Fox News poisons the minds of its viewers. A short story from yesterday

[Botany]

Did you know the President Obama stole the idea of his first book "Dreams of My Father," which
is his own autobiography as a young man and that he personally snubbed Bibi Netanyahu by not
inviting him to the White House after he had come to America to see his friends? Well, now you
do.

Yesterday, I was working at a small office where I take care of the grounds planting some spring
flowers in some large planters and a sweet little old lady who always has stopped by to say "hi"
and chat and tell me how much she enjoys the plantings told me those things along with how those
black people in that town in Missouri were acting so bad now that one of their own was President.

I asked her if she watches "The Fox News," and she said yes.

what I was planting .... if you care

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Beautiful pic, Botany!!

[Botany]

2. thanx

violas or "johnny jump ups" ... the picture is just from google images

I know I should not have lost my temper w/the sweet little old lady but she told me
that crap after I had said that I had worked for Obama. Now the President hasn't
done everything I have wanted but still he has done the best job as President I have
seen in my lifetime and I have grown really tired of all the crap and lies he has to
take.

[Botany]

17. No

She is at least 75 or 80 and 5' tall and she really is a sweet little old lady.

[madokie]

3. You got it

Whenever I've faced with such ignorance I ask if the person spouting it is a fox watcher and guess what, they always are, always.
If they're old white men like me more times than not they admit that they listen to the drug addled pedophile too, be surprised how often glen beck or alex jones figures in this too.

[KittyWampus]

5. anecdotal, but same here. It really is a crying shame. I understand there are two sides

to issues. And that every political party needs an HONEST opposition.

But the money, media and lack of scruples behind the modern Republican party is daunting.

I get pissed at elected Dems just as most all DU'ers do, but when you look at what is behind the opposition, it boggles the mind.

[blkmusclmachine]

39. We deceive you

believe

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. Interestingly ...

I've found the opposite ... I heard folks saying this crap and ask if they watch/listen to fox and the answer is "No. I don't watch fox."

But, then again ... whenever I ask what their source of news is, they have a Katie Kouric(sp?)/$I$ter $arah moment ... "I listen to lots of news!"

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. A sad meeting of beauty and ugly. n/t

[KittyWampus]

6. Johnny Jump Ups are among my favorits, self-seeding and smell wonderful. So happy.

as for FOX viewers, I wonder if their audience skews older?

[Botany]

9. Well Fox News tells the truth 18% of the time and its goal is to keep its viewers angry ....

.... at The President, Blacks, Liberals, union workers, environmentalists, teachers,
Muslims, and so on so as to allow the really rich and powerful to keep screwing the
American people.

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/fact-checking-site-finds-fox-news-tells-truth-18-percent-time/

KW

[greatlaurel]

7. Thank you for the account of your experience. It is so sad how these people are being brainwashed.

Perhaps in some way the beauty you are creating will help offset the ugliness these people are mainlining into their brains. We can only hope.

I have no explanation for why people cannot tell they are being manipulated to harm themselves. It is an insidious form of propaganda and marketing by starting with a confirmation of their own biases.

Thank you for the beautiful picture and for making these tiny gardens so beautiful.

[Snarkoleptic]

10. My dad retired early from a great union job and is rolling in cash.

His prior teevee spent so many hours tuned to Faux that their rotating cube logo was burned into the lower left corner of the screen.

I mentioned how I'd enjoyed watching the Ken Burns' "The Roosevelts" and he immediately declared "Roosevelt was a monster" who had lengthened/worsened the great depression by failing to let the "free market" work things out on their own.

He's also parroted such rubbish as Reagan was our greatest president, Obama is a Socialist and, ironically, unions are to blame for our economic woes.
When I mentioned that we've had 60-consecutive months of private sector job growth, he scoffed and fired back with the tangentially-related labor force participation rate talking point.

[Botany]

12. Facts have a well known liberal bias

or that 1 "bio-drug" used to help fight cancer is now being made a better and cheaper
way and that is saving us $250 billion.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141032362

[GoneFishin]

11. The few I have encountered who say "no", I am confident due to circumstances, that

the real answer is "yes", but they realize their credibility will be diminished if they admit it.

[PowerToThePeople]

13. the new "constitutionalists" are old tea party repukes

They listen to limpballs, faux, glen blech, etc. They see all the negative going on about those sources, so are trying to distance themselves. They claim to be independent and only are looking to ensure the constitution is followed. They are typically gun humping, Obama hating, bigoted, racist, tea party nut jobs, who have listened to right wing hate media for decades. They can't turn back the clock and change that now.

[GoneFishin]

32. Yep. Those are the ones. Obama hating, bigoted, racist, tea party nut jobs, but embarrassed to

come right out and admit it.

[packman]

15. Beautiful flowers, but wondering

How one leaps from expressing the delight in seeing such flowers to politics. "Such beautiful flowers. Look at their little faces. Like children . Speaking of children, who have fathers, did you know Obama's Dreams of our Father----" Seems like such people have a pimple that is festering which needs to be popped and will just jump on anyone to rant and rave. Can't hold all those hours of watching Fox without it having an outlet, I guess.

[Botany]

16. It started with the local police and some problems around the office and then from there it ....

.... went to "those black people" having been acting so bad lately that my brother has had to start using the
word n****r again and then ...... well, you know the drill.

She really is a sweet little old lady who likes birds, flowers, going on walks, and volunteering by reading
to little kids so I was sadden by her thoughts and angered by those who knowingly lied to put those nasty
ideas in her brain.

packman

[erronis]

19. I wonder if you can use some of her liquid fertilizer

De-natured, of course.

I have a semi-sweet older cousin(-in-law) who regularly zings them at me. I can't remember the specifics but at one luncheon she was harping on about something and I asked her if she only watches F*X (News, NOT). She was surprised that I knew.

[malaise]

18. Magnificent photo

Fugg Fux!!

[Doctor_J]

20. absolutely true. probably the worst thing to happen to the country in my 55 years

The good news is that if we ever decide to fight back, we'll know where to start

[classof56]

21. I have been known to tell my sweet l'l old lady neighbor (same age as I am, actually)...

Hon, if all you watch is Fox, you're never gonna know the truth. She says yeah, that's what her sons tell her. I've offically given up on any "political" discussions with her, just try to stay focused on what a lovely person she is, with a big heart. Tryin' to keep peace in the 'hood!

What a gorgeous photo, BTW. Really brightened my morning!

[Botany]

22. "What a gorgeous photo, BTW. Really brightened my morning!"

Thanx I ganked it from google images.

I'll be by the office today and I'll try to be nice to her.

[nxylas]

23. OK, I have to ask

How the holy heck do you steal ideas for your autobiography?

[Botany]

31. It is an old Kenyan trick

Funny those were my exact thoughts

[cilla4progress]

24. Last year, while he was ripping things up with his

heavy equipment on the edge of my place, I went over to make friendly chit chat with the new neighbor. About 2 sentences in he disclosed to me that President Obama was born in Kenya! (His cousin works in the Pentagon, so he knows.)

Not usually one with quick retorts, I replied that boy howdy, he had really drunk the Fox news kool aid.

Being even more slow-witted than me, he had no response.

Apparently the neighborhood has outed me for my leftist leanings ...

[marble falls]

25. Planting Pansies post palavering patsy?

[still_one]

26. Not just its viewers. The MSM gets its talking points from fox news, which shows how inept the

fourth estate has become in this country

[valerief]

28. Bingo, because all the sponsors are oligarchs. nt

[valerief]

27. Your flowers are much prettier than what's floating around in that old dame's skull. nt

[Cryptoad]

29. Fox Brain Rot....... terrible disease!

[JDPriestly]

30. The flowers are beautiful.

Fox News -- very ugly.

[hunter]

33. Sigh. Life's too short to watch TV news.

That's all I have to say.

[Mr.Bill]

34. Fox News

Rich people being paid by really rich people to tell the vanishing middle class that poor people are the problem.

[narnian60]

42. Well said.

[cstanleytech]

35. Fox doesnt poison peoples minds, to do that those who watch it would need to have a mind first.

[lastlib]

36. "Fox News KILLS a thinking mind"..............

[YOHABLO]

37. Is that a photo of pansies or a painting? Which ever, it's really beautiful

[blkmusclmachine]

38. POISONS THE MIND

[ErikJ]

40. Tell her that Fox is owned by an Australian and Muslim Saudi prince billionaires

who could care less about America.

[Jon82]

47. Brilliant

She might pass out, or she might try to hit you for your blasphemy.

[Cha]

41. Beautiful flowers, Botany.. no wonder you choose that as your user name. Too bad you

couldn't tell her they were all LIES. And, she was brainwashed.

[Major Hogwash]

43. According to the Pew Research Center, 47% of Fox News conservatives only get their news from Fox!

The percentage of "consistently conservative" viewers who say that their main source for "news about government and politics" is Fox News is 47%!!!

Quoted from the Boise Weekly, February 25 - March 3 edition, Volume 23, Issue 36.

That is sad.
But, that is what we face as a nation in this political environment.

[Jon82]

46. people must like to be lied to

I really do not know what to write about this that would not end up being an insult to so many people. Fox news is one of the worst news sources to trust. There are worse online sources but Fox News in my opinion is not any better. In fact, I try to make it a habit to research any news report myself because over the years the media has often, intentionally mislead the public for the sake of ratings. Fox news just seems to do it more often than not.

[heaven05]

49. Wow!!!

that's the percentage of votes romney got. Just joking, not really surprised.....

[snot]

44. Ready to take action for media reform yet?

We don't have to allow this.

[Jon82]

45. I always hear the same crap

I have experienced this far to often. A lot of the time, it is coming from my daughters who heard it from a teacher or another family member. I usually know the source is FOX News because I often frequent their stories (and they are just that, stories) to hear what truth they are twisting at the moment. I tell my wife that you can get the news from Fox as long as you stop paying attention after 10 seconds. If the average person would research some of their news topics themselves, they would see the truth. Fox news is not trustworthy.

[barbtries]

48. did the word "uppity" come up?

jeez.

[LynnTTT]

50. I live in an "over 55" community in South Carolina,

so you imagine the comments I hear. Last week a neighbor told me that ""she heard that there is now a "rule" that parents are now responsible financially if their children don't work."" She further explained that it means that if your adult children refuse to work, you as parent have to pay. When I asked her how that would work, she had no idea. Would this last forever? If my adult child goes on welfare at age 50 and I am 80, do I still have to pay?
She said she didn't know, but her husband had heard that ..... on Fox News.

[liberal N proud]

51. We need to stop calling it FOX News

FOX Propaganda would be more appropriate. That is what the entire programming at FOX is designed to for, to feed misinformation to the weak minded who cannot think for themselves.

[blondie58]

52. I am so sad that the fairness doctrine

Was ever repealed. It seems that now, more than ever, it is needed.

And thank you, Botany, for the reminder that Spring is just about here! I have always loved your screen name. 😼

[Inkfreak]

53. It's amazing and depressing how some folks absorb bullshit so easily.