Source of Stupid Discovered! (PIC Heavy)

[Danascot]

[Systematic Chaos]

1. One pic up and one pic right from the bottom left corner...

... is the most accurate description of the Faux viewership I've ever read:

"The sheep off in a garbage can"

:rofl:

[Towlie]

42. Here it is:

[Enrique]

75. what an odd place to have a sheep-off

:crazy:

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Love it, but I thought you were just going to show a pic of Poppy and Babs

[Idealism]

3. That must have taken somebody a long time to do, pretty sweet.

[L0oniX]

110. Looks like something Jon Stewart should use.

[Towlie]

4. The recs are coming in fast! Be sure to add yours.

[upi402]

5. What shocks me; that smart co-workers watch that BS religiously

even the non-religious.
Smart people are easy to propagandize. They retain and ingrain deeply, the BS from a seemingly "official" source. Then it's all over. Since they know it, it MUST be true and right.

Because they got praise all their lives for learning things fast and remembering stuff well. So critical thinking is trumped and then any new information that conflicts with what they know, is seen as wrong.

[Frank Cannon]

21. James Randi said that the intelligent and educated...

are most at risk for swallowing horseshit, for the very reason you state. They lose the capacity to assess whether what they "know" is, indeed, the truth. So you end up with PhDs who deny global climate change and think that space aliens are kidnapping people.

[progdonkey]

25. intelligent people also tend to be more imaginative...

That's also how you end up with a lot of otherwise intelligent people getting involved with cults (or excessively dogmatic in their "home" religion). The strange, convoluted beliefs of those cults satisfy the person's imagination.

A person with a high intelligence but who's starting at the wrong point can build incredibly complex mental edifices that are still nothing more than fantasy. Like Bishop Ussher, who originally came up with that "4004 BC" date back in the 1650s for the Biblical Creation: by all accounts he was an extremely well-read and intelligent person with an absolutely massive library of books, but because he began with certain false assumptions (inerrancy of the Bible, etc.), he constructed an entire, internally consistent dating of Creation that was nevertheless complete bullshit.

[GTurck]

41. That's called....

PSYCHOSIS!!!!

[specimenfred1984]

77. "A propaganda construct based on a false premise"

It describes 90% of what people think they know.

[redqueen]

89. He needs to repeat that to Penn Gilette a few times.

Maybe it'd help?

[TrogL]

66. You obviously haven't been around many smart people

The smart people I hang out with question everything especially what they see on TV or read in newspapers. They question what they themselves know. New information is compared with what they currently know and if it's different leads to cognitive dissonance which will bug them until it's resolved either by changing their world view or discovering the new information to be faulty.

If they suspect it's propaganda, it's that much more difficult for them to embrace.

[upi402]

86. you may be right, some "smart" people jumpt to assumptions

gotcha! :toast:

[FiveGoodMen]

114. There's smart and then there's smart

Some people just have a high IQ.

Some know how to put one of those to good use.

[truedelphi]

96. What you say is well understood by the Masters of Propaganda

After a Blue Ribbon, independant panel labelled the gas additive MTBE high risk, with no benefit, the newspapers went wild carrying tales of the "latest" study on MTBE.

Because the Masters of Propaganda knew that for most people "latest" means best.

[Wetzelbill]

107. Oh I know lots of good people

Pretty intelligent and kind-hearted who buy into this BS. Fox will make you flat out an idiot. Most television news is weak for various reasons, but Fox is more like watching pro wrestling than anything. The problem is, like with pro wrestling, some people think it's real.

[Supersedeas]

132. surprises me too -- but they know what they get -- CNN is the same with a diff label

[ColbertWatcher]

6. LOL! Great job! k+r, n/t

[flvegan]

7. Rec #10!!

[Naturyl]

8. Wow... this makes it pretty plain.

The Faux propaganda network has no excuse.

[xxqqqzme]

70. It also looks like they

fight a multitude of 'wars' over there at the 'noise'.

[inna]

9. rec #11! did you create this collage??

(and if not, could you please credit the source?) thanks, either way!

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. That montage makes it clear. Faux is nothing more than the National Enquirer or Star.

Completely made up Tabloid that is kool aid to the mass brainwashed. Scary.

This was a brilliant piece of work - thanks. (sure to give me nightmares!)

[HillWilliam]

51. Considering that Murdoch got most of his original fortune from the Enquirer

making up shit like two-headed, goat-mutilating alien-baby stories and weekly Elvis sightings, then took the same writing staff over to Faux, it stands to reason that he'd be pumping out the same shyte for the same gullible crew of fools who think it's real. That's the same bunch who think WWF is real, too. Only an idiot would believe that just because the pictures move now the content of the writing would be any different.

