Tonight on the Best Persons segment of MSNBC program Countdown host Keith Olbermann took a little time to compliment the American people for not buying tickets to Glenn Beck’s half live half movie performance of his book The Christmas Sweater. Olbermann pointed out that only 64 people combined bought tickets in New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C.
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Olbermann said, “Number one best taste, the people of the United States of America. Remember the big Lonesome Rhodes/Beck extravaganza last week, a half live a half movie version of simulcast of his book The Christmas Sweater that rip off of The Gift of the Magi that was shown in theaters nationwide?”
He continued, “It sold 30 tickets. In Washington, D.C., 30 people bought tickets to see Glenn Beck cry. In New York and Boston it was 34, but that was combined. But of course you say, New York’s all socialists, fascists, communists, what about where the real people live, like in Rockwall, TX? Ninety four tickets in Texas, 94 in a theater holding 193. On top of which, Beck’s ratings among younger viewers down 30% for the first week of this month down 30% from the first week of last month. The next time he cries it will be for an entirely different reason.”
There have been signs around the edges of Beck’s numbers that his popularity is starting to drop a little. His ratings were in a strong upward trend that was boosted from the right after he called President Obama a racist, and the Color of Change boycott proved to be effective.
Beck’s numbers still dominate his time slot, but at his peak he was coming close to, if not passing, the 3 million viewer mark. Since then he has settled into drawing 2 million or so viewers a day. He has the second highest rated program in cable news, and his time slot is up 101% over last year.
While Beck remains a ratings force, he has had quite a few failures, the tea parties, his 9/11 protest, and now the Christmas special that attracted indifference. Glenn Beck can sell truckloads of books, attract television ratings, but he is not quite the force that he seems to believe he is.
Keith Olbermann painted a picture of Beck as a star on the decline. I don’t think that I would go that far, but in an effort to cash in while he is a hot property, Glenn Beck is overexposing himself, and I think Beck’s movement into politics, especially if he turns his back on the GOP, will end his popularity.
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I believe Olbermann was using cherry picked data in his analysis. Specifically the evening of December 3, where Olbermann also points out that he was not on his show. Beckies like him, they do not like the Judge (who typically fills in for him). It is no wonder that this one night had a drop of 30% ratings. Or just maybe a large portion of his viewers were at the thousands of other theaters Olbermann didn’t cherry pick from.
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He’s right, if you count a 2000$ margin of error.
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Olbermann gave false stats but that’s ok you liberal hatemonger…. why let facts get in the way? In fact lets just randomly pull numbers from some unknown blog and let other bloggers rewrite the bad facts into new articals, pretty soon it might become true (thats what Olbermann is asking Santa for for Christmas… please let Glenn Beck have one bad day where he actually shows up, please Santa)
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Ummmm. Olbermann got most of his data on Glenn’s Xmas Sweater tour from a blogger. It actually did incredible well. The 9/12 project was a huge success and Beck is crushing Olbermann in terms of ratings. Whether you like him or not Beck is a huge success and Olbermann is not doing well comparatively.
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I think there is an easy way to establish “star power” or popularity today, it’s called “searches” I thought I’d share some data that shows that keith is only doing what libs do.. “project” his own failure onto others (Glenn Beck)
Just the top 3
glenn beck 2,240,000
glenn beck radio 40,000
glenn beck show 40,000
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———————————————9+ mill page results on google
At first I thought that perhaps I had misspelled his name, clearly I’m not a fan. I realized that the spelling was in fact correct and that only error was in his remark on Glenn’s decline.
Again, he was doing what all libs do “projecting”.
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now for Keith
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keith olbermann 246,000
olbermann keith 246,000
keith olbermann book 590 ( that’s only Five Hundred and ninety)
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Keith is totally irrelevant, and amazingly enough, he knows it!!.
sing along now keith lol
Karl
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When you knowingly gather numbers to misrepresent attendance figures to illustrate a point you want to make you are a liar. Unless of course you want to admit you are an entertainment figure, with no connection to real news production.
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