Keith Olbermann just got his walking papers. MSNBC just announced that it was ending its contract with him. “Countdown” was appropriately very well named: 5-4-3-2-1-phhfffft.
Olbermann has a book titled, Pitchforks and Torches: The Worst of the Worst, from Beck, Bill, and Bush to Palin and Other Posturing Republicans. Well, let’s look at those “posturing Republicans.” The question becomes, “Which monster did the townsfolk actually drive away from their village?” Bush is thriving, with polls saying more and more Americans are wishing he were still president, a memoir that will now almost certainly outsell Bill Clinton’s and a generally happy disposition. Bill O’Reilly continues to dominate. Sarah Palin is doing just peachy, thank you. And Glenn Beck? Liberals are all over the web as we speak posting that Glenn Beck’s ratings have taken a giant dive. But here’s the facts for Beck in his time slot:
Net 5PM P2+ (000s) 25-54 (000s) 35-64 (000s) FNC GLENN BECK 1,920 452 933 CNN SITUATION ROOM 490 130 183 MSNBC HARDBALL WITH C. MATTHEWS 603 93 187 CNBC FAST MONEY 288 53 134 HLN SHOWBIZ TONIGHT 176 71 91
Glenn Beck’s Fox News program is doing considerably better than the next four programs combined. It looks like he’s just hurting so bad, doesn’t it?
Liberals like Keith Olbermann have their hysterical shrillness, their poisonous fang-dripping hate and their hypocrisy. Fox News has actual ratings.
Look at the most recent ratings: FNC, for the record, means “Fox News Channel.” Do you notice how they dominate every single time slot?
The quite left-leaning Public Policy Polling found Fox News “the most trusted” in last years’ survey. According to their survey this year, Fox has slipped. But, first of all, read this. And second of all, just take another look at the ratings.
Dinesh D’Souza, in his great book What’s So Great About Christianity, begins his first chapter with these words:
God has come back to life. The world is witnessing a huge explosion of religious conversion and growth, and Christianity is growing faster than any other religion. Nietzsche’s proclamation “God is dead” is now proven false. Nietzsche is dead. The ranks of the unbelievers are shrinking as a proportion of the world’s population. Secularism has lost its identification with progress and modernity, and consequently has lost the main source of its appeal. God is very much alive, and His future prospects look to be excellent. This is the biggest comeback story of the twenty-first century.
D’Souza proceeds to document that claim with facts that will make atheists weep and gnash their little rodent fangs. [You can read the chapter here]. Secular humanists long claimed that the progression of reason and science would conquer religious “superstition.” It was a groundless and distorted comparison that is now demonstrated to be a lie, another fairy tale myth of secularism.
Now I cite the beginning of a Human Events article titled, “The Conservative Undead“:
“American political parties have disappeared before,” Keith Olbermann warned Republicans in a 2009 “special comment.” The suspended MSNBC host histrionically continued, “You’re rapidly moving from the party of no conscience towards the party of no relevancy. You are behind the wheel of a political Toyota, and before the midterms you will be reduced to obviously being this generation’s home for the nuts.
To play off D’Souza, “Olbermann’s proclamation ‘The Republican Party is dead’ is now proven false. Olbermann is dead.”
And to allude to a song from The Wizard of Oz: “Ding-Dong.” It’s about time.
When it comes to liberals a line out of Willie Wonka puts it best: in a world of pure imagination, what you see will defy explanation.
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