I Was Trapped At an Auto Repair Place with Fox News Playing for 3 Hours

[Doctor Jack]

Here's the general flow of topics

-Obama is extremely ignorant

-Everything Obama does is unprecedented, unAmerican, illegal, or some combination of those three accusations.

-Hillary Clinton Email Watch Day 47

-Why Benjamin Netanyahu is a super nice guy

-A segment where some guy ambushes young New Yorkers and grills them about irrelevant facts and trivia in an attempt to make them look retarded

-Bill O'Reilly reads viewer comments about how great Bill O'Reilly is

-Interview with an unknown liberal who isn't allowed to say more than 3 words

-Snarky sarcasm and eye rolls from Megan Kelly

-You won't believe what this random black guy just said!

-The latest crazy trend among young people that almost certainly doesn't actually exist.


My ears feel molested. Just 3 hours nitpicking every Obama quote from the day and attempts to scare the shit old people about the out-of-control youth of today and crazy minorities. I have to imagine after watching that stuff regularly, your brain has the same consistency as mashed potatoes. I watched it for 3 hours and I am in such a stupor that I don't think I can remember how to use my coffee maker anymore.

[oldandhappy]

1. That happened to me at the Ford dealership and I asked them to take me home

and then come get me when the van was ready. Do not know that that option was available to you. Sounds really challenging! Sorry.

[Doctor Jack]

2. It was like being trapped in a casino

Just bright, flashing light, random sound effects, and constant shifts in focus to overwhelm your senses. It leaves you disoriented and unable to think straight.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. iPods can be very useful in these situations

Mine has saved my sanity on more than one occasion

[Doctor Jack]

15. My had my phone with me but I didn't have headphones

I tried just playing around on the internet but the tv was so damn loud, or maybe it is just how that channel naturally is. I would imagine the average fox started losing their hearing around the time of the Eisenhower Administration.

[liberal N proud]

119. News channels and programs use loud sounds to wake up their abidances after boring them to death.

I have noticed that no matter what network or what news program is on, every time they take a break, they play these obnoxious tunes with flashing and everything else. And when they return from that break, more of the same.

It all must be designed to make sure you can't tune them out.

[Initech]

131. Thank the internet gods for Netflix on smartphones.

Makes these types of situations much more easier to avoid.

[Kalidurga]

4. I don't think I can remember how to use my coffee maker anymore.

LOL too funny. I hope you got better once I stopped to think...

[MohRokTah]

5. Now you know why their demographic is the checkout generation.

Fox News will fail as its audience dies off.

[Doctor Jack]

12. One of Bill O'Reilly's Points Was About How Popular Fox News Is

He talked about how Fox News is the most viewed cable news station and that is proof that the popularity of liberal ideas is dying off. I think what Old Man O'Reilly fails to realize is that most people under 80 years old have moved on from cable tv. Its like bragging that you are the largest payphone operator in the U.S. or that your company sold the most VHS's last year.

Do you know the reason why I don't watch MSNBC anymore? Its not because I am tired of their liberal slant, its because I haven't had cable for years because cable tv sucks. I have a million better ways to get news and entertainment. Young people and liberals moved on long ago and Fox is proud that they are top dog in an otherwise abandoned arena.

As you said, Fox's audience is dying off and of course it is true. I can't name a single person I know under about 58 years old that watches that channel. My grandma does, my wife's great grandma is really into it, and a few of the people at the place where I work who are seriously retiring in the next year or two. That's it. Its not my co-workers, friends, or family that are in their 20's, 30's, 40's, and now even 50's, who voluntarily watch fox news.

[StarzGuy]

121. I'm 60 years old and refuse to watch FOX on DTV

However I do watch the local FOX affiliate because I like the anchors. Note: I never used the word "news" in my sentence because there isn't any real news any more on these stations.

[RKP5637]

176. Some of the local Fox on TV here is fair minded and the anchors aren't too wacky. I think

that's a rarity. Sounds like you have good anchors too.

[pstokely]

29. so will all TeeVee news

based on the advertisers on the news channels and network news shows, no one under 50 watches

[Doctor Jack]

42. That is true based on the ads I saw

A lot of commercials for retirement planning, diabetes medication, and hearing aids. I'm not joking

[pstokely]

43. you can't boycott anything you have any use for

[reflection]

71. Huh. Listen to right-wing AM radio sometime.

I do it to hear with what the moron down the hall from me will say next, once he's had a chance to sift it through his syphilis-riddled brain. The ads are all tax relief services and boner solutions. Republicans are a bunch of limp-dick deadbeats.

[Beartracks]

138. LOL Are you in Oklahoma?

That's the same litany of ads I have to listen to just to get the traffic reports during my morning commute.

=================

[reflection]

143. No, Tennessee.

But the demographic is the same. Dried-up surly tax cheats with sawdust in their balls.

[Curmudgeoness]

158. I have to salute you.

I can't stop laughing at the "bunch of limp-dick deadbeats".

[reflection]

164. Thank you, thank you. I'd also like to thank

all the limp-dick Republican deadbeats that made this moment possible. i couldn't have done it without them.

[Divernan]

129. Loads of tacky commercials for Viagra/"male enhancement" etc.

[jeff47]

112. A large part of that comes from Boomers still being the largest bloc of consumers

Millennials don't have money yet. So they're not a good target for most TV advertisers.

Of course, there's the problem that broadcast TV itself is aimed at this older demographic, and they're going to have big problems as the number of Boomers goes down.

[forest444]

62. That's what Murdoch's People Meters are for:

to keep False News on top of the ratings race no matter what.

You may remember that Nielsen tabulated ratings using their a time-honored mail-in diary method. That all changed in 2000, when Neilsen discontinued the viewer diaries in favor of People Meters - whose manufacturer, Wegmans, is controlled by Murdoch's News Corp. indirectly (as owning it outright would of course be illegal for these purposes).

Following these changes, surprise! Faux News' ratings climbed quickly and inexorably to the heights they enjoy today. If I were a betting man, I might even say that Murdoch uses the handy-dandy People Meters not only to boost Faux News ratings; but also to boost right-wing shows in competitors' networks, such as Morning Joke on msnbc - which enjoys surprisingly good ratings for a right-wing soapbox hated almost universally by msnbc's largely progressive viewership.

I'm certainly not the first to connect dots between the People Meters and the way the ratings game always seems to favor the reich wing - at Fox and elsewhere. We may never know.

[NJCher]

136. this article would indicate otherwise

It's from Bloomberg and is about how Nielsen stood up to Murdoch way back when this form of measuring audiences was introduced.

How Nielsen Stood Up to Murdoch
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2004-09-19/how-nielsen-stood-up-to-murdoch



Cher

[dolphinsandtuna]

79. MohRokTah: ageism rears its ugly head on DU once again

[Fred Sanders]

90. Confirmed truth of the average age of a TV audience, carefully measured, is not what the word you misuse means.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. No wonder Their typical Viewer is

so F-----ed up. Was at the R/V repair shop two weeks ago today,Fake Noise on the TV in the Customer Lounge,asked the Person at the desk to please change the channel to anything but Fake. Sorry sir,we have that channel on all the time we get paid for it,well then I will take my business down the road. That channel did get changed with a apology .

[pstokely]

31. but they probably just changed it back to Faux news afer you left, it's probably the default channel

nt

[Wellstone ruled]

36. Would not be suprized,heard of that before.

And you can understand why I.Q.'s are on the downhill.

[jimmydwight]

51. Who would pay them to have Faux news on?

[ieoeja]

86. FOX News pays them.

It serves as an advertisement for FOX News. To the best of my knowledge FOX is the only channel that does this. Which is why you see it so many places.

[upaloopa]

107. Our local Sears store had Foux News on

all the demo TV's. I asked them to change the channel but the lady working there refused. I sent an email to Sears customer service and complained. I got a nice email back but I can't remember what it said. But shortly thereafter I went back to the store and all the demo TV's had an in store generated ad video playing.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. You poor sod

Here is a cute kitten to ease the pain

[zeemike]

39. Damn that worked.

It eased my pain and I did not have to watch Fox for three hours.

Does anyone wonder what cats dream about?

[Skittles]

55. you want I should kick your wondering ass, zeemike?

I'll give you pain; yes indeed. Extra if you pay more.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

61. lol Skittles is the name of my cat (she's very skittish). Love the candy too.

[Skittles]

63. Skittles was my cat too

he was 23 pounds of solid black feline love...he passed away in 2006, on my fifth DU anniversary

I also am proud my DU name will always be a poignant remembrance of Trayvon Martin

[zeemike]

68. I never pay extra for pain.

I know how to shop for the bargain pain...and I don't care if it is made in China.
If you want my business you will throw in the extra pain for free.

