The Brainwashing Of My Dad By Limbaugh, Fox & GOP Media

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90. Happened to both my parents and my only sibling

Definitely to my father, though I think he was already very much inclined that way, so am not sure he was that much changed by it, other than to occasionally utter "B.S. 'Barbara Striesand' " at some liberal point of view or something else he didn't agree with, because that was a favorite utterance of RushiePoo. That, and "I don't think the earth is fragile" regarding climate change, another RushiePoo-ism, that some dodos parrot because they hear someone authoritatively say it on radio / TV over and over again.

More worrisome, my mother and sister were originally quite liberal but they picked up more and more of those attitudes and "facts" from RW radio (that's the only talk radio there is where they live, other than sports). My mother, once a Yellow Dog Democrat and FDR fan starting sounding more and more like Marie Antoinette, "there are plenty of jobs out there, they (the local companies) are all dying for workers" blah blah. My sister started sending around RW crap emails, though I think she kept some liberal views like wildlife and the environment.

Anyway, I think it is extremely important that we endeavor however we can to match RW radio with as much LW radio in as many markets as we can (yes, I know the trend in the last 5 or 8 years has been going in the opposite direction). And TV.

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Yellow Dog Democrat -- someone who will vote for any Democrat over a RepubliCON, even if it is a dog. (Yo!)