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Bumper sticker seen today: "Is it true or did you hear it on Fox News?" (Original Post) FSogol Feb 2013 OP
Good one! Champion Jack Feb 2013 #1
Indeed lsewpershad Feb 2013 #7
Love it! I need one of those. 11 Bravo Feb 2013 #2
I just ordered the car magnet... Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #28
Perfect!!!! n/t Dawgs Feb 2013 #3
Delish malaise Feb 2013 #4
nice! Botany Feb 2013 #5
All class toby jo Feb 2013 #6
do you disagree? datasuspect Feb 2013 #8
what do you mean, class? Skittles Feb 2013 #15
I love that Victor_c3 Feb 2013 #9
Great post. Agree than many assume the military are all rw. FSogol Feb 2013 #10
I drive a '71 VW Westphalia Camper, I'm the original owner too! Great Post Victor_c3. xtraxritical Feb 2013 #17
Yep! flygal Feb 2013 #24
I love it Maineman Feb 2013 #11
Okay, I got inspired. mac56 Feb 2013 #12
LOL Dpm12 Feb 2013 #13
I gotta get one! Rider3 Feb 2013 #14
USMC = "United Socialst-Maosists for Communism?" Ian_rd Feb 2013 #16
Semper Fi to the driver of the truck. Uncle Joe Feb 2013 #18
LOL! freshwest Feb 2013 #19
I'd K&R multiple times if I could. lpbk2713 Feb 2013 #20
ohh sad-cafe Feb 2013 #21
Ha! So awesome. nt ZombieHorde Feb 2013 #22
I love it Timbuk3 Feb 2013 #23
A fair question to ask ...... JohnyCanuck Feb 2013 #25
I need one of those! Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #26
Fox News get the red out Feb 2013 #27

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
9. I love that
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 11:55 AM
Feb 2013

especially couples with the USMC sticker. A lot of people automatically assume that everyone in the military is a righty.

People, when they learn that I'm a combat vet, mistakenly assume I'm a righty a lot. If anything, my combat experience pushed me hard to the left with my politics and made me a much more tolerant and loving person. War can be a very humanizing experience when you realize that the people who you are fighting against aren't that different from you.

Granted, I don't believe the same hardline Islamist fundamental positions as some of these guys, but most of the guys that I fought and detained explained that they were fighting me out of a sense of duty they felt they had towards their communities and families. They viewed me as an occupier and were doing what was necessary to get me out. That is an opinion and a view that I can respect and, if I were in their shoes, I could see myself doing the same as them. As soon as you realize that you don't hate the people you are fighting against, it gets way more difficult to kill them.

Anyways, as soon as I get some extra money I want to get a "Combat Infantryman" license plate for my blue volksagon beetle. It'll look nice right next to the flowers my wife has all over the back of the car and the "proud to be a vegetarian" sticker my wife put on there too.

FSogol

(45,481 posts)
10. Great post. Agree than many assume the military are all rw.
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 12:16 PM
Feb 2013

The majority of the military people I know are Democrats.

flygal

(3,231 posts)
24. Yep!
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 03:40 AM
Feb 2013

My husband is former Navy officer and quite a few of his fellow officers voted Gore in 2000. Even his Base Commander told him he voted for Gore. Many of those guys got out but there are a couple still in. I see them on Facebook - still very strong Democrats!

Timbuk3

(872 posts)
23. I love it
Fri Feb 22, 2013, 11:51 PM
Feb 2013

...especially "On a brand new pickup truck with a USMC sticker."

I'm gonna use this the next time I'm forced to hang out with my Fox watching BIL.

JohnyCanuck

(9,922 posts)
25. A fair question to ask ......
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:14 AM
Feb 2013

In light of the fact that Fox News actually went to court for a ruling to uphold the right of public broadcasters to order their reporting staff to knowingly lie to the public. To appease Monsanto (and keep Monsanto's advertising bucks flowing in) a Fox News station ordered two reporters to water down a report they had prepared on the human and animal health problems associated with Monsanto's Posilac, the artificial, genetically engineered bovine growth hormone. When the reporters objected and were consequently fired, they had a judgement for unfair dismissal overturned after Fox News appealed and the appeal court ruled there were no laws on the books compelling Fox News (or any public broadcaster) not to knowingly lie to its audience.

get the red out

(13,462 posts)
27. Fox News
Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:18 AM
Feb 2013

The more you watch, the less you know. That's what my bumper sticker says and a lady behind me left her car when we were stopped at a red light one day to knock on my window and tell me it just made her day. And that's in Lexington, KY; maybe some people are waking up.

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