The one-trick pony breaks a leg

But I was so sure!

800,000 viewers desert Rachael Maddow after she fails to deliver on Mueller.

MSNBC prime-time host Rachel Maddow has seen her monthly ratings drop more than 800,000 viewers since the beginning of 2019.

Maddow had her best month of 2019 in January, where she averaged an audience of 3,288,000 viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. She saw a decrease in February with her average audience dropping to 3,067,000.

The host has not exceeded an average of 3,000,000 viewers a month since then.

She continued the downward spiral in March and April as her average audience size was 2,886,000 in March and then 2,630,000 in April. Her decline in ratings over this two month period corresponds to the end of the Russia investigation.

Maddow was one of the leading voices in the speculation surrounding the special counsel's report into whether or not the president or his campaign conspired with Russia to win the presidential election. In the week after Attorney General William Barr's letter to Congress where it was revealed that Mueller found no evidence of a conspiracy, Maddow lost half-a-million viewers, according to the Daily Beast.

Her ratings continued to drop through the spring and into the summer. In June and July, her nightly average audience dipped below the 2.5 million marker only reaching 2,450,000 in June, but hit a little bump to 2,487,000 in July. The slight bump in July might be attributed to the recent revival of the report as Mueller himself testified before Congress.

And then that last, desperate hope faded ….

If it makes the owner feel any better, Davey Crockett fared even worse at his own Alamo

18 Pinecroft Road, which sold new for $6.5 million in 2004, closed at $4.050 today.

And like that, It's gone

732 Lake Avenue, bank owned, sells for $1.450 million. It’s a teardown today, but the hapless borrower paid full price: $3.995 for it in 2002, which was dumb, even then.

Foregone interest (since 2010), costs of foreclosure, three million dollars, up in smoke.

Maybe they just do takeout?

1 Hillside Drive, after originally asking $4.250 million last September before dropping to $2.995, reports a pending sale. The town’s appraised it at $4,117,300, but I’m astonished it’s found a buyer at any price.

The bedroom layout is certainly not family-friendly, but more important, it appears that food deliveries to the kitchen can only be accomplished by helicopter.

That seems inconvenient.

Oh, the humanity!

Call when you find work!

Tragedy at the border: fat American kids catapult their Mexican peers over the wall.

SUNLAND PARK, NM—Disaster occurred at the US-Mexico border earlier this week after the installation of seesaws on the border wall. Part of an art project by UC Berkeley faculty, the seesaws were intended to let kids on both sides of the border play with each other as a powerful statement about unity and love across borders.

Unfortunately, as obese American kids rushed to the seesaws to enjoy playing with their fellow humans on the Mexican side of the border, they accidentally launched hundreds of Mexican children over the wall.

"We did not see this coming," said one Berkeley professor.

Full coverage at The Babylon Bee.

So what's the big deal? Bring 'em here

Won’t you be my neighbor? Selectman Sandy Litvak greets new arrivals as they land at Greenwich Point

Turkey threatens to unleash 3.5 million refugees, and the Europeans don’t want them.

In an interview with Turkish television channel TGRT Haber on July 22, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu said that Turkey was backing out of the migrant deal because the EU had failed to honor its pledge to grant Turkish passport holders visa-free access to 26 European countries. "We have suspended the readmission agreement," he said. "We will not wait at the EU's door."

A day earlier, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu accused European countries of leaving Turkey alone to deal with the migration issue. In comments published by the state news agency Anadolu Agency, he warned: "We are facing the biggest wave of migration in history. If we open the floodgates, no European government will be able to survive for more than six months. We advise them not to try our patience."

Turkey currently hosts an estimated 3.5 million migrants and refugees — mainly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans. Many of these people presumably would migrate to Europe if given the opportunity to do so.

Not to mention the “tens of millions” of native Turks who are demanding free passage into the western countries of their choice.

The Europeans seem wary of admitting still more beggars, but Greenwich Democrats were quick to welcome the possibility of new arrivals. “An illegal immigrant is just a friend I haven’t met yet,” Jimbo Himes told FWIW. “And a friend who will bring me taffy? Priceless.”

“No human being is illegal”, Greenwich First Selectman candidate Jill Überlander insisted to our reporter. “As Marianne so beautifully pointed out last night, all we need is love”.

FWIW: “So the Democrat/Greenwich Invisible platform will call for free immigration of 50 million Turks into the country?”

Überlander: “That’s racist.”

FWiW: “Well okay, how about locally? We ’re putting up 36 new units of housing at Armstrong Court. Will those all be turned over to our new friends, or will the Guatemalans get their share?”

Überlander: “That’s racist”.

FWIW: “Does your platform call for our beaches to be ‘border free’ for all comers? Including Stamford residents?”

Überlander: “That’s racist.”

FWIW: “How about abolishing residency requirements for our public schools?”

Überlander: “You’re just a big poopy head!”

Whereupon the interview was cut short by the arrival of Dick, “Don’t get between me and a camera” Blumenthal, with television crew in tow — our reporter was forced to flee before being trampled.

Tithing at the Church of Mother Gai seems to have dropped in popularity

Ah, tax subsidies!

From the annals of Greenwich's Perma-Inventory

Aaany day now, aaany day

FWIW’s Jaguar and ascot consultant and dead listings spotter brings our attention to 549 North Street, the listing for which expired yesterday, unsold at $7.995 million, but which will doubtless return soon.

There are older listings around town, but this one, dating back to June, 2005, when it was priced at $12.5 million, is certainly in the running for FWIW’s permanent Methuselah Award.

At some point, the stigma attached to an old listing becomes almost impossible to overcome, even for a 13,000 sq.ft. Kaali-Nagy design. And when the house is stashed away on a back lot, things are tougher still.

Going nowhere, still

All hat, no cattle, or Universal Studios North

282 Taconic Road has cut its price, to $2.950 million. It’s been on the market since September, 2015, when it started at $3.895, and still has a long way to go.

It’s a pleasant house inside — a good friend of mine lived there once, and dodged a bullet by selling it for $3 back in 2004, but the house sits sideways in a swamp and is located waaaay up Taconic, a full day’s journey from town. And those pillars!

Lucky if the final number begins with a two, is my opinion.

CNN's "journalist" spews his hatred in the form of a question

Do we know racists, or what?

Don Lemon: “What would you say to those Trump voters who prioritize the economy over the president’s bigotry? “

Last night a commentator observed that the Democrats and their operatives are acting like first graders who have learned a new, naughty word, and use it for everything: “Poopy head”, “Poopy lunch”, “poopy pants”, and so on. And here’s proof that she’s right: