I lost my dad to Fox News: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria

[Pluvious]

From 2014 but sadly, still relevant...

"I only wish I could do something to ease the anxiety of those I love, an emotion that is a cash cow for exploitative right-wing commentators. But I have no real solution, other than to turn off the television. Sadly, for some of the nation’s elderly, they seem to have no desire whatsoever to rethink the politics of fear and Fox News. It’s a criminal waste of retirement."

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/27/i_lost_my_dad_to_fox_news_how_a_generation_was_captured_by_thrashing_hysteria/

[Phoenix61]

1. My Dad used to listen to Rush

Made me crazy. But he did it because he thought it was funny that people could be so stupid to actually believe that crap. He liked watching wrestling too. He was an interesting man.

[rusty quoin]

2. Alex Jones is even better because he takes off his shirt like in wrestling.

[argyl]

4. Yep. He's such a badass even his manboobs have muscles.

[Nitram]

3. I lost both my parents to Fox News.

Two intelligent, well-educated, well-traveled people of the WWII generation whose anxiety over race riots, political assassinations, and changing demographics were amplified to near hysteria by the Fox News right wing echo chamber.

[Aristus]

5. Baby boomers no longer have their parents around to tell them what special

rays of sunshine they are.

[Juliusseizure]

6. My father held me captive and forced me

to watch Fox noise for 7 days.

We were on a trip to visit his friends. My stepmother graciously volunteered my services to go instead of her.

My father insisted on only watching Fox, maybe hoping I would be subconsciously brainwashed into submission. But more likely as punishment, since rumor was I voted for Obama and Clinton, and I could not recall whether I even voted.

I wore concealed ear plugs, read, and verbally agreed with the commentator during commercials.

I became a soccer fan, and insisted on watching taped footage of entire European matches.

As a deterrent, I also discussed my job in excutiating detail, asking for advice on matters he had no knowledge or interest in. If I have to listen to Fox shit, he has to listen to listen to me whine endlessly about my job.

[Hortensis]

7. A manufactured "anxiety." Obviously, this writer

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is observing what Fox has done to its fearful audience with clear eyes. Fox arose soon after the end of the Cold war removed the deadly threat conservatives always know is out there. Fox and "friends" replaced the evil Russians with the evil Democrats.