[Kelvin Mace]

82. Mine dreams about getting a restraining order

on our three dogs.

[TexasTowelie]

41. Cute kittens

should not be used in such a gratuitous manner. They comfort us because they are cute, not in spite of Fox.

[Doctor Jack]

48. Is that kitten sleeping on a larger cat?

My younger cat used to do that to my slightly older cat. The two aren't related and I don't know if the bigger one really liked it but he tolerated it anyway. But they are best friends now so I guess the kitten cuteness won him over

[stage left]

123. awwww!!!

I needed that. They had Fixxed News on at the doctor's this morning. What a thing to do to sick people!

[RKP5637]

177. Pretty Kitty!!!

[C_U_L8R]

8. Somebody could make a fortune

With a Fox Blocking Box

[Thinkingabout]

21. Good idea, perhaps a nox which would tell the truth rather than their lies.

[4Q2u2]

130. Someone Did

Their name is God and the Blocking device is known as a Brain.

[Rex]

9. Hopefully you did not stare directly into the TVEE for too long. If you feel dizzy or have a fever

I suggest turning on some classical music when you get home and taking a short nap. If you stare directly at the Foxnews for too long, you will go stupid.

That can be temporary or permanent depending on how long you were exposed.

[dolphinsandtuna]

80. what causes more stupid?

Faux, Kathie Lee, or Hoda, or The View?

Cause they all seem to be omnipresent on television in waiting rooms.

[Cha]

10. Doctor Jack.. I'm so sorry for you! I wouldn't have stayed and withstood the torture..

but, your enforced reconnaissance is just what I thought it would be like. I have an ex-husband who is a fox "truther&quot I heard from my son who makes him turn it off when he's around).. his father said.. "it's true" My son said "No, it's not." smh

You needed a hot shower and to be out in nature(by the ocean/in a forest/the woods/by a waterfall .. in order to get your mind back.

[steve2470]

114. great post, mahalo Cha! nt

[Cha]

161. Hey Aloha, steve! :)

[misterhighwasted]

11. I would need Jack Daniels & Qualudes after that

and I'm not one to indulge in either..but that situation could change my mind in a moment.

What a horrible day!

[Go Vols]

23. +1

for Quaaludes.

[Politicalboi]

38. Mmmmmm!

714 Lemon's. I remember those days ((((( ))))) What fun they were.

[shenmue]

13. Are you okay? Can we get you some water?

[Doctor Jack]

16. That channel kind of makes me want applesauce, a long nap, and

to yell at kids for being on my lawn.

[libdem4life]

14. Happened to me, too, and I just asked if I could select another station...I think it was a

doctor's office, and she said "sure" and handed me the remote. Who knows if it will work next time?

[Laffy Kat]

33. Happened to me & #1 son the other day at a Village Inn.

The hostess was going to sit us right on front of the TV with Faux Noise broadcasting. We very nicely balked at the idea and she apologized and turned it to another channel, CNN, I think. Anyway, it was tolerable. One table close by kept giving us dirty looks and we just smiled and waved.

[libdem4life]

85. My mother warned me TV would indoctrinate us and ruin America..wouldn't allow one in the house until

the 60s. Mostly afraid of sex and secular humanism. My Dad won when sports began to be televised. They'd probably approve of FN, as well. But maybe she was right ...just wrong on the message.

Most are employees and don't care. Unfortunately, it's so ingrained and just acts like Big Brother out of the famous book 1984.

[Nay]

115. Mom was correct. Yeah, in the 70's and 80's there were several books that warned about the short and

long-term effects of TV, especially on the minds of children. I still have a copy of Jerry Mander's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. Every last point made in that book has been proven true. It struck me at the time that we were looking at a wholesale colonization of mental space by TV (and now, of course, by electronic devices in general), and that's what has happened. No greater item of indoctrination has ever existed in human history so, along with the advances in psychological knowledge and techniques, people are pretty much screwed.

[libdem4life]

118. She was wise behond her years...we also got laughed at for being Health Nuts

Yet, she passed at 95 as her heart just expired. She was hardly ever ill, same with me now a bona fide senior...no health issues.

[Nobel_Twaddle_III]

17. and you did not change the chanel because ?

[Doctor Jack]

19. Daddy didn't have the remote

I'm "daddy", by the way

[Nobel_Twaddle_III]

22. okay so you could not reach the TV itself, ask them to change it etc.

tell them change it or give me back my car, so I can go else where.
.
had a similar problem with a bar in the Tucson airport. Googled their corporate office and complained. I have not seen fox news on any of their TV's since, FOX sports yes but news no.

