The daily and hourly graphs below for June 23, 2009 are percentages of viewers in both the demo and total viewers. The graphs below use data from TVNewser.com.

All Networks Head to Head – Daily:

All Networks Head to Head – Hourly:

Current Players:

FOX: Glenn Beck

CNN: Wolf Blitzer

MSNBC: Chris Matthews

HLN: Prime Time News

Current Players:

FOX: Brett Bair

CNN: Wolf Blitzer

MSNBC: The Ed Show

HLN: Prime Time News

Current Players:

FOX: Shepard Smith

CNN: Lou Dobbs

MSNBC: Chris Matthews

HLN: Jane Velez-Mitchell

Current Players:

FOX: Bill O’Reilly

CNN: Campbell Brown

MSNBC: Keith Olbermann

HLN: Nancy Grace

Current Players:

FOX: Sean Hannity

CNN: Larry King Live

MSNBC: Rachel Maddow

HLN: Lou Dobbs

Current Players:

FOX: Greta Van Susteren

CNN: Anderson Cooper

MSNBC: Keith Olbermann

HLN: Nancy Grace

I must say that this little boy is probably luckier than he’ll understand for a long time: (there’s no audio)

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This is pretty much a foreign policy discussion where Cheney seems to be in her element. Perhaps she learned well from her father, but she seems to be becoming more of a heavy weight in terms of foreign policy.  The more I hear from her the more I like her.

Here is a quote from the video:

“President Obama said that we’re going to offer unconditional talks if you unclench your fist and in response they’re shooting young women in the streets in Tehran.”

The daily and hourly graphs below for June 22, 2009 are percentages of viewers in both the demo and total viewers. The graphs below use data from TVNewser.com.

All Networks Head to Head – Daily:

All Networks Head to Head – Hourly:

Current Players:

FOX: Glenn Beck

CNN: Wolf Blitzer

MSNBC: Chris Matthews

HLN: Prime Time News

Current Players:

FOX: Brett Bair

CNN: Wolf Blitzer

MSNBC: The Ed Show

HLN: Prime Time News

Current Players:

FOX: Shepard Smith

CNN: Lou Dobbs

MSNBC: Chris Matthews

HLN: Jane Velez-Mitchell

Current Players:

FOX: Bill O’Reilly

CNN: Campbell Brown

MSNBC: Keith Olbermann

HLN: Nancy Grace

Current Players:

FOX: Sean Hannity

CNN: Larry King Live

MSNBC: Rachel Maddow

HLN: Lou Dobbs

Current Players:

FOX: Greta Van Susteren

CNN: Anderson Cooper

MSNBC: Keith Olbermann

HLN: Nancy Grace

Ann Coulter certainly had a way with words on the O’reilly Factor last night when she referred to Tiller’s murder as an abortion.

If you don’t want to watch the whole clip, skip ahead to 3:30.

The graphs below shows trends for the total percentage of viewers for the week of June 15, 2009. The source for the data the graphs employ is TVNewser.com.

Current Players:
FOX: Glenn Beck
CNN: Wolf Blitzer
MSNBC: Chris Matthews
HLN: Prime Time News

Current Players:
FOX: Brett Bair
CNN: Wolf Blitzer
MSNBC: The Ed Show
HLN: Prime Time News

Current Players:
FOX: Shepard Smith
CNN: Lou Dobbs
MSNBC: Chris Matthews
HLN: Jane Velez-Mitchell

Current Players:
FOX: Bill O’Reilly
CNN: Campbell Brown
MSNBC: Keith Olbermann
HLN: Nancy Grace

Current Players:
FOX: Sean Hannity
CNN: Larry King Live
MSNBC: Rachel Maddow
HLN: Lou Dobbs

Current Players:
FOX: Greta Van Susteren
CNN: Anderson Cooper
MSNBC: Keith Olbermann
HLN: Nancy Grace

I’ve sat and watched this crisis in Iran unfold and haven’t taken a side on how Obama is doing in his reaction to Iran.  But after seeing this cut of Reagan’s speech to Poland in 1981 when the people were crying out for freedom, I believe I’ve formed my opinion:

It’s clear that we have a chance to use our authority in the free world to influence Iran’s oppressive government just as Reagan intended to influence Poland’s oppressive government.  And we don’t have to drop missiles or troops to do it.

