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During the week of November 25th CNN saw its lowest-rated week among total viewers
since June 2001 with an average of just 268,000 viewers.
MSNBC managed to only slightly outdraw CNN with an average of 346,000 viewers. But the real concern for MSNBC lies in primetime, where its shows used to reach more than 1 million viewers. Last week, the network averaged 465,000 viewers in primetime.
In the advertiser-coveted demographic of adults aged 25-54, CNN recorded an average of just 41,000 viewers for the week –
the network's lowest in nearly 30 years. Yet the channel still topped MSNBC, which averaged an almost unheard-of 29,000 total day viewers among the demo.
It was MSNBC’s worst week among the demo since November 1997, when Bill Clinton was still president.
Since Election Day, key MSNBC programs — including “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “ReidOut,” and “Inside with Jen Psaki” —
have lost more than half of their 25-54 viewership compared to their 2024 averages.
Despite nearly wall-to-wall hysteria over Trump's cabinet picks, particularly Pete Hegseth, MSNBC had a smaller audience among the demo than 36 other cable options – including Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, E!, The Cartoon Network, Oxygen, MTV, Hallmark Mystery, and a pair of Lifetime networks.
I WONDER WHY?
Fact Check: Did Trump Call for Liz Cheney to Face a Firing Squad?
At a campaign event with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson in Glendale, Arizona, on Thursday evening, former President Donald Trump denounced former Republican Rep.
Liz Cheney of Wyoming as a "radical war hawk" and asked, rhetorically, how she would like it with guns "trained on her face."
"She’s a radical war hawk," the former president said in a clip posted to the social media platform X. "Let’s put her
with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face."
"You know, they're all war hawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying 'Oh, gee, we'll -- let's send -- let's send ten thousand troops right into the mouth of the enemy," Trump added.
Clearly, therefore,
Trump meant to label Cheney a bloodthirsty coward and hypocrite for cheering on war from inside her comfortable, D.C.-area confines. Ironically, liberals once leveled that same charge against her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney.
Now, however, both warmongering
Cheneys have endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris.
With unparalleled shamelessness, the establishment media and other Harris allies have distorted Trump's words.
Left-leaning Politico, for instance, tweeted that "Liz Cheney responded to Donald Trump’s suggestion that she should stand before a firing squad."
Meanwhile, Kasie Hunt of CNN called it "an escalation of [Trump's] violent rhetoric."
Harris campaign spokesman Ian Sams also amplified the lie.
...and so it went all over social and mainstream media
Zack Beauchamp of left-wing Vox acknowledged the full context of Trump's comments.
"Folks, Trump didn't threaten to execute Liz Cheney. He actually was calling her a chickenhawk, something liberals said about her for ages. Look at the context — Trump is talking about giving her a weapon. Typically, people put in front of firing squads aren't armed," Beauchamp exaplained.
"This is one of the most pathetic media lies about Trump in awhile, and that's saying a lot. Trump was making the valid -- and important -- point that, like many in DC, Liz Cheney is a maniacal warmonger because it's never her or her dad that endures the horrors of war," Glen Greenwald posted.
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