Widgetized Section
Go to Admin » Appearance » Widgets » and move Gabfire Widget: Social into that MastheadOverlay zone
Fair and Balanced? 80% of Fox News Viewers Refused to Watch Obama’s Victory Speech
Over 10 million people watched the Fox News coverage of the 2012 election, but when President Obama spoke, more than 80% of them tuned out.
The ratings for election Fox News election night coverage show that the right is still far from putting America first. From the 11 PM-12 AM hour Fox News had 10.1 million total viewers. After the election was called for President Obama, only 4.4 million viewers stuck around to watch Romney’s concession speech. By the time President Obama delivered his acceptance speech, only 2.2 million Fox News viewers watched.
Even though it was getting late on the East Coast, the same drop off did not occur on the other cable networks. CNN has the most viewers from 11 PM-12 AM, with 10.79 million. Nearly 9 million of them (8.97 million) watched Romney’s concession speech, and 7.8 million of them watched President Obama’s late night acceptance speech. Over on MSNBC, the network went from 5.5 million total viewers between 11 PM-12 AM to 4.52 million viewers when Romney conceded, and the same number of viewers watched President Obama (4.52 million).
The fact that 100% of MSNBC’s audience and 80% of CNN audience watched President Obama, while 80% of the Fox News audience switched away speaks volumes not only about who these Fox News viewers are, but also their unwillingness to listen to the President’s message.
They aren’t interested in hearing anything that this president has to say. They weren’t interested in what Mitt Romney had to say. For them, this election was all about beating Barack Obama. They didn’t care about Mitt Romney. There was no sudden love for Romney as many in right wing media wanted to believe as the campaign was winding down. Romney lost, so over half of the Fox News audience tossed him in the trash, probably turned off the TV, and went to bed.
Republicans aren’t ready to take any lessons away from this election. Those who will be trying to move the GOP more to the center face a nearly impossible task. If the sudden abandonment of Fox News after Romney lost is any indication, the right is not going to be open to any kind of change that doesn’t involve a bigger shift to the right.
The vast majority of Fox News viewers don’t change the channel to other cable networks. They are taught that Fox News is the one source of truth on television. The majority of these viewers disengaged as soon as Obama won. For them, it was over. They weren’t getting their country back, and they still hate this president.
Judging from their choices on election night, Fox News viewers aren’t just sore losers.
They are ugly Americans.
Related Posts :
Mitt Romney's convention speech was watched by 25 million Americans, which is 13 million fewer viewers t ...
The GOP's Mitt makeover isn't going over well with American television viewers. Compared to night two of ...
The ratings are in for night three of the DNC and the news is not good for Mitt Romney, as President Oba ...
The bad news keeps coming for MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. The 2010 ratings data is starting to trickle in, ...
Everyone knows that the death of Osama Bin Laden is a gigantic story, but evidence of how big it really ...
20 Responses to Fair and Balanced? 80% of Fox News Viewers Refused to Watch Obama’s Victory Speech
Public Service Advertisements
Phil Perspective
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Can you really blame them? The victory speech was way past their bedtime!! ;-)
clarence swinney
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
KINGS OF TAX AVOIDANCE
GE—2008-2010–44B profits—No tax—4B in refunds
10 years—81B profit—2.3% tax rate paid
Bank Of America—2010–4B profit—0Tax
Exxon—2009–34B profit–0 tax
Wells-Fargo—12.3B profit—Got 19B tax credit from purchase of Wachovia
Hewlett-Packard—2008–Paid 4.3% rate and 2.3% in 2009
Verizon—2011–6B profit-0 tax
Chevron—2.3% Tax Rate in 2011
Boeing—4B profit-124M refund
Carnival—1% rate on 11.5B profit
Google-3.1B saved via tax havens
Merck—9B-0 tax
payupnow.org
Colleen
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
That’s because they are all so closed minded and Faux Noise told them that Romney was going to win by a landslide. What a bunch of sore losers.
Ebony
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 12:30 pm
SMDH!!!!!!
They’ll never get over it will they?
sandppppr
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 12:40 pm
I can relate to that. I couldn’t stand to listen to GW Bush.
RX7
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
And Romney is tossed away like an unwanted toy. Even though he just blamed the hurricane for his loss like a whining kid, should I feel sorry for him?
Reynardine
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Losers will not forgive a loser.
Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 1:45 pm
I can tell you that exactly 1 min. after his a acceptance speech was over I was snoring. It took me that long to get into bed and blink
The following morning I watched Fox news for just a couple of moments. Brian Kilmeade was raging on about how the storm Sandy was nothing more than a photo op for the president while he stepped over piles of two by fours. I could not believe what I was hearing. He was already on the story that the whole thing was Sandy’s fault. And Doocy, like that total ignorant twit that he is went right along with it. The fact that the president was there helping was too much for them to handle. Kilmeade went on to talk about how poorly the whole situation is being handled and dumped it right into Obama’s lap. He also went on about how Obama could leave the storm and go back to the campaign. I have never seen such stupidity in my life and it could only come from Fox news.
luciboo
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
To be honest if Romney had won I would not have listened to his victory speech.
I would have been to busy crying and throwing up.
Deanne
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Fox viewers wouldn’t understand President Obama speaking as he doesn’t use chalk/crayons to draw graphics on chalkboards explaining his speech.
Virginia
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
Such patriotic Americans! NOT!
Margaret
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 2:55 pm
I am a “Mormon for Obama.” I watched the entire day and night on MSNBC, from the second I dragged through the door after my 4,5 hour wait in line to vote, until 5 AM Wednesday…results, concession, acceptance and re-hash of the night. I watched Mitt Romney as surely as President Obama…trouble is, I felt nothing as I listened to Romney…no spirit, no sincerity…just the actor playing his role…as the curtain came down.
Reynardine
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 7:04 pm
I here you. There have been Mormons in our government who were great men. Stewart Udall served as Secretary of the Interior under three Presidents, and he had a tremendous positive impact on the environment. If Morris Udall had made it to the primary where I lived, I would have voted for him. George Romney was anyhow a warm, living human. His son…a coldhearted mannikin, activated solely by his own conceit and God knows whose will. You are right in your instincts.
Reynardine
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Hear. Dammit, no more popcorn.
FEDUP
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Get rid of FOX, Rush, Glen and all the rest of the hate mongers and anyone else with a microphone. I know everyone has a constitutional right (freedom of speech). Where I think I’m going is if they didn’t have a microphone to whip up the crowd maybe the extreme hatred wouldn’t be there?
Ex-Dominionist
Nov. 8th, 2012 at 5:03 pm
Whiny babies and sore losers!
One nice thing about consensual reality: If you ignore it for too long, it has a way of smacking you upside the head.
Not out of malice. Reality has no biases. It’s just Reality. Ignore it at your peril, Fox viewers.
Gary Vaughn
Nov. 9th, 2012 at 1:34 am
On a different note, what is with the buy this ad segments? I saw all Romney product ads before, Did he support the site that basically went against him as hard as he went after the president? I mean is hypocrisy even here? I love this site and will support it, but the absence of Romney gear ads makes me worry what I am supporting?
Ingrid Buxton
Nov. 9th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Yeah, well like I ever listened to Shrub at all in 8 years.
Terry Fratstar
Nov. 12th, 2012 at 10:20 am
It’s because we all had to wake up for work while the liberals could stay up all night watching Tv
Shiva (Moderator)
Nov. 12th, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Great cliche response