John Bolton weighed in on the Iran crisis, saying Obama is being disingenuous when he says he doesn’t want the US to be misrepresented by the Iranian government – he’s really trying to keep negotiations open with regard to Iran’s nuclear program.  This is also what Krauthammer said on Geraldo.

Bolton on Hannity:

The daily and hourly graphs below for June 19, 2009 are percentages of viewers in both the demo and total viewers. The graphs below use data from TVNewser.com.

All Networks Head to Head – Daily:

All Networks Head to Head – Hourly:

Current Players:

FOX: Glenn Beck

CNN: Wolf Blitzer

MSNBC: Chris Matthews

HLN: Prime Time News

Current Players:

FOX: Brett Bair

CNN: Wolf Blitzer

MSNBC: The Ed Show

HLN: Prime Time News

Current Players:

FOX: Shepard Smith

CNN: Lou Dobbs

MSNBC: Chris Matthews

HLN: Jane Velez-Mitchell

Current Players:

FOX: Bill O’Reilly

CNN: Campbell Brown

MSNBC: Keith Olbermann

HLN: Nancy Grace

Current Players:

FOX: Sean Hannity

CNN: Larry King Live

MSNBC: Rachel Maddow

HLN: Lou Dobbs

Current Players:

FOX: Greta Van Susteren

CNN: Anderson Cooper

MSNBC: Keith Olbermann

HLN: Nancy Grace

It’s time to bring back out some vintage CK again. OK, maybe not vintage in the truest since of the word.

In early March, just after Obama’s State of the Union, Charles Krauthammer had this to say regarding Obama’s understanding of the current state of the economy:

The logic of Obama’s address to Congress went like this:

“Our economy did not fall into decline overnight,” he averred. Indeed, it all began before the housing crisis. What did we do wrong? We are paying for past sins in three principal areas: energy, health care, and education — importing too much oil and not finding new sources of energy (as in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Outer Continental Shelf?), not reforming health care, and tolerating too many bad schools.

The “day of reckoning” has now arrived. And because “it is only by understanding how we arrived at this moment that we’ll be able to lift ourselves out of this predicament,” Obama has come to redeem us with his far-seeing program of universal, heavily nationalized health care; a cap-and-trade tax on energy; and a major federalization of education with universal access to college as the goal.

Amazing. As an explanation of our current economic difficulties, this is total fantasy. As a cure for rapidly growing joblessness, a massive destruction of wealth, a deepening worldwide recession, this is perhaps the greatest non sequitur ever foisted upon the American people.

This has been Obama’s strategy all year: in order to get the things he wants, he lies and says they caused the crisis we are in.  And for a while, a good chunk of America has been buying it.  But now, with the recession deepening and unemployment numbers still going up, it seems that not only is CK right, but America is starting to get the picture that Obama is failing to fix the economy.  The latest poll numbers suggest that more of America is shifting the blame for the economy from Bush to Obama. It’s about time.

Charles went on to say this:

The list is long. But the list of causes of the collapse of the financial system does not include the absence of universal health care, let alone of computerized medical records. Nor the absence of an industry-killing cap-and-trade carbon levy. Nor the lack of college graduates. Indeed, one could perversely make the case that, if anything, the proliferation of overeducated, Gucci-wearing, smart-ass MBAs inventing ever more sophisticated and opaque mathematical models and debt instruments helped get us into this credit catastrophe in the first place.

And yet with our financial house on fire, Obama makes clear both in his speech and his budget that the essence of his presidency will be the transformation of health care, education and energy. Four months after winning the election, six weeks after his swearing in, Obama has yet to unveil a plan to deal with the banking crisis.

And ended with this:

Clever politics, but intellectually dishonest to the core. Health, education and energy — worthy and weighty as they may be — are not the cause of our financial collapse. And they are not the cure. The fraudulent claim that they are both cause and cure is the rhetorical device by which an ambitious president intends to enact the most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime.

It’s not hard to figure out why we are in this crisis, nor how Obama’s not going to make it any better.

This really got me laughing during the second half of this debate over lengthening the school year and the Obama spending.  Gotta love the passion that Jonathan Krohn has for his arguments.

Enjoy the pint sized pundits: