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Obama Job Speech Viewership Off By Over 25% - Down 11 Million
Obama Job Speech Viewership Off By Over 25% - Down 11 Million
President Barack Obama calls for a speech in front of a joint session of Congress (both the House of Representatives and members of the Senate in attendance - 535 members) in order to stem the tide of failure of his 44th Presidency. The only problem is that every one in the room (and apparently outside the room as well) knew that this President had nothing else new to add.
After asking for, and getting an increase in Government spending (read that as taxpayer funded borrowing) of about 2.5 Trillion dollars that included ObamaCare, Stimulus, Omnibus, with the corporate takeovers of General Motors and Chrysler ... then fighting for, and getting an increase in the Debt Ceiling by another 2.5 Trillion Dollars earlier this summer ... this President had the gall to ask Congress to grant him another 1/2 Trillion Dollars of "Jobs" spending (read this as "son of stimulus"). He not only asked for this spending, he insisted on it saying "Pass This Bill" 17 (seventeen) times throughout his speech.
Fewer citizens than ever are buying what this most progressive and most divisive Chief Executive our country has ever elected has to say. Most citizens know why and it is simple ... this President got voted into office on fiscal prudence, no earmarks, transparency in the processes of law and bill creation (72 hour internet posting of all proposed bills before any vote), and unity with not one promise pursued once this man took office on January 20, 2009.
President Barack Obama watches a monitor in House Speaker John Boehner’s Ceremonial Office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., before addressing a Joint Session of Congress on jobs and the economy, Sept. 8, 2011. Image Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete Souza
Gotta' love the way the mainstream outlet of USA Today spins the reduced numbers of the viewing audience with this following excerpted and edited article -
Obama's jobs speech draws 31.4M viewers
By David Jackson, USA TODAY
The Nielsen ratings people are reporting that 31.4 million television viewers watched President Obama's jobs speech on Thursday evening.
That is more than 10 million less viewers than for Obama's State of the Union addresses, and other major speeches.
Other Obama speeches have been delivered in prime time; the jobs speech was at 7 p.m., after negotiations with Congress and concerns about bumping into the opening game of the National Football League season.
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Obama's State of the Union address in January drew 42.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
By contrast, Obama's March address on military action in Libya had on 25.6 million TV viewers.
Obama's most watched speech: His May 1 announcement about the death of Osama bin Laden, seen by 56.5 million television viewers.
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The most watched televised speech that President Barack Obama delivered was the announcement that al Queda leader Osama bin Laden was tracked down and killed. An effort he appropriately claimed that he green-lighted the mission on but left it as if he should have the major share of the credit.
This nation had been looking for "UBL" for nearly 15 years (Clinton, Bush, and Obama presidencies) with the last 10 having the intent on ending his life. This Chief Executive was the man that happened to be the one on the watch and we are thankful he did not stand in the way of a mission accomplished.
Obama's foray as Commander-In-Chief in directing our troops into harm's way, on the other hand, had its vote by the citizens with his lowest viewership ratings.
Why can not USA Today (as well as other mainstream media outlets) be more honest in the way it reports the viewership numbers here during Carter's Second Term?
We'd love to see a headline like this:
Obama's jobs speech suffers a viewership downgrade on the heels of a U.S. Credit Rating downgrade
O-U-C-H! - This has not been a very successful third summer of the 44th Presidency of the United States.
[Article first published as Obama Job Speech Viewership Off By Over 25% - Down 11 Million on Technorati]
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at 04:25 on September 11th, 2011
Delivering the jobs speech before the Joint Session was a necessary step, but I think the act of scheduling the event was way over hyped and undermined the delivery. The speech was simple: Pass the legislation. He didn't say how much it would cost. He said payment for it was all accounted for. He didn't say, it is up to the Supercommittee to figure it out.
All-in-all, this was the launch of his campaign. He is trying to escape a one-term presidency and he may do that unless Republicans can do better. So far, they are not.
at 05:49 on September 11th, 2011
You obviously haven't been paying attention. The House has passed the Ryan Budget (Democrats still have NO budget for over 900 days now!) and Cut, Cap, & Balance ... both would do more to turn the tide on Obama's destructive policies and jobs than what this 44th Administration is campaigning for.
at 13:02 on September 13th, 2011
Good work. I see you are Writing for Technorati as well, Congrats. I also mentioned this on Politisite. I thought it was a good observation that Obama late night announcement of OBL death got 25 Million more viewers than his Jobs speech.
I have mentioned (more often then I would like) that Obama was burning out people by appearing on TV so often. When a POTUS gets on the TV, America would watch because they knew it was important.