Apparently a lot of idiots do.

The only thing missing is the grocery-store checkout counter. The rest of us are still snickering at the fools who eat that shit up.

[roody]

11. I marvel that my formerly smart, not-television watching,

father has become an 89-year-old blathering idiot who watches hours of Faux per day. He did beat me at Scrabble though.

[pacalo]

12. Reading through those ridiculous, unprofessional news tickers

convinces me that this network is run by the inmates of an asylum.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. TV answer to the The National Enquirer .....

Elvis on the moon story is wayyyy overdue at that network.

[formercia]

14. Don't do this without a warning!

My IQ just dropped 37 points !!11111!!!11!

[FLAprogressive]

15. K&R

[callous taoboy]

16. Wow! No wonder I never watch that boool-sheit. n/t

[santamargarita]

17. For someone that never watches any of that bullshit, I'm certainly...

not missing anything. I'm not about to stink up my TV!
:argh:

[PA Democrat]

18. I love my parents dearly, but since they started watching FOX news

they drive me crazy. They are so woefully misinformed that is sad. I keep gently telling my dad he needs to get news from other sources, but he is stubborn and clings to the fake reality that he wants to hear from that crappy "news" network.

I had an argument with him about how much Obama will raise the top income tax bracket. Mind you, he is nowhere near the top bracket, but he brought the subject up out of the blue, and refused to believe me when I told him he was misinformed. It is so sad.

[depakid]

24. This is precisely why the corporate media needs to be divested and re-regulated

it's become every bit as big a problem for America and- and by extention for other nations as the big corporations on Wall Street. Probably more so- since the deregualtory craze might well not have happened if there'd been a fair, accurate and accountable media.

[FLAprogressive]

19. oops -- delete

[Ganja Ninja]

20. Thats a real cornucopia of crazy.

And it goes to show how it's not just the on-air personalities at FOX spewing right wing talking points. Its the production people too. From the directors right down to the guy running the chyron.

[Auggie]

22. This makes me ill

I can literally feel my blood start to boil

[SalmonChantedEvening]

23. K&R Very well done!!

Thank you Danascot!! :yourock:

[moondust]

26. THE GOEBBELS NETWORK

[Soylent Brice]

27. a fucking monument to evil.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

28. I think I heard small pinging sounds looking at that

My snapses were firing off but up unable to connect to the "sane" section of my brain.

I'm starting to think Fox News should be re-classified as 24 hr campaign advertising, since that is what it obviously is.

[Liberal In Texas]

29. "Fair and Balanced" my ass. They should have to use "Your 24/7 RNC Talking Point Source."

[shadowknows69]

30. Amazing collage, I wish I could print it as a poster.

a "news" organization routinely yelling fire in a crowded theater. FCC? Paging the FCC. This bullshit shouldn't be protected by the First Amendment or any gauge of ethical journalism.

[theblasmo]

33. Agreed

It's always astonishing when someone just displays all the evidence at the same time. I can only imagine the stuff that was missed. Can anyone give us some advice on how the poster might happen? I'd love to have something like this to give to my more Fox-centric acquaintances. Hell, sell it to raise money for DU.

[shadowknows69]

36. If you had a proper printer or printing service you could do it on photo paper probably

Of course there probably are copyright issues involved but I won't tell if you won't B-)

[Blue_Tires]

31. lolz

i haven't watched Fox News since shortly after 9-11...I knew they were bad, but I didn't know they had gone THAT far off the map...

I'm amazed anyone takes them seriously, and if you ask a lot of people in my area, it's the only 'real' news station they ever watch...

[shadowknows69]

32. They are flat out dangerous

They should be considered inciters to violence.

[L0oniX]

34. Pathetic and sophomoric. Only an idiot could take them seriously.

Anytime I find out someone I know watches Fox I tell them they're a moron. Usually you will hear me respond like this: "Oh nooooo ...you watch that crap? Only a moron would take them seriously". or "I can tell you've been watching Fox because what you're saying is totally bull shit". I don't care if they ever speak to me again.

[lunatica]

35. FOX News, right out of Idiocracy

I'd love to see it on a billboard.

[Hawkeye-X]

131. Funny you should say that..

http://www.videosift.com/video/Fox-News-in-the-future-from-the-excellent-film-Idiocracy

[valerief]

37. K&R

:kick:

[sufrommich]

38. What a work of art! Honestly, I think you've captured the

crazy in a montage of snapshots better than I've ever seen. Bravo!

