President Barack Obama’s prime-time speech about his impending strategy for the war in Afghanistan drew more total viewers Tuesday night than recent high profile speeches about health care, according to Nielsen Media Research. All told, 40.8 million people on ten TV networks watched the president’s speech, up 27 percent from his health care address in September, and 65 percent from his health care press conference last July. The president’s biggest ratings, however, remain his February speech to a joint session of Congress about health care reform, which pulled in 52.4 million viewers.
Dec 2
2009
07:34 PM ET
Obama's Afghanistan speech pulls in 40.8 million viewers
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Unless you live on the West Coast, in which case you were just leaving work.
Yeah, a bunch of us in my dorm were just getting back from class. Someone would walk in to the lounge, see the speech on TV, and just stop. By the end, there were about 20 of us huddled around the TV watching.
no kidding – like he pre-empted all the shows except the ones on really crapping cable channels – like TLC
Hopefully he won’t start interrupting primetime every week like he did in the spring.
Um…yeah. He said he would pull troops out of Iraq within 6 months of his presidency. That hasn’t happened yet. Like I’ve been thinking since he got elected, it was all about popularity. People just wanted change so bad, they didn’t care who did it. It was either choose between old but experienced, or young but inexperienced (and black, what most people only cared about).
Ditto
Pulease! People voted for John McCain because he was white! You realize that the number of neo nazi hate groups rose to 10 percent since his presidnecy. So don’t play that “people only voted for obama because he’s black” thing with me because a lot of people didn’t vote for him because he was black!!!
Someone came up to me and said that if I didn’t vote for Obama then I was a racist…what does that tell you.
it is not like we had a choice…he was on almost every channel.
yes, he was on all the primetime channels, we couldn’t help but see him talk at the most dis-engaged group of future military youths. way to use “I” and “me” more than ever! also, thanks for telling he enemy when we are coming and when we are leaving….they are just like the babysitters boyfriend waiting to avoid the parents.
was anyone else thinking about the Harry Bellefonte song every time Bama pronounced taliban…tallybon?
Hey Mr Tally-bon, Tally me bananas!
Can someone please explain to me how this guy won a noble peace prize? Last I checked sending more troops to die in a pointless war was not at all peaceful.
Especially since he was awarded for the prize because of his accomplishments as president…and the nobel committee’s nomination time framed ended three weeks after his inaguration.
What did he do in those three weeks that was so fabulous.
Then again, what has he done at all that deserves a nobel peace prize?
And your Point is Bush Lover?
Your agenda. A brilliant plan. surly God is with you and no man should not be against you. Thank you commander and chief. You deserve another nobel peace priz. Im wit ya all the way. respectfully submitted. HYM