The early Nielsen ratings are in on the Obama Half Hour Informercial and Hootenanny and it’s not looking good for Team Obama.
The combined overall household rating for Senator Barack Obama’s Wednesday night infomercial, in the top 56 local television markets where Nielsen maintains electronic TV meters, was 21.7.
Obama’s simulcast is the first to be aired by a presidential candidate since Ross Perot ran a political telecast on Election Day in 1996. That program was watched by 16.8% of all households nationwide.
By comparison, each of the Presidential debates clocked in at over 34 and the second one almost doubled what Obama got last night.
The Obamessiah spent a ton of cash on that infomercial and, if that’s all he got out of it, then it was wasted money. Then again, what would he care about other people’s money? It’s not like he cared at all whether much of it was legal or not and, when he gets to be President, he’ll take all the money from you that he wants.
It was a nice ego-stroke, though, paid for by such fine Americans as A. Hitler and S. Hussein.
(via memeorandum)
Tags: Barack Obama, Campaign Finance Reform, Corruption, Television
