Monday’s Numbers…
O’Reilly was big for FNC with 2.7 million viewers. But CNN, MSNBC, and HLN were strong for their networks as well with Countdown eeking out a neck and neck battle for 2nd between the three. Olbermann did another Special Comment last night and I know that some blogs got the word out because I saw at least one entry on it before the show aired.
Cable News Daily Ratings for February 26, 2007
P2+ Total Day
FNC – 930,000 viewers
CNN – 493,000 viewers
MSNBC – 377,000 viewers
CNBC – 227,000 viewers
HLN – 251,000 viewers
P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,005,000 viewers
CNN – 925,000 viewers
MSNBC – 618,000 viewers
CNBC – 214,000 viewers
HLN – 509,000 viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC – 259,000 viewers
CNN – 175,000 viewers
MSNBC – 154,000 viewers
CNBC – 112,000 viewers
HLN – 121,000 viewers
25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 475,000 viewers
CNN – 288,000 viewers
MSNBC – 197,000 viewers
CNBC – 92,000 viewers
HLN – 196,000 viewers
Morning programs P2+ (25-54)
FOX & Friends – 767,000 viewers (306,000)
American Morning – 337,000 viewers (164,000)
Imus in the Morning– 352,000 viewers (160,000)
Robin & Co. – 150,000 viewers (99,000)
6PM - P2+ (25-54)
Special Report w/ Brit Hume- 1,235,000 viewers (256,000)
Lou Dobbs- 771,000 viewers (284,000)
Tucker Carlson- 339,000 viewers (131,000)
Mad Money- 312,000 viewers (181,000)
Prime News- 292,000 viewers (147,000)
7PM - P2+ (25-54)
FOX Report with Shepard Smith – 1,361,000 viewers (350,000)
Situation Room – 835,000 viewers (254,000)
Hardball – 549,000 viewers (209,000)
On the Money – 201,000 viewers (134,000)
Glenn Beck – 326,000 viewers (147,000)
8PM - P2+ (25-54)
O’Reilly Factor – 2,682,000 viewers (580,000)
Paula Zahn– 768,000 viewers (232,000)
Countdown w/ Olbermann – 810,000 viewers (250,000)
Fast Money – 160,000 viewers (72,000)
Nancy Grace – 763,000 viewers (209,000)
9 PM - P2+ (25-54)
Hannity & Colmes– 1,875,000 viewers (495,000)
Larry King Live – 1,158,000 viewers (312,000)
Scarborough Country- 616,000 viewers (160,000)
1 VS. 100– 334,000 viewers (110,000)
Glenn Beck – 308,000 viewers (138,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54)
On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren- 1,459,000 viewers (349,000)
Anderson Cooper- 849,000 viewers (322,000)
MSNBC Reports- 427,000 viewers (181,000)
Donny Deutsch – 149,000 viewers (95,000)
Nancy Grace – 456,000 viewers (241,000)
11 PM P2+ (25-54)
The O’Reilly Factor– 1,058,000 viewers (321,000)
Anderson Cooper- 453,000 viewers (220,000)
MSNBC Investigates- 365,000 viewers (194,000)
Mad Money– a scratch with 97,000 viewers (61,000)
Showbiz Tonight – 393,000 viewers (190,000)
Seems as if those “Special Comments” just aren’t boosting Olbermann’s ratings as much as they once did huh? It’s the law of diminishing returns at play I suppose.
Comment by Alison — February 27, 2007 @ 6:18 pm
It looks as if Paula and BOR had higher numbers at 8 p.m. as well.
Comment by Goldfish — February 27, 2007 @ 6:38 pm
I don’t know, Alison. (And bigred will no doubt stop by, too.) We’ve all read your day-by-day carping. He crushes Paula, but gets eeked out by Grace, and all we hear is “not even second!” The next night he crushes Grace but it’s one of the few nights Paula edges him out, and “Wow, this guy is tanking. Still can’t pull off a second place.” Day after day, all month long. Yet, at the end of the month, when it’s all pulled together into month-long stats that transcend the day-to-day fluctuations, it’s the same old story as every recent month: KO is getting stronger & stronger, and, in particular, all of this is true:
“Countdown continues its strong growth trend, up +59% in the demo over a year ago (260,000 v. 164,000) and up +77% in total viewers (709,000 v. 400,000). The program was once again #2 for the month and enjoyed more growth than any other cable news net in both measures. Countdown enjoyed a +37% advantage over CNN in the demo and +22% in total viewers.”