[AlbertCat]

61. Yes....a collage worthy of The National Gallery.

Now let's do one for...oh...CNN, or NBC. That might be even more frightening, because we expect this crap from Fox. But NBC?.....

[Wednesdays]

39. This needs to be archived and put in history textbooks

so that future generations will know what we were up against.

And here we were taught how bad the McCarthy era was.

[sellitman]

40. Look at all the fun I've missed by not ever watching Faux News!

Thanks for the happy re-cap.

:spray:

[TygrBright]

54. 'scuse me. That would be "re-CRAP." Yer welcome. n/t

[Patiod]

43. "They're not allowed to lie on television"

So I was at a reunion of my sorority in Las Vegas this weekend, rooming with my old college roommate. I should note that I went to a state school in the Northeast, and, far from the elitist stereotype, sorority girls at that time were the daughters of middle management and of union workers.

Anyway, she got really angry when I asked her if we could watch something other than Faux "News". Why?! What do we liberals have against Fox?!

I said "because everything they say on there is lies."

Honest to God, she said "they're not allowed to lie on teleision. Name just one lie"

It was 7 am, and the first thing I could come up with was "there isn't now and never was a speed train between Disney World and Vegas in the stimulus package" (yeah, I know, I should have asked her where the WMDs are")

"Yes there was! Didn't you heasr them debating that in Congress?!!" (I wanted to say "because your idiots all watch Faux "News" )

She got all wound up, and started yelling about how she "knew all about my 'leanings' even before she got to the reunion" as if I had just come out as a pedophile or goat-rapist. I said I didn't want to discuss politics, and she kept coming back and coming back and coming back.

They get SO angry when you refuse to engage with them - they're just SO sure that if they argue and present the "FAX" that we deluded "lefties" will come around. But how do you debate with someone who thinks "they're not allowed to lie on television"? Seriously. So I just refused to continue the discussion, and ended up leaving and going off to find breakfast.

God, the damage that station is doing to our country.

[PatSeg]

84. That is really scary

I have to say I've known people like that, but I block the memories. Was this person like that when you were roommates?

[Patiod]

93. she was the only virgin in our sorority

and is on her 4th marriage

I wasn't very political in college, so I don't really remember anyone being Democrats or Republicans, but I remember her getting very upset over my drinking and smoking.

It is scary though, that anyone would think that "they can't lie on teevee"

[PatSeg]

100. I've been through some nonpolitical phases

where I didn't realize how ignorant some acquaintances were. What a shock to later hear them blurt out something like "they can't lie on teevee". It wasn't as surprising when it came from friends with little education, but to hear such stupidity from someone who went to college is pretty depressing.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

44. Source of stupid all right - bunch of garbage is what it is. Thanks for this collage. nt

[Froward69]

45. you have damaged

my brain... I think i lost at least 50 IQ points...

my favorite is the one with... "Democrats plot to take back America." Damn straight!!. I operated on the premise that "We were working for the democratic overthrow of the last administration."

[myrna minx]

46. This is actually shocking to see laid out like this.

Wow. Fox "news" is poison.

[indepat]

47. That 'puke vile is ubiquitous and expanding exponentially like the

universe, knows no limits, and is holistically evil is perfectly encapsulated in these images. :P

[L. Coyote]

48. How could you do this to me?

Do you realize how long it will take to air out my mind now? :rofl:

[LynnTheDem]

49. "Why the fuss about torturing people who want us dead?"

Holy fucking shit. :wow: :wow: :wow:

So questions for the stupidest MFers on the planet (aka republicans):

-So if it's ok for us to think that way, then it's ok for them to think the same, right?

-So we're not actually "better" than anyone else who tortures people, such as Saddam Hussein, right?

-So we're just spewing more bullshit when we claim to be better than everyone else on the planet, right?

-So you truly ARE the stupidest MFing idiots on the planet, right?

Holy fucking shit...I still can't believe in AMERICA on NATIONAL TV we have these kinds of headlines. TORTURE is ILLEGAL under our own laws, always has been! In war it's a WAR CRIME. And here we have HEADLINES on NATIONAL TV saying hey why all the fuss about TORTURING people! :wow:

[LynnTheDem]

52. I see at least FOUR TIMES Fox "News" has labelled corrupt Republicans as (D)s

Quite a common "typo" over at Fox "News".

[tabbycat31]

91. ditto

John McCain a Democrat? Even for Faux this is low.

[PopSixSquish]

50. I Started Counting the Typos and Incorrect Captions and Gave Up

These folks are teh stupid.

