Daily Verse | Revelation 1:1-2
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who testifies to everything that he saw—that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Tuesday’s Reading: Revelation 6-9
Tuesday and we’re cruising through the last week of 2021. Not sure why it is, but time seems to really fly at my age. I remember as a kid how long it felt between birthdays or Christmas—longer than a year, for sure! Maybe because as you get older there are more special days with which you mark time: Valentine’s Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day and so on. Every few weeks there’s another opportunity to say, “I can’t believe we’re already at [insert observance here].”
Actually, what I can’t believe is the advertising that late-night “comedians” are doing for Google (HT: AoSHQ). No doubt they are shilling for dollars … but why? In what world does Google need to sell itself to the audiences of Kimmel, Colbert, Corden and other “funny” guys?
Watch below (note: Twitter embedding is not working on a number of platforms including Word Press; click image):
They must be getting paid a pretty penny if they’re willing to dedicate part of their “show” to promoting Google. Colbert goes as far as to admit that his support of Google during his show “is basically also a commercial.”
Who’s their audience? Mostly progressive I’d think. No conservative I know wants to support any of these sellouts.
But why? Ace at AoSHQ theorizes:
Google is advertising with these leftwing hosts — who market and brand themselves as leftwing political shills — not to advertise their product, which needs no advertising being a monopoly, but to endear themselves to leftwing voters — because they fear eventual antitrust action, and want leftwing voters on their side should that happen.
It’s a better theory than any I’ve got.
Note that Google isn’t paging Greg Gutfeld.
Fox News’ 11 p.m. ET “Gutfeld!” finally beat every other late-night show — including Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” on CBS — Tuesday in total viewership and the advertiser-coveted age demographic of 25 to 54. When the right-leaning program debuted in April, host Greg Gutfeld and his promotional team made no secret of their ambition to overtake late-night rivals, but Colbert blocked him from the top spot.
On Tuesday night, “Gutfeld!” took in a total average of 2.120 million viewers, with 434,000 in the key demo, on average. The “Late Show,” which has an 11:35 p.m. ET start time on CBS, grabbed an average of 1.896 million total viewers of whom 423,000 were in the demo. Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show” — an NBC program which also airs at 11:35 — came next with 1.216 million total viewers, on average, and 354,000 in the demo. (It’s worth noting that “Gutfeld!” airs at 8 p.m. PT on the West Coast, and does not repeat at 11 p.m. when the broadcast networks’ late-night shows are on.)
It’s sort of creepy to have all of these shows dancing to the same tune (much like local news stations that get their scripts from some national source). What are they doing? And why are they doing it?
It’s like the Bible says: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil” (1 Timothy 6:10).