I know you guys’ll have some way of spinning that. But you’re losing credibility.
So, what about KO in March? Will his numbers be
a) much better
b) a little better
c) about the same
d) a bit worse or
e) a lot worse
than March a year ago?
Or would you rather chicken out — I mean, take things day-by-day, and find a way to spin a lot of single-day numbers in a negative way?
Comment by Keith — February 27, 2007 @ 6:39 pm
Wow. Chris Matthews’ so-called “Hardball” finally beats Glenn Beck on something called Headline News. Haven’t seen that in a while.
Comment by Tom — February 27, 2007 @ 6:46 pm
Bill O’Reilly is on fire!
It looks like a lot of people tuned in to cable news last night.
Comment by Noelle — February 27, 2007 @ 7:10 pm
Keith, Quit posting those year ago gutter trash #’s. I’ve got a spin for you to hear. Zahn and Grace aren’t getting the lib media attention or going on shows, aren’t catering to the left 24/7, don’t have partisan special comments, not obsessing with BOR and look at their #’s. Grace beats him frequently and Zahn sometimes comes close, sometimes down 100,000+ or so and sometimes beats him. What’s up with that? No patisan gimmicks and look at their #’s compared to partisan non debater Dobermann with the left on his side.
Comment by Lurker — February 27, 2007 @ 7:11 pm
Lurker: Was that a, b, c, d, or e you’re choosing? It must be one of them, or else you’d be chickening … Oh. I see. Nevermind.
Comment by Keith — February 27, 2007 @ 7:22 pm
Tom i would like to know what you mean by”Wow. Chris Matthews’ so-called “Hardball” finally beats Glenn Beck on something called Headline News. Haven’t seen that in a while.”
For your information it is the norm for hardball to beat beck and not the other way around.
lurker you should probably read alot more as alot of artcles have been written about Nancy Grace. besides the same righteous indignation that keith uses to gain viewers is the same righteous indignation technique that Nancy uses to get people watching, it just happens to be used by them in different ways.
Anyhow i’m glad to Anderson getting higher numbers.
Comment by Sam — February 27, 2007 @ 7:35 pm
Wow. I have something to agree with everyone on. Sam (for once) nails it on the “righteous indignation.” Yes, Noelle, “Bill O’Reilly is on fire!” Last year he was going downhill; this year he’s once again at the top of his game, and he’s pulling the rest of FNC back up with him. The story on the 8pm ET hour this year is the three way tie for 2nd place; I predict it will stay super close all year.
Comment by erljr — February 27, 2007 @ 8:56 pm
Keith, let me guess. You’re one of those tinfoil hat libs that’s upset the Taliban bombers missed Cheney. That’s the audience your hero Olbermann appeals to, and as long as there are lefty loons like you, he will have an audience. But those are the only people he will appeal to.
When he manages to get, say, 1/3 of O’Reilly’s audience consistently, or for that matter manages to beat any other FNC prime time show, or even attracts 1 million viewers for the second time ever, he will have accomplished something. Not much, but something.
His “big ratings gains” that you tout from a year ago are hilarious. They had nowhere to go but up. If he was still averaging 400,000 viewers, he would be out of a job. Medium market local newscasts get more viewers than that.
Comment by bigred — February 27, 2007 @ 9:05 pm
So tell me “Keith”, when will Keith Olbermann beat O’Reilly in the ratings. Chose one.
A-Never
B-Never
C-Never
And when will Keith sustain a WEEK solid of coming in second? Your choices again?
A-Never
B-Never
C-Never
There’s no spinning his numbers fan boy. His ratings still suck. His show is still slanted and biased and he’s still a raging bore.
Comment by Alison — February 27, 2007 @ 9:20 pm
Keith, let me guess.
Got my hopes up there, bigred. Thought you would actually take my challenge. Nope, I should have known: You were just making a dead-wrong (what else?) guess about what I get upset about.
So, is it a, b, c, d, or e?
Your past predictions have been not just about how low KO’s ratings are, but you’ve specifically talked about them going down — “circling the drain,” as I recall — and that was supposed to happen as soon as all this “election stuff” was over. But they keep going up. “Nowhere to go but up”?! Then why were so wrongly predicting that they’d be going down? How wrong could you possibly be?
