CNN Drops To Last Place In The Ratings

Do you suppose this might be the reason?

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper followed his colleague David Shuster into the gutter on his Anderson Cooper 360 program on Tuesday in making a vulgar “tea-bagging” joke about Republicans/conservatives. After CNN’s senior political analyst David Gergen remarked that Republicans were “searching for their voice” after two electoral losses, Cooper quipped, “It’s hard to talk when you’re tea-bagging.”

Even Cooper belatedly realized how stupid it was.

But this could also be the reason.

It’s no surprise the Glenn Becks of the world have been attacking Obama since the moment he stepped into the Oval Office. Beck and his blathering buddies on the right — you know, the stinky kids in the coatroom who eat their own boogers. Always pick on the kids least likely to fight back.

You'd think that somebody, somewhere would catch a clue about the decline of the mainstream news media. Here's one bit of evidence that conservatism sells.

While newspapers overall lost 10.6% of their circulation last year, the Wall Street Journal was the only paper in the nation that increased its circulation.