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In reply to the discussion: Are you mad yet! [View all]LuckyLib
(7,053 posts)23. I can't even imagine having to hear that stuff in my own family. Thankfully, mine
consists of folks who actually read and consider Faux News to be some variation of Maury Povitch. We may not always agree on everything, but hating folks of color and women wouldn't make sense -- there is both in our family. And gays. And we love 'em all.
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Between the privacy issue and the voting rights issue, the democratic base is motivated 2014&16.
graham4anything
Jul 2013
#1
But what you don't get is FOX "News" is claiming all the snooping is a Liberal thing.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2013
#6
Well said. And who can forget the Obama is dead announcement and Obamacare struck down.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#14
In the real world, not statistics, they are killing the poor with their austerity demands.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#27
Not to FOX, but to the other more trendy sources. They aren't as old as FOX, but just as mean.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#33
You mean the 1001 Limbaugh Clones out there? Some of them are on rock stations.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2013
#34
Loved that show! Used to work with radio stations back then. Before the RW takeover, strong FCC.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#40
I grew up listening to DJs who talked about where the next anti-war protest was gonna be.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2013
#41
Me, too. And television that showed what was happening in Vietnam. After Bush, hidden from sight.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#44
Or worse, a media thinking that being allowed to go with the troops was cool.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2013
#48
They were celebrating. While people died, their country stolen by disaster capitalists.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#49
Let's face it. The media really does feel it's role is to sell Conservatives as the "serious" ones.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2013
#53
I can't even imagine having to hear that stuff in my own family. Thankfully, mine
LuckyLib
Jul 2013
#23
You cannot be a woman and vote Republican unless you are completely brainwashed.
mountain grammy
Jul 2013
#54
You've got to get through to the Stepford wives in the red gerrymandered districts.
Kablooie
Jul 2013
#68