But, OK, what is it for March? Show some guts. Make a choice. Or do you deep-down know that it’s e, and just can’t get yourself to say it, since that would amount to your admitting the errors of your past predictions? Might as well admit it. We’ve all noticed how wrong you were, anyway.
But I appreciate your comments. Would have been greatly disappointed if you hadn’t weighed in.
Comment by Keith — February 27, 2007 @ 9:25 pm
bigred how do you know who keith is or that he’s sad that the taliban’s attack on Cheney failed (i didn’t see him expressed such sentiments in his post), i use to think you were crazy, but it seems your merely telepathic.
BTW the quote “If he was still averaging 400,000 viewers, he would be out of a job”, thats not neccessarily true, look at Tucker, he consistently comes in below 400,000 and he’s still employed. Gains do matter as they are an indicator of growth.
eljr- you know as well as i that the fight for second place is not a tie (yes there is some back and forth) but for the month of january and febuary the second place position (when you average all the figures)goes to KO.
Comment by Sam — February 27, 2007 @ 9:32 pm
Maybe you haven’t noticed the past few weeks, when he’s consistently placed 3rd or even 4th in his time slot. That’s why the special-ed comment was pulled out his a*& last night.
You want a prediction for March. The answer is.. he will remain where he is…struggling to finish 2nd most nights over Nancy Grace, still trailing O’Reilly 3-1, still trailing O’Reilly’s after-prime time repeat by a large margin, still trailing every FOX show by a large margin, and still appealing only to confused little libs like you.
Comment by bigred — February 27, 2007 @ 9:32 pm
Bigred: I think you have Keith confused with Elmonica. Here is what the latter posted on another media blog:
Cheney is deservingly considered one of the most vile, hated men in the world. No one is surprised by the (Huffington Post blog) reaction, and your desire to express outrage over it reflects more about you than it does about any of the people over at the Huffington Post.
I’d love to know what opinion poll that Elmonica is referencing.
Comment by Ira — February 27, 2007 @ 9:43 pm
bigred: a, b, c, d, or e?
Alison: Where I come from, you first meet the challenge issued to you, and THEN you can issue your own. I must have missed the comment where you left your guess as to a-e.
But though you’ve totally chickened out, and though your own questions are ill-formed, I’ll give my guesses as best I can, given the deeply flawed questions.
So, on when KO will ever beat OR, “Never” is a good guess, especially in P2+. The vast majority of cable news watchers are old people, and I just don’t see KO ever catching on with my grandma. In the demo, and assuming we’re not counting nights when there’s a guest host, while KO might get an isolated nightly win (with a big-name guest), it’s a very good guess that one of these two sworn enemies will get out of this tough biz before KO gets anything other than isolated demo wins. I mean, it’s gotta be a drain to prepare & do an hour show five nights a week, for so much of the year, esp. given the extent to which each of these guys is involved in prep. And BO, especially, has been doing this for several years already. So, “never” is a good guess.
As for a solid week of 2nd places, that almost has to happen this year. It was not that long ago that KO almost never beat Paula. Now he usually does. And his numbers are going up far faster than Paula’s. As for Grace, her numbers were up nicely, too, this month. But they’re not up as much as KO’s, and this was a very good month for Grace-friendly stories. So, your “never” seems to me a very bad guess for your second question. And as you don’t give any other answers, well, all one can say is what the schoolkids often say (sometimes correctly): “Dumb test.”
Comment by Keith — February 27, 2007 @ 9:50 pm
Additionally bigred you might want to review the febuary averages and then reevaluate your statement that KO tails EVERY FOX show by a LARGE margin. If you take a careful look at the figures you will see that he beats Neil Cavuto in the demo and that he beats FandF in overall viewers for the month of Febuary.
Comment by Sam — February 27, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
bigred is the Dick Cheney of Cable ratings predictions. Just waiting for his declaration that Olbermann’s ratings rises are in their “death throes.”
Comment by Keith — February 27, 2007 @ 10:03 pm
Ira, you’re right. I get the little confused libs on this blog mixed up. El’s probably the worst of them.
Sam, thanks for your comedy stylings tonight. He beat Cavuto in the demo??? HAAAAA. Cavuto airs in the freaking afternoon. Fox and Friends airs in the MORNING. Olbermann’s show airs in prime time..you know, when people are actually watching TV.
Keith, I answered your stupid quiz. Now, since you compared me to Cheney, tell me, are you or are you not one those supposedly peaceloving libs who wishes the suicide bomber had actually gotten Cheney? A lot of your Olbermann viewing buddies certainly are.
