo is not the only important metric, but it's the one that is released publicly. TVByTheNumbers is a good industry resource. And they run predictions on which shows get canceled or renewed. It's pretty accurate and is based on demo ratings -- basically whether the show underperforms for that channel in the demo or not. WWE does well in the demo, but the advertisers still won't pay high rates cause it's considered a low-class show for low-class people. Advertisers ideally want young, upper-middle class viewers - people that they think are influential. The assumption is if you get the higher status kids to like your stuff, the low class kids will copy them. Whereas if you get the low class kids to like your stuff, the the higher class kids will reject it cause it's low class. So WWE is stuck with advertising from K-mart. WWE constantly brags about all the young people that watch, but the advertisers say, yeah, but they're poor and lower class, so ... meh. It's why AMC goes for "prestige" shows. No K-mart ads for them.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:49 AM (ZPrif)

254 Harry's on to something. I've got a computer and no matter how many times I whack it with a stick.......nuthin'.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at March 26, 2014 09:50 AM (gOoFi)

255 RoyalOil, it's not all ad revenue. There's a large share of that revenue that comes from cable fees.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 09:50 AM (659DL)

256 -------------------------- THAT is an excellent strategy. Of course, it takes so much travel and time....but I think it has to be pursued. And not just during campaigns, but 24/7/365. Get people out there everywhere on the local news. Posted by: Margarita who wishes she drank more at March 26, 2014 01:48 PM (dfYL9) ******************** Yikes--time that is almost a candidates most limiting factor.. Can't buy more of it. I think that might be the handicap to the strategy.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 09:50 AM (RJMhd)

257 800 bucks per viewer?

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 26, 2014 09:50 AM (ZshNr)

258 ;If dementia was setting in on Harry Reid, how would anyone notice?

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 01:47 PM (kAniV)

The MFM has probably already covered for him with McTurtle promising not to point it out.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 26, 2014 09:50 AM (qh77P)

259 I am still proud of President Obama and for what he has done to help us peoplle that were screwed over when Bush was President. We love him too because he is black and has done so much good for all persons of color unlike republi-racist that have passed laws in the past to hurt persons of all color.

Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at March 26, 2014 09:51 AM (yguib)

260 244 I used to laugh at that part of the credits every time I watched that show.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 09:51 AM (zqvg6)

261 OT from Drudge: Reid: People not educated on how to use the internet In regards to 404Care non sign ups.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 09:51 AM (b1/nQ)

262 @256 Nancy, you have to poke it with a stick. Poke it.

Posted by: Bay Area Computer Guru at March 26, 2014 09:51 AM (1/4XQ)

263 Amnesty will make us strong.

Posted by: Barry in Brussels at March 26, 2014 09:51 AM (Aif/5)

264 O/T Charlotte Mayor arrested on federal corruption charges. GUESS THE PARTY? NOT in STORY. Wonder why??? http://tinyurl.com/kgx8vhx

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 26, 2014 09:52 AM (0FSuD)

265 240 ;If dementia was setting in on Harry Reid, how would anyone notice?

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 01:47 PM (kAniV)

Yes, since he would make more sense.

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 09:52 AM (RD7QR)

266 Yaphet Kotto as Kananga

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 09:52 AM (MNq6o)

267 Poland has called up it's reserves for, uh, the first time in forever. Poland says it's just routine. No big deal. Raymond Pritchett ‏@Galrahn How can Poland describe this call up of Reserves routine if they've never done it before like this?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:52 AM (ZPrif)

268 Looks like Mussilobama is still droning. The asshole doesn't know when to shut up and sit down.

Posted by: Soona at March 26, 2014 09:53 AM (VZ4v0)

269 Reid: People not educated on how to use the internet The pron sites seem to do OK, Harry.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 09:53 AM (659DL)

270 The network news is where the Left really has a huge advantage, the low info voters go there to be "educated".

Can you imagine the sea change in public opinion that would result if say one of the Networks (ABC,NBC or CBS) decided to follow the Fox News model and ever so slightly tilt to the right?
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It's worth a minimum of 5% to the Democrats on election night--that's how huge it is.
Some say it's worth up to 10%.

Imagine how many races the Dems would win if you shaved just 3% off their totals?

Every dollar the GOP spends on FoxNews is wasted.

I would say, buying up every single ad spot on any single broadcast network evening news the week before the election would be worth ten times the value of cable advertising.

Posted by: RoyalOil at March 26, 2014 09:53 AM (VjL9S)

271 Fox is taking market share- it's a sign of weakness.

Posted by: t-bird at March 26, 2014 09:53 AM (FcR7P)

272 HAHA

Posted by: Nelson Muntz and Faux News at March 26, 2014 09:53 AM (FpBe1)

273 I'd bet a $100 that the average 10 year old at my kids' school could find what they wanted in the internet quicker than Harry the Searchlight strangler.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 09:54 AM (kAniV)

274 257 RoyalOil, it's not all ad revenue. There's a large share of that revenue that comes from cable fees. Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 01:50 PM (659DL) ****** Ya--there was this at one of the links. Revenue from license fees, which cable channels charge to providers in exchange for the right to carry their programming, continued to grow in 2013, according to projections, becoming a larger part of the revenue pie for the news channels. For CNN, license fee revenue now accounts for 64% of its total intake. For Fox, it is 58%. And for MSNBC, it makes up 51% of total revenue.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 09:54 AM (RJMhd)

275 @264 Why did they gave to go and put the internet on computers anyway...????

