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reflection

(6,286 posts)
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 08:15 AM Oct 2012

sitting in doctor's waiting room, faux and friends is on

These clowns are still harping on Libya. Shockingly, Geraldo is slamming the lack of security funding from Congress as well as Issa's document dump. Of course he's getting shouted down, but at least it's not a total circle jerk.

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sitting in doctor's waiting room, faux and friends is on (Original Post) reflection Oct 2012 OP
Geraldo has hung tough on this issue BeyondGeography Oct 2012 #1
Every barrel has a bottom, and his has been well-scraped Scootaloo Oct 2012 #2
No one cares what happened in Libya jenw2 Oct 2012 #3
Get up and COMPLAIN!!! Ask for the station to be changed. If employees will not change channel mnhtnbb Oct 2012 #4
I did that a couple of weeks ago... tosh Oct 2012 #13
I'm sold. I am going to do this on the next visit. reflection Oct 2012 #15
"Fox and Friends" is the bottom of the sewer. Archae Oct 2012 #5
No controls on the TV? Unplug it. Oops. Indpndnt Oct 2012 #6
Just wait until they get to the corrections.... Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2012 #7
This is the funniest post I've read in weeks... Whiskeytide Oct 2012 #10
Credit goes to the SNL writing team. Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2012 #11
Yeah - I hit the link after I posted... Whiskeytide Oct 2012 #21
Change the channel. I have told receptionists at my eye doctors that if they sinkingfeeling Oct 2012 #8
Turn it off. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #9
Get up and change the channel. I do it in waiting rooms all the time. 1-Old-Man Oct 2012 #12
Fox listeners have been convinced justiceischeap Oct 2012 #14
Who do they think President Obama is? Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2012 #17
Will not stay/go anywhere that has false news. efhmc Oct 2012 #16
ask them to change the channel....i always do DonRedwood Oct 2012 #18
I always suggest that the TV be turned to the weather channel. NCarolinawoman Oct 2012 #19
I went to my local Kmart abolugi Oct 2012 #20
 

jenw2

(374 posts)
3. No one cares what happened in Libya
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 08:45 AM
Oct 2012

Why do CONservative think if they talk about it enough, people will start caring?

mnhtnbb

(31,409 posts)
4. Get up and COMPLAIN!!! Ask for the station to be changed. If employees will not change channel
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 08:52 AM
Oct 2012

complain to the doc.

Tell the doc you aren't interested in hearing propaganda when you come to the doc's office.
Ask them whether they don't have some health education videos they can show.

tosh

(4,424 posts)
13. I did that a couple of weeks ago...
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 10:05 AM
Oct 2012

she changed it to some scuzzbucket caucasian reality show. I felt a little bad for an elderly AA gentleman in the waiting area, it seemed as though I might actually have made things WORSE for him.

I was back yesterday at the same time of day for a follow-up appt. and that waiting area had HGTV playing. LOL! Poor woman didn't know that the head doc in the practice is an longtime friend of mine!

reflection

(6,286 posts)
15. I'm sold. I am going to do this on the next visit.
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 10:12 AM
Oct 2012

I've resisted it, because this specialist is the only game in town, but if he kicks me out for such a benign request, I'll just use home remedies for what ails me. I'm tired of being subjected to this nonsense once a month. Thanks to everyone who chimed in.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,219 posts)
7. Just wait until they get to the corrections....
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 08:56 AM
Oct 2012
http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/09/20/snl-weekend-update-thursday-fox-and-friends-corrections/

The Bible was not a movie first.
Stalactites is not a childhood disease.
Iowa City never elected Mayor McCheese.
Allegra is not a religion.
Jeremy Lin was traded, not deported.
The sun and the moon do not high-five as they pass each other.
Vaginas don’t look like that
A dead person’s skull does not contain their memories.
Ron Paul is one person.
Not all cats are gay.
The Atlanta Hawks are a team, not an infestation.
Ellen Degeneres never married a car.
Benedict Arnold was not a character on Diff’rent Strokes.
A wind turbine has never cut off the head of a pretty girl in a convertible.
The Tasmanian Devil is not the president of Tasmania.
Star Wars is essentially a work of fiction.
Al Gore never claimed to invent Nintendo.
Hawaii does not rotate every six months.
Neil Armstrong was not the first person to moon someone.
The Keystone Pipeline is not filled with Keystone Light.
Swiss banks are not “full of holes.”
Camp David does not have a sister camp called Camp Denise.
Oogielovie is not a sexually transmitted disease.
They did not make Mars after the Mars Rover.
Monica Lewinsky was never in an internment camp.
Six comes after five.
Kim Jong-Un is not the CEO of Yahoo.
Left-handed people cannot read your thoughts.
Lobsters are not “ocean spiders.”
Cat Fancy is a magazine, not a man/cat dating website.
The U.S. Postal Service never released a Kesha stamp.
“F” is not a blood type.
Parsley is not one of the Spice Girls.
Usain Bolt is not a new action movie starring John C. Reilly.
Libor is not a giant praying mantis.
Old Navy is not one of the armed forces.
The letters in “Massachusetts” cannot be rearranged to spell “same sex marriage.”
Crabs don’t breastfeed.
Animal Planet is not an acceptable nickname for Telemundo.
Marco Rubio does not play for the Timberwolves.
Al Jazeera is not the co-host of “Tool Time.”
Babies never “skip ahead” to being 10.
Angela Merkel is not a palindrome.
You can’t outrun polio.
The Negro League is not “back and better than ever.”
Latin inches is not the Mexican metric system.
The Russian national anthem is not the U.S. national anthem played backwards.
Rocky never fought Lassie.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,219 posts)
11. Credit goes to the SNL writing team.
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 09:56 AM
Oct 2012

In the skit, they have the corrections go by in a superfast scroll. I had to freeze the TV the first time to see some of the stuff they had in it!

Whiskeytide

(4,463 posts)
21. Yeah - I hit the link after I posted...
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 12:05 PM
Oct 2012

... But you still get props in my mind for (1) finding it, and (2) sharing it with us..

sinkingfeeling

(51,482 posts)
8. Change the channel. I have told receptionists at my eye doctors that if they
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 09:46 AM
Oct 2012

don't shut down the Fox, they can come outside when they need me.

1-Old-Man

(2,667 posts)
12. Get up and change the channel. I do it in waiting rooms all the time.
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 09:59 AM
Oct 2012

And if you are in luck you can also set the Parental Control on the TV so it never comes back.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
14. Fox listeners have been convinced
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 10:08 AM
Oct 2012

that a) Obama learned about this, then just went to sleep, refusing to do anything about it til morning and instead flew to Vegas when he woke up. b) that they are "covering it up" because Pres. Obama is secretly selling weapons to Al Qaeda c) That the admin watched it happening in real time and refused to send troops to stop it.

They are getting this info from Fox, Washington Times, Beck, Limbaugh and when you try to bring up Condi Rice, well, she's a sell out 'cause of race.

NCarolinawoman

(2,825 posts)
19. I always suggest that the TV be turned to the weather channel.
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 10:24 AM
Oct 2012

I have done this many times, particularly in places where I'm waiting for car repairs, tire replacements, etc. Those places have a penchant for showing Faux "News".

Recently I went to a fast food take-out place and thanked them for not having the channel turned to Fox. I just said it right out loud, for all to hear.

abolugi

(417 posts)
20. I went to my local Kmart
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 10:30 AM
Oct 2012

the other day, and the electronics dept. had 30 TVs all tuned to Faux. I said to husband, loud enough to for the salesperson hear me, " Lets go to Best Buy. At least they don't force people to watch this crap on their TVs over there..." and we walked out. It made me sick..

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