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infinite_wisdom

(73 posts)
15. Both my parents
Tue Jun 11, 2019, 08:50 PM
Jun 2019

Last edited Wed Jun 12, 2019, 07:12 AM - Edit history (1)

followed the same pattern.

They were sane. They retired. They started watching Fox News. They were no longer sane.

The behavior is the behavior of an addict. If they visit, they immediately ask to turn on Fox News. If I don’t, they go behind my back and get sneaky to watch it.

I took my Mom to Hawaii a few years ago. I said we are not going to waste time watching that crap. I wake up at 3 AM and I see her in front of the TV watching Fox News. I bring it up the next day and she denied doing it, even though I stood there watching her doing it.

Last week she told me they investigated Trump and found he did nothing wrong.

Murdock is evil. Those shows are designed somehow someway to be addictive, to stimulate dopamine or whatever so these people have to get their outrage fix.

If only up up down down left right left right b a start tymorial Jun 2019 #1
Their viewers are all Stepford wives and husbands. Funtatlaguy Jun 2019 #2
K&R. nt tblue37 Jun 2019 #3
Good one malaise Jun 2019 #4
Worse than toothpaste. Caliman73 Jun 2019 #5
I remember when Fox News first came on the scene Skittles Jun 2019 #7
They knew what they were doing. Caliman73 Jun 2019 #36
I have to say Skittles Jun 2019 #37
You are unfortunately correct. They cannot accept that progress and change are inevitable. Caliman73 Jun 2019 #38
It's not just change - they refuse to see the world as it is. LisaM Jun 2019 #59
Well said! Black and white it is, gobbling up spoon-fed nonsense and lies about liberals. machoneman Jun 2019 #48
I also remember when Fox 5 DC first came on the scene Maggiemayhem Jun 2019 #60
So no young people watch Fox? murielm99 Jun 2019 #6
And all parents watch Fox? wasupaloopa Jun 2019 #8
NPR & PBS are about as right-wing as I go. Crowman2009 Jun 2019 #28
they don't watch cable news or even linear TV to begin with pstokely Jun 2019 #44
No. Act_of_Reparation Jun 2019 #46
Not many -nt Bradical79 Jun 2019 #47
Of course they do Maggiemayhem Jun 2019 #61
Doh! JohnnyRingo Jun 2019 #9
IMO, Faux News is the venue of the grandparents RainCaster Jun 2019 #10
If only you were correct. GulfCoast66 Jun 2019 #21
SHIT! I thought this was over and done with. I'm 60... RainCaster Jun 2019 #31
Florida has a unique problem no one realizes. GulfCoast66 Jun 2019 #34
No, you don't. I have relatives well short of retirement who disprove that theory. JHB Jun 2019 #26
LOL Scurrilous Jun 2019 #11
Depends how old your parents are. My mom and dad are FDR Democrats. YOHABLO Jun 2019 #12
OMG wryter2000 Jun 2019 #13
I've been playing video games just about since they were first invented. Stonepounder Jun 2019 #14
Both my parents infinite_wisdom Jun 2019 #15
Rupert Murdoch has done more damage to America than Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and ISIS sop Jun 2019 #53
FOX and hate radio have turned friends and family members into strangers..."addicted to anger"... FailureToCommunicate Jun 2019 #16
"FOX viewers have turned friends and family members into strangers..."addicted to anger"..." pazzyanne Jun 2019 #18
A good read ck4829 Jun 2019 #25
The article really explains so well what we sense is happening to those unfortunate FailureToCommunicate Jun 2019 #63
Minty fresh? snort Jun 2019 #17
All joshing aside, very insightful. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2019 #19
Parents could set time limits or take away the games ProudLib72 Jun 2019 #20
Certain people when they visit their Fox addicted parents Maggiemayhem Jun 2019 #62
i had a friend of mine who was a regular fan of flush rimshod. AllaN01Bear Jun 2019 #22
K&R. n/t Different Drummer Jun 2019 #23
K&R ck4829 Jun 2019 #24
Ahem ... umm, some parents. KPN Jun 2019 #27
My Dad died in 1997 but he used to watch Rush in the afternoons. kimbutgar Jun 2019 #29
a rightwing coworker quit Rush when Rush trashed Chelsea Clinton Skittles Jun 2019 #32
Exactly kimbutgar Jun 2019 #35
Murdoch is worse than any Terrorist. Dawson Leery Jun 2019 #30
Fox Aussie105 Jun 2019 #33
..👍🏼"Just that feeling of comfort, " uponit7771 Jun 2019 #41
I love the fact that RW TV is replete with con artist religious types..... machoneman Jun 2019 #50
Excellent observation. n/t Laelth Jun 2019 #39
K&R uponit7771 Jun 2019 #40
Toothpaste is a healthy, useful product TruckFump Jun 2019 #42
Fox new needs to be outlawed as hate speech... Joe941 Jun 2019 #43
Agreed! Raster Jun 2019 #45
Good observation. Pepsidog Jun 2019 #49
My parents, and my wife's parents, are still the Social Justice Democrats they've always been. hunter Jun 2019 #51
So true... BlueJac Jun 2019 #52
A shame too. There are far more important things to do then have the TV tell you blah...blah... SWBTATTReg Jun 2019 #54
Lucky Me DownriverDem Jun 2019 #55
Rush Limbaugh was there first FakeNoose Jun 2019 #56
So true Ohioboy Jun 2019 #57
Not to my parents it didn't! DFW Jun 2019 #58
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