Plus Fox News is on in lots of businesses (Reply #10)

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Response to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 05:24 PM

10. Plus Fox News is on in lots of businesses

—ones I try not to patronize, but lots of other people don't have that policy. If they hear something repeated enough times, they start to believe it.

I think what sways them more than the selective facts is the emotion, the faux outrage; after all, if they're just making this stuff up, why are they so upset? It must be true!

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44 replies	Author	Time	Post
Now I Understand Why People Believe What They Hear on Fox News…. [View all]	highplainsdem	Oct 2013	OP
k&r...	spanone	Oct 2013	#1
Golden retrievers with smartphones	lpbk2713	Oct 2013	#2
...golden retrievers with smartphones	Whisp	Oct 2013	#3
way too much pride in ignorance in this country nt	steve2470	Oct 2013	#4
Individuals are shockingly stupid	Warpy	Oct 2013	#5
The point, I guess, of the film "Idiocracy"	dougolat	Oct 2013	#6
The Idiocracy is the Singularity. Yeah...	freshwest	Oct 2013	#7
I also read a study that showed	Dpm12	Oct 2013	#8
I have lots of wonderful friends here but I'm not sure I can take it anymore.	BlueJazz	Oct 2013	#9
it's a gift with some people	napkinz	Oct 2013	#13
That is the first thing I thought of with this	yuiyoshida	Oct 2013	#21
Most of us on/at DU are friends with fairly intelligent people. We tend to forget that there is..	BlueJazz	Oct 2013	#24
I learn something new here every day...	yuiyoshida	Oct 2013	#25
Plus Fox News is on in lots of businesses	Qutzupalotl	Oct 2013	#10
That's very true.	dmr	Oct 2013	#14
I guess she never heard about this lawsuit:	Dark n Stormy Knight	Oct 2013	#34
How could any American not know where	Jamaal510	Oct 2013	#11
It could be worst	Snake Plissken	Oct 2013	#16
love it	tomm2thumbs	Oct 2013	#20
And that tells you why the GOP can't stand "intellectuals" or decent public education. n/t	Triana	Oct 2013	#12
That's why they are one of the first to be targeted for execution in totalitarian take overs.	ErikJ	Oct 2013	#28
Are people deliberately pretending to be stupid for pollsters?	Bernardo de La Paz	Oct 2013	#15
Not Faux answers at all.	Jackpine Radical	Oct 2013	#23
Probably not	GP6971	Oct 2013	#27
I guess "Idiocracy" really is a documentary after all.	Brigid	Oct 2013	#17
Miss Teen South Carolina was right about the US's crippling shortage of maps!	FSogol	Oct 2013	#18
20% of Americans believe the Sun revolves around the Earth	tomm2thumbs	Oct 2013	#19
omg! Where does that leave the MOON???	yuiyoshida	Oct 2013	#22
!	LukeFL	Oct 2013	#30
you mean that big round hunk of cheese?	tomm2thumbs	Oct 2013	#32
Yes everyone knows	yuiyoshida	Oct 2013	#33
Revolving around the Earth with the rest of the Universe.	JoeyT	Oct 2013	#41
Also, we were brought up watching our parents watch the news, read the papers	elehhhhna	Oct 2013	#26
Wow!	LukeFL	Oct 2013	#29
I always found the sellers of mental Kool-Aid made emotional	Cleita	Oct 2013	#31
I wonder how many people just answer the questions falsely even though they know the answer	Victor_c3	Oct 2013	#35
Yeah, I would think I was being pranked if I was questioned like that.	MindPilot	Oct 2013	#37
I always wonder the same thing.	JoeyT	Oct 2013	#42
As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the	MarchemintotheSea	Oct 2013	#36
I like money	RandiFan1290	Oct 2013	#38
How Pubs, Teahadists and Conservatives see President Obama	MarchemintotheSea	Oct 2013	#39
When I was a junior in high school in the mid-1960s	Fortinbras Armstrong	Oct 2013	#40
"My working thesis is" - stop.	RadiationTherapy	Oct 2013	#43
Is it a coincidence...	awoke_in_2003	Oct 2013	#44

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