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Posted on 05/31/2013 1:33:37 PM PDT by drewh
We've already seen audiences fleeing MSNBC, the network that religiously carries the Obama administration's water, as a number of scandals rock the White House. Now, it looks like the long-running battle between Jay Leno and David Letterman is also being affected by the toxic headlines swirling around the president.
During this year's May sweeps, "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" posted a 39 percent lead over "Late Show With David Letterman" in the advertiser-cherished 18-49 demographic -- the widest May sweep margin over "Late Show" since 2004, and a 12 percent increase over last year's May sweep....
In total viewers, Leno also widened the lead over Letterman compared to last year, averaging 3.515 million versus 2.767 million for Letterman. That's a 27 percent advantage, up 16 percent from last May.
So, what changed?
Leno continues to hammer President Obama for his connection to several political nightmares, from the IRS hounding Tea Party groups to the Department of Justice eavesdropping on high-profile journalists. Meanwhile, Letterman is still focusing his comic firepower on the GOP, all but ignoring Obama as a target of mockery.
Audiences apparently want their late night hosts to do their job rather than protect the powerful.
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Letterman is an Obama kook.
No longer funny...and I thought he was GREAT in my younger years.
Letterman is still alive?
WOO-HOO!
Have Dave and Chris Matthews ever been photographed together? Just saying.
How stupid does NBC look now?
I hope Jay moves over to Fox and trounces them all
Leno understood that to get a wider audience, he has to start making jokes about the Commie freak in the White House..gee if only other Comics got the message maybe people would watch them..Letterman would NEVER poke fun at his messiah Obama, he is too busy making nasty jokes about Sarah Palin to ever conceive to say anything negative about his butt buddy Obama
the last time I watched Letterman ,he put a meatball on an Xmas tree ,was he crapping on Christianity
Letterman is getting to be “nasty” as Conan. No longer watch either of them (although I watched them very rarely).
Go Jay! Move to FOX and hammer ‘em....
Agree..give him a one hour show with an 11 PM start time..and he’ll destroy the news AND Letterman..
Jay will make a fortune on FOX at 10PM, if he even needs the money anymore.
good point
he may not need to money but I think he will love sticking it to NBC
Good, but don’t expect the majority of Americans to abandon their marxist in chief.
Their heads will be firmly back up their a$$es by Nov 2016.
You mean Johnny Carson is not doing the Tonight Show any more?
“the last time I watched Letterman ,he put a meatball on an Xmas tree ,was he crapping on Christianity”
couldn’t the term “Xmas” be considered as “crapping on Christianity”
It is IMHO
Letterman is gone, he sees the writing on the wall. Perhaps Conan will take over for him
Maybe Leno should have had the balls to do this in 2008.
Letterman was really funny when he wasn’t using his biting sarcasm towards the 50% of us who happen to despise our Constitution being used as fodder for the demon-crap-ic garbage disposal.
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