Matthews Bashes Ratings of ABC's 'This Week' Which Gets Three Times The Viewers He Does
There's been a lot of talk lately that MSNBC's Chris Matthews is beginning to lose it.
As further evidence that the "Hardball" host seems a bit detached from reality, consider that on Monday's program, he referred to ABC's "This Week" as a show "not many people see...It doesn’t get many viewers" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Alright, let’s take a look. Here’s John McCain hitting Romney on Sunday. They're all hitting him from all sides. This is fair. This is personal. McCain doesn’t like Romney. Let's listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN (R-ARIZONA): I wish that candidate Romney and all the others would sit down with General Patraeus and understand how this counterinsurgency is working and succeeding. For us to abandon Afghanistan to the tender mercies of the Taliban and radical Islamic extremists I think would be repeating the mistakes we made before.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MATTHEWS: Well, not many people see that show on Sunday. Mark, it's called “This Week.” It doesn’t get many viewers, but...
It doesn't get many viewers?
The Sunday, June 12, installment of "This Week" got 2.197 total viewers and 738,000 in the all-important demographic aged 25 to 54. Compare that to "Hardball" which last Thursday got 626,000 total viewers at 7PM and only 174,000 in the demo.
This means that "This Week" got over three times more total viewers and over four times more in the demo.
Yet Matthews said, "Not many people see that show."
Makes you wonder how he feels about his own ratings - or do folks at MSNBC not tell him how far he's fallen since he hosted a program people were actually interested in watching way back in the '90s?
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Matthews
Submitted by jessieH on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 7:45pm.
The jackals are fighting among themselves. GREAT! I hope they destroy each other.
"Detached from reality"
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 7:58pm.
is a masterpiece of understatement, Noel!
And putting it kindly, as well.
And yet he has the chutzpah to call Sarah Palin "profoundly stupid" and Michelle Bachmann a "balloon head."
Prissy Tingles in a nutshell
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 8:00pm.
...or is it nuthouse?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
"Yet Matthews said, "Not many
Submitted by Chris Norman on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 8:03pm.
"Yet Matthews said, "Not many people see that show."
Maybe they're watching "This Week" with their eyes closed. I know I'd have to watch "Hard Ball" on "mute"....
"It's worked well, so far" (not)
Submitted by neutron on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 8:52pm.
(1) Chrissy sees how liberals incessant beat the drum of "nobody [likes, cares, wants, . . . ] the Republicans, and everybody dislikes Sarah, Michelle B., Perry, . . . !"
(2) Chrissy (who is not misogynist) believes it is effective.
(3) Chrissy wishes he had ABC's numbers . . .
(4) Chrissy's little brain has a thought, and so he smacks himself in the head. "I can use that meme against ABC and steal their viewers, just like the liberal / progressives are stealing Republican voters for Obama! After all, it's worked so well so far!"
Keep believing, Keef, oops, I meant Chrissy!
Chrissy's tingle. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 9:23pm.
must have addled his brain. No, he was already addled. Oh, well. . .
How do these guys make money?
Submitted by shawn. on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 10:16pm.
I thought Comcast actually wanted to make profit
shawn,
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:16pm.
My theory is that Comcast needed a tax write-off, and MSNBC filled the bill rather nicely.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Bathtub Boy' Goes After MSNBC On His First NEW Show!
Submitted by im41 on Mon, 06/20/2011 - 11:10pm.
tip
Keith Olbermann on his new show on Current TV ( the equivalent of standing on a wooden box with a tinfoil hat)
Smart, Thoughtful, Analysis according to the Pres of MSNBC
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 7:12am.
I think the President of MessNBC needs to reasess his strategy, if opinions from this clown and his minion Ed Schultz can be considered; smart, thoughtful, analysis. Is more like a comedy show to me.