{"id":6859,"date":"2012-04-11T23:54:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T06:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6859"},"modified":"2012-04-11T23:54:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T06:54:09","slug":"not-so-breitbart-jon-stewart-vs-robot-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6859","title":{"rendered":"Not So Breitbart: Jon Stewart vs. Robot Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Breibrats over at BigHollywood have once again set out to knock Jon Stewart down a peg by noting that there are other TV programs with higher ratings. I suppose I should give them credit for being able to count and to read a list, but they are still embarrassingly bad at ratings analysis, so I thought I would help them out by amending their big headline:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/breitbart-stewart-ratings.jpg\" alt=\"Breitbart - BigHollywood\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>If the Breibart crew is intent on criticizing Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for being such losers, it might have been a good idea to read a little <a href=\"http:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/2012\/04\/10\/monday-cable-ratings-pawn-stars-wins-night-wwe-raw-basketball-wives-hardcore-history-secret-life-of-the-american-teen-la-las-full-court-life-more\/128247\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tvbythenumbers+%28TVbytheNumbers%29\" target=\"_blank\">further down the list<\/a> (well, actually to the very bottom), where they would have found Fox News stars Sean Hannity and Bill O&#8217;Reilly. Then this commentary would not seem so idiotic:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But-but-but the media keeps telling me that two guys regularly humiliated in the ratings by cartoons, reruns, and &#8220;Robot Chicken&#8221; are American phenoms&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>But-but-but the media keeps telling me that two guys who couldn&#8217;t muster three million viewers combined are populist heroes who speak for the people&#8230;? [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Stick that in your clown nose, you speech-policing, left-wing elitists.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, maybe stop being dicks. That might help.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If Stewart and Colbert are humiliated by placing 27th and 45th, than how would the Breitbrats describe Hannity and O&#8217;Reilly showing up dead last at 99 and 100? It would seem that Stewart and Colbert are more representative spokespersons for the people than Fox&#8217;s biggest stars. And as for being dicks&#8230;I think the Breitbrats have that honor sewn up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Breibrats over at BigHollywood have once again set out to knock Jon Stewart down a peg by noting that there are other TV programs with higher ratings. I suppose I should give them credit for being able to count and to read a list, but they are still embarrassingly bad at ratings analysis, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,6,16],"tags":[982,33,83,187],"class_list":["post-6859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-ratings","category-wankery","tag-breitbart","tag-fox-news","tag-jon-stewart","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1MD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7243,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7243","url_meta":{"origin":6859,"position":0},"title":"Not So Breitbart: The Case Of Jon Stewart&#8217;s Crybaby Apologists","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/5\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"John Nolte at Breitbart News has so completely given up the pretense of having anything coherent to say that he has begun prefacing his columns with excuses for why they fail to make any point. 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