[TygrBright]

53. Dear God! Teh Stupid!! IT BURNSSS...!!! n/t

[williesgirl]

55. Wow - what a wall of shame. You should send to KO and Rachel. rec'd

[AllyCat]

56. What day was this?

[chrisa]

57. Hillarious. Fox is a load of garbage.

My favorite is "Do we need to sacrifice privacy for security?"

What a bunch of tools.

[underpants]

58. Haven't even read the whole thing-AMAZING

rec'd
bookmarked
journalized

[blondeatlast]

59. Mr. Rogers: Pure evil. Where would we be without "fair and balanced"?

Yet another recommend--that is teh brilliant.

[Raster]

60. The veritable mind-fuck that is Faux News can be summed up in two words:

Roger Ailes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Ailes

[byronius]

62. What a brilliant and frightening post.

[lumberjack_jeff]

63. two megapixels of pure, unadulterated win. n/t

[Laelth]

64. Doctor, my eyes!

Gracious. That's a lot of stupid.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Danascot]

65. Wow, 100+ recs

That's a first for me!

I post this after midnight on a weekday, come back today and look what happened.

I found this on Reddit pics. It's not mine. There's no attribution or details given and I know nothing more about it. Here's a link to find the post at Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/all/search?q=img523.imageshack&t=week

It was a lot of work for whoever put this together and I wish we could give credit where credit is due. It's quite an indictment.

I'm happy I found something to amuse some of you and my apologies to the rest for the nausea.

Danascot

[blondeatlast]

122. I e-mailed your DU post to KO. It is a shame there is no attrribution but I'm glad

you found it to share.

Someone deserves some major league kudos, I hope we somday find out who.

Props to you for sharing the find and mega-props to an anonymous, but steadfast, hardworking, champion of the internet!

[HughBeaumont]

67. You'll find most of these come from Mr Loaded Question himself: Neil Cavuto.

SUCH an asshole. Assholes on Faux are plentiful, but he is the gaping sphincter where all intelligence goes to die.

And does anyone but me notice that David As(s)man looks like a douchier Rick Moranis?

[Kindigger]

68. How odd

I watch O'Lielly (just to see what Keith will be talking about the next night). The other night I saw at least four obvious misspellings in his various 'segments'. You know, the kind that just sort of POP out at you? Maybe O'Lielly's show is just extra, extra low-rent? :shrug:

I don't think there's one out of all that garbage :wtf:

[JHB]

69. Aiiiiiii! Takes it away, Precious! Takes it Away!!!!!

[vinylsolution]

71. Massive K&R for this graphic!

It's about time the scale of American stupid was highlighted.

And still they wonder why we rejected them in November 2008....

[RedCloud]

72. Not surprisingly, the Simpsons have a better grip on reality.

Just keeping harping about Fox news. Eventually it will stop. Organize boycotts of their sponsors...

[LuckyLib]

73. We don't have cable. This is why. When I am in a hotel room watching it,

I am flabbergasted at how idiotic and flash-trash it is. And much of the American public is anesthetized by this shit. They think it is actually "news" --:puke:

[Oilwellian]

74. I have a proposal for you

I'm blown away by your post. I would love to turn this into a YouTube video. Of course you would be credited for the idea. It's absolutely brilliant and YouTube would bring a much larger audience to your eye-opening shots.

Oh, and any suggestions for music would be great.

[rucky]

78. How funny would it be to play this track in the background...

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/hl-6094687/broadcast_news_theme_song/

[Danascot]

83. That's a great idea, Oilwellian but the graphic isn't mine.

See: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5331986#5334220

If there are any tech wizards out there who have ideas about how to track down the originator, please let us know.

[Sandrine for you]

76. Hillary leaps in polls: why isn't wall street scared ?

Question of the day:

Barack's background : Ancian History or madrassa matters ?

I am open-mouthed in front of their nerve

[chknltl]

79. Error: You've already recommended that thread. (Proof that:

Even looking at the photos in this OP will lead one down the slippery slope to moranity!)

[MisterP]

80. I actually wouldn't liken them to Pravda: sure, both lie and (under Brezhnev) accused people of

being internal foes
but Pravda didn't actually cause loss of IQ points, even with its stick-up-the-rear ortho-Marxism

[LiberalPersona]

81. Jeez

Such a huge pile of stupid.
I think I'd lose half my brain if I tried watching Fox News.

[GreenPartyVoter]

82. Wow. Just, WOW!

:thumbsup:

[PatSeg]

85. That is really scary stuff

Even The Onion isn't that outrageous, but of course, The Onion is actually funny. This is insane.