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at March 26, 2014 09:54 AM (gOoFi)

276 Gwyneeeeeeeeeeetttttttttthhhh, aks, Fishstick, is now available.

Posted by: Jon Lovett at March 26, 2014 09:54 AM (vFh9Q)

277 Fox is taking market share- it's a sign of weakness. Posted by: t-bird

Nicely played.

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 09:54 AM (MNq6o)

278 I'm saddened by the passing of Viking Rat.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 09:54 AM (zqvg6)

279 O'dumbass' worldwide speech, reading from a teleprompter again, soaring rhetoric practiced for days between golf outings leads the S&P down 10 points during the duration of the speech.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 09:54 AM (BZAd3)

280 Obama brings the derp. We'll all the same. Maxim Eristavi ‏@MaximEristavi Obama: "The ideals that unite us matter equally to the young people of Boston or Brussels, or Jakarta or Nairobi, or Krakow or Kyiv"

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 09:55 AM (ZPrif)

281 "have"

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at March 26, 2014 09:55 AM (gOoFi)

282 Reid: People not educated on how to use the internet *head------>desk*

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 09:55 AM (5lCDF)

283 get ready for all the bullshit you'll be hearing that obama just gave the best speech evah

Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 26, 2014 09:55 AM (nfBpn)

284 278
Gwyneeeeeeeeeeetttttttttthhhh, aks, Fishstick, is now available.

Posted by: Jon Lovett at March 26, 2014 01:54 PM (vFh9Q)

And your point is....

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 09:55 AM (RD7QR)

285 272 That wouldmbe a good strategy, Royal Oil, only if you assume those networks would sell all that time to the Rs. They wouldn't.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 26, 2014 09:56 AM (ojnk6)

286 OT from Drudge:
Reid: People not educated on how to use the internet

In regards to 404Care non sign ups.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 01:51 PM (b1/nQ)

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:-/ .... has Harry had a stroke????

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 09:56 AM (nELVU)

287 I guess that "the Government created the Internet" meme will never, ever die.

Posted by: Jay in PA at March 26, 2014 09:56 AM (3LaGb)

288 It's why AMC goes for "prestige" shows. No K-mart ads for them.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 01:49 PM (ZPrif)
I liked AMC when they had no ads. And showed movies.But I'm old.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 26, 2014 09:56 AM (/0PJL)

289 Reid: People not educated on how to use the internet In regards to 404Care non sign ups. Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 01:51 PM (b1/nQ) And by "people" Reid, amazingly, does not mean politicians, government bureaucrats and contractors. His solution no doubt will be billions to educate people through some huge bureaucracy. Sometimes you just have to replace the people and start over.

Posted by: Beagle at March 26, 2014 09:57 AM (sOtz/)

290 @282 Ideals of satisfied sexual craving, no matter how depraved, no matter the biological realities!

Posted by: Poised to go all Book of Amos on y'all at March 26, 2014 09:57 AM (1/4XQ)

291 Best. Speech. EEEEEVVVVVVVVAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: MSM at March 26, 2014 09:57 AM (gOoFi)

292 Revenue from license fees, which cable channels charge to providers in exchange for the right to carry their programming, continued to grow in 2013, according to projections, becoming a larger part of the revenue pie for the news channels. For CNN, license fee revenue now accounts for 64% of its total intake. For Fox, it is 58%. And for MSNBC, it makes up 51% of total revenue. Posted by: tasker

How bad does it have to get for a cable provider to drop a channel? There are fishing shows with a larger audience than MSNBC.

Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 09:57 AM (MNq6o)

293 I suppose Chelsea's grandma would have aborted Roger, but not Bill.

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 26, 2014 09:57 AM (8MjqI)

294 OT from Drudge:
Reid: People not educated on how to use the internet

In regards to 404Care non sign ups.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 01:51 PM (b1/nQ)

My oldest stepson is turning 26 soon, which means "Carnival" for him.

He's not worried or doesn't seem to care, but I suspect that he is stressing about it underneath since he has been diagnosed with some health issues. The Bronze plan is unaffordable, even with subsidies. He's already dirt poor and won't be able to pay for it unless we help him (give him the money). He is planning to opt out and just pay the penalty.

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 09:57 AM (GQ8sn)

295 has Harry had a stroke????
Posted by: fixerupper

Key stroke, bitchez!