[Go Vols]

26. or unplug the TV

I did that once because I could find no way to change the channel.

[tblue]

106. Exactly. I always ask them to change channels

and I tell them why too. Usually the people working in the establishment pay it almost no attention and don't mind changing channels.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

127. You can always ask for a channel change in a neutral way

This time of year is a great example. "Hey -- could you switch it to Sports Center? I want to see what happened in basketball yesterday." If little kids are around, hint that they'd be happier if you switched to Disney or Nick. Weather Channel is neutral. Ask for a switch to Bloomberg and say you want to follow your stocks.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

18. I have a simple solution to this problem

If I walk into b business and they have Fux on th T.V. I point out to the manager that they have teabag propaganda on the T.V. And that I don't do business with teabags and I walk out. I got one of the biggest hospitals in Tucson to change their programming by complaining.

[Nobel_Twaddle_III]

27. same with the Sushi bar in terminal B - no more fox, have to act as bad as they do sometimes

[ChazInAz]

98. Yes, that works.

If it was TMC, you might have spoken to me if you called "At Your Service". When I worked in that call center, we got frequent complaints about Fox being on the TV in the surgery waiting room most mornings. Apparently, some yahoo on the third shift would switch it from PBS, using his personal universal remote. Since the volunteers on the desk didn't have a remote, they couldn't take care of the problem, so your humble servant would be delegated to take care of it. It always gave me a certain righteous pleasure to switch the infernal thing back to PBS!

[freshwest]

20. I tell them it's bad for my BP. Which it is. LIve in a blue area where we dissent. n/t

[zentrum]

24. Make sure you complain

…to management.

[KingBob]

25. So sorry

Last week I took a friend to the doctor's office where Faux was playing. I couldn't find the remote nor could I find how to change the channel manually. I did the next best thing. I unplugged the TV.

[leftieNanner]

34. PERFECT!

And like most Fox viewers, they probably couldn't figure out why it wasn't working.

[Doctor Jack]

47. Maybe they thought the black void was

Just a really good episode of the O'Reilly Factor

[steve2470]

99. you rock, dude!

[pstokely]

28. Did you ever ask to them to change the channel?

though they might have just changed it back after you left

[hibbing]

30. My ears feel molested...hehehe

That's some funny stuff. At least you learned a lot from your viewing.

Peace

[leftieNanner]

32. Fox was on the TV in the waiting room at my car place

Nobody was paying attention, so I got up and turned it off. No wait. I changed the channel to MSNBC and then I turned it off! Fox plays 24-7 at our local airport, but it's too high off the ground for me to turn off as well. I need to call them and tell that I find it offensive and they should put on something innocuous. Won't change anything though. Hang in there, Dr. Jack.

[Nobel_Twaddle_III]

45. good for you , but be carefull in airports

[calimary]

35. Was it the kind of place where you could ask to have the channel changed?

I know it's not always easy. In some places you get a feeling that it's better just not to pay attention and get the hell outta there. But sometimes there are places where you - as the paying customer (which they do need in order to maintain a viable business) - can make such a request. I did that at our local bank because Pox Noise on there was just an irritant to me, and a personal affront since I'd been a reporter myself and I have strong feelings about how they have cheapened and pirated the industry I used to be so proud to be part of. And they switched. Now it's CNBC most of the time. But I was in a truck stop in another part of the county and noticed it up in the corner there, and Pox Noise was on, and I was an outsider as opposed to a decades-long customer of the same bank in the neighborhood, so I just finished transacting and didn't linger.

[Doctor Jack]

46. I really just didn't want to piss off the people working on my car

He might have came back and said they found way more issues and now it was going to be 3x as much. Sometimes its better to just tough things out and don't rock the boat. Same reason why I really go out of my way not to annoy people that work at resturants even of the waiter hasn't been by in 40 minutss. I don't want to get overcharged for a car repair and I don't want semen in my cheeseburger.

I've seen how vindictive pissed off workers can get. Sometimes I don't want to risk it

[calimary]

52. Yeah, indeed. There are some places where it's easier or more plausible than at others.

[steve2470]

102. "I don't want semen in my cheeseburger"

a meme that will live forever at DU!

[PoliticAverse]

109. I would have gone with "I don't want a jizzburger". n/t

[steve2470]

110. ha! nt

[madinmaryland]

144. I find it disturbing that someone could cum to that conclusion.

[msanthrope]

170. It's not that hard to come to that happy ending. nt

[sammythecat]

133. I wouldn't have said anything either.

If they weren't right wingers, Fox wouldn't have been on. They're the only ones that could tolerate it, and as long as they're holding all the cards (i.e., your car), pissing them off would be dumb.

[Enthusiast]

162. Always wear a Duck Dynasty T when you go to those places.

[Panich52]

37. You should sue. Or call Eric Holder. Obama made torture illegal, didn't he?

[Maynar]

40. You need one of these:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/9a06/

Zap the offending screen on the sly. Be cool, be casual, be FOX-free.

Since it's out of stock you will have to look for a vendor.

If you can't find one, let me know. Not using mine (I live in Canada).

[skydive forever]

70. Here you go

I've already ordered mine. http://www.amazon.com/Remote-Buttons-Universal-Control-Keychain/dp/B0054O2ZXM

[glinda]

44. That happened to me once at an auto shop and I went up and turned the channel. Told them I was not

going to listen to propaganda pretending to be news.

[YOHABLO]

49. If you're spending money there tell them to tune it to another channel or you're taking your biz

somewhere else. My bank here in Georgia played FOX for a long time till enough people complained. They switched it to CNN which IMO is not much better. Still corporate kiss asses.

[freedomrock1970]

50. There's an App for that...

Had the same deal at a auto repair chain. Downloaded a remote control app to my phone, found the right code for the box and changed the channel myself. Since it looks like your playing on your phone, no one knows who did it.

Put it on Al-Jazeera.

It made me feel better

[47of74]

148. Which one?

I don't know if one would work with the dealer I get my car serviced at. They run the signal through a set top box that puts the channel in a small box with the rest of the TV screen space being used by the dealer to run ads.

[C Moon]

53. Get a lawyer! File charges! :)

[Bigredhunk]

54. Always a brutal occurrence

It doesn't happen that often around here, but it does happen. I think most businesses/doctor's offices/etc... know better than to put something divisive on the TV.

There's a car wash chain nearby who does a good job with the wash - inside & out. They have two locations. Each location is owned by a different brother. The one location would always have The Weather Channel on, although I've not been there in years. That's a wise choice. It's weather. Who's going to bitch about that? The other one would often have faux on the TV. I'd usually say something.

I've noticed over the past couple of years it's been faux less and less. The last time I was in there (and every other time it happened) I thanked the cashier for not having faux on the TV. She said that a lot of people complained about it (when faux was on). I was happy, so I bought a couple of packets of 5 washes each. When I was paying, I noticed a binder behind the counter which read, "Obamacrap." Pissed me off that I'd given them my money. I always knew they were assholes though. I'd heard from employees that, if something broke on a car (antenna or something), the business would pay for it out of the employee tip $$.

I hate going there, but they do a good job. Then there's the, "Where do I shop?"-question. Most business should be boycotted for one reason or another. Liberals (people with consciences) have very few places to comfortably shop.

Anyway, I hate the blather of things like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire & Dr Phil, but you have to have something like that or The Weather Channel or HGTV on the television. You can't have news stations because everything is so partisan and we're such a divided populace (mostly b/c of punditry, asshole talking heads, and slanted news coverage)

[barbtries]

141. whatever happened to playing the radio?

or letting people wait in silence?
i disagree that you "have" to have the tv on.

[Bigredhunk]

154. I agree

I'm just talking about how things are. I'd rather it was a quiet office with magazines too. But that's not going to happen. TV's are everywhere now. I doubt they're taking them away. (sarcastically) We need to be entertained.

[barbtries]

175. i think that's common wisdom

pushed by advertisers, not necessarily the true state of things.

[flygal]

56. Why are there tv's EVERYWHERE in the US? I live in Europe and only see tv's in airports

Maybe a few restaurants have tv's our during soccer matches. I even ate a burger restaurant in the States that had tv's at each booth.

[Bigredhunk]

59. b/c people have to be stimulated and entertained constantly

I haven't been abroad in a long time. But here in the US, people cannot just BE. Few people are comfortable just sitting there with their thoughts or reading a magazine. There has to be a device in front of them (although this is the least bothersome because others don't have to share in the experience). Or a TV has to be on in front of them. Or there has to be music playing while they're getting gas (bigger cities have video screens at the gas pumps now).

