My Mixed Victory Today Against fox "News".

Hi everybody. It's late so I'll make this quick.

I got to the city I work in (Lewiston, Maine) obscenely early today. After calling my manager and finding that there was no OT available, I stopped into McDonald's for a quick bite.

When I got to my seat, there it was on the TV screen. faux news, broadcasting an incredibly racist story about an alleged victim of sexual abuse recanting her story and the faux "anchors" rearing up in their phony rightist rage about ... Actually, who gives a fuck about the content of their nontroversy raving?

I went up to the manager and asked if fox had to be on the air as I really didn't think that right wing indoctrination was conducive to appetite. I also reminded them that this is a BLUE state. She changed the channel immediately.

Where it becomes a mixed victory is here, where I felt somewhat honor bound to at least WATCH the damned TV after having the offending channel changed. I was stuck with an infomercial for a weight loss product. I was reading a pretty good book today, too!

Anyway, I'm sure that fox was immediately turned back on as soon as I left, but who cares? If anybody else was offended, they can also speak up. After all, silence from the center and left is how fox got away with so much for so long. This is why I ALWAYS raise an issue when rightist blather is on when I'm in a restaurant.

PEACE!

That's an interesting notion. I've never thought about it.

Why do you think they shouldn't have TV?

visuals and audios that we are bombarded with.

If I go to McDonalds alone I read,with my grandchildren I want to chat.

There is just one left in our area w/o TV and that's where I go.

I don't go inside McDonald's when I get that urge, but I agree with you about the constant barrage. Too many places have TV where there should be nothing.

People might end up talking to each other, which, I think, would be a good thing.

Or, god forbid, read a book?

Thanks. As I said, I was just curious...............

is actually quite good.

I'm frugal. :-)

as a general rule. hate commercials. i don't subject myself to them in my own home, why do i have to endure them in the line at the supermarket, at mcdonalds, wherever. can't people talk anymore, enjoy a moment without being bombarded by media, read a book?

...but this one did have a TV. I didn't feel like watching fox BS, or being subjected to it.

PEACE!

i expect at some point to get a chance to do the same, but it hasn't happened yet.

You really surprised me. I expected you to be turned down, but she changed the channel right away?

That's how it gets done. A little bit here, a little bit there. Maybe it was turned back on, but it's entirely possible that it wasn't.

Next time you drop in there, suggest MSNBC to them, tell them it's really, really popular with smart people. That often works.

What was the good book you're reading? (I'm curious.)

But, kudos to you for taking that step. Remember the old Chinese adage about a journey of a thousand miles beginning with a single step?

You did good, my friend. Take a bow................

My work book would be something light and not requiring much concentration. Yesterday, I was finishing "The Rainmaker" by John Grisham. That's the book I had with me

At home, I read heavier stuff. Remember in High School when you were reading Dickens, Hardy, Shakespere or Austen there was always some pain in the ass kid who LIKED it? That pain in the ass kid was me. At home now, I'm reading Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park".

BTW, GREAT sig line! It fits bush to a T!

PEACE!

They were very obliging and changed it to CNN. A slight improvement.

...but better than the infomercial.

PEACE!

the phony gang-rape story was racist, since all five of the accused were minority. Five young men could have gone to prison for a very, very long time for a LIE. Five lives ruined because a woman lied. It would have been a travesty.

What's so "nontroversial" about that???????"

The tone and the usual pandering by fox to their tea-bagger, birther, deather & LOONEY base is the disgusting thing. Maybe I didn't see all of the details, but this IS fox, where nontroversy is king. I didn't watch the whole story for the same reason I don't have to eat an entire egg to know if it's rotten. To give them the benefit of the doubt is like assuming that I've finally come across the Chimp who can randomly hit a keyboard and come out with "War and Peace".

PEACE!

always has at least two of their eight sets tuned to Fox News.

Who can listen to one channel when there are so many sets, anyway?

We don't go there as often as we did before the TVs came on the scene about a year ago.

Here, if you asked them to change the channel from Fox, it could mean a fist fight.

My husband got shown the door of a local business (and told to never come back) for standing up for Obama in the midst of a right-wing tirade from a small group of men.

...about that store. Thank you.

PEACE!

People would flock to the store in support.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: Johnny Carson channeled his inner Nebraskan for Floyd R. Turbot