The Business of Media Politics

Want to know when the plug gets pulled on the current MSNBC programming line-up? Read on douche cow.

Let’s start with the contention that the virulent strain of left-wing lunatic liberalism is incompatible with the free market because 85% of the people in this country tend to be repelled by lying hateful race-baiting negative America-bashing truth-raping Socialist clown fuckers.

The 15% that like that shit aren’t a big enough consumer force to make full retard liberalism profitable in the mass market.

Nutbar lefty blogs cater to that 15% and they have no desire for broad appeal so they don’t figure into the equation.  Plus blogs don’t exactly exist to make it rain money.

NPR has been around since 1970 but it has to be subsidized by our hard-earned tax dollars in order to keep pumping out dreck like Prairie Home Companion so it doesn’t figure into this analysis either.

Basically any kook liberal enterprise that attempts to be a profitable going concern in the mass market will ultimately fail because too few people find the content or the purveyors of that content to be believable, informative or entertaining.

Talk radio is an excellent example of the free market telling liberals that they’re fat, ugly, smelly hippies and it wants them to shut the fuck up and get a real job.  Here are the most popular radio programs and the number of weekly listeners.

* The Rush Limbaugh Show – 20+ million
* The Sean Hannity Show – 16+ million
* The Glenn Beck Program – 9+ million
* The Savage Nation – 9+ million
* The Dr. Laura Program – 9+ million
* The Mark Levin Show – 6.25 million
* The Laura Ingraham Show – 6.25 million
* The Dave Ramsey Show – 6.25 million
* Neal Boortz – 4.25+ million

Air America lasted about six years before it went teats up.  But that six years is a little misleading because they had supporters burn piles of cash to keep them running the last year or so and I don’t think they were paying salaries for the last few months.  Plus they stole money from an orphanage or something so that last year wasn’t exactly income statement gold.

I think the shelf-life for unhinged liberalism in the free market is about 5 years.  After that the novelty wears off and no one is left but some of the 15% who like hate with their lies.

MSNBC used to not be fruitcake left-wing.  I mean not any more than CNN, ABC, CBS, etc etc.  Even when Olbermann came on board in 2003, the network was indistinguishable from the rest of the MSM in that its bias was subtle and they pretended to believe in objective reporting. Olbermann’s show actually used to be somewhat entertaining before he decided to give himself a perpetual liberal Kool-Aid enema.

I think there is a point where we can say that MSNBC tacked hard left and started the clock on their demise and that was Olbermann’s first “Special” Comment.  The first “Special” Comment that was actually called “Special” Comment was August 2006 in which El Douche compared Rumsfeld to Neville Chamberlain.  Hahahaha!!  Idiot.

Anyway…although that was the first official spittle-inducing faux-rage-a-thon, I think the whole idea for his dramatic groundhog skits came from a broadcast in September 2005 in which he unloaded on Mayor Nagin Governor Blanco President Bush for killing light-skinned negroes with Katrina or something.  I think it was this ridiculously unhinged far-left fapping that was the beginning of the end for MSNBC as we know it.

The ratings for the cable news networks are a joke and completely support this theory that raw liberalism is a fucking Edsel. Here are the numbers from last Thursday. The ranking is based on the average number of viewers watching at any given time between 6am and 11pm.

* Fox News – 1,406,000 viewers
* CNN – 405,000 viewers
* MSNBC –384,000 viewers

Of the three main cable networks, the more liberal the content, the fewer the viewers. But it’s the trend that’s interesting.

Between 2007 and 2008, MSNBC’s ratings grew 60%. But starting last year, four years after the Katrina comment, MSNBC began to shed a metric assload of viewers.

A good illustration is Olbermann’s viewers in the 25 – 54 age demographic which is the one that brings in the big ad money. Since the beginning of 2009, he’s lost 44% of his viewers in that demographic. When reached for comment, Harry Reid said “You only lost 44% of your most important audience? FUCKING AWESOME!!”

We are seeing the last gasps of breath of a dying enterprise but the truth is that joke of a network was doomed at the birth of the “Special” Comment.

My guess is they will continue to lose more and more viewers, and more and more ad revenue, in the coming months. Their audience on election night will consist of 1,000 suicidal loons and 100,000 conservatives who will tune in to bathe in the tears of the most hateful, racist, arrogant, polemic collection of liars and douche-bags in the history of broadcasting.

Shortly thereafter, someone will step in and humanely bury an icepick in the temple of “The Place for Politics”. Microsoft and GE are in business to make money. They may burn piles of cash to keep a liberal hope alive for a few months as happened with Air America but eventually the liberal answer to Fox News will surpass its five-year shelf life and it will assume the broadcasting equivalent of room temperature.

Good night, good luck and good riddance liberal hate clowns.

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