The Obamacare Show: Bombed
In a rare show of good taste, America TV viewers turned off the ABC News/White House infomercial on Obamacare.
They should have listened to me and included John Stossel in their programming!
Via The Live Feed:
President Obama’s town hall meeting on health care delivered a sickly rating Wednesday evening.
The one-hour ABC News special “Primetime: Questions for the President: Prescription for America” (4.7 million viewers, 1.1 preliminary adults 18-49 rating) had the fewest viewers in the 10 p.m. hour. The special tied some 8 p.m. comedy repeats as the lowest-rated program on a major broadcast network.
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Tied with comdey repeats. How… Ironic.
“I don’t know. It was my idea, but I don’t think much of it.”
- Moe (MUTTS TO YOU, 1938)
Impossible! Do you mean to say that the United States is getting BORED with Chauncey?
Once again we find ourselves following a trend that started in Europe. They categorized him as Ipecac about 3 months ago…
So The Obamacare Show bombed. Well that’s fine. Because the thing is, this is exactly the kind of bad ratings that would have occurred if John McCain had won the White House.
See? So everything is A – OK!
“The characters in this picture are all fictitious. Anyone resembling them is better off dead.”
- Opening Scene Caption (I’LL NEVER HEIL AGAIN, 1941)
And, in other news of the success of THE ONE’s leadership, this just in…
Glad not many watched. Still, 4.7 million viewers is 4.7 million too many!
Thank you America!!!! I guess next time bho wants to spin his crud, abc, nbc, and cbs will ALL have him on at the same time. People are sick and tired of seeing his face 24/7. And now, mo wants to get involved more. OH goodie, now we get to see her too 24/7!!
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“Are ya listenin’? Ba-ba-ba-boo, ba-ba-ba-boo, ba-ba-ba-boo!!”
- Larry (DIZZY DOCTORS, 1937)
lgm watched it. They only care about reaching out to drones like him in the first place.
Honeymoon over? It’s time to get some ice cream or have another out of Washington date night.
It’s time to give Flowers [to] Algernon.
hee hee
A one trick pony…?
Ya’ think…!!!
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/25/ramirez-and-the-answer-is/
“I’m gonna change my socks… what an experience!”
- Moe (THREE LITTLE SEW AND SEWS, 1939)
“Success!” “Success!” “Mazel Tov!”
- Moe, Larry and Curly (CALLING ALL CURS, 1939)
I would not get to comfy with these poor ratings, the O is too slick- and he sells his garbage that too many people are willing to buy.
Destroying free-enterprise is his full time occupation now, and his slick rhetoric is the “angel dust” for the leftist media.
His bizarre answers about unfair competition to health care insurers being a prime example of his silver tongue!
Just a guess, but I’ll bet more people watched Katie Couric get her colonoscopy…more interesting and less crap.
Stossel says the reporters and the audience did a pretty good job.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/06/obamas-health-care-forum.html
guess the scripted infomercial didn’t impress anyone but a few sheep, zero struck out because his lies didn’t convince anyone to buy into the bs. that is all zero has to offer, bs and lies. zero lacks any leadership skills and if the people of this great country really take a hard look at this parasite they will see what he brings to the table is and always will be, NOTHING!!
i’m just surprised there’s that many people watching all 3 major soup channels in one nite total.
Don’t watch much t.v. any more, Hannity gets old real fast for me, he’s always promoting something, commercial or political and stopped watching the O’Bore, his disrespectful attitude towards our hostess and his always pandering to the #1 dufus.I do watch the factor when there is a guest host or hostess like Laura Ingraham.
I thought it was Obama’s infomercial. Did he do a good job?
“Completely illogical, preponderantly impracticable, and moreover – it stinks!”
- Vernon Dent (HALF-WITS HOLIDAY, 1947)
Calling Doctor Howard, Doctor Fine, Doctor Howard!!!
I didn’t even realize it was on until I was flipping channels looking for a rerun of Wil and Grace.
Yeah, Marco, he buttered his bread.
But the Stossel money-quote is why he should have been on the program—
fox news and America’s got talent probably got more viewers….
vigorous debate?? I think not….one sided and slanted…
anybody catch who the advertisers were if any??
no one is ever impressed by mediocrity, except for loyal sheep who can’t accept zero failing, but he will fail. this country is better than what zero believes it is and has survived bigger problems, zero is a tick on the ass (washington dc) of society, and society will prevail.
…the airwaves with lies, and obfuscations, from General Bullsh*t.
According to one scoring, he was yapping 60% of the show.
Surprised!?!? A little “Me” from THE ONE.
And, Aloha, you killed me with the Couric shot
OT
Another illegal alien criminal murders another Houston cop.
Damn that W’s eyes…!!!!
I love Obama’s ideology about the elderly wanting to live longer… “Give them a pain pill to save money on unnecessary medical procedures”. What a psycho! Yet he refuses to accept his own health care plan for his family.
Health Care is the most boring issue ever. The only way you can get an audience is by using naked women. I can’t believe they thought people would watch.
Hey, I watched, I listened, I wasn’t impressed. He dodged questions for an hour. The shots of the captive audience did not show much agreement with The One. They asked questions about the holes in his program, and he just tap danced. He talked so long, they never got to the public option in the first hour. I didn’t stay on for Nightline. I guess it may have come up there. Yawn. Who watches Nightline, anyway? I agree with AlohaGuy, Katie Couric’s colonoscopy probably got better viewership. She may not get one again, under his program — too many procedures for aging Americans, ya know. Talk about outcome-based measurments: he’s looking to fill the graveyard so he can create more Democratic voters. Acorn will be watching.
OK, & slightly off topic, but here goes. If this abomination comes to pass, some very lucky doctors along the southern border can just pick up & move their practices to Mexico! The really lucky ones get to comuute across the border each day. I know it sounds crazy, but at least they can still do what they were trained for, get paid by people who want real care, & since the doctor is out of the U.S., there’s no law to restrict (read “screw over”)him. You might be thinking this is not going to happen, but if doctors have a choice between leaving practice or just a minor relocation with a little travel time, then the idea isn’t a laugher after all.
Ha…I love it…the honeymoon is over! I am sick of having “this guy” shoved down my throat via magazine covers, newscasts ad naseum, promotional products, you name it. He has nothing to say to me. He won’t even accept this so-called health plan and yet expects us to bow and agree. For you who voted for this guy, stop drinking the Kool-Aid, please!
Errah sorry I missed it. I was watching that Sham Wow guy on QVC . . . . I’ll catch it at 2:00 am tonight on the rerun.
It would be interesting to see what the normal ratings are for ABC at that time slot.
This abc tape of bho will probably be in the next ‘gift’ to some world leader.
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Not a silly idea at all.
Medical vacations will be a growth industry in the resort areas of Mexico, Costa Rica, etc.
Patients and providers will go off-shore, just as a lot of American wealth is doing.
don’t trust any pitchman, other than BILLY MAYS!!!
BILLY MAYS FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Obama? Healthcare? Infomercial? Did I miss something last night? Must have been when I was taking out the garbage.
Except the joke is on us….
On Rush EIB Network:
Page 114-15 of the Kennedy National Health Care Plan::Members of Congress are exempt
As it always is: Special Privilege for Special People.
Rule .223
I watch my kc royals win rather then the loser ogabe.
Instead of the floating casinos, we’ll have floating clinics. That doesn’t work out too well for the flyovers, though.
sure she will she has the $$ to go out of the system…those with $$ won’t participate in the system the sheeple will be thrown into…
Betcha it STILL gets an Emmy Award.
ShamWow….epic fail.
Under Obamacare, Goerge Soros had better hope he doesn’t get sick. What’s that? Rich Socialists get special treatment?
And I thought liberals were egalitarian.