We're generations of people raised on having movies playing while we're riding in cars. Nobody wants to interact, even with their own family members. It always makes me want to puke when I see a parent walking into a store with a child (or children), all the while they're walking from their car to the store they're looking down at their phone, ignoring their kid(s).

[Trillo]

60. They're not really TVs.

They're actually called Telescreens.

[Trillo]

57. I had something similar happen once years ago.

I started wandering around the dealership, just killing time. A manager came and got me and chewed me out for all the money they had spent on that TV room and that is where I was required to stay.

Fuck em. Never go back to that place.

[hunter]

92. That's my style. I wander around making a nuisance of myself...

... or I find a quiet place to read a book.

I can watch a movie, I can read and write at a computer, I can read a book or a magazine or a newspaper, but watching television, especially commercial "news" programming, is intolerable.

[tiredtoo]

58. Doctor Jack

First let me tell you, I feel your pain. and secondly let me tell you, when that happens to me I politely ask someone to change the channel. telling them that station offends my sense of decency. Sometimes they do and sometimes they give me some malarkey about they have no control over tv, it is in the hands of management. I then suggest they tell management that customers are upset with this condition.
It did work at a couple of places i frequent, one an auto shop and the other an eye surgery hospital. they now both broadcast CNN not a lot better but?
Of course we have to assume they received more complaints than just mine. But we have to be polite and issue our complaint.
Hope you never have to suffer like that again.

[Lee-Lee]

64. Please don't use the R word like that

Those born with a mental disability have a hard enough time without the labels used for them also being used as insults.

[Sienna86]

66. Thank you for addressing this.

I think poster should refrain from using "retarded" in this context. Thanks.

[Enthusiast]

65. This is why They® did away with the Fairness Doctrine.

They wanted to spread misinformation.

Propaganda is effective.

[patricia92243]

67. Sue the auto repair place for cruel and inhumane treatment to you. :)

[Vinca]

69. LOL - the last time this happened to me I forced them to change the channel.

It's amusing to watch the fools - for about 5 minutes - then it becomes irritating.

[Hotler]

72. Just ask them to change the channel, I did.

I was at a Chevy dealer get my truck worked on and they had Fox on and I went and asked who controlled the clicker and the guy said that would be me. I asked if he would change the channel and he said sure what channel would you like and I said any channel but Fox. I said he didn't like Fox either and smiled and we change it to baseball. The other people waiting were glad also.

[7962]

73. You have an auto repair shop thats open at 9 PM? Lucky guy!

Wish I knew where one of those was around my area.

[ileus]

74. Should have bought a Honda

[rgbecker]

75. Report them now!

http://turnofffox.org/tools/report/

[sellitman]

76. Yep

I work for a Lumber Yard owner who mandates Fixed Noise on all TV's on premise. When it's on in the lunchroom I eat elsewhere.

[KrazyinKS]

77. yep-

been there, done that. It is all over here in doo-dah.

[Badass Liberal]

78. That is truly funny and spot-on.

But why didn't you ask them to change the channel?

[tomsaiditagain]

81. Rush on the radio

got me to stop visiting a mechanic I used for years. He even carried a pistol on his hip.

He was a superb mechanic but had a penchant for extreme right wing ideals. I haven't been back in months.

[Pakid]

83. Since I would have been paying a bill for being their

I would have gotten up and turn it off!!!! To bad if no else liked it. I flatly don't care at all about what any right-wing nut wants.

[malthaussen]

84. I hope you recover soon!

That kind of stuff can make your brain melt.

-- Mal

[Helen Borg]

87. Ear Fox Molestation is not fun...

[lonestarnot]

88. What are you a field mouse? Why didn't you complain?

[fadedrose]

89. When I wait in the doctor's office

the tv always seems to have on Fox. I always get up and ask the desk lady to put on CNN, which while not always showing my views, at least shows what's happening without a slant.

The garage is not the place to make such a request. The guy will screw up your car and overcharge you to boot. Fox is reverenced by strange people.

You have my sympathy (my husband has it on most of the time, also has Judge (?) Judy and the other lady, Miliani or something, who both need to see a psychiatrist about their anger issues. Thank god he has his own tv room.)

[world wide wally]

91. Not quite what Orwell imagined, but you get the picture

[hunter]

93. Unplug the television, neatly wrap a bit of transparent tape around the plug's smaller prong...

... and plug it back in.

No electricity, no TV.

[B Calm]

94. I changed the channel to MSNBC at a local Chevrolet garage when no one was looking.

[barbtries]

142. i've done that too.

i don't even think it was fox, it was just some bullshit tv.

