From the Baltimore Sun:
Tuesday night’s GOP debate on CNN was another ratings juggernaut with an audience of 18 million viewers, according to Nielsen Fast National ratings. …
CNN also live-streamed the production to CNN.com, its mobile apps and connected TVs. CNN had 3.1 million live streams, peaking at 9:45 p.m. with 815,000 concurrent streams.
Tuesday’s ratings continue to make the GOP debates the most valuable franchise on American television this side of “Sunday Night Football” on NBC.
For the entire century, the national media have been assuring you that Invade the World, Invite the World is the only possible grand strategy so there’s no point in having on television people who don’t wholly agree.
But now we discover that they’ve been leaving money on the table all these years.
COMMENTS:
* Can you imagine if President God-Emperor Trump had a weekly program like Hugo Chavez did, where randomized phone calls got through to him and could ask him whatever they wanted? That would easily be the funniest show on the planet.
It could spoof the “You’re Fired!” music theme, and have a Trump signature tagline like “You’re Terminated!”, or “You’re Done, Shut Up” for when he smacks the phone on the receiver. Seeing him say that at the disconnected phone right after interrupting some autistic citizen mid-sentence would never, ever get old.
* Trump excoriated Charles Krauthammer on O’Reilly Tuesday night. Really went off on him. Made Bill squirm like the globalist weasel he is. This is the kind of talk we need. Call out the quislings.
Trump is picking up steam in his appearances. I think he smells not just victory but a rout.
Last week Trump hammered Cheney again also. Saying that taking FP advice from Cheney is absolutely nuts.
* What does Sailer and crowd think of privately owned + managed cities? I’ve been to Google HQ, which operates in many ways like a privately managed city and it’s quite awesome.
The private city model seems to address many of the complaints this crowd has about open borders. Surprisingly, many of the open borders crowd are supporters of the idea of privately managed cities.
* They’re still leaving money on the table by diluting the Trump experience inside way too many other candidates. It was almost as bad as the Olympics, where you sit through a half hour of ads and insipid “human interest stories” before you get to see Usain Bolt run for ten seconds.
* Conventional wisdom kept cackling over and over again about how strong this Republican field was before Trump. In reality, but for Trump, it’s a rather lame field. I also keep hearing about how Trump is too wild and irresponsible on foreign policy, in comparison to the responsible level headed rocks of stability in the rest of the field. In reality, the average person that doesn’t know that much otherwise but is paying attention to this Republican race looks at them all on foreign and military policy, and they walk away concluding that Trump is the stable sane level headed one, and that most of the rest of them are paranoid wacko bird chicken little sky is falling fanatics.
* Of course there’s a market for conservative media and debate. And yes, the media has been leaving money on the table, because they’re motivated by ideology more than profits. Look at the success of talk radio, and how Fox destroys its cable news competition.
Videos of the knockout game would have a lot more appeal to people than the fine points of transgender activism.
Conservatives should wholeheartedly embrace “diversity,” and demand that all the TV networks and major newspaper have adequate representation of right wing view points.
* In a world where the donor class had not twisted politics completely out of shape, Trump’s platform would be boringly unremarkable. Muslim immigration should be stopped until we’re able to filter out the terrorists? Well, obviously! You’d be nuts to suggest otherwise.
