So You Think You Can Bloviate?
By Wyatt Earp | September 12, 2009
President Obama certainly thinks he can. Unfortunately, he could not dance around the fact that his 8,123rd ObamaCare speech drew far less viewers than his February bore-fest . . . and a terrible FOX reality show.
By the end of the year, this guy won’t be able to outdraw reruns of Mama’s Family.
Allahpundit gives us the giggles:
To the great surprise of no one except Robert Gibbs, airing a reality show in lieu of yet another rerun of “If You Like Your Plan, You Can Keep Your Plan” was a good idea — in all the important demographics, anyway. No word on what the over-50 crowd was tuned into, but given the way The One’s polling with seniors these days he’d better hope they had “Dance fever” too.
Hard numbers: 31.8 million total viewers across 10 networks for Obama’s speech. That’s a decent pick-up from his heath-care presser in July, which drew 25 million when no one was paying attention to the issue yet. But to put it in perspective, the snoozer he held in April to celebrate his first 100 days drew almost as many people as last night’s supposedly historic, hyper-hyped, Beyond Thunderdome Obama mega-event. He did 52 million for his State of the Union address in February; now his signature policy issue — and the cause of Ted Kennedy’s life, as we’ve been reminded eight thousand times in the past 10 days — earns him a little more than half that. Hopenchange fee-vah!
This sad reality show was simply another rerun of ObamaCare. There was nothing new in the speech, and if anything, people now seem more opposed to this economy-destroying debacle.
Even Joe Wilson’s ill-conceived outburst was not enough to keep this event interesting.
Topics: Evil = Funny | 2 Comments »
September 12th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
He was out in campaign mode today in MN. While the 9/12 thing was going on in DC. I guess he didn’t want to be there.
September 12th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Went to a “tea party” today and several of the signs said “you lie”. I snickered all day long!