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January 19, 2017
Tucker Carlson Interviews Idiots Who Cites Lyndon LaRouche Newsletter for Proposition That Russia Recruited Trump to Run for President in 1983
Another trip to the slaughterhouse.
It occurs to me that Tucker Carlson is doing for real what Jon Stewart used to use with hoax editing.
Oh, and Tucker Carlson's ratings are higher than Megyn Kelly's, who was some kind of superstar or something.
In its debut week, Tucker Carlson Tonight — which moved from 7 PM ET to the 9 PM hour on January 9th following Megyn Kelly’s departure — averaged 3 million viewers and 576,000 in the 25-54 demographic. This placed it in the top ten in all of basic cable.
In comparison with how The Kelly File fared in that time slot in 2016, Fox News experienced an increase of 10% in total viewership and 12% in the key demo.
And 2016 was an election year. I do understand that this interregnum is also a highly-watched period of time. Just saying, the two periods are roughly comparable in terms of extrinsic advantage.
Martha McCallum's also improving over Gretchen Van Sustern's ratings.