Episode #200 of the Countdown podcast is up.
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Preview:
A-Block
- (1:29) SPECIAL COMMENT: The journalistic malfeasance was so thorough, the internal staff rage so vituperative, and the on-air ratings so underwhelming, that if Anderson Cooper or Wolf Blitzer or Jake Tapper or all of them went into the office of Chris Licht’s boss this afternoon and said that the Trump Town Hall was the final straw and it had damaged theirs and the network’s credibility and they were walking out, Licht would be gone from CNN by Monday.
CHRIS LICHT EATS PASTE!!!
- Instead, Cooper blamed his own audience! He began his program last night regretting … that CNN viewers were “staying in their silos” and directing his infamous condescension to his own audience, or what’s left of it after the Trump debacle. “Now, maybe you haven’t been paying attention to him since he left office … thinking it can’t happen again …” Cooper’s premise — that to understand Trump and the threat he poses, we have to approve of CNN’s capitulation to and collaboration with him — is absurd, indefensible, and sanctimonious. Instead of using his platform to bravely recognize that the threat of Trump is paralleled within CNN by the threat of Chris Licht and the conservatives he’s prostituting the network for, instead of showing just SOME guts, Anderson Cooper decided to try to guilt whoever was left to watch CNN last night. Shame on him.
- The CNN town hall drew 3,308,000 TOTAL viewers, and 781,000 demo viewers. But just one hour after the Hindentrump crashed and burned live on CNN, the ratings bump was GONE. In the TEN o’clock hour CNN was back to third place, half a million total viewers BEHIND Fox, 300,000 behind MSNBC. Three quarters of the total audience had vanished before midnight. By the ELEVEN o’clock hour that “demo” audience of 781,000 had shrunk back to 186,000. They got nothing out of it. Nobody stayed. Nobody saw it and said, “I like this new CNN. I’m going to try out their other shows. Like ‘No You're Wrong Mr. President With Kaitlan Collins’.”
I was double-checking the spelling of Ms. Collins’s name, and I found one person who thought The Defendant was “very kind” to her: Kari Lake. She definitely wants to be his running mate in 2024.
B-Block
Really? There’s a CNN on-air person who has chosen to use the name “Poppy” professionally??? Well, methinks CNN’s journalistic standards are taking a nosedive for more than one reason …
And she, like me, is a ΦBK. Unlike me, she has a Twitter account, and tweets things like
Did she pop [pun intended] into a parallel universe last night?
C-Block
- (29:08) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: The brindle mix on the kill list in New York is named, in sad irony, “Free”.
- (30:28) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: It’s his story that best fits the saga of Trump and degeneracy mistaken for power: “The Greatest Man In The World”.
That’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good popping!
