Valuetainment - February 13, 2026


“Lights Out In 7 Years” - CNN Ratings PLUMMET As Cable Giants Face EXTINCTION


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5

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4

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Rob and Adam discuss CNN s ratings woes and what they can do to turn things around. They also talk about why the media companies are in cahoots with the progressive wing of the Democratic Party and why they should be worried.

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00:00:00.180 Tom, CNN. Let's go back to CNN. Ratings being down.
00:00:05.140 Yep.
00:00:05.940 Can they do anything about it?
00:00:07.880 Well, they can, and I think if you just go take a look at what's happening at CBS.
00:00:13.140 See, the news divisions have been lost. They've been lost leaders for media companies.
00:00:18.400 And the media companies accepted the loss because the people at the top of those media companies
00:00:23.260 were in cahoots with the liberal side of America, the progressive side of America,
00:00:27.340 and they were using that as the megaphone to promote progressive liberalism.
00:00:31.680 That's what they were doing.
00:00:33.400 Now, things like CBS are owned by adults who are looking to make a profitable, you know, make CBS profitable,
00:00:43.640 and they are bracing for another round of cuts is what's happening.
00:00:48.140 Over at CNN, CNN is trapped in this group of cable nets that David Zaslav, Zas, is going to spin.
00:00:56.640 If Netflix wins, he's spinning that into what I believe will be a worthless tracking stock
00:01:02.600 where they will just languish.
00:01:04.860 If the Ellisons and Paramount wins, they want to take the cable nets and they want to make them profitable.
00:01:10.920 And people are scared to death of that because that means CNN will go more toward the center
00:01:17.220 the same way as CBS is leaning toward the center, and it's causing this apoplectic seizure
00:01:22.940 that's happening in the progressive movement.
00:01:25.980 So can CNN save itself?
00:01:28.560 Yes, but it's going to be more layoffs and new leadership, the same as you're seeing at CBS.
00:01:35.120 CBS, they are looking in the mirror over at CNN, and they don't like the reflection they're seeing
00:01:41.920 because if they look instead of let themselves look out the window at what's happening at CBS,
00:01:46.520 they know what's coming.
00:01:48.040 And that's why they're in such a – by the way, if you took Scott Jennings off,
00:01:52.100 what would those ratings be?
00:01:53.140 It's a good point.
00:01:55.180 And by the way –
00:01:55.720 We send our – we send a couple of our guys, shout-out to Umberto and Justin,
00:02:00.520 to the YouTube event in D.C., and apparently they didn't go to a single meeting.
00:02:04.640 All they did is party and drink and have fun.
00:02:06.140 For the seven minutes that they went to the meeting, for the seven minutes that they went to the meeting.
00:02:12.340 Now, the report we got was phenomenal, but one of the things that a couple of the guys there talked about,
00:02:18.900 he's texting me right now, is the fact that the conversations are that Cable has seven years left.
00:02:27.860 He said there's seven more years left for Cable because right now, Rob, you just ran a poll.
00:02:34.280 You ran a poll.
00:02:35.800 What was the poll you just ran on YouTube?
00:02:37.440 Where do you get your news from?
00:02:39.020 Yes.
00:02:39.160 Right?
00:02:39.760 I don't know if it's still up or not.
00:02:41.180 It is.
00:02:41.720 Okay, check this out.
00:02:42.660 Zoom in.
00:02:43.640 3,000 votes.
00:02:44.660 Where do you get your news from?
00:02:45.960 Look at that.
00:02:46.780 Wow.
00:02:47.140 Print media, 1%.
00:02:48.440 Fox, ABC, CNN, all that stuff, 8%.
00:02:51.860 Podcasts, 91%.
00:02:54.000 Where people are getting their news from, it's changed.
00:02:57.160 It's a different market today. 0.93
00:02:58.280 But are you crazy, though, Pat?
00:02:59.680 It's crazy, though, that our audience and them, that 8%, that 9%, guys, that 9% still can cause an uproar. 0.72
00:03:08.120 They could cause riots. 0.92
00:03:09.100 They could shut down the freaking... 0.96
00:03:10.040 It's still working. 0.94
00:03:11.460 Don't get me wrong.
00:03:12.080 They still get their message out, and there's still a bunch of brainwashed zombies that can't step back,
00:03:19.180 get all the information, and then make a decision based on that and have an opinion on it.
00:03:23.240 The fact that they're not, that 9% isn't giving fact.
00:03:26.500 They're political activists.
00:03:27.860 They want you to think a certain way because they're getting money from donors.
00:03:31.820 Thank God for the 90, you know, 92% that we have going on.
00:03:35.120 It's going to stop.
00:03:35.780 But don't sleep on them because that little, little percentage still works, Adam.
00:03:39.920 I still run into a lot of times people are just like, I hate Trump, and I hate, and they don't get it.
00:03:45.300 It is amazing.
00:03:46.140 You watch Harry Enten, Pat.
00:03:47.260 They're everyone.
00:03:47.680 Every night he's got a poll that's like saying exactly this, but they still don't move their...
00:03:51.800 But there's also an age gap, though.
00:03:53.900 Like, people that are watching us are predominantly 50 and under, let's say.
00:03:57.520 This is a good clip to show, Rob.
00:03:58.780 The TV just went out.
00:03:59.440 People watching mainstream media are 65 and older.
00:04:03.100 Watch this clip here.
00:04:03.960 Go ahead.
00:04:04.260 Democratic base, right?
00:04:06.060 But what about all Americans, right? 0.53
00:04:08.520 How about all voters?
00:04:09.660 Voters who say the Democrats are now too liberal?
00:04:12.180 Look at this percentage.
00:04:13.360 It's 42% in 96.
00:04:14.980 48% in 2013.
00:04:16.740 Now 58% in 2025 of all voters say that the Democratic Party is too liberal.
00:04:23.900 The Democrats are moving to the left.
00:04:25.440 The far left is gaining power.
00:04:26.680 And there could be some electoral repercussions because what we see right now is voters, the
00:04:31.000 clear majority...
00:04:32.140 Look at her head. 0.74
00:04:33.280 Look at her head. 0.74
00:04:33.960 She's so bummed out.
00:04:35.060 I really wonder how Harry Enten is treated in the lunchroom at CNN.
00:04:39.680 There's Harry.
00:04:40.900 Look at him with his fax and dairy when your contracts are coming.
00:04:43.580 Did you see today that they have to show the report about how the economy is doing with
00:04:47.080 inflation?
00:04:47.740 It happened, right?
00:04:48.220 You see that?
00:04:48.740 It happened, right?
00:04:49.060 Consumer...
00:04:49.580 Rob, I think you have that clip as well, Rob, if you want to pull it up.
00:04:52.420 I wonder if Harry Enten is like that at home when they want to go out to eat.
00:04:56.260 He's like, this restaurant has a...
00:04:58.060 And this one has a B.
00:04:59.180 I wonder if he's that guy in the house.
00:05:00.460 He has one of these.
00:05:00.920 Imagine to his...
00:05:01.480 I want you to go to the bathroom. 1.00
00:05:02.960 We're going to the bedroom right now because in about six minutes, you and I are going to
00:05:06.540 be...
00:05:07.280 I'd like to see him order at McDonald's.
00:05:09.400 Stand on the counter.
00:05:10.540 Number eight.
00:05:11.280 It's number one.
00:05:12.160 And that's what I want.
00:05:13.080 I want a number eight.
00:05:14.640 And I want you to supersize it.
00:05:16.100 He's hilarious, Rob.
00:05:17.180 Rob, go back to that stat if you can.
00:05:19.780 Watch this.
00:05:20.300 This poor woman has to sit through this each week. 1.00
00:05:22.740 Look, this is some encouraging news on the cost of living.
00:05:26.700 Yeah, you look happy.
00:05:27.360 Inflation took a big step in the right direction to start the year off.
00:05:31.180 So consumer prices up by 2.4% year over year.
00:05:35.520 That is an improvement from 2.7% in December that beat expectations, which were for 2.5%.
00:05:42.580 In fact, this is a new eight-month low for annual inflation, month over month.
00:05:47.860 Prices up by 0.2%.
00:05:49.980 Also a step in the right direction.
00:05:52.260 Also beating expectation.
00:05:54.280 Now, economists look really closely at core inflation, which excludes food and energy.
00:05:59.760 Core inflation came in at 2.5%.
00:06:02.800 That's notable because that's the lowest annual inflation rate for core since March of 2021 before the inflation crisis.
00:06:11.300 Now, while we can't exclude food and energy from our family budgets, that's important because economists say that's a better indicator for where inflation is going.
00:06:19.000 And when you look at the trend for inflation over the last few years, she wants to be anywhere but there.
00:06:25.500 It's been a little bit bumpy on this chart.
00:06:27.360 It's been bumpy, but it has improved.
00:06:30.780 There was this uptick in inflation starting last spring after the president slapped massive tariffs on imports.
00:06:36.320 Inflation started to go heat back up up to 3%.
00:06:38.540 But thankfully, it's trending back down.
00:06:41.100 Somebody get her a drink. 1.00
00:06:42.060 Some of the notable.
00:06:42.900 She looks like she wants an old-fashioned.
00:06:44.400 As far as what.
00:06:45.600 Okay.
00:06:45.900 So funny.
00:06:46.620 Isn't it great when you see this happening?
00:06:48.180 It hurts.
00:06:48.600 It looks like it hurts her.
00:06:49.860 Yeah.
00:06:50.120 Like it's hurting the body.
00:06:52.300 CNN should just cancel the stat show.
00:06:54.460 Which one?
00:06:55.500 I mean, can you just show that stat one more time?
00:06:57.500 The 42, 40.
00:06:59.020 Voters.
00:06:59.840 Yeah, 48, 58.
00:07:00.800 Is that all voters?
00:07:03.160 Democrats.
00:07:03.780 Democrats.
00:07:04.320 Are saying the Democrats have become more liberal.
00:07:06.420 The Democratic Party is basically saying we've gone too woke.
00:07:09.280 Democrats have become more liberal.
00:07:10.020 We've gone too woke.
00:07:11.100 Democrats.
00:07:11.460 Yeah.
00:07:12.240 It's about time.
00:07:14.120 Yeah.
00:07:14.500 So, I mean, the question becomes what happens next with this, right?
00:07:18.400 That's the question.
00:07:19.240 A new Faith Over Fear hat is coming soon to a theater near you.
00:07:23.020 But I just wanted to say this morning I was listening to Billy Graham,
00:07:26.160 which, Pat, you told me to listen to him.
00:07:28.060 You're like, you know, Vinny, dive in and listen to him.
00:07:29.760 So I'm getting ready in the morning.
00:07:31.080 I'm just listening to Billy Graham.
00:07:32.100 And he said something that I hadn't heard in a while,
00:07:35.000 and it was the Apostle Thomas.
00:07:36.860 When Jesus rose from the dead,
00:07:38.980 Thomas wasn't there to see the resurrection.
00:07:41.140 So Thomas goes, I'll believe that he rose if I get to put my hands in his wounds and in his side.
00:07:46.400 So then he finally sees Jesus, and he goes in there.
00:07:49.040 He goes, God, Thomas, God, put your hands in here.
00:07:51.160 And Jesus looks at him and goes, because you have seen me, you believe.
00:07:54.520 Blessed of those who haven't seen me and still believe.
00:07:57.620 And in that moment, Tom, it hit me.
00:07:59.120 He's talking about us.
00:08:00.560 Okay?
00:08:00.780 We weren't there.
00:08:01.720 We didn't see Jesus walk.
00:08:02.780 We didn't see him die.
00:08:03.460 We didn't see him rise from the dead.
00:08:05.240 But we believe, and that is faith in real time.
00:08:08.780 And he's talking about us.
00:08:09.780 And the last one, you mentioned the story about the Nigeria that we're sending 200 troops.
00:08:14.340 Trump is sending 200 troops.
00:08:15.520 They're saying they're not going to do anything crazy.
00:08:17.060 But think about that.
00:08:18.400 Think about the priests.
00:08:19.260 Think about the parishioners in those churches that were bombed and murdered and slaughtered.
00:08:23.280 And they were in that church praying and saying, please, help.
00:08:26.700 That is faith over fear in real time.
00:08:29.840 And that's what we're about.
00:08:30.880 And that's what the brand is about.
00:08:31.980 And I can't tell you how many people see me with the shirt, because the shirt's on the back,
00:08:35.660 and just tap me on the back and go, I'm with you.
00:08:37.620 Or they see this hat and they go, where can I get that hat?
00:08:39.780 So you go on vtmerch.com, get the hat.
00:08:42.500 We have the hoodies.
00:08:43.140 We have Here Am I, Send Me, which is Isaiah chapter 6, verse 8 as well.
00:08:47.640 But yeah, just go to vtmerch.com and pick it up.
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