Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:56:00
What liberal media?
As of 4-ish PM today (ignore the timestamp on this post. I cannot for the life of me make the server and the blog and my personal account agree on what time it is):
Results 1 - 30 of about 9,379 for obama convention ratings
Results 1 - 30 of about 1,854 for palin convention ratings.
Note the dates on the stories crowing about Obama’s numbers. The morning after the speech, all the media wanted to do was crow about how many people watched Jesus Barack Kennedy Obama descend from the heavens on a cloud of ether and save America from itself. Today? No one wants to talk about how the entire country watched the hockey mom bitchslap an entire political party and never even smudge her lipstick. Instead they’re trying to denigrate her, to demean her public life, impugn her private life and make every effort to destroy her entire family JUST SO THEIR GOLDEN CHILD WON’T LOSE AN ELECTION.
Oh, that liberal media.
Sarah Palin knocked it out of the park last night and didn’t utter a word about gay marriage, abortion or any of the other divisive crap that has threatened to destroy the South Park Conservative/Libertarian support for the GOP. She spoke about things we (by which I mean (Conservo-Libertarian Americans) care about, things we can actually do, things that can change. She targeted the idiocy that comes out of the Obama camp. She kept her family front and center and dared these idiots to keep picking on them. She dared them to keep attacking her as a hick and a mom and inexperienced. And they are taking the dare.
NEVER INTERRUPT YOUR ENEMY WHEN HE IS MAKING A MISTAKE. Let them talk, Palin supporters. Let them speak unopposed for a week or so. Let them tell all women in America that you cannot have kids and a career. Let them mock small towns. Let them attack young mothers. Let them alienate half of the country. Let it happen. Let them try to equate Barack running a campaign with Palin running a state. Let them attack her for being mayor of a small town. Not only can it not hurt Palin and McCain, it will hurt Barack and Biden
As I said in a comment over at Rachel Lucas’ blog last night...my “ROSLIN ‘08 - SO SAY WE ALL” shirt is now even cooler. We can actually vote for Laura fraking Roslin. Plus I got nominated and seconded by the commenters for Rachel’s coveted “Chuck Norris Action Jeans ‘Unique Hidden Gusset’ Award For Excellence In Commenting. Which kicks so much ass. I mean it obviously has to. It’s Norris-y.
Hey, you know what would be the awesomest ticket ever? Palin/Lucas ‘12. SO SAY WE ALL. The White House would be full of dead caribou and huge lazy dogs, and Rachel would teach Maggie to eat reporters instead of possums.
That’s genius. We need to make that happen.
Posted by JimK at 03:56 PM on September 04, 2008
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#2 Posted by jo-jo 
on 09/04 at 06:34 PM -
i’m not discussing politics with you ;) ever ;) we will NOT see eye to eye on this at all. and, as i’m sure you feel the same way, it positively baffles me that people can have such diametric viewpoints on certain issues that seem so blatantly obvious ;)
but, i do want to point out a couple of things.
first of all, when i did the search i got:
Results 1 - 30 of about 4,228 for palin convention ratings
Results 1 - 10 of about 9,131 for obama convention ratings.
that’s a pretty big jump in a short time, considering one was last night, one was a week ago.
also, i think obama / mccain and biden / palin are the proper comparisons. you can’t, at least imho, compare the coverage of a presidential candidate to that of a veep, regardless of party affiliation.
#3 Posted by Buzzion on 09/04 at 06:39 PM -
also, i think obama / mccain and biden / palin are the proper comparisons. you can’t, at least imho, compare the coverage of a presidential candidate to that of a veep, regardless of party affiliation.
I don’t know. Obama seems awfully keen on comparing himself to Palin. I’d be betting even if you combined Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin as an overall comparison. There would still be a favoritism to the Democrats.
#4 Posted by jo-jo on 09/04 at 06:55 PM -
that very well may be true ;) i’m just saying, again, imho, comparing a veep candidate and pres candidate coverage is like comparing apples and… well, at a minimum a totally different kind of apple ;)
#5 Posted by JimK on 09/04 at 07:54 PM -
But the media discussion of *ratings* for buzz-worthy speeches *is* a directly comparable element. I also made certain to point out the dates of the bulk of the stories...Obama’s ratings were *everywhere* within 12 hours. I just left the gym where CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are on approximately 7829834 televisions and not a single word was mentioned that I caught. Multiple shows, multiples crawls, many alleged “perspectives” presented, not a single word about the monster ratings that Roslin Palin got.
I’m just sayin’. ;)
*UPDATE* seriously, could my frigging gym have more TVs tuned to the same channels?
#6 Posted by JimK on 09/04 at 08:33 PM -
Another point in favor of my argument; Obama’s speech was covered by ten channels. Only six televised Palin. And she still drew 37.2 million eyeballs to Obama’s 38.3.
#7 Posted by jo-jo on 09/04 at 08:43 PM -
i am confused. is your argument media coverage or ratings?
i’m unimpressed by ratings for either candidate. i don’t think they mean squat in terms of votes or popularity. john and i were talking about the ratings and this quote came to mind:
Researcher: The average radio listener listens for eighteen minutes. The average Howard Stern fan listens for - are you ready for this? - an hour and twenty minutes.
Pig Vomit: How can that be?
Researcher: Answer most commonly given? “I want to see what he’ll say next.”
Pig Vomit: Okay, fine. But what about the people who hate Stern?
Researcher: Good point. The average Stern hater listens for two and a half hours a day.
Pig Vomit: But… if they hate him, why do they listen?
Researcher: Most common answer? “I want to see what he’ll say next.”
#8 Posted by JimK on 09/04 at 08:54 PM -
It’s mostly about media coverage of (IMHO) two very similar circumstances. Young unknowns with highly anticipated speeches that were successful.
It’s just icing on the cake that she drew so many eyeballs and that wasn’t some magic number that only The Anointed One could achieve.
#9 Posted by supercore on 09/05 at 04:55 AM -
I’d like to see the web-viewing metrics. I know I came home last night after the speeches were done and tried to watch it on cspan.com but couldn’t because of (at least this is my guess) so many other people trying to get on to watch the same video. Or cspan just sucks. I went to a couple other places and they were all the same story. Didn’t have that problem at all with Barry’s speech in the hours afterwards. Just a thought anyways.
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#1 Posted by Buzzion
on 09/04 at 05:57 PM -
so 9 times the coverage about Obama’s convention ratings than for Palin’s when they were almost an equal amount. Seriously who is the genius in the Obama camp that wants to compare Barack to Sarah? We’ll also get a nice comparison tonight. McCain took Obama’s night to congratulate him in an ad. He paid money to say good job to his opponent. Tonight, Obama is going onto O’Reilly for an interview where I doubt he’ll have many nice things to say about McCain. Class is not just a part of the school day. But Obama deserves an F.