Obama's ratings slide: press conference down 29%

The Live Feed ^ | 30 April 2009 | James Hibberd

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Audience interest in Barack Obama’s news conferences seems to be falling, with Wednesday’s press event drawing the president’s smallest primetime audience since his inauguration.

The telecast to mark Obama’s 100th day in office was viewed by 28.8 million people, according to Nielsen. That's a 29% drop from the president's last press conference, on March 24, and a 42% fall since his first, on Feb. 9.

Ten networks carried the telecast, which is one less than last time since Fox elected to run its detective drama Lie to Me (7.8 million, 2.3 national adults 18-49 rating) instead. Airing its regular entertainment programming saved Fox ad dollars but didn’t help the show much. Lie pulled the same rating it did last week. Yet, like last week, it won the 8 p.m. hour.

Here's the president's last three primetime news events:

Feb: 9: 49.5 million March 24: 40.4 million April 29: 28.8 million

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

The lustre continues to dull.

[Landru]

The average American obviously never heard the term, "All that glitters is not gold."

[newfreep]

The trend is our friend...

Feb: 9: 49.5 million
March 24: 40.4 million
April 29: 28.8 million

[colorado tanker]

Fox elected to run its detective drama Lie to Me

That's a show? I thought Fox had just put a more accurate description on Zero's talk. :-))

[Vigilanteman]

My Daddy was a wise man when he told me that you could keep sugar coating a turd forever, but eventually people would discover the truth.

[henkster]

Familiarity breeds contempt.

[Atlas Sneezed]

When all you have going for you is “change”, you’ll find it’s hard to keep selling the same old thing.

[FlingWingFlyer]

If you’ve seen one Obama concert you seen them all. Blah, blah, blah and some white guy faints.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Maybe the reason is a balky teleprompter:

[y6162]

Obamachev loves to hear himself speak.

He’s over exposed. People are going get tired of him and then dislike him.

[Condor51]

"April 29: 28.8 million" Ha! Even the Obamamaniacs have had enough of seeing his puss all over the TV.

If his teleprompter was human he'd prolly be blamed, then fired.

[truemiester]

Listening to the president speech is a lot like watching NASCAR.

A certain percentage watch just to see and (teleprompter) accident.

One is tragic and you say a prayer. The is hilarious and you tell a friend.

[chiefqc]

Brings back the thought, “Lipstick on a Pig”.

[dajeeps]

That guy talks too much and is becoming old news rather quickly.

Although I suppose it’s better that he spends so much time on his vanity because it takes time away from plotting more sinister things. I’m also glad he has only a skeleton cabinet. If he had all those posts filled he might actually get something done and then we’d be in real trouble.

[bethtopaz]

Proverbs 25:17

Let your foot rarely be in your neighbor’s house, Or he will become weary of you and hate you.

[IonInsights]

This contradicts with the Obama century.

[Gator113]

A free-fall with his hair on fire would be nice.

It could go a long way in restoring my faith in this dumbed down country.

[Oldpuppymax]

So does this mean there will be fines imposed on non-viewers?

[ChocChipCookie]

And now the rumor that he might show up on American Idol? OMG. Can’t he just shut up and go away?

[bergmeid]

Another 6-12 months and we will ALL hate him. Even the morons that voted for him. Already the media has to resort to lies to make it sound as if he is so popular. I heard that during that speech the other day in Missouri, on his 100 day anniversary, there were hundreds of protesters outside. Inside it was portrayed as if he was just so popular and so well liked. Yeah right. The reality of it is that he’s widely despised and hated, by ever increasing numbers.