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O'Reilly Caught Lying About His Ratings Increase By: Steve - November 3, 2009 - 10:30am Here is proof O'Reilly lied about his ratings going up 20% because of the Obama vs Fox News war. Billy said this a few days ago on the View: O'REILLY: "I sent Barack Obama, President Obama a fruit basket for all the comments because our ratings are up 20% since he made it."Here are the Factor ratings for the two weeks before the war started, from September 28th to October 9th. September 28th - 3,353,000 September 29th - 3,527,000 September 30th - 3,561,000 October 1st - 3,444,000 October 2nd - 2,743,000 October 5th - 3,142,000 October 6th - 3,263,000 October 7th - 3,676,000 October 8th - 3,765,000 October 9th - 3,125,000 Average - 3,259,000 Total Viewers a Night Here are the Factor ratings for the two weeks after the war started, from October 12th to October 23rd. October 12th - 3,370,000 October 13th - 3,694,000 October 14th - 3,778,000 October 15th - 3,562,000 October 16th - 2,490,000 October 19th - 3,323,000 October 20th - 3,381,000 October 21st - 3,722,000 October 22nd - 3,436,000 October 23rd - 3,426,000 Average - 3,420,000 Total Viewers a Night The Factor gained 161,000 viewers a night in the two weeks of the Obama vs Fox News war. That is a 5% ratings increase, not a 20% increase as O'Reilly claimed. And btw, the 3,259,000 and the 3,420,000 averages are not even close to the over 5 million viewers O'Reilly claims he is getting now. Billy said he is almost beating Katie Couric at CBS news, who gets roughly 5.9 million viewers a night. Earth to O'Reilly, 3.4 million is not the same as 5.9 million. |