Ever talk to someone who gets their news solely from FOX ?

it's like talking to a child - they repeat the most ridiculous assertions without even thinking about analyzing or researching for themselves. Very sad and beyond pathetic.

*please note: I am NOT dissing children here

Even when I try to prove them wrong, they insist that because Fox said it, then it's correct. I want to choke them!

I mean, FOX isn't even GOOD propaganda - how can they not see it?

It reinforces what they so desperately want to believe. A world of fear and blame and "I got mine" requires plenty of reassurance for any "conservative" with an ounce of humanity to sleep it at night. Sure, they are duped and delusional, but quite willingly so.

no one could actually believe such silliness unless they WANT to believe it. Some of the things I hear my cowrkers in Texas say just boggle my mind.

Also, I am reminded of those ridiculous e-mails we get from right-wingers - they just blindly pass them on without bothering to wonder - gee, is this true? Doesn't this sound perhaps a bit fishy? They WANT to believe it so they just forward it to us when ten seconds' research on the web would show they are forwarding crap.

Only reason why. They're lazy or just too busy to do any of their own researching so, of course, they're going to believe a "news" network that has been around a long time. :eyes:

And you'll probably get a more coherent response from the wall.

:)

We get enough of that from the chimp!

I was getting my car serviced yesterday and was waiting in their lounge. The lounge TV was on CNN. These two ladies were saying they preferred Fox because Fox is fair and balanced. I said nothing and ignored them.

Then they brought up possible reasons as to why that author "Hunter something" committed suicide. Just then the mechanic signaled to me my car was ready to go. I got up and looked at them and said the suicide was because of Bush's policies, which like Fox are neither fair nor balanced. That's always fun to do in very red states.

They go into total shock.

All the little ignorami get into the "pit" every night to watch the passion plays on Hannity & Colmes or The O'Pervert Factor.

The "good" side takes a few punches (oooo!), but then it rallies and always wins. The peasants in the pit cheer raucously and go to bed satisfied that "good" has once again triumphed over "evil".

He said thinks FOX is a "good" news channel, and then we both agreed we didn't like CNN. The difference was he was thinking CNN is too liberal, and I was thinking it was too conservative. He was probably surprised that I was agreeing with him, and didn't get the reason why!
But he's worst when he has been listening to conservative talk radio--by far! They come up with the wildest claims, and then he parrots them to me. Example: John Kerry is a traitor because he talked to the "enemy" in Paris during the Vietnam war, and that because of that it is illegal for him to even be a senator, much less a president. He claims it is all written in the Constitution. Okay Dad--why haven't they thrown John Kerry out over the last 20 years that he's been a U.S. senator! The idiotic things they will believe amazes me, simply amazes me.

Except any time I back her into a corner she comes up with some excuse along the lines of "That's the way things have always been." or "The Democrats do that too!"

It's rather disturbing to see an entire generation that has decided to divorce itself from reality with the accusation of others who see the sense to be divorced from reality.

they are in total denial and are brainwashed. my mom continues to assert that Iraq was connected with Al Qaeda before the war. my Dad is a military guy who doesn't really care why we went in to Iraq, so long as we did. my Mom would be a liberal no doubt if it weren't for my Dad.

I said the same thing. I told them to call up their senators and Bush and tell him he better get rid of Kerry. :eyes: Pathetic. My parents don't watch Fox (they've had it on at least once recently) for news. We mainly watch CNN or MSNBC or ABC or something like that. Thank God. My parents don't listen to right-wing radio (my mom voted Kerry and Dad blah Bush but I've gotten him to watch the Daily show) so I don't have to put up with that thank goodness. It is funny how they throw this nonsense out (others who are avid Fox viewers) and believe it. :eyes:

eyes, then some jerk comes on saying the liberals did it. O'really contradicts himself a couple times. It's just normal to them.

it's like they know its fake and it gives them justification to be crazy .

and to think that * feels he's justified wearing that flight suit. Somehow it just doesn't seem to "fit", does it?

My dad, right-wing, 26 year vet is asking weather * would last in Iraq for 10 minutes. Jeez, where is everyone?

five seconds in Iraq. One sound of a bomb going off or a bullet and he'll probably be cowering in a corner somewhere if he was over there fighting. :eyes:

the way he reacted on 9/11. took off for who knows where for hours, and left the veep in charge.

that picture on the left is kerry, correct? he looks like a hardass! i wouldn't have tangled with him! lol

:loveya: If you haven't seen "Going UpRiver" you must! It's the best.

i actually havne't seen/heard/read a lot of things about kerry...i didn't get really into the whole political thing til it was too late to do anything about this election. i had poli sci last semester, and just started getting into it from there.

my hours seem to disappear tho...:/...i should cut back from being on du so much, i need to work on projects!

"I sometimes watch Fox News, but I like to get my news from all kinds of sources". It's a gentle jab without going for the jugular.

I think may Faux News views like being lied to by Faux - it makes life so much easier when you don't have to think.

It's usually just too much to handle at one go.

As you can imagine, she's in the dark or misinformed about everything.

Listen to RW radio his entire workday. Got all his new from the stame RW Radio station. Would always be agitated when Rush Limbaugh was in a frenzy.

I suppose he never realized the irony that he was a psuedo government worker with a nice comfy job and a pension for life.

"Ever talk to someone who gets their news solely from FOX ? "

Yes, unfortunately one of my brothers.. He's a walking propaganda billboard neo-con. He's the personification of a brainwashed automaton Republican. He's a fan of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reily..

It ills me to no end...



(Edit): Yay I am back from my trip up to Berkeley, CA... It was a good trip and I love the people up in the San Francisco area.. :)

it's worse if they happen to worship the rich.

It was my fault I suppose. He was just leaving the pub and said, "On Tuesday, I'm going to have a shot for every state that comes in for George W. Bush."

I couldn't help myself, "And I'm gonna be out there makin' sure you stay stone-cold sober."

"Oh so you're gonna be one of the ones perpetrating the biggest theft of an election ever seen, huh."

"No, just workin' the polls."

Then he said something really bizarre: "You can go to Cuba or North Korea. I got noplace else to go."

I had no response beyond, "What?!?!"

He repeated it, calling me a Communist and saying that I should just leave the USA and head for a Communist country where I belonged.

I asked him if he wanted a one party system or something.

He replied that no, he wanted two, but that he wanted the Republican Party to be the leftmost party and for there to be a party to the right of them as the second party.

Nature called at that moment, so I started to walk away. I think I called him a wingnut as I headed for the ladies room, but I'm not sure anymore. It's hard to remember things when the top is coming off your head.

Then there was the guy who was selling this t-shirt at the State Fair, but that's a different story.



Yeah, I think I've met a few folk who only get their news from Fox. Hell, I work with one. Her name is Sue, but people call her Sybil (for good reason.)

and I thought Texas was bad :o

It is quite obvious that regular fans of FOX news like fiction instead of news so I oblige them with some of own. I tell them that there are tapes goin around the Internet of Rush Limbaugh and some of the guys from Fox laughing at how stupid their listeners are for believing all the shit they say. I make up quite the story about how these guys were at a fancy affair and accidently got recorded by a TV camera that was set up nearby. I usually tell them that I always thought Rush and those guys from FOX were telling the truth until I heard the tapes and saw Rush and Britt Hume laughing at how stupid their listeners are.

If they absolutely refuse to believe it or start getting pissy, I tell them that there are tapes of Rush gettin nailed by Jeff Guckert.

If they are just too frickin' rabid and far gone, I tell them that Teddy Kennedy is the greatest American that has ever lived and I give a tenth of my earnings to his campaign every year. I tithe to Teddy Kennedy and I advise that they should as well. That either stuns them like a kick to the head or it so enrages them they start sputtering and spittle runs from the cormers of their mouths. It is quite entertaining actually.

freaking PRICELESS :thumbsup:

Yes, here in Texas I used to find tormenting conservatives very entertaining but lately I find it is just not as amusing - I find myself appalled and worried about the future of America that these people are so easily duped

My uncle, who I love dearly, has become much more of a horse's @ss since he started watching Fox News a couple years ago. He comes from a liberal family but is a project manager for the Army, so he got brainwashed by them pretty early on. When my mom got into it with him about the problems with the election, the Iraq war and 9/11, he started spitting about the "liberal media" (who I happen to work for, BTW). Haven't been able to have a decent political discussion with him since Fox came along. Fox stole my uncle from me!

On a side note, his fiancee is a Army Colonel who switched from Fox to CNN Headline News to get better updates, and her political rhetoric has tilted a little closer towards the center. :7

or "I'm not a rapist" every few minutes for no reason when it wasn't part of the conversation, I might start to wonder if they are a crook or rapist. I have the same reaction to Fox's habit of proclaiming they are "fair and balanced" at least every five minutes. If Fox was truly fair and balanced, they wouldn't have to keep repeating that claim on their network.

yes indeed

dumbass.

don't give them the power of taking your family away from you

who says fox news is the only unbiased news station of all the news stations. i don't even pretend to like her anymore...

He doesn't watch all those other liberal media news channels. Well, that's no surprise.

so uninformed

some months ago we were talking on the phone and politics came up. i mentioned Iran & Syria and obviously the discussion found PNAC.

B-I-L: "What's PNAC"
Me: "Project For A New American Century, signed off by.... etc, etc, etc..."
B-I-L: "Never heard of them."
Me: "I'll send you the info if you wish"
B-I-L: "I don't believe the Internet"
Me: "Its there in black and white. Why not just read it?"
B-I-L: "If it were true, I would have heard it on O'Reilly"
Me: ":eyes:"
Me: "Good Night"

idiot.

head. (For the 49th time today) We are Fair and Balanced. I actually heard them say the other day something to the effect of, 'Turn to FoxNews- your Fair and Balanced news source and the only news source with real journalists.'

who supports torture, (I finally screamed at him, "Who would Jesus torture???"), who hates immigrants and loves Bill O'Reilly (I also had to tell him about the loofah - LOL!!) only watches Fox News. He also loves Michael SAvage. I asked him how the hell could he call himself a good Catholic, go on retreats, and supports these people and their viewpoints???

I think he is a little dumb.

My uncle is ex-Navy and could probably fill in for O'Reilly if he ever needed a vacation. My aunt is just a woman who will take on the opinions of whomever she's with. I really don't think she has much in the way of original thoughts. If my uncle watches Fox and believes what they say, she will too.

I think that's 90% of the reason women vote Republican.

really awful spending time with them. it was like talking to a dog. they are so gullible and the worst part is that they deny being so un-informed.

when they start repeating their RNC talking points I don't even know where to start

I can't remove Faux from my cable line up, and dh seems to not want to get rid of cable.

So I do the next best thing, which is to remove the channel from the remote lineup. At least I make them search manually through the channels to find it. :shrug: