Anyone besides me not watching the unnameable spectacle?

[mandyky]

I have given up on News channels for the week - all my news will come from Washington Journal on Cspan, AAR, and the internet.

I tried tuning into MSNBC this morning and they had RNC Convention as the label so I switched briefly to CNN and saw Ed Koch speaking ( did CNN cover any daytime speeches at the DNC convention?).

I did get to hear part of Bill Clinton's speech at Riverside Church on cspan 2 this morning.

Anyway, anyone who wants to chat about non convention topics or even demonstrations in NYC, let's do it here!!

[alittlelark]

1. I haven't seen a minute of it

my 2 kids have 3 friends over, and I will not allow their young cerebral cortexes to be turned into mush!!!!!

Plus, I don't want to barf all over the new couch or the freshly re-finished wood floors. Or the cats.

[graywarrior]

4. I'd rather stick pins in my eyes

[Cha]

2. I'm not watching...just surfing du for

Gems and Nuggets! Hi Mandy, how ya doin? :hi:

[mandyky]

17. Doin' good, how about you?

Just added you to my buddy list. I never had one before (a buddy list) - I think I'll work on building one this week.

[Cha]

31. I never had one either! I'm doin' good, Mandy!

I was just over in my inbox tryin' to find my reciept for my Kerry/Edwards bumperstickers that I ordered July 29 and they haven't got here yet. So I just sent them an e-mail and said "What's Up?" "I'd like to get that Sticker on my car!" :D

[smirkymonkey]

3. I just can't watch it. These people make me physically ill.

Listening to them makes me feel like I have gone insane, because what they say has nothing to do with reality.

[MichiganVote]

5. I want a cottage on a lake

[kimchi]

6. Me.

My husband is watching it because he always wants to get "both sides". He said "maybe I'm partisan, but it sure sounds like these people are short on facts and long on brainwashing." Then "DON'T say I told you so!"

[Cha]

32. Nice to get a person's view who wants both sides.

I'm skipping it because I've heard their side for four years and it stinks to high hell.

[Corgigal]

7. Not watching it

I got the USA network on and they are showing The US Open from NYC.
Andre is playing, watch that.

[redwitch]

8. I'm not watching either.

But I am far too tired to chat tonight. I enjoy the demonstrations though.

[ComerPerro]

9. SG-1

Need I say more?

[Rowdyboy]

10. My "news" comes from DU for the duration

I refuse to pollute myself

[BlackVelvetElvis]

11. Me neither.

I had work and school from 8am till 9 tonight.
I had no time to watch anything today. Can't you sense my deep disappointment?
sigh.

[SW FL Dem]

12. Flipping between hurricane updates on the Weather Channel and

a rerun of Melanie Griffith in Working Girl on Bravo.

[mandyky]

21. I need to check on the hurricanes too

I wish they would knock the attention off this mess.

[rockymountaindem]

13. I'm not.

[bloom]

14. I figured I would see the "Daily Show" coverage

and that is enough for me.

I've gotten a few minutes when watching the news - but there is no way I'm going to sit and watch all that.

[ikojo]

15. I have many DVDs and will listen to the Al Franken show

via download on my iPod while at work. I cannot listen to it live so I'll get it the day after. At least it will keep me from listenting to National (re)PUBLICAN radio.

yep, my news this week will be courtesy of the strong people at DU who can stomach the lies and not stroke out.

I have a physical scheduled for Friday and I cannot afford the spike in my blood pressure that exposure to the pugs would cause.

[nikatnyte]

16. My blood pressure is bad enough as it is

The last thing I need to do is watch is the ignoramus-filled hate-fest.

[NMDemDist2]

18. I"m watching Free Speech TV "the un-conventional" news

and looking forward to the Daily Show

[Zech Marquis]

19. no RNC for me period!

I refuse to allow any facist pr to pollute m tv or iMac :evilgrin:

[GCP]

20. I'm watching Airport 1975 on AMC

Chuck's about to land the bird.

[madinmaryland]

22. I'm watching it on cspan

Need to keep check on what the cheney they are up to.

It mostly goes in one ear and out the other. Otherwise i will probably have to vomit:puke:

My wife just noticed that there are a couple of african americans there.

[Tight_rope]

52. Yeah...I counted about 20 African Americans...might be less..

I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt!

[kerry-is-my-prez]

23. I'm not watching it - just reading the posts here and will read the paper.

Also - the daily show. I'm sure all of the talking heads will be trying to be gracious so I don't think I can stomach that either.

[demgrrrll]

25. I can't do it. I just can't do it. eom.

.

[CityZen-X]

24. Like Watching The WWF!

I don't watch the WWF, but I bet the show and the audience are of the same caliber!

[Enraged_Ape]

26. I'd rather watch four nights of "Gigli"...

than sit through one minute of that shyte.

[rfkrocks]

27. turn off those tvs

boycott the convention by giving it low ratings!!!!!!Fight back-turn the media prostitutes off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[devinsgram]

28. I only listen to the truth

Not a pack of lies.

[truth2power]

29. Not me.

Been here, lurking.

[Digit]

30. Was watching Southpark instead

Now, the TV is off.

[DieboldMustDie]

33. Fear Factor was less scary...

and less disgusting. :puke:

[Cha]

35. Yeah! I'd rather watch "Fear Factor" and I'm not

a reality show buff!:-)

[HootieMcBoob]

34. I'm watching a baseball game

and back to back Airport '75 and Airport '77! In honor of this republican administration which has been the ultimate disaster.

[Xenus Sister]

36. I have it on with the sound down

I did look over and see Michael Moore, so I had to backup my Tivo to see what that was about. The pukes were booing, and Moore was bowing, McAsshole was saying something about a disingenuous filmmaker making pre-war Iraq look shiny and happy, what a fucker. I turned it back down very quickly. I used to like John McCain, and now I can't remember why.

Fuck them all, dumbass numbnuts.

Our convention looked much better.

[Cheswick2.0]

37. I saw some of it by mistake and I had to go smoke crack

made me feel a lot better.

[Crachet2004]

38. I am watching it for comedic relief, and so far, I have not been let down.

A while ago, Dick Cheney and his old lady came in, and the Convention started playing what sounded like a Negro spiritual with Black women harmonizing, from the slavery days by the sound of it. One of those old timey type tunes. Then, with the audience politely clapping but not really cheering or happy to see him at all, he winds his way around the room and finally finds one kind of old Black guy, shakes his hand like it is all about HIM (Black guy looks puzzled, but shakes his hand), then finds a place and sits down. I liked to died. I laughed till I cried.

So now I know why the GOP likes Dick Cheney-he is their new champion for the Black vote! They think Dick Cheney will deliver the Black vote!

McCain is on now, and Michael Moore is laughing at him. McCain gets the crowd to boo at Moore...cheap shot. McCain thinks the war is a cool deal, evidently forgetting what a shitty deal he got out of Vietnam. He thinks we should fight because we are Americans, and let Bush lead us because, well, I guess because he is an American, too...or something.

Earlier, on MSNBC, they said the whole purpose of the convention, is to convince everyone Bush is in the echelon of leaders who were right about needing to fight, when their constituents didn't want to...like Churchill. Now tell me that isn't a hoot.

Oh no, I am watching this...it is hilarious. But I will say this much, the whole thing is much more reserved than ours was...they are praying now, and some guy is singing "Amazing Grace". I guess they are trying to bring back the feeling of just after 911. Cynical bastards.

[tanyev]

39. Tried to watch

Had to shut it off. Couldn't stand all the yelling. (Me yelling at the TV, that is.)

[SammyWinstonJack]

40. I wouldn't watch that crap on a bet!

I have my pride! I watched Turner Classic Movies last night! Gregory Peck, first time I have seen "To Kill A Mockingbird" It was great! Spent the last two days watching my favorite mini series, "The Thorn Birds" Love it! I spent four days glued to Cspan during the Dem Convention! Loved every minute of it! I won't spend one minute of my life watching the repug convention! Like I said, I have my pride!

[eleny]

41. I can't do it

But I am listening to Majority Report and Malloy is on deck.

[Kool Kitty]

42. Yeah, me too.

I was listening to Air America and Pacifica (WBAI) on the net and the radio, and my husband came home from work and turned on the TeeVee. I heard a few snips of McCain's speech and the 9-11 thing and then they started singing "Amazing Grace" and he drove me to head phones and Air America on the radio. All I can hear now is him shouting and laughing alternately. The little bit I heard gave me a headache, his constitution must be stronger than mine.

[Jane Austin]

43. Not me! I'll probably scan through Hardball and Olbermann

when I get home, but those people give me the willies.

That much smugness in one place is almost too much to take.

What I have heard on Air America tonight, though, has been so obnoxious, I'm sure not eager to spend any time watching it.

[Ron Green]

44. I watched for a while, cursing at the TV as my wife, in another room,

told me to "lighten up, you'll hurt yourself." Now I'm reading DU and she's in the TV room cursing and calling them "idiots." LOL

[kohodog]

45. Preseason Football never looked so good! n/t

[umtalal]

46. Yes, I am not watching. I only peek once I read something interesting

on the DU. but soon I will give that up too. puke.

[Gold Metal Flake]

47. I was reassembling an automatic transmission.

It did not lie to me once. Much better company. I also watched today's Democracy Now that I taped, and I am reading DU. I just can not stand to watch those liers lie.

[Tight_rope]

48. I honestly tried. But I couldn't take it after only 10 minutes of watching

[shanti]

49. i refuse to watch it

you're not alone.

[Obamarama]

50. My partner has forbidden me from watching it....

Says he doesn't want to see me die of an aneurysm.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

51. I refuse to watch

I will only listen to Air America and watch Democracy Now.

[mandyky]

53. Night #2

kick

[Cha]

57. I had a guy in our co-op today who was in line to

check out and saw my Kerry/Edwards pin..

I knew from his tee shirt that said "God Bless America" that I had a bush supporter coming through and sure enough..he said, "I was looking at your Kerry/Edwards pin"..I said, "I know, I saw you"..he said, "so you don't like mr. bush"..me, "Nope!"...him, "he's more American than that guy(pointing to my pin)..I said, "Yeah, if you believe bush, but I don't"..and that was it..conversation over..still I was mildly shaken to be in the presence of real live stupidty and a danger to our Country.

Anyway..what kind of chickenshit is that?.."More American"? Trouble is I knew what the heck he was trying to say.."More Patriotic"? I thought of other things I might have said but at least I got the message in that I didn't believe a word bush says.

But I had a lot of really good people ask me where I got my Kerry/Edwards pin(off the internet)and we had good chats on how amazing it is that people don't know how bad bush is for our Country.

Like the chickens for for Colonel Sanders.

[Lisa]

54. I've got an incubator full of hatching eggs ...

Hmm, tough choice. Do I watch a flag-waving smirkfest complete with nasty jokes about poor people and wounded soldiers ... or do I play with adorable fluffy baby chicks?


Decisions, decisions!

[Blue_Roses]

65. Oh, those are so cute!

what breed are they? They look like Japanese silkies. I used to have two as pets when I was a kid.:)

[in_cog_ni_to]

55. Not one minute of it.

My blood pressure couldn't handle it. :puke:

[Pallas180]

56. I haven't watched one second - just click past it...Boooring

.

[TrustingDog]

58. haven't watched 1 min. of Lizzie Dole saying bush restored

dignity to the Whitehouse. :P

I can't help it. I feel compelled to listen to this excremental coilings from ignorant slits. It's the blackest of comedy.

[jackstraw45]

59. Listening to PROTEST coverage here

http://radio.socialtechnology.net/listen.html

[RobertDevereaux]

60. Not watching...

Haven't had cable for years. We got to see the DNC Thursday night by attending a party in Santa Fe while on vacation.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

61. Not me

Occasionally yesterday I flipped to CNN, if there was no Dem on for commentary, I switched off. And since they had no Dems, that meant I didn't watch. I did watch part of the post-convention LKL though.

[randr]

62. Listening to Democracy Now at the moment

And then I hope I can stay awake for the Daily Show.

[marlakay]

63. I left town today

As I said on other thread I went out of town to a conservative area. I talked to my old friends Bushies and made some points then came back and made some phone calls to get volunteers to work passing out flyers this week at our subway bart the last two nights of the convention. It does make you feel better to do something and anything besides watching rnc convention. Daily show is good to watch at night and tonights is the first for the convention so it should be great.

[Tomee450]

64. I haven't watched

any of it and don't intend to do so.

[Scorpious_Maximus]

66. Not one minute. n/t

[mandyky]

67. Day#3 of no cable news

Thanks DUers and AAR for bringing me news on what's going on. Hopefully, CSpan's Washington Journal will be better this morning.

[terrya]

68. I watched it for roughly 3 minutes.

Chip Reid of MSNBC was interviewing some right wing fundementalist nutjob who was some pastor and a South Carolina delegate. She blathered on about the importance of the anti-gay Federal Marriage Amendment and "preserving the sanctity of marriage". Blah, blah, fucking blah. Same old tired homophobic hate filled horseshit. I turned it off right after.