[deutsey]

95. It's a propaganda outlet pushing a truly evil agenda

Evil in that the agenda appeals to and reinforces our basest impulses.

[Fawke Em]

96. Could you not change the channel or ask to change it?

The place I take my car to get service used to have that crap on and I complained.

Now they keep it tuned to the Discovery Channel.

[MatthewStLouis]

97. I feel for you.

I've had to endure Fox News more than a few times. So glad I had a decent book to read the last time.

Occasionally, I feel curious and try to watch Fox News for a bit, but I usually can't take very much of it. They really do live in their own strange fantasy land. It's scary so many people think it's real news.

[Dont call me Shirley]

100. I'm so sorry you had to put up with that abuse.

Take a nice long soak and an effective anti-anxiety elixir of your choice.

[cyberswede]

104. Cute as you are...

nobody is going to try to decipher your acronyms.

EYS.

[steve2470]

113. IHNFIWYAMAIDNC! nt

[pinboy3niner]

117. MIRT!!!

[cyberswede]

122. LOL

[davidsilver]

103. I tend to get a good laugh out of them. Besides, they only preach to their own choir.

Regular independent thinking people don't watch that garbage.

[anotojefiremnesuka]

105. How can you be trapped?

Did you go to the place on your own free will?

Were you physically prevented from leaving?

Very confused

[valerief]

111. Can you imagine what listening to RW radio all day does to you?

My brother is a truck driver and has been listening to RW radio, even WORSE than Fox News, for decades. He's a fuckin' lunatic now and needs help, but god forbid the government help him.

[arcane1]

120. It's elder abuse, what Fox does on a daily basis.

[alterfurz]

124. The Faux News Solution: TV-B-Gone Universal TV Power Remote Control Keychain

http://www.amazon.com/TV-B-Gone-Universal-Remote-Control-Keychain/dp/B0006GD9CE

You're welcome!

[No Vested Interest]

156. This sounds like an idea whose time has come.

Has the poster tried it?

[alterfurz]

160. Not yet...

...but with every new instance of sitting in the doctor's waiting room listening to Faux Noise, I get closer to buying one!

[Algernon Moncrieff]

125. My niece with Down Syndrome has more sense than most FAUX viewers

...so please edit

A segment where some guy ambushes young New Yorkers and grills them about irrelevant facts and trivia in an attempt to make them look retarded

Otherwise a very good post.

The topic of DU and FAUX news ahas arisen before. Here is a wingut website that is annoyed by DU views on the topic:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2013/11/26/far-left-democratic-underground-members-discuss-how-deal-menace-f

[progressiveinaction]

126. How late is this repair shop open?

Those programs run late into the evening.

[albino65]

128. You do have recourse

Back when I was working for a living, I was a computer technician for a public school district. Mind you, this is probably the most red-necked school district in our county. I was called to the office to work on some administrative computers. Blaring away on the radio was Rush Limbaugh. I stated that if they wanted me to work on their computers, they would have to turn off Rush. They immediately ran to their boss to complain that I was taking their rights away. Their boss backed me up and they were told to turn off Rush. From that day forward whenever I walked into that office, one of the people would change the station on the radio, and the other would glare. I would just smile knowing that in an infinitesimal way I changed the world for the better. I am a firm believer that we can effect change by making an effort, and not just sitting there and taking it. You can use whatever power you have, your pocketbook, your personal leverage or just speaking up.

[allan01]

132. id get myself a device called a tv b gone . works on silenceing almost all makes of tvs

http://cornfieldelectronics.com/tvbgone/responsible.php?PHPSESSID=iapgf64uiliat0cvi62us20qj5
the inventer even silenced a jumbo tron once i feel your pain.

[Blue_Tires]

134. I just go out and walk around the building in those situations...

[47of74]

147. I sometimes go to the showroom and check out the cars.

[irisblue]

135. NCAA Basketball games are on now

I have asked dealerships to change the channel to sports.

[AndyTiedye]

137. If It Happened to me Often, I'd Get One of These

[barbtries]

139. it was on at the richstone place where i get my car serviced

they changed the channel for me. i would have taken my car and left otherwise.

[avebury]

140. That is why I always take my Ipod and, if they have

wifi, a laptop.

[47of74]

145. The dealer I go to used to have a restaurant next door

I'd go there while my car was being serviced. However it closed & the neighboring dealer bought the place and tore down the place to make more room for their lot.

The dealer sometimes has Fox "News" on. If I can I change it to ESPN.

[cwydro]

146. I take my car in and then

go for a long walk.

They call me when it's done.

There are always folks watching TV, but no, not for me.

Snowing, raining, or hot. I'm off on the walk. Now ice or lightning will keep me inside.

[left-of-center2012]

149. A segment where some guy ambushes young New Yorkers ..........

I've read how these "street interviews" are done.
This FOX "News" guy interviews 20 or 30 folks but only keeps the several stupid responses.
DUH - all libs, blacks, gays, yankees, etc are (supposedly) retarded.

Gives the rednecks, spittin' tobacky, something to laugh at instead of at Billo.

[onecent]

150. I worked for the IRS for 10 seasons each spring and

left in 2011 due to health reasons. But they had a new building in KC and there were tv's in EVERY LUNCH room and several by the cafeteria all turned on to FOX. I couldn't sit there and hated walking past the one by the cafeteria with padded seats near to sit and listen and they were almost always full (probably 4 to 6) a tv. drove me nuts How can people even watch that drivel.

[raven mad]

151. LOL! I so pity you! How ick!

I got stuck in a cab once and he had Rush on. I let the cabbie know if he didn't change the station, no tip.

[blkmusclmachine]

152. PROPAGANDA

We deceive you
believe

[fredamae]

153. I am so sorry!

I wish I could bring you a pot of coffee just to give you a bit of stress free time to fully recover

[leveymg]

155. My eyes just glaze over after 5 mins of morbid fascination. Bring something to read, and some ear-

phones.

[dorkzilla]

157. Same thing happened last week to me but here’s what I did after 10 minutes...

I jumped up out of my chair and turned the fucking tv off. I then WALKED INTO THE BAY AREA and told the owner I was never coming back there if he put that shit back on Fox. He said “I thought people liked Fox? They’re always saying its the number one news network”. In his defense he said “I don’t watch that crap anyway, I just put on what I think people want to see.”

So sometimes you just gotta educate. He really had zero idea, doesn’t watch the news, doesn’t listen to politics (he’s an Italian immigrant and doesn’t vote), all he cares about is fixing up vintage cars. And he pledged not to turn it back on.

[KamaAina]

159. The word "retarded" is extremely offensive to people with intellectual disabilities.

Many of them view it as being as offensive as the N-word.

http://www.r-word.org

Please make it go away.

[Octoberfurst]

163. I feel your pain.

I too was recently at an auto repair shop waiting for my car to be fixed. In the customer lounge they had Fox News on. I had a book to read and tried to ignore the bullshit that was emanating from the TV but the volume was on high. There were about 5 other people there and they were really into what the blowhards on Fox were saying. (They were all senior citizens of course.) I heard the same nonsense you did. Obama is destroying America! Muslims are going to kill us all! Illegal immigrants are raping and robbing Muricans all over this great country and why won't Obama stop them? It was all panic, panic, panic! Fortunately I was only there for about 45 minutes but I left feeling that some of my brain cells had died and that I needed a bath. I can't imagine how warped people are who view that crap 24/7.

[IronLionZion]

165. You probably lost brain cells from that toxicity

It should tell you everything you need to know about how anyone could possibly vote republican instead of those socialists who have destroyed America and turned us all into newts...

[steve2470]

166. ok, loved your thread but please delete the word "retarded" for reasons others have said, thanks nt

[samsingh]

167. i would feel dirty and quesy having to watch that stupid fox network for more than 5 minutes

you need a few drinks

[INdemo]

168. If Im stuck in a situation like that if the remote is not handy I

walk up to the TV and manually turn it off. That has happen to me a REMC electric and at a Dr's office
If they turn it back on I turn it off again and usually they wont turn it back on

[mahannah]

169. happened to me at an oil change place...I unplugged it.

[riobravo]

171. Recommend you go get yer head examined

by now you might be suffering from a severe case of PTSD

[Spitfire of ATJ]

172. Get another mechanic.....

Lately, I'm seeing places playing the Game Show Network.

"Deal or No Deal" is a waste of Howey Mandell's talent.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

173. This is a great post sullied by the use of the R* word

It couldn't hurt you to edit your post to remove it.

[azureblue]

174. I have an app

for my cell phone - a TV zapper - it will shut off a TV. any TV. It's wonderful for situations like this.
There are also apps that turn your cell phone into TV remote control, too....