Posted by: Harry Reid at March 26, 2014 09:58 AM (MNq6o)

296 Gwyneeeeeeeeeeetttttttttthhhh, aks, Fishstick, is now available.

Posted by: Jon Lovett at March 26, 2014 01:54 PM (vFh9Q)

Good. I've got a pile of laundry that needs attention.

But first....

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 09:58 AM (GQ8sn)

297 S&P rebounds at exactly the moment when dipshit gets off the mic at the G7 (formally G8 - Russia was not invited. I'm certain they're chagrinned.)

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 09:59 AM (BZAd3)

298 Reid: People not educated on how to use the internet ...

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Nor on web sight design either....

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 09:59 AM (nELVU)

299 I guess Barry showed Pooty-Poo with a nicely worded speech.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 26, 2014 09:59 AM (gOoFi)

300 Harry Reid trying to explain the intertubes to a typical hipster. http://tinyurl.com/pg528v5

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2014 09:59 AM (g1DWB)

301 I landed on Classic 80's Network by VH1 while looking for new sports channels. It's great. Early videos, commercials, TV shows, interviews, movies, etc. First thing I saw was "The Message" video by Grand Master Flash. Must have cost them all of about 500 bucks to make that video.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 26, 2014 09:59 AM (ZshNr)

302 I liked AMC when they had no ads. And showed movies.But I'm old. Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 26, 2014 01:56 PM (/0PJL) I used to like this History Channel, too. But, ALIENS!!!!!!

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 09:59 AM (5lCDF)

303 He's not worried or doesn't seem to care, but I suspect that he is stressing about it underneath since he has been diagnosed with some health issues. The Bronze plan is unaffordable, even with subsidies. He's already dirt poor and won't be able to pay for it unless we help him (give him the money). He is planning to opt out and just pay the penalty. Then he prioritized wrongly.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 09:59 AM (b1/nQ)

304 Hey, look at all the viewers they gained during this administration! 2.3%! They're adding viewers! That's what's important, serious you guys! Everything's upupup! Going like gangbusters. A chicken in every pot! *gasps* Crap, even I can't keep that bullshit up for long. I can't imagine how the economic wizards in DC manage it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 09:59 AM (0HooB)

305 Sum Ting Wong played by Wei Tu Lo. Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 01:35 PM (b1/nQ) What's that in the road? A head?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at March 26, 2014 09:59 AM (HsTG8)

306 Comments not picking up special characters. Anyone else have this problem?

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 09:59 AM (BZAd3)

307 The finance channels get insanely low ratings -- but have a very profitable audience.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 10:00 AM (ZPrif)

308 I would say, buying up every single ad spot on any single broadcast network evening news the week before the election would be worth ten times the value of cable advertising. Posted by: RoyalOil at March 26, 2014 01:53 PM (VjL9S) ************ And the damn networks know that. IIRC the 2012 elections cost something like $7 billion. India is doing one of the largest elections in history and it is predicted to come in for less.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 10:00 AM (RJMhd)

309 It's why AMC goes for "prestige" shows. No K-mart ads for them.
Is there enough demand for AMC content to run it as PPV?

Posted by: fluffy at March 26, 2014 10:00 AM (Ua6T/)

310 Comments not picking up special characters. Anyone else have this problem? Cardboard & Platinum level memberships work just fine. &&&&&&&&&&&

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 10:01 AM (b1/nQ)

311 How bad does it have to get for a cable provider to drop a channel? There are fishing shows with a larger audience than MSNBC. Posted by: Dang at March 26, 2014 01:57 PM (MNq6o) ********** Ha! I actually watched Hillbilly Hand Fishing a couple of times.

Posted by: tasker at March 26, 2014 10:02 AM (RJMhd)

312 Comments not picking up special characters. Anyone else have this problem?

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Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 10:02 AM (nELVU)

313 another huge fire in Houston

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 10:02 AM (zOTsN)

314 "Charlotte Mayor arrested on federal corruption charges. GUESS THE PARTY? NOT in STORY. Wonder why???"

Hey, being a thoroughly corrupt Democrat from Charlotte is no bar to advancement, so long as your skin is the correct color. I'm the living proof!

Posted by: Mel Watt at March 26, 2014 10:02 AM (noWW6)

315 Then he prioritized wrongly.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 01:59 PM (b1/nQ)

He'll have to figure out how to get more hours at his present job or look for one that pays better. There might be a job for him later this fall at another place, but getting him motivated is another task altogether.

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 10:02 AM (GQ8sn)

316 NOPE!

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 02:02 PM (nELVU)

Great. Thanks.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 10:02 AM (BZAd3)

317 Special like & ? Or special like $ ?

Posted by: eleven at March 26, 2014 10:02 AM (GXZgZ)

318 Could it have anything to do with the fact that being "gender confused" is apparently a prerequisite for getting a show. That or being totally mush-mouthed.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 26, 2014 10:03 AM (LiHKo)

319 Holy shit, Charlotte mayor took a $20K cash bribe last month in the mayor's office. The local paper is still not sure what party he belongs to. http://tinyurl.com/mflj9w6 Someone make a guess.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 26, 2014 10:03 AM (0FSuD)

320 >>Comments not picking up special characters. My mommy says I'm a special character and its picking me up fine.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2014 10:03 AM (g1DWB)

321 IRS says it will take years to supply Lerner's emails to House oversight committee instead of, you know, the 30 minutes it should actually take. Google can search through all my emails instantly. But it takes the IRS years, literally years. Cause they are lying fucksticks.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 10:03 AM (ZPrif)

322 *gasps* Crap, even I can't keep that bullshit up for long. I can't imagine how the economic wizards in DC manage it. Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 26, 2014 01:59 PM (0HooB) You don't?

Posted by: Magic 8-Ball® at March 26, 2014 10:03 AM (5lCDF)

323 Cardboard & Platinum level memberships work just fine. &&&&&&&&&&&

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 02:01 PM (b1/nQ)

I swear I sent my payment yesterday. Two days ago - tops.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 10:03 AM (BZAd3)

324 Comments not picking up special characters. Anyone else have this problem? We're all special and we're all characters. Oh, you mean &&&&&? Sorry dude, that's only for the Aluminum Membership.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 10:03 AM (0HooB)

325 Special like & ?

Or special like $ ?

Posted by: eleven at March 26, 2014 02:02 PM (GXZgZ)

The dollar sign character is your basic level package. Some moron here can do the Spongebob character. He obviously paid for the Adamantium VIP level package.

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 10:04 AM (GQ8sn)

326 Nor on web sight design either.... Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 01:59 PM (nELVU) That's funny right there.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 10:04 AM (659DL)

327 My mommy says I'm a special character and its picking me up fine.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 26, 2014 02:03 PM (g1DWB)

Indeed you are.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 10:04 AM (BZAd3)

328 another huge fire in Houston What was that Goldfinger quote?

Posted by: eleven at March 26, 2014 10:04 AM (VhqUZ)

329 Comments not picking up special characters. Anyone else have this problem?

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 01:59 PM (BZAd3)

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Have you paid your AoS monthly premium yet?

Posted by: Soona at March 26, 2014 10:04 AM (VZ4v0)

330 &

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 10:05 AM (BZAd3)

331 So is the Man holding the mayor of Charlotte down?

Posted by: joncelli at March 26, 2014 10:05 AM (RD7QR)

332 David Burge ‏@iowahawkblog Since Saturday, FBI has arrested RI's Speaker of the House, CA's #2 state senator, and Charlotte's mayor. Bad week for the #MysteryParty

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 10:06 AM (ZPrif)

333 Nope. Not working. Even my computer is f-king with me.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 10:06 AM (BZAd3)

334 When I find it difficult to pick up special characters, I turn to Craigslist personals.

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 26, 2014 10:06 AM (ZshNr)

335 Mom and Dad got royally fucked. If the kidÂ’s actually ill, sheÂ’s not going to be doing too well either now that Massachusetts is forbidding treatment. ThatÂ’s what caught my eye this morning: usually itÂ’s the other way around, the state taking a child to force treatment, not to forbid it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 26, 2014 10:06 AM (WX3R9)

336 Have you paid your AoS monthly premium yet? Isn't this like, in all actuality, the story of 404Care?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 10:07 AM (b1/nQ)

337 Nope. Not working. Even my computer is f-king with me.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 02:06 PM (BZAd3)

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**snicker**

Posted by: NSA Handler assigned to AOSHQ at March 26, 2014 10:07 AM (nELVU)

338 Aluminum, Platinum.... has AOS turned into a back issue of Metal Men?

Posted by: Bigby's Thumb at March 26, 2014 10:07 AM (3ZtZW)

339 Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 10:07 AM (zOTsN)

340 336 When I find it difficult to pick up special characters, I turn to Craigslist personals. Posted by: Lincolntf at March 26, 2014 02:06 PM (ZshNr) *drains coffee off keyboard*

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 10:08 AM (5lCDF)

341 in many ways, the story of pixy is the story of Obama

Posted by: thunderb at March 26, 2014 10:08 AM (zOTsN)

342 IRS says it will take years to supply Lerner's emails to House oversight committee instead of, you know, the 30 minutes it should actually take. Flatbush, Go read the WaPo thing on the Pennsylvania cave from over the weekend. Then tell me if you think some yahoo is wading through cardboard boxes to find, scan, and copy Lerner's emails. I'll wait.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 10:08 AM (659DL)

343 I have the Radon Membership.

Posted by: Mega, AoS Commenter of the Millennium at March 26, 2014 10:08 AM (hHFOx)

344 Nope. Not working. Even my computer is f-king with me.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 02:06 PM (BZAd3)

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**points

**laughs

Posted by: The Chicken at March 26, 2014 10:08 AM (nELVU)

345 Nope. Not working. Even my computer is f-king with me. Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 02:06 PM (BZAd3) ----- **snicker** Posted by: NSA Handler assigned to AOSHQ Bob, I told you to play nice..... //Bob's boss

Posted by: rickb223 at March 26, 2014 10:09 AM (b1/nQ)

346 Lonenestar Hebe: Any relation to TexasJew?

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 26, 2014 10:09 AM (8MjqI)

347 FNC talking about the ATF gunstore raid in CA. About time.

Posted by: Soona at March 26, 2014 10:09 AM (VZ4v0)

348 NSA Handler assigned to AOSHQ How'm I doin boss?

Posted by: NSA Handler assigned to Lone Star Heeb at March 26, 2014 10:09 AM (GXZgZ)

349 Ok I've been absent a bit lately but can someone please fill me in on the "It's really the story of Obama" meme?

Thanks & lets see if I get ampersands.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 10:11 AM (kAniV)

350 pot&to! I spell for shit.

