Sunday, December 15, 2013

MUTH'S TRUTHS 12/15/2013

RALSTON’S ROTTEN RATINGS

I reported on liberal blogger Jon Ralston’s putrid TV ratings a few weeks back in Silver State Confidential, but the “sweeps weeks” ratings from November are now in and – oh, boy - Li’l Jon is really scraping the bottom of the proverbial barrel!

Back in September, KSNV – Las Vegas’ NBC affiliate – dumped the game show “Jeopardy” and replaced it with Ralston’s Ralston Reports – a regurgitated version of his old Face to Face with Jon Ralston cable TV show. 

Since that time, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Saturday, the ratings for Ralston’s 6:30 pm time slot have plunged, get this, a staggering 60 PERCENT!

“That 60 percent drop has made ‘Ralston Reports’ look particularly vulnerable in its new time,” reports the RJ, noting that KSNV “went from dominant to dominated at 6:30 p.m.”

Let’s face it, Jon’s dim wit and unfunny sarcasm, combined with his over-the-top, grill-and-drill, foam-at-the-mouth interview style…not to mention that annoying tap-tap tic with his hands…makes for an often dull, usually abrasive and generally uninformative show.


Heck, if I recall when I last checked the ratings myself in October, even reruns of Two and Half Men on the independent station were beating out Ralston Reports!  I mean, how bad is that?

Despite stinking up the screen, Lisa Howfield, KSNV vice president and general manager, said the station was “committed to looking at the issues and getting people on the air to talk about them one-on-one.”

Except…

More and more opinion leaders, elected officials and candidates - especially conservatives, but including U.S. Sen. Harry Reid – are unofficially and informally boycotting the show.  Indeed, you’ll find Reid and U.S. Sen. Dean Heller doing every interview show under the sun these days…EXCEPT for Ralston Reports.

Just a few weeks ago, KSNV canned another local political chat-fest, The Agenda, which aired at lunchtime.  Does the same fate await Nevada’s #2 liberal blogger?

The RJ reports that “Howfield said there are no plans to replace (Ralston Reports) with something more competitive.”

You mean like reruns of Cop Rock or Manimal?

Bottom line: I’m told Ralston Reports is a comparatively expensive show to produce.  Now add in the fact that Karma is real, what goes around comes around and ye reap what ye sow. 

As such, and despite Howfield’s brave face on Ralston’s cellar-dwelling ratings, business is business and I predict the insufferable conservative-hating boor’s days on the tube are numbered.

Over/under, anyone?  Does he make it to Election Day 2014?

OLDIE BUT GOODIE

All the typical answers came up - fireman, mechanic, businessman, salesman... and so forth.  However, Little Johnny was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his father, he replied…

"My father's a dancer in a gay club. He takes off all his clothes to music in front of other men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy and stay with him all night for money."

The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some exercises and took Little Johnny aside to ask him, "Is that really true about your father?"

"No," the boy said, "He works for the Democratic National Committee and helped to get Obama elected twice, but it's too embarrassing to say that in front of the other kids."

(Hat tip: Tom Chadie)

FAMOUS LAST WORDS

“You’ve heard the news from North Korea, how the young head of that country just executed his guardian uncle.  Well, back here in America, the right wing is acting if not as brutally, certainly as crazily.” – Liberal MSNBC blather-mouth Chris Matthews (Jon Ralston’s idol)


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