Glenn has enjoyed mocking the Constitution hating, gun control fanatic Piers Morgan over his ever dwindling ratings, and today was no exception.
“Believe it or not, it's earth shattering, it is strong, and it is serious,” Glenn said on radio this morning. “Piers Morgan has been beaten by RuPaul.”
Yes, that’s right, RuPaul’s Drag Race, which airs at 9PM on Logo TV, won the ratings race against CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight on Monday. While Morgan’s audience numbers always pale in comparison to the infinitely more popular Hannity on Fox News and Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, the loss to RuPaul and Logo represents a new low for CNN.
“Couple of things,” Glenn said. “One, I have never heard of Logo TV. Two, who knew RuPaul was still alive?”
After trying to figure out the last time RuPaul was relevant (they settled on the early 1990s), Glenn, Pat, and Stu got back to talking about the real issue at hand – the impending doom of Piers Morgan at CNN.
“On Logo, when [Morgan’s] on CNN and they are up against each other at 9:00 Eastern: 565,000 viewers to 545,000,” Pat said. “That's a death knell for Piers Morgan.”
Earlier in the week, Glenn talked about how Morgan managed to take Anderson Cooper’s 8PM ET victories over MSNBC and turn them into major losses (by the hundreds of thousands) during the 9PM hour. Given all the recent shakeups at CNN, being creamed in the ratings by a little-known cable network is probably not the best way to keep your job.
“Okay. Let's have a pool,” Glenn said. “He's gone within 30 days.”
Pat and Stu weren’t so sure the plug would be pulled on Morgan that fast.
“I say within a year,” Pat said. “They will give it time to see if it marinates.”
“Now see, my thing is, though, you have a new, like, executive regime that comes in,” Stu added. “You've got to make the move to the right person. You're excused for Piers Morgan sucking for a while.”
But Glenn wasn’t convinced. “No. Look, here's what's happening with Piers Morgan. Piers Morgan is saying it's over, I'm going to be a laughing stock,” Glenn said. “And he's falling on his sword right now and what he's saying is I'm going to fall on my sword on this gun control thing and that way I can come out and the uber-left will embrace me because I'm going to say, ‘I took on the gun lobby and they were too powerful…’”
Regardless of the timing of Morgan’s impending doom, at least Jeff Zucker knows he has a potential backup.
“Have you seen RuPaul's show yet,” Glenn asked.
“Seriously,” Stu concluded, “RuPaul could probably pull in some numbers better than Piers.”