Obama’s Own Doctor Doesn’t Like the ObamaCare Plan
Bloom, left rose …
Thank goodness marxist TV isn’t popular.
btw, I liked Rush’s request that we all call our senators and congresspersons and ask if THEY intend to leave their current good health care plan (we all know senators take very good care of themselves) and instead sign up for this new plan Obama wants to shove everyone into. I’ve already done so. Please call your senators and ask.
aloha; lol. barry needs to get you to write his lines. if not barry, those blithereing idiots separated at birth, john f. kerry, of vietnam fame, and vp moron o minus, of afghanistan fame. between the two they definitely need a good punch line writer. the drum and cymball crash can only carry lame dialogue so far. and you are funny.
I actually tried to watch this, kind of like you can’t halp looking at a car wreck. I made it about 10 minutes, and shut it off as I realized my TV was in danger of being destroyed by projectiles.
The whole thing was elaborately staged to look like it was not staged. Shear boredom punctuated by moments of intense nonsense.
The fact that Barry et al think this would actually convince someone indicates to me how warped his PR people are, which I think is encouraging.
“I watch my kc royals win rather then the loser ogabe.”
And I could smell my ’stros blowing that game while I watched LSU hammer the Horns.
Anybody catch the after show where Charlie Gibson and Obama acted like they were being adverserial towards each other? It had about the same spotanaity as the question from an “Iranian inside Iran” from the day before. Pitiful.
“Senator Kennedy, you’re too old for treatment. Here’s some aspirin. Now, go away.”
DoctorObama, June 2009
Let’s be serious here. This administration is a comedy repeat! I laugh so hard every day that it makes me cry. Or maybe I just cry…okay, that’s actually closer to the truth.
How long before we see floating clinics docking next to the floating casinos?
Or this may end up like the Candaian system–no one can offer procedures the Government Health service provides. I think Canada uses a road cone and flash light for the UpYoursKatiOscopy. Then again there well may be Special Hospitals and Doctors for Special People–
But very few people are asking the real question: Just where in the United States Constitution is this allowed? Yes, the would be President Hussein’s “Bill of Negative Rights”.
Chat With John Stossel Tonight:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/06/webchat-with-me-tonight.html
I saw that earlier and agree – Ramirez continues to cast his brilliant spotlight.
As for the poor ratings, could it be that the big O has been overexposed? /rhetorical sarc.
Here is the final solution:
Washington, DC — 22 June 2009
Congress today announced that the office of President of the United States of America will be outsourced to India as of 1 September 2009.
The move is being made in order to save the President’s $500,000 yearly salary, and also a record $750 billion in deficit expenditures and related overhead that his office has incurred during the last 3 months.
It is anticipated that $7 trillion can be saved to the end of the President’s term. “We believe this is a wise financial move. The cost savings are huge,” stated Congressman Thomas Reynolds (R-WA). “We cannot remain competitive on the world stage with the current level of cash outlay,” Reynolds noted.
Obama was informed by email this morning of his termination. Preparations for the job move have been underway for some time.
Gurvinder Singh, a tele-technician for Indus Teleservices, Mumbai India, will assume the office of President as of September 1, 2009. Mr. Singh was born in the United States while his Indian parents were vacationing at Niagara Falls, NY. Thus making him eligible for the position. He will receive a salary of $320 (USD) a month, but no health coverage or other benefits.
It is believed that Mr. Singh will be able to handle his job responsibilities without a support staff. Due to the time difference between the US and India , he will be working primarily at night. “Working nights will allow me to keep my day job at the Dell Computer call center,” stated Mr. Singh in an exclusive interview.
“I am excited about this position. I always hoped I would be President.” A Congressional spokesperson noted that while Mr. Singh may not be fully aware of all the issues involved in the office of President, this should not be a problem as Obama had never been familiar with the issues either.
Mr. Singh will rely upon a script tree that will enable him to respond effectively to most topics of concern. Using these canned responses, he can address common concerns without having to understand the underlying issue at all. “We know these scripting tools work,” stated the spokesperson.
“Obama has used them successfully for years, with the result that some people actually thought he knew what he was talking about.”
Obama will receive health coverage, expenses, and salary until his final day of employment. Following a two-week waiting period, he will be eligible for $140 a week unemployment for 26 weeks. Unfortunately he will not be eligible for Medicaid, as his unemployment benefits will exceed the allowed limit.
