Obama's least-watched speech yet (edit: still outdraws several key Bush speeches)

[Sidewinder]

The magic is gone. No more are people fainting in droves when the Messiah reads his teleprompter. Enough of the lies and propaganda, the America-bashing, big government solutions and incompetence, Americans are tuning him out in droves now.

http://livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/06/obama-oil-spill-address-draws-32-million.html


Obama oil spill address draws 32 million

Barack Obama's first address from the Oval Office delivered 32.1 million viewers Tuesday evening. The speech ranks as the president's second least-watched major cross-network primetime event.

Obama discussed the Gulf Coast oil spill and called for energy policy changes. The 20-minute address was viewed across 11 networks -- ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, TEL, UNI, CNN, CNBC, FOXNC, MSNBC, and TWC.

The audience is down 33% from Obama's first State of the Union address in January and down 21% from his last primetime speech announcing a strategy for U.S. involvement in Afghanistan last December.

Of Obama's major addresses, last night was the least-watched telecast yet. But the president's health care reform press conference last July pulled a smaller audience, drawing 24.7 million.

[db44]

As usual, no metion of internet coverage... That said, do you think perhaps more people see a need to watch the SOTU, but perhaps feel no attachment to this. Oh, wait, it's only the select few charging that things are so bulloxed up in the Gulf Coast in the first place...

[Richard Tafoya]

And by comparison, Bush's 9/11 commemorative speech drew 31 million, his Katrina speech drew a little less than 32 million, his 2005 Iraq War speech drew 19 million.

Does that mean the American people had tuned out of Bush in droves in the middle of all these crises?

http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=15629

[Incident]

Note the the speech was watched by more than watched the Prime Time Press conference last July where the President made his racist attack against the Cambridge Police. Summertime speeches usually are less watched.

[Brady]

wow,

instead of tryng to make the president look bad by pointing out somthing un-important,

why dont we discuss what he talked about in the speech.




at least he trying to do something,

he could probly get more done if people would'nt try to stop him form making any progress.