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(10,429 posts)I had a few confrontations at the gym with a Beckerhead teabagger who always put Fox "news" on the TV in the weight room while hogging the machine under the TV. One time I said that when I changed the channel it was like pulling the needle out of an addict's vein. He actually said "I'm not addicted, I just want to watch it." He actually said that. I then said, 'and I'm sure you can quit any time you want, right? Isn't that what addicts always say?'
You're right about talking with them. In 2005, a rightwinger waited in a grocery store parking lot to confront me about my "George Bush Is a Lying Sack of Shit" bumper sticker. Unlike today's foxtards, he actually ended up being fairly rational and we had a discussion for 45 minutes. He liked Bill O'Reilly, said he wasn't a republican, but a "conservative" and I asked him what that meant to him. Issue after issue, I made him realize we agreed. When I left, he shook my hand and apologized for the namecalling he started out with.
I have no doubt that later that evening, when he turned on Billo the Clown, he was completely reprogrammed.