Comment by bigred — February 27, 2007 @ 10:14 pm
Bigred nice spin. As i said, your qoute is misleading as it says Olbermann trails EVERY (not just primetime,but EVERY)FOX show by a large margin, i simply was telling you to review the averages for febuary and you will find that he doesn’t trail EVERY Fox show.
Comment by Sam — February 27, 2007 @ 10:23 pm
bigred: we can all see that you haven’t answered my question. Your bluster doesn’t work. We can all see that you were just plain wrong about KO losing to every Fox Show. Say “lib, lib, lib” all you want, we can still read.
Tell me… Hey, guess what, bigred: WRONG AGAIN. But we’ll greet you as a liberator, if that would make you feel better.
Comment by Keith — February 27, 2007 @ 11:06 pm
Everytime any of us make a comment about, Keith Olbermann, KO, Olbey, etc…. — his status is raised a notch. It only plays to exactly what he wants “ATTENTION” which begets “NOTORIETY” which begets “POPULARITY” which begets “RATINGS”. Just stop watching him like I did. I do not miss his show at all. He is just an “ANGRY,RESENTFUL OLD MAN”.
Comment by Aunt Mary — February 27, 2007 @ 11:11 pm
For the life of me I can not understand the obsession by the FNC viewers here with Keith Olbermann. So you don’t like the guy( neither do I)but why the countless comments about him day after day? Sheesh just about every day after Spud posts the ratings some one has to post and points out in what place Countdown came in and give us a little recap of the ratings and usually adds in a variation of his name just to be “funny”. News alert! I’m pretty sure everyone here is past 1st grade and can read the ratings ourselves.
Comment by myview — February 27, 2007 @ 11:27 pm
Keith, how many times do I need to say “same” before it sinks through your tinfoil hat? S-A-M-E. C-l-e-a-r n-o-w?
Comment by bigred — February 28, 2007 @ 12:09 am
Those good ratings for AC360, Anderson wasn’t on, it was Kiran and John Roberts.
Comment by Cooperite — February 28, 2007 @ 12:09 am
In the above post, myview states the following:
“For the life of me I can not understand the obsession by the FNC viewers here with Keith Olbermann.”
How convenient of you to address it as being an “obsession”, yet you gloss over Mr. Olbermann’s own “obsession” with Fox News. In literally virtually every single show, he has some sort of attack or assault on that network, yet you choose to ignore that, instead focusing on the responses of Fox News viewers.
Hypocritical much???
Comment by Ohio Mike — February 28, 2007 @ 10:24 am
I wasn’t trying to be hypocritical. Really wasn’t discussing the behavior of KO which by the way as I’ve stated many times here I find obnoxious. Yes, KO does seem to have an obsession with FNC these days but does that mean FNC viewers have to lower themselves down to KO’s standards?
Comment by myview — February 28, 2007 @ 10:38 am
****Everytime any of us make a comment about, Keith Olbermann, KO, Olbey, etc…. — his status is raised a notch. ****
No, it’s not, IMO. People had lots of reaction to John Rocker’s commentary, as well. Voicing opinion about commtted partisans can often raise the awareness of their insane blatherings. Pointing out that KO’s material comes primarily from blue blogs & that he’s about as non-partisan as James Carville can let folks who are unaware realize that, other than the MSM that gives him frequent literary reacharounds, we’re on to him.
Nothing wrong with pointing at the clown who thinks he’s performing in Masterpiece Theatre & chuckling.
Comment by RW — February 28, 2007 @ 10:50 am
Sam: According to the table that Spud posted above in another thread, the only FNC show that Keith beat for the month was Fox and Friends First.
Comment by Ira — February 28, 2007 @ 1:25 pm
That’s ok Ira. I should have been more precise. How about this…Olbermann’s primetime 8pm show trails every FOX show by a wide margin, except for one that airs when 75 percent of the U.S. is still asleep…although he still lost to that one in the demo. Kudos to Olbermahn.
He should be very proud that he has the 18th most watched show on cable news.
Comment by bigred — February 28, 2007 @ 3:15 pm
Keith, how many times do I need to say “same” before it sinks through your tinfoil hat? S-A-M-E. C-l-e-a-r n-o-w?
OK, bigred. If that’s supposed to me the answer to my question, which (see comment 3) was about how KO’s March 07 ratings will compare with his March 06 ratings, I take it you’re choosing (C): his March 07 ratings will be the same as his March 06 ratings. Brave prediction. KO’s Jan 07 ratings were way up from his Jan 06. His Feb 07’s were way up from his Feb 06. But it’s possible that March 07 will be the same as March 06. We’ll see.
Comment by Keith — February 28, 2007 @ 5:34 pm
Keith, his ratings will be the same as they are now… still not cracking the top 15.
Comment by bigred — February 28, 2007 @ 6:04 pm
IRA i specifically mentioned that using the febuary comparison figures, bigred comments weren’t accurate.
He made such statements before spud even posted the febuary programme ranker. Additionally using those figures you will see that KO beats fandf first in overall viewers as well as Neil Cavuto in the demo.
BTW i dont know why the Febuary averages between both charts are different probably it has to do with the sampling days or something.
Comment by Sam — February 28, 2007 @ 6:06 pm
I knew it! Despite all your “C-l-e-a-r-n-o-w?”, you ARE still chickening out of answering the question. So, as I said in 21, we can all see that you haven’t answered the question, and are only blustering around, pretending you have.
So, to be absolutely “C-L-E-A-R-N-O-W”, the question is about how KO’s March 07 ratings will compare with his March 06 ratings. The options are the same they’ve been all along, as specified in comment #3. And you have so far chickened out. That’s OK, just don’t give us this “C-L-E-A-R-N-O-W?” BS, pretending that you’ve met the challenge. Again: We can all read.
Comment by Keith — February 28, 2007 @ 7:26 pm
Keith, your quiz is an infantile & stupid as your hero’s show is. His ratings will be up over last March. They’ll continue to hover around the 18 mark overall, and you’ll continue to look silly with your tinfoil hat.
Comment by bigred — February 28, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
Sam: You are right about KO beating Neil in the demo. A little surprising.
Cavuto had a smaller ratio of demo to overall audience than any other daytime Fox show. Business news can’t be THAT boring!
Comment by Ira — February 28, 2007 @ 8:46 pm
So, what about KO in March? Will his numbers be
a) much better
b) a little better
c) about the same
d) a bit worse or
e) a lot worse
than March a year ago?
Keithy, Keithy, Keith… come on dude. The answer is “B” a little better. But so what? What’s your point? He’s doing better than he was doing last year… but does that mean that he’s doing well? Percents are fun and all… and I’m sure my middle school math teacher would be proud… but when the total numbers are still lower than most of his competition… it’s nothing to brag about.
So I guess I’ll give you my own questionaire:
If KO actually reported the news, and had the courage to report stories and information that didn’t fit his particular POV, would he:
A) Stop doing the show
B) Take all kinds of time off, to avoid the reports
C) Be abandoned by his viewers, and eventually fired
D) Melt
Comment by ImNotBlue — February 28, 2007 @ 9:48 pm
No big deal. bigred had predicted his ratings would go down, and I was just wondering whether s/he’d given up that silly opinion, and come around to seeing that, though there will be fluctuations, the general trend (as is well-measured by year-to-year month comparisons) will be upward for the foreseeable future. Wouldn’t have minded if he just said he didn’t want to answer. But pretending that he had answered was something worth pointing out, esp. when s/he starts getting mad and making “tinfoil hat” comments.
B’s not a bad guess. Though I would assume that having one of the largest percentage increases in all of cable news would not count as “little,” so it would have been a wrong guess about Feb 07 vs. Feb 06 and about Jan 07 vs. Jan 06. So, I guess considerably better. We’ll see.
Comment by Keith — February 28, 2007 @ 10:38 pm
Your assumption is that the percentage increase will continue forever. That is simply not true. From a year ago, he’s seen big increases… but since last month? Since last week?
Keith’s show is still fairly new… and your comparison really doesn’t show much. If you have a penny in your pocket… and find a dime… you’re percentage increase really high… but you still only have 11 cents.
Keith’s numbers may have gone up… but he hasn’t really accomplished anything but an occasional second place finish.
Comment by ImNotBlue — February 28, 2007 @ 11:11 pm
Your assumption is that the percentage increase will continue forever.
No, my guess is that KO’s doing better for a month over the same month a year ago will continue at least through March. Forever? No, I don’t guess or assume that. In fact, I know that’s false.
he hasn’t really accomplished anything but an occasional second place finish.
