So the January 6th hearing returned to prime time yesterday. You may recall this was the darkest moment in American history according to the Democrats. How did they do? If you believe leftist articles, they "surged" in popularity. If you look at the numbers, they collapsed.
The first prime time hearing brought in a shocking, amazing, orgasmic 21 million viewers. Woo hoo, squealed the leftist hacks. This shows Amerika cares! Take that you evil Republicans.
Only, that's about 5% of the population. That's right, one in twenty. That's pathetic. Twice as many people tune in to weekly NFL games. Keep in mind, there are 125,000,000 registered Democrats alone. So this "darkest moment of our lives" managed to bring in only 16.8% of Democrats. And that's with all the networks complicit in trying to sell this thing as significant and a Hollywood producer producing the hearing -- which fact alone is a disgrace. So their all out sales pitch resulted in 5% ratings. Total fail.
Then the hearings went to day time and filled with phony controversy. Did Trump actually somehow push his husky frame through a limo to grab a steering wheel which actually has no real legal meaning whatsoever? YES! NO! Did Pence secretly want Trump gone? And what about poor Adam Schiff's romance with himself? Liars and fakers and frauds oh my! Reality TV at its finest. 11 million.
Yup, a 50% fall in ratings to less than 3% of the public. This was a total indictment of the hearings. The American public had spoken. They do not care.
And yet, the leftist media is putting out articles assuring their drones that the hearings are indeed "working." Uh, "working"? Wasn't the purpose to get at the truth or was the purpose to get Trump? Because saying it's "working" seems like an admission of bias, doesn't it? What's more the hilarious articles I've seen about it "working" note that no one's opinions are actually changing, except more Republicans "seem" open to someone other than Trump -- which was actually the case the moment he lost. But then, one oddly noted that the only real shift in opinion is that Republicans were now more likely to call January 6 "legitimate protest" than they were before the hearings. So really, the hearings are "anti-working," aren't they?
Anyways, last night, the hearings struck again in Prime Time. Today, there are dozens of articles about the hearing "dominating" Prime Time, how they have "momentum", even how "more people tuned in as the hearings kept going." Wishful thinking.
The rating are in and they scored around 10 million people, or down 9% from the day time hearings and off 54% from the Prime Time opening. Claims of increased viewership are the result of hair-splitting so fine as to be flat out delusional or lies. "Uh, more people tuned in last night than at the lowest point in the daytime hearings!"
All progressive self-stroking aside, this is a disastrous performance. 10 million people is 2.6% of the public. 155,000,000 people voted in the last election. This is 6.4% of those voters. That. is. laughable.
The first prime time hearing brought in a shocking, amazing, orgasmic 21 million viewers. Woo hoo, squealed the leftist hacks. This shows Amerika cares! Take that you evil Republicans.
Only, that's about 5% of the population. That's right, one in twenty. That's pathetic. Twice as many people tune in to weekly NFL games. Keep in mind, there are 125,000,000 registered Democrats alone. So this "darkest moment of our lives" managed to bring in only 16.8% of Democrats. And that's with all the networks complicit in trying to sell this thing as significant and a Hollywood producer producing the hearing -- which fact alone is a disgrace. So their all out sales pitch resulted in 5% ratings. Total fail.
Then the hearings went to day time and filled with phony controversy. Did Trump actually somehow push his husky frame through a limo to grab a steering wheel which actually has no real legal meaning whatsoever? YES! NO! Did Pence secretly want Trump gone? And what about poor Adam Schiff's romance with himself? Liars and fakers and frauds oh my! Reality TV at its finest. 11 million.
Yup, a 50% fall in ratings to less than 3% of the public. This was a total indictment of the hearings. The American public had spoken. They do not care.
And yet, the leftist media is putting out articles assuring their drones that the hearings are indeed "working." Uh, "working"? Wasn't the purpose to get at the truth or was the purpose to get Trump? Because saying it's "working" seems like an admission of bias, doesn't it? What's more the hilarious articles I've seen about it "working" note that no one's opinions are actually changing, except more Republicans "seem" open to someone other than Trump -- which was actually the case the moment he lost. But then, one oddly noted that the only real shift in opinion is that Republicans were now more likely to call January 6 "legitimate protest" than they were before the hearings. So really, the hearings are "anti-working," aren't they?
Anyways, last night, the hearings struck again in Prime Time. Today, there are dozens of articles about the hearing "dominating" Prime Time, how they have "momentum", even how "more people tuned in as the hearings kept going." Wishful thinking.
The rating are in and they scored around 10 million people, or down 9% from the day time hearings and off 54% from the Prime Time opening. Claims of increased viewership are the result of hair-splitting so fine as to be flat out delusional or lies. "Uh, more people tuned in last night than at the lowest point in the daytime hearings!"
All progressive self-stroking aside, this is a disastrous performance. 10 million people is 2.6% of the public. 155,000,000 people voted in the last election. This is 6.4% of those voters. That. is. laughable.
Here's the quote from Politico about the hearings being successful. It talks about how attitudes have changed against Trump, but is very vague. Then it gives this quote completely undermining its entire point:
ReplyDelete"[Trump] still tops most primary polls, and Republicans largely haven’t been persuaded by much of what the Jan. 6 committee is doing. They were more likely last month than last year — before the hearings began — to describe the events of Jan. 6 as a 'legitimate protest.'"
So it's destroyed Trump, only it hasn't. It's made people more likely to believe him. And that's success? Interesting.
Hey Andrew, Jed here. Thanks for this post. Good incite 😉 (insight). I think we all agree tales of the hearings being a rating success are greatly exaggerated, so I am distrustful of any analysis that claims there is any actual evidence that could stand up to an honest test. I hear It is essentially hearsay, and disputed testimony that an honest judge would toss. In fact I suspect given their fixation on Trump, I assume if the justice department had real evidence, it would leak and he would already be indicted. But I love your point about “it is working” quote. Spot on.
ReplyDeleteOne other thought. Though the ratings are dismal, I suppose you would have to give a little bit of extra to those lefties who regularly get the cliff notes version through N.Y. Times or the leftist cable stations.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, In regards to Politico’s nonsensical quote: I can say for certain the 1/6 hearings have backfired in spite of the Dems original intentions. Anyone who's been paying attention already knew the 1/6 hearings were initially designed to smear Trump and all of his voters.
ReplyDeleteHowever, many non-partisan people were manipulated into believing there was some truth to the “insurrection” claims. These people had interest in seeing evidence put forth against Trump during these hearings.
Well, absolutely no evidence has been presented over the last month during these hearings.
Instead people have been served nothing but partisan lies & stupid blatant manipulation.
As a result, people are fed up with the Dems BS.
If anything it has made not only me, but even most of my moderate friends & family more sympathetic towards Trump (some of these people voted Democrat as recent as 2016). That's a pretty major backfire against the Dems for sure.
The partisan push from the Dems, in light of all the national crises they have caused, is downright toxic and awful. The Dems claimed the 1/6 hearings were going to get to the truth of what happened. Instead the 1/6 hearings have showcased the Dems as weasel-like politicians who have no interest in building any case. They just want to tear Trump down.
IMO, the 1/6 hearings are a microcosm of the Dems over all policy failures: They don't have any interests in building a better nation. In fact they clearly just want to tear the country down. Piece by piece.
They should change Biden’s slogan to “Build Back Broker.” Its closer to what the Dems have in store for Americans.
-Kyle