Posted by: Barky McPhuckstick at March 26, 2014 10:11 AM (bUmSq)

351 344 IRS says it will take years to supply Lerner's emails to House oversight committee instead of, you know, the 30 minutes it should actually take.

Shouldn't be a problem since Issa is still considering charging her with contempt of congress. Considering could take generations.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 10:11 AM (BZAd3)

352 I have the Radon Membership.

Posted by: Mega, AoS Commenter of the Millennium at March 26, 2014 02:08 PM (hHFOx)

----------------------------------------------

I just have the AoS Cardboard membership. You metal people are getting ripped off.

Posted by: Soona at March 26, 2014 10:11 AM (VZ4v0)

353 IRS says it will take years to supply Lerner's emails to House oversight committee instead of, you know, the 30 minutes it should actually take. Google can search through all my emails instantly. But it takes the IRS years, literally years. Cause they are lying fucksticks. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 26, 2014 02:03 PM (ZPrif) Well, yeah, but you probably only have like three or four different email addresses. Tops. How many do you think Lerner was using? I'm only about 15% joking with that. &&&&&&&&&&

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 10:11 AM (mf5HN)

354 No Fricking ampersand!! Where do I send my payment?

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 10:12 AM (kAniV)

355 &&&&&&&&&& That's why I like the Pot Metal Deluxe membership package.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 10:12 AM (5lCDF)

356 Thanks lets see if I get ampersands. You'll get nothing , and like it!

Posted by: NSA Handler assigned to Lone Star Heeb at March 26, 2014 10:12 AM (GXZgZ)

357 Aluminum, Platinum.... has AOS turned into a back issue of Metal Men? When we tried to name the plans according to their real world counterparts, the marketing department nixed it. It seems the Styrofoam, Cardboard and Plastic Plans didn't quite have the cache they were looking for. We had a few others, but Pixy's hamsters ate them.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 10:13 AM (0HooB)

358 Ok I've been absent a bit lately but can someone please fill me in on the "It's really the story of Obama" meme?

Thanks lets see if I get ampersands.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 02:11 PM (kAniV)

Some jackhole at Politico compared the story of a Navy SEAL overcoming incredible odds in a firefight and his own injuries, to win the day to TFG.

Moron commenter garrett used it in another story about a colossal FAIL! of TFG's.

And thus the meme was born...

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 10:14 AM (GQ8sn)

359 I'm only about 15% joking with that.

&&&&&&&&&&

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 02:11 PM (mf5HN)

Alright, I'm going to cut someone! Where is my ampersand?

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 10:14 AM (kAniV)

360 NSA Handler assigned to AOSHQ That poor ad agency girl who was assigned the HQ account and decided, hey, I'll go read the comments to get acquainted with the account. That poor girl. "Do they have to swear so much?" Well, bless her heart.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 10:14 AM (mf5HN)

361 348 Lonenestar Hebe: Any relation to TexasJew?

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 26, 2014 02:09 PM (8MjqI)

No sir. Just another everyday Jew from Texas, exiled to Colorado with dreams of going home to Israel if there's still an Israel when team Omuzzie gets done with her. Four More Years!!!

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 10:14 AM (BZAd3)

362 I got Bindle Level.

Suckers.

Posted by: HR at March 26, 2014 10:14 AM (ZKzrr)

363 Surveillance camera train crash porn (That's thing, isn't it?) http://tinyurl.com/m7a6ezf - You mean watching a rigid tube smash its way in u8ntil finally it is spent? Yeah, that a thing.

Posted by: WalrusRex at March 26, 2014 10:15 AM (XUKZU)

364 Alright, I'm going to cut someone! Where is my ampersand? Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 02:14 PM (kAniV) All Your Ampersand Are Belong To Me! &&&&&&&&&&&&

&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 10:15 AM (mf5HN)

365

LetÂ’s see if this works

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 10:15 AM (kAniV)

366 Saw a video of Chelsea Clinton at Weasel Zippers, she looks like her mother. I didn't watch more than a few seconds of it.

Posted by: Carol at March 26, 2014 10:16 AM (gjOCp)

367 I have the Obama Jello membership - You can make it any shape you want.

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 26, 2014 10:16 AM (8MjqI)

368 Ah shit...into the barrel I go.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 10:16 AM (kAniV)

369 "Do they have to swear so much?" Well, bless her heart. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Orion Death Star 2016 at March 26, 2014 02:14 PM (mf5HN) *searches for old, half-functional USB keyboard*

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 26, 2014 10:16 AM (5lCDF)

370 Timon, it worked all right. It worked all the way to the barrel.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 26, 2014 10:16 AM (WX3R9)

371 Timon, make yourself as small a target as possible in the Barrel.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at March 26, 2014 10:17 AM (ojnk6)

372 I got the Boot to a Human Face Forever Package. At least it's cheap.

Posted by: Beagle at March 26, 2014 10:17 AM (sOtz/)

373 Barrel!

Posted by: Dude thar says, "Barrel!" at March 26, 2014 10:17 AM (bUmSq)

374 Oh yeah, that worked to get a one way ticket to the barrel.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 26, 2014 10:17 AM (qh77P)

375 LetÂ’s see if this works

Famous last words!
*holds your beer*

Posted by: HR at March 26, 2014 10:17 AM (ZKzrr)

376 You know who's not a Rhodes scholar? Cecil Rhodes. Weird.

Posted by: eleven at March 26, 2014 10:17 AM (GXZgZ)

377 Did someone order a new gloryhole for the barrel?

Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2014 10:17 AM (oJUxt)

378 Could someone please pass the bleach...and a towel.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 10:17 AM (kAniV)

379 368 Saw a video of Chelsea Clinton at Weasel Zippers, she looks like her mother. I didn't watch more than a few seconds of it. Posted by: Carol at March 26, 2014 02:16 PM (gjOCp) Thank you.

Posted by: Carols' eyes at March 26, 2014 10:17 AM (5lCDF)

380 Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 02:15 PM (kAniV)

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A word if you please.....

Posted by: The Barrel at March 26, 2014 10:17 AM (nELVU)

381 LetÂ’s see if this works... Which is like saying Hey, watch this!

Posted by: Soothsayer, Lesbian Outreach Coordinator at March 26, 2014 10:18 AM (nfBpn)

382 It only hurts for a few days, Timon.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 10:18 AM (BZAd3)

383 Â“There are some people who are not like my grandchildren who can handle everything so easily on the Internet, and these people need a little extra time. ItÂ’s not Â— the example they gave us is a 63-year-old woman came into the store and said, Â‘I almost got it. Every time I just about got there, it would cut me off.Â’ We have a lot of people just like this through no fault of the Internet, but because people are not educated on how to use the Internet.Â”

This is Reid's example of a person who doesn't know how to use the internet. Holy carp he's dumb. Just because the user is 63 doesn't mean she didn't use the internet right. Based on the little info provided it sounds like a WEBSITE failure, but not user failure.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 26, 2014 10:18 AM (4QSOR)

384 "Do they have to swear so much?" Yes. Yes we do. See, if we had nice things like special characters, we could use them instead of having to spell them out. #%&$'s!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 10:18 AM (0HooB)

385 379 Did someone order a new gloryhole for the barrel? Posted by: Fritz at March 26, 2014 02:17 PM (oJUxt) You found it!!

Posted by: Pajama Boi at March 26, 2014 10:19 AM (5lCDF)

386 Could someone please pass the bleach...and a towel.

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 02:17 PM (kAniV)

In many ways, this is also the story of Timon.

Posted by: EC at March 26, 2014 10:19 AM (GQ8sn)

387 Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon(?)....

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at March 26, 2014 10:19 AM (gOoFi)

388 Another victim of ampersand fever.

Posted by: eleven at March 26, 2014 10:19 AM (VhqUZ)

389

I sprung for the additional Martian Green History Channel AOSHQ Skin......

Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 10:19 AM (nELVU)

390 Saw a video of Chelsea Clinton at Weasel Zippers, she looks like her mother.
I didn't watch more than a few seconds of it.
Posted by: Carol at March 26, 2014 02:16 PM (gjOCp)

Thank you.

Posted by: Carols' eyes at March 26, 2014 02:17 PM (5lCDF)

Is it true she gave the Geico gecko ED?

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 26, 2014 10:20 AM (qh77P)

391 I'm finding myself agreeing with Flatbush Joe again (I guess two guys from Brooklyn will wind up agreeing on things?), that MSNBC isn't going away anytime soon because it actually performs well enough in the demos that matter to advertisers. (Maddow will actually win the 18-49 or 25-54 demos against FOXN occasionally, though I wouldn't be surprised if her "Nuthin' But Bridgegate!" run for the last 2 months has finally caught up to her.) The importance of demographics also explains why TV programs that actually draw a lot of total viewers (CSI, NCIS, Murphy's Law, JAG etc.) will be ignored by the media and even threatened with cancellation while "hip!" programs that few people actually watch will stay on the air long past their expiration date. I'm not saying it's fair, or leads to television that's representative of what the average American actually wants to watch, but that's how the biz works. Now, who wants to talk some more about that jerkoff Lena Dunham!?

Posted by: GOPPartyReptile at March 26, 2014 10:20 AM (ODMtx)

392 Hi, Timon, and welcome!

Come in and make yourself comfortable.

Just kidding, there's a line waiting and lube is spiked with sand.

Posted by: The Barrel at March 26, 2014 10:20 AM (4WhSY)

393 I've been out of touch a little lately. Can someone explain the Barrel meme?

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 26, 2014 10:20 AM (8MjqI)

394 S and P tanking. On further review, the market has determined that O'shitstains speech was pure, unfiltered, organic bullshit.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 26, 2014 10:21 AM (BZAd3)

395 I sprung for the additional Martian Green History Channel AOSHQ Skin...... Posted by: fixerupper at March 26, 2014 02:19 PM (nELVU) Oohhh...I want one.

Posted by: Pajama Boi at March 26, 2014 10:21 AM (5lCDF)

396

Posted by: eleven at March 26, 2014 10:22 AM (GXZgZ)

397 Now that I have some time to kill here in the barrel, could someone please let me in on the proper way to post a damn ampersand?

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 10:22 AM (kAniV)

398 I've been out of touch a little lately. Can someone explain the Barrel meme?

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 26, 2014 02:20 PM (8MjqI)

It's where people get sent when they confuse this state of the mid 20th century art software.

Posted by: Captain Hate at March 26, 2014 10:22 AM (qh77P)

399 Here's a question: Does CNN count as its "viewers" people in airports waiting for their flights? Whenever I'm in an airport, the TVs either have CNN or Headline News on. We're not exactly voluntarily watching it.

Posted by: Naes1984 at March 26, 2014 10:23 AM (LiHKo)

400 Is it true she gave the Geico gecko ED? Posted by: Captain Hate at March 26, 2014 02:20 PM (qh77P) Insufficient data, Dear.

Posted by: Star Trek TOS Computer at March 26, 2014 10:23 AM (5lCDF)

401 I've been out of touch a little lately. Can someone explain the Barrel meme?

http://tinyurl.com/kztkl2e

Posted by: The Barrel at March 26, 2014 10:23 AM (4WhSY)

402 OK, barrelers, I gotta go do stuff. And hello to the J'ville Morons! *waves* Don't forget my waitress. Y'all have fun and try not to trash the place, 'k?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b][/u] at March 26, 2014 10:23 AM (0HooB)

403 Our SecDef talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded. I donÂ’t think at this point we can rule anything in or out. I think we have to continue to search, as we are. And you know the United States continues to stay committed,Â” Hagel said. He noted the U.S. has aircraft working out of Malaysia and Perth, Australia, to assist in the search. Â“So until we have more information, we donÂ’t know,Â” he added. On what it means for how the U.S. can prepare security-wise, Hagel said Â“I think any country Â— and I can only speak for the United States Â— always is evolving and is always recognizing new challenges and threats and trying to anticipate those.Â” Â“ThatÂ’s the mission of this enterprise, security of this country, working with all our interagency partners, intelligence, homeland security,Â” he said. Â“So the world is dangerous. We recognize that. There are new threats coming at us in different ways all the time. So you have to continue to prepare.Â”

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 10:23 AM (zqvg6)

404 Now that I have some time to kill here in the barrel, could someone please let me in on the proper way to post a damn ampersand?

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 02:22 PM (kAniV)

------

**saddles up to the barrel

**unzips fly

"Here Chcky chicky chicky chicky"

Posted by: That One Guy From Porky's at March 26, 2014 10:24 AM (nELVU)

405 Well, yeah, but you probably only have like three or four different email addresses. Tops. How many do you think Lerner was using?

How much do you want to bet they've got a bevy of interns printing out multiple copies of each email, sending them out to about 20 different agents, and then they all have meetings about the contents and whether it's damaging. If so, it gets redacted and scanned back into some document storage site.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 26, 2014 10:24 AM (IoTdl)

406 Fucking showoffs with your ampersands and little green faces.

Posted by: Soona at March 26, 2014 10:25 AM (VZ4v0)

407 I'm late here so don't know if it has been mentioned but I listened to about 5 minutes of Barry's speech to the EU in Belgium a while ago. As far as I can tell neither he nor his speech writers have learned anything about American history in the last 5 years. Since the beginning Barry has shown an egregious lack of knowledge about American history and it still holds. He said, in today's speech, that Europe's democratic ideals and personal freedom in the 1600s inspired the Pilgrims to travel to the New World to emulate that society. He claimed that his visit to Flanders field reminded him that the time when Nationalism caused Wars is over. This is the issue with NBC. They are not only trying to rewrite history as Barry's mob are, but neither group actually knows and understands history. Let me repeat that for my own outrage: President Obama does not know American history. NBC is the network that said that George Washington was considered a terrorist in his time on the nightly news.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 26, 2014 10:25 AM (VJ2A2)

408 So the plane has still just gone "poof".

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 26, 2014 10:25 AM (ZshNr)

409 Don't worry too much about it Timon. If Pixy Misa could code for carp that little issue would be resolved about thirty minutes after some moron did it the first time.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 26, 2014 10:26 AM (4QSOR)

410 So the plane has still just gone "poof".

It's not in here.