[SammyWinstonJack]

87. Brain rotting stupid.

:wow: :silly: :crazy: :dunce:

[redqueen]

88. Wow!

Tabloid news should be required to include a label... for those too stpuid to catch on on their own.

[BobTheSubgenius]

90. Presented as it is, Faux Noise's "message" is so laughable that it's..

...hard to believe anyone even pays attention, let alone have it convince them of anything at all. I suspect (but cannot attest to, as I can't stomach even 5 minutes of it) that it's more insidious and effective when fed in bite-sized portions.

A very nice collage, though. :thumbsup:

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

92. Unbelievable

[20score]

94. Hell yes I am bookmarking and sending to Righties!

[LaPera]

95. This is a keeper to bookmark in favorites for future use & arguments with idiot republicans!

[Contrary1]

97. Here's a couple more to add to your collection:

[FlyingSquirrel]

98. KLEIN: Terrorist Tells Me He Will Kill Britney and Madonna

I can't believe even Fox ran with that blurb. The media is out of control.

[LynnTheDem]

99. Fox News; Partisan Hack Liars?

Fox News Viewers; Stupidest Motherfuckers On The Planet?

Fox News; Always Wrong?

[Yavapai]

101. How do you abbreviate the word stupid? FOX!

Forest Gump's Mama said "Stupid is as Fox does"

Fox News: putting ignore back in ignorant!

[tosh]

102. My THEORY is confirmed!!

:rofl:

[Sandrine for you]

103. TradingPit: Economic disaster if the liberal win the ''War on Christmas"....LOL

:rofl: :rofl:

[Sandrine for you]

104. This is so great, you should make T-Shirt with this: I want One...

[Kajsa]

105. Dumb and Dumber,

and flat out LIARS!

This is a great collage of Faux News Hits!

Bill'O the clown makes Keith Olbermann's
Worst Person in the World list nearly every
time!

Thanks for this- is took a lot of work to put
this together.

:) :hi:

[Sandrine for you]

106. Hey I'm serious, this must be on T-Shirt and Poster ! If you don't sell me that stuf and I will give

to some graphist people...

[Danascot]

115. Sorry, Sandrine, it's not mine

I found it on Reddit and thought folks here would get a kick out of it. No idea who did all the work to put it together.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5331986#5334220

[Sandrine for you]

117. Merde alors !...nt

[EJSTES2005]

108. Well Done !!!!!

Faux News is the biggest joke of the 21st Century. Too bad so many sheeple actually believe their crap is actually based on facts : (

[BrklynLiberal]

109. A work of art. They are all little mushroom brains...thriving in the dark, damp basement of

intelligent life on this planet.

And that may be an insult to mushrooms. I am sorry.

[ThatsMyBarack]

111. Where's Paris Hilton?

Wasn't her DUI a major FUX news thing???

[Cali_Democrat]

112. One of the greatest posts ever on DU

WOW

[backscatter712]

113. Reddited!!!

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/87tbl/source_of_stupid_discovered_in_america/

Remember folks, vote up early, vote up often!!!

[Danascot]

116. That's funny, I found it at Reddit

Who says the internet isn't self-referential?

:toast:

[Swagman]

118. well done !! that is very very scary

[Nebulous Abstraction]

119. K&R for the best thread ever.

[Sandrine for you]

120. National Healthcare: Breeding ground for terror ? OMFG ? what will happen to Canada ?

[spanone]

121. k&R

[Mr. Sparkle]

123. Foxnews, misinforming Americans since 1996 !!

[inna]

124. 1996? why? nt

[Mr. Sparkle]

125. The channel was launched on October 7, 1996.

[inna]

129. really?? i had no idea, i thought it's been around for much longer, thanks for the info.

and in this case, there is an even stronger case for establishing a liberal 'equivalent' of Fox.

[neverforget]

126. This is the greatest post of all time.

[Sandrine for you]

127. I agree, I don't who is the artist who built that, but I really like to know.

This is not just politic,it's simply beautiful if you look at it with a distance. And then, it become ugly when you look at it closer...A real piece of art.

[burning rain]

128. I still say...

it's probably a geyser in Crawford, Texas.

[snake in the grass]

130. This is awesome.

[ddeclue]

133. Please be sure to run CCleaner to remove the FauxNews crap from your computer after viewing image.

:rofl:

[Number23]

134. Danascot, this is fabulous work

I took a DU break over the weekend and am just seeing this. This is the kind of stuff DU used to be famous for.

Excellent work. If I could rec, I would.

[krispos42]

135. right-click, save

:wow:

[Cali_Democrat]

136. Kick

nt