Well, “an occasional second place finish” isn’t accurate. I mean, the composite for the month of Feb. had him second. And for Janauary. December I haven’t been able to find: at the end of Dec., everyone seemed to be giving the totals for the year and not bothering with the month. But you know that “occasional second place finish” understates the facts.
Let me come clean & explain myself. I’m not a fan of KO’s show. I’ve seen it maybe four or five times. I get my news from the internet, and have a hard time figuring out why anyone gets their news from TV, cable or broadcast. On a good on-line news site, you quickly see all the headlines laid out, and then you get to choose which story to read & spend time on. So you don’t have to endure Anna Nicole, or “body-language experts” or any such junk.
But a few months ago, I read on-line that Olbermann’s ratings had gone up significantly. I knew of Olbermann from his ESPN days, and so was a bit interested, and decided to check it out. I googled TV cable news & ended up at this site. Well, it was easy to quickly see that, yes indeed, his ratings have gone up significantly. But strangely, there were people on the comments who seemed strangely invested in not seeing this. They would grab on to day-to-day fluctuations whenever they would dip down, and seemed weirdly unable to see the obvious forest for the trees. I was intrigued. I wondered how they would react when someone pointed the facts out to them? What a surprise! It was as if you’d insulted their mother! I mean really. I’d point out ratings increases, not b/c I’m a fan or anything, and someone would lash back with “You lib”, “you’re on that crack-pipe again” (that one was one of my favorites by bigred), “You’d probably like it if the terrorists killed us all”, stuff like that. Well, all very interesting. But I myself don’t really have strong feelings either way for KO, or O’Reilly. They both seem like blowhards to me, but that’s not based on much experience of them. And O’Reilly seems to keep my grandma entertained, so I’m thankful for that. So, maybe it’s time to stop trying to break through to folks. Just go back to your delusions, folks. You’re welcome to them.
Comment by Keith — February 28, 2007 @ 11:41 pm
Forgive me for asking the obvious… and I don’t mean this to be as rude as I’m sure it will sound, but… if you don’t like television news, and more aptly cable news… why are you on this blog? Why would you care whether or not people like or hate KO? Seems like a bit more effort than needed… for something you don’t care about.
Comment by ImNotBlue — March 1, 2007 @ 12:10 am
Your answer is all in the last paragraph of #40, read from “But a few months ago” until “I was intrigued.” And I was intrigued, in the way human behaviour I can’t understand often is. It hasn’t been driven by any interest in cable news, but in what the people commenting could be like. But I must admit, it’s getting tiring now (what with people asking questions that have just been answered and whatnot). I’ve only commented on maybe three or four days, and this one was my most sustained effort to break through. But there’s no hope I can see. I may check back in from time to time, but maybe not, and I can’t see the point in commenting.
Comment by Keith — March 1, 2007 @ 12:26 am
Keith perhaps I misjudged you, and if so, I apologize. I just get tired of the hate America first crowd that Olbermann appeals too and I figured since you were praising him, you were in that club. Yesterday there were people on the liberal blogs actually posting how upset they were that Dick Cheney didn’t get blown up by a suicide bomber attack. To me, that’s sickening.
I’m no fan of Nancy Pelosi (or Keith Olbermann) but I sure as hell would never wish for terrorists to blow them up.
People like that are the ones who are driving KO’s ratings, because he has shown he can & will say anything about anyone who is not a Democrat, no matter how outrageous, how untruthful or how slanderous.
Like you, I enjoyed him on ESPN a decade ago with Dan Patrick. It’s disgusting to see what he has become.
Comment by bigred — March 1, 2007 @ 1:40 am
***** (what with people asking questions that have just been answered and whatnot)****
Like hammering for an A,B,C or D answer when it’s already been presented. Yeah, that can come across as Olbermannesque at times (read: a-hole)
Comment by RW — March 1, 2007 @ 11:12 am
Like you, I enjoyed him on ESPN a decade ago with Dan Patrick. It’s disgusting to see what he has become.
Bigred: I agree 100%!
And was it that many years ago that Keith was highly critical of (ultra-liberal film maker) Ken Burns for all the factual errors in the PBS documentary “Baseball?”
And for awhile Keith did a good Sunday night Sportswrap show on Fox Sports Net. Who would have imagined the hatred he has for Fox today?
Comment by Ira — March 1, 2007 @ 1:37 pm
RW: The difference is, nobody has yet answered that question. (I’d say: “Read: dumb-ass”, but I’m too nice.)
Comment by Keith — March 1, 2007 @ 2:03 pm