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Related: About this forumEx-Fox host Eric Burns: Olbermann is Right, Fox News is a Cult, and Bill O’Reilly is a Liar
From today's Reliable Sources on CNN
My older sister, a college-educated mother of three, is a Foxhead, and I can sadly report that "cult" is exactly the right word.
blm
(113,744 posts)Rev Moon, Poppy Bush's crony, the Korean CULT leader.
CIA assets and cronies. Bush-Moon-Murdoch. All three of them.
Rhiannon12866
(217,340 posts)He thinks that trumps everything.
elleng
(134,851 posts)I know; I got one.
Rhiannon12866
(217,340 posts)I don't mean to slam Texas, but he said the courses were easier than those he took in high school. One involved just watching old Western movies...
elleng
(134,851 posts)Rhiannon12866
(217,340 posts)He reminds me of his degree whenever we disagree on politics, which is most of the time.
Rhiannon12866
(217,340 posts)Which was bad enough, but she liked Obama until she found out he was a Democrat...
elleng
(134,851 posts)So sorry for you! NO SUCH in my family! My mother's family had been repub, before it was what it is now, and decided, when she was young, there was not need for her to follow them in that respect, so became Dem. My Dad grew up in NYC, and THAT's THAT!
Rhiannon12866
(217,340 posts)My Dad took after his mother who took after her father, but we're talking Goldwater - and earlier. My grandmother finally saw the light, called me to let me know she'd voted for Bill Clinton. I told her that I did, too, but we didn't need to tell the others.
elleng
(134,851 posts)THANKS to her!
Skittles
(157,099 posts)and is dumber than a fence post
Rhiannon12866
(217,340 posts)I asked him what he thought of Sarah Palin, figured he couldn't be that far gone, and he said he thought she was "okay."
Skittles
(157,099 posts)LEMME AT HIM!!!
No Vested Interest
(5,186 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)She said she was a Professor of Economics. A few minutes in our conversation, she also said she was a Libertarian. I pictured her reading Ayn Rand to the class or something.
Anyway, I told her of my being a socialist in the anarchist tradition (said it exactly like that). She said, "How can you be a socialist and an anarchist?"
Again, she said she was a Professor of Economics.
Oy vey.
elleng
(134,851 posts)a PERFESSER? Of 'economics???'
P.S. YEARS after my B.A. (in poli sci/history) I STUDIED for the BAR!!! (exam, that is!)
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)with people close to me totally and firmly believe in this war Obama will start to make sure he has another year in office. Scary!!! ammo hoarders
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)visiting last week. One night he was fumbling around with the channel changer and stopped on O'Really?'s
excuse for a show. I immediately told him to get the LYING BASTARD's face off the TV. My friend was somewhat taken aback, but did as I asked. Darren is not one of the cult; I could not abide even seeing that face on the TV.
Pharaoh
(8,209 posts)There is no fucking Liberal media!
Panich52
(5,829 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)[center][/center]
- That way they didn't have to think. They let Rush do that for them.....
Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like "freedom is slavery" when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking -- not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.'
~George Orwell, 1984
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Been soooo long since I read 1984.
shenmue
(38,529 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)n/t
Joe Johns
(91 posts)On a side note, I absolutely admire your taste in half-Borg women!
Stellar
(5,644 posts)and I love everything 'Star Trek', including Jeri 'Seven of Nine' Ryan.
zebonaut
(3,688 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)yeah, I saw that article.
Will be interesting!
Stellar
(5,644 posts)Even for it's accuracy. I guess that will correct sites like factcheck.org and politifact. Rachel Maddow has had a running argument with them for getting stuff wrong. Still, a novel idea.
eta: Bing tops Google in search accuracy
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2623467/search-engines/surprise--bing-tops-google-in-search-accuracy.html
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)A neighbor.
Both white...male...retired on pensions...and crazy as loons, with not one lick of common sense.
And most of it aimed at the black guy that lives in THEIR White House.
ffr
(23,010 posts)Seeing the erosion of the Fox Entertainment liars falling on one truth spear after another or the reaction of their cult following once it sinks in that they've lived a foretold lie all their lives.
Remember they have guns and have been taught to fear and be enraged. Indoctrinated people in a state of rage and rational thinking don't go hand in hand.
I worry.
freebrew
(1,917 posts)a college degree is not a guarantee of intelligence or competence.
Many more intelligent people cannot afford the $$ or time to attend university.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)"FOX Cult"
Lonely lib in ky
(4 posts)My sister is an intelligent mother of 2. She admits that she and her husband watch Fox ALL DAY LONG! When she told me this, I thought she is brainwashed just like in a cult! I am so sad for her. Is there anything I can do?