…but nobody watches their stupid pointless shows.
Thursday night, “The Daily Show,” that high-larious satire program hosted by Jon – New Murrow — Stewart, captured 1.827 million viewers.
His pal Stephen Colbert managed to wrangle 1.371 million viewers.
That means that these two shows, which the media assure us are populist phenomenons, garnered a total of 3.198 million people … or somewhere around .092% of the American population.
On the other hand, “Swamp People” humiliated them both (combined!), with a total viewership of nearly 5 million.
Read the rest, as John Nolte basically demolishes the Cult of The Fake-But-Real Comedy Central News Hour.
The funny thing about living in the Left’s media universe is that even conservatives can buy into the hype; in this case, specifically, me.
It’s amazing, really. I think of myself as relatively keyed-in to the huge progressive influence on the media. I get how the people who the run the news and entertainment industries (yes, I repeat myself) are pretty much all doctrinaire liberals.
Yet even with that built-in understanding, I still sorta take the media at their word. ”Oh yeah, Stephen Colbert is a cultural icon.” ”Yes of course The Daily Show is a massive hit.”
Why do I think that? Because CNN’s producers keep telling me how the brilliant satire of The Colbert Report effortlessly skewers Fox News. Because the New York Times just can’t stop huffing Jon Stewart’s sweet Obama-shilling dong. Because everybody with an MSM megaphone repeats the con-job over and over again.
Meanwhile, if ”The Daily Show” is a crucial voice within the cultural zeitgeist with a million pairs of eyeballs watching it, what does that make the five million viewers strong “Swamp People”? A back-asswards curiosity for anyone locked into the left-wing thought bubble, naturally.
Because the people who run Hollywood and the mainstream news outlets are leftist ideologues, they desperately want consumers to think that progressive programming–and thus progressive political views–are popular and normal. That means constantly pumping up shows that bolster left wing politics, even when the programs are niche products found on niche networks with limited viewerships. This is what turns “The Colbert Report”, a tiresome one joke sketch for college-age water-bong enthusiasts, into the voice of a generation.
The thing is that it’s a scam. Better still, even goofballs like me can see the game they’re running. The folks at home are starting to get wise to the bullshit.
But it’s not all bad news for the progressive movement. It’s not like leftist think tanks are all just a bunch of well-funded Astroturf operations. Oh, wait…
Dan Collins on April 14, 2012 at 6:36 am said:
Choot! Dat’s a biiiig failyah!
Starless on April 14, 2012 at 7:34 am said:
I prefer Shelby Stanga on “Ax Men” for my swamp-based, death-defying hilarity.
And, come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever watched more than a few minutes of “The Colbert Report” at any one time. Then again, I’ve never watched O’Reilly or Beck or any of the other Righty cable talking heads the Left is obsessed with either.
Dave C on April 14, 2012 at 4:31 pm said:
Doesn’t ‘The Daily Show’ lead into ‘The Colbert Report’?
So many of those numbers are the same people who just so happen to keep the TV for the next show.
Which is why the 3.198 million people number is a little off.
King Shamus on April 15, 2012 at 7:43 am said:
Dave C: I know what you mean. The audiences basically overlap.
Starless: I might’ve sat through an entire O’Reilly Factor once or twice. Same thing with Beck. but yeah, Stephen Colbert is right–I totally take my marching orders from FoxNews.
Dan: Who dat gonna beat dem Swamp Men at dah ratins warz?
Starless on April 15, 2012 at 8:42 am said:
I totally take my marching orders from FoxNews
I can’t recall having ever watched FoxNews. In fact, it has to have been at least ten years since I’ve watched any cable news for any reason and, at that time. it was likely MSNBC because they used to have a really good online streaming broadcast (it’s where I saw the WTC attacks). Since then, cable news seems to have turned entirely into all-opinionating, all-the-time, and I prefer to read opinionating at my leisure and not hear it come from the mouth of some overly-coifed f*cking idiot. (And if you’re interested, I’ll tell you what I really think of cable TV talking heads.)
So, yeah, Steven Coal Bert can bite my shiny, not-metal ass.