Nobody is drinking the kool-aid

I didn't expect much from Dubya's speech on Tuesday and according to News America Now (via Joe Gandelman), nobody else did either.

President Bush's 8 p.m. update on the war in Iraq averaged just 19.13 million total viewers on the big four broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, according to Nielsen overnights.... That's down 41 percent from the 32.75 million who watched Bush on the Big Four during a primetime press conference in April, though that speech took place on the first night of May sweeps, when television viewership overall was higher.

You can't get people to drink the kool-aide if they won't even step up to the kool-aid stand.