Posted by: The Barrel at March 26, 2014 10:26 AM (4WhSY)

411 <&>

Posted by: Timon at March 26, 2014 10:26 AM (kAniV)

412 409 He said that about the pilgrims??Good Lord he and his writers are retarded.

Posted by: steevy at March 26, 2014 10:27 AM (zqvg6)

413 Posted by: The Barrel at March 26, 2014 02:23 PM (4WhSY) THANKS!

Posted by: bergerbilder at March 26, 2014 10:27 AM (8MjqI)

414 So none of the local stories about the arrest of the Charlotte mayor mention his party. I guess the chances of a Black mayor being a Republican are pretty slim and the commenter are ripping all of them new assholes.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 26, 2014 10:28 AM (0FSuD)

415 Now that I have some time to kill here in the barrel, could someone please let me in on the proper way to post a damn ampersand?

Easiest method:
Get Firefox.
Get NoScript extention

That's it. Now you can use ampersands. Pixy can't code for carp, so he scrubs ampersands to keep people from using html code on his gum and bailing-wire website.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 26, 2014 10:29 AM (4QSOR)

416 &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I've never understood the problem. I have a key for that. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Posted by: Daybrother at March 26, 2014 10:31 AM (mvEo6)

417 So the plane has still just gone "poof".

Posted by: Lincolntf at March 26, 2014 02:25 PM (ZshNr)

-----------------------------------------

Correct. There has been no solid proof (not even a floating luggage tag) that's been found to confirm that the plane went down in the Indian Ocean. Until something is actually recovered, I'll keep my opinion options open.

Posted by: Soona at March 26, 2014 10:32 AM (VZ4v0)

418 409?

Daybrother?

Duh!1 is an idiot. At best. Supported by other Maroons.... Really, just a braying jackass.

Posted by: backhoe at March 26, 2014 10:36 AM (ULH4o)

419 He said, in today's speech, that Europe's democratic ideals and personal freedom in the 1600s inspired the Pilgrims to travel to the New World to emulate that society. What in the immortal helly mchell hell?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 26, 2014 10:44 AM (659DL)

420 #421 He really ain't from around here, is he? I have a better understanding of the cultural pressures implicit in the lives of the Yanomamo Indians of South American than he does of the United States.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 26, 2014 11:10 AM (XO6WW)

421 #385 Dear Harry Reid: My mother learned Photoshop well enough to at least edit and clean up her family photos in her 70's. It ain't the old ladies.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at March 26, 2014 11:17 AM (XO6WW)

422 I watched CNN for a while when it was the Iraqi Bodycount Channel for the first Iraq War. It got so one-sided so quickly that I got bored of hearing just how many planes we'd shot down and enemy tanks and soldiers we'd vaporised. Only the missile-cam pics kept it interesting after that.

Posted by: perturbed at March 26, 2014 11:28 AM (TXq4O)

423 I watched a bit of that girl Ronan you all are talking about.

My take: (1) she should stop dressing like a man and be herself; (2) she does not have an engaging style, rather, comes off as a less affected Peggy Noonanish self styled brainiac knowing oh so much at her young age; (3) she has the timing of a bad comic; (4) her segues in thought and to topics are as smooth as dried lava (not obsidian, mind you); (5) she offers very little personal insight into anything (save for perhaps place/name dropping to establish her faÃ§ionableness) as if she was pampered in a high class bubble and has not ventured at all into the real world; and, (6) thus does not connect with any normal human being. Nice ass though.

Posted by: eureka! at March 26, 2014 11:43 AM (06U7A)

424 MSNBC is in dire need of STAR POWER. I note here that Chelsea Clinton seems to be doing nothing currently. Posted by: Cicero --------------------- Which would lead one to believe Chelsea Clinton had been doing something previously

Posted by: alwyr at March 26, 2014 11:57 AM (V0j3u)

425 California State Senator Leland Yee (D) scandal is growing: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/03/sen_leland_yee_arrested_on_bri.php Posted by: Chin Ho played by Kam Fong at March 26, 2014 01:14 PM (idA6q) _____________ Chin Ho's been cheating himself - because the article did NOT designate California State Senator Leland Yee as belonging to ANY particular political party. (I assume that means he's an Indie, right?)

Posted by: alwyr at March 26, 2014 12:03 PM (V0j3u)

426

>Zulu as Kono

Barry Soetoro as Barack Hussein Obama.

Posted by: Hawaii 5 Obama at March 26, 2014 12:05 PM (wAQA5)

427 The MS in MSNBC stands for Micro$oft. If Bill Gates can afford $150 millions for bribes to push Common Core, he can afford to keep MSNBC afloat.

Posted by: whitey bulger at March 27, 2014 05:47 AM (1+kJ5)

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