Obama has been provided with the outplacement services of Manpower, Inc. to help him write a resume and prepare for his upcoming job transition. According to Manpower, Obama may have difficulties in securing a new position due to a lack of any successful work experience during his lifetime.
A greeter position at WalMart was suggested due to Obama’s extensive experience at shaking hands, as well as his special smile.
Cap and trade is comming soon and the health plan is not dead.
We have to rely on some Dems getting a spine and that doesn’t fill me with confidence.
Write/Call pester these people, let them know that we say no to the hot dog saleman in chief.
By the time the witching hour rolled around, I forgot it was even on, not that I intended to watch our fearless leader spin his wheels on this issue.
Funny!
Scary, but funny.
prendad; I enjoyed your “letter”, but…
I had an experience last year with Dell that I have to pass on.
I bought a used Dell desk-top on ebay, an obvious corporate surplus sale. I paid $35 bucks, plus shipping, figuring I could gut it for parts in the worst case.
I fired it up and it worked, but crashed shortly after power-up. Repeatedly and dependably.
I called Dell, just to see if I had any recourse, but primarily to see if they could suggest a fix. I gave them the serial number, and confirmed it was from a corporate environment. Also, it was of warranty.
They had me open its little gray belly, and told me to look for swollen transistors. Apparently, this batch had had a problem.
Well, long to short, they sent a guy TO ME with a brand new motherboard. He installed it RIGHT THERE. Charge? Zero.
When somebody does it right, I think their praises should be sung. Dell did.
Obama says the government will compete with the free market. “if the government plan is not better, no one will choose it then” said Obama.
The medical industry expert pointed out that you can’t fairly compete in the marketplace when one of your competitors is also the referee.
Classic. Isn’t fairness important anymore? What say you libs?
On second thought, I don’t care what libs say. They voted for Obama so their credibility is near O.
Capacitors….and yeah, they had a slew of them…
Love the Gong Show reference!
“Obama, I really liked your act, but then again, I like root canal!” would be what Chuck Barris would have said.
Yep, I did not watch the infomercial…
I suspect lgm turned on all the TVs in his cave and tuned them all to ABC in the hopes it would drive up the ratings!
Didn’t other watching it at all, and neither did millions of others, LOL!
Interesting reading over at DUmmieland today. Apparently because Gibson asked what they thought were tough questions, ABC is said to be “Second only to FOX” as a right wing tool. LOL! I am never surprised at how fast they can turn on their friends.
lgm watched with his drool cup and no popcorn.
Considering Q3 has the lowest HUT’s (households using television) this is BAD!
They can’t be wrong. They just can’t be. They will turn on anyone to prove to themselves that they are right. Al Gore got them all lathered up and they can’t contain themselves anymore. They are right dam it and no one can tell them different!
Scientific… (spoken in the manner of Homer Simpson saying “Velvet roooope…”)
Going waaay off-topic, but Obamacare is so boring (no wonder nobody watched):
Best news headline of the day:
Stoned Wallabies Create Crop Circles in Poppy Fields
Apparently it was convincing enough for some of our little Republican mice. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – if they have to argue on the basis of cost rather than principle, they’re going to cave sooner or later. I swear here and now, if this passes with any Republican votes, I’ll never vote for another Republican.
The King Of Pop dead…!?!?!
Another failure of American health-care.
Thank you and thank you Rags….
Yeah ABC, next time just run 3 consecutive Wipeout’s.
They’ll probably just chalk the low rating up to the switch to digital tv.
I totally forgot about Bamie’s infomercial. Wouldn’t have watched anyway, immersed as I was in the Weather Channel.
Obama National Euthanasia Plan, lgm, rss and your fellow libs, how old are you again?
Missing from his “final solution” for the elderly with (fatal) afflictions, was the “Soylent Green” option…
“We’d like to give everybody the best care, but that would be too expensive…,” The Mayo Clinic doctor said.
Rev Al Sharpton on TV making his death a race thing! UNBELIEVABLE! Is there n end to these useful idiot?