Am I the only one who hits the mute or turns it down when * is on?

[Woodstock]

I do this religiously. Listening to NPR, I have to do it hourly when they do the news updates. On the NPR talk shows, they play clips of him all the time. Sometimes I'll be driving along in silence for a while because I forgot to turn it back up. TV, if the news is on, it's instant mute button. When there was that community service commercial where he said something about helping neighbors at the end (as if he gave a good damn about anyone but himself), that was REALLY tough, because I never knew when it was coming, and they ran it all the time. The only time I can bear to hear his voice is when The Daily Show is spoofing him (and even then, it's not easy.) Am I alone?

[donco6]

1. I can't stand to hear him.

He embarasses me.

[realFedUp]

2. Fast remote

click.

[UrbScotty]

3. I change the channel.

:-)

[samsingh]

4. i can't stand to watch shrub

anywhere.

his stupidity makes me shudder.

[QC]

5. My mom and dad

both in their late 60s, dive on the remote control like it's a live grenade and they're war heroes every time he comes on.

[Woodstock]

9. I am laughing hysterically!

:):):)

[Changenow]

6. Not anymore.

I watch and play “guess the drug.”

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

7. You are not alone

I simply cannot BEAR the sound of that smirking, annoying voice or the sight of his simian face. I either mute the TV and look away or change the channel. The only time I force myself to listen is during the SOTU address so I can yell at and mock him or when he's doing one of his oh-so-rare press conferences so I can see him squirm (of course, he gets such softball, cotton candy questions, but he STILL can't handle them!)

[Robin Hood]

8. I change the channel.

He has nothing to say anyway.

[w13rd0]

10. I have a TV on the back of the toilet...

...you can guess the rest...

[AnAmerican]

11. ROFL

Thanks for making my evening.......that answer was priceless :)

[AlinPA]

12. I do it all the time.

I also don't watch Fox "News",MSNBC, CNN.

[Booberdawg]

13. I DO! All the time!

And it's not only because he's personally repulsive to me. There is something about the way he talks, his diction, that just grates on my nerves.x(

[onecitizen]

14. Nope, not alone............

I cannot stand to see or hear him. OR hear anything about him. My mother is the same way.

[Clete]

15. We do as well.

Anything that we need to know will be repeated again later by a talking head or tape clip. The rest of what comes out of his mouth is trash, so why let his blathering offend your ears.

[Nay]

16. Shit, no. I can't stand to hear even one word from that moron.

I dive for the mute button or off switch.

[Liberalboy]

19. The sight of that smirk and smug twang

makes me gag. I just turn the thing off!

[Cha]

17. When I listen to Mike Malloy and he plays clips of bush...I

reach up and turn the sound off on my speaker! And right after I let out an expletive deletive cause I've usually caught a word or two!


I would turn off my tv set if I ever saw him on there again. Not much tv at my house. And that would be c-span.

[diamondsoul]

18. I used to do that.

Now I sometimes force myself to watch him and scream at him along the way. It's actually kind of fun, if you can bring yourself to let it out like you really want to. Heck I make it a point to be creative with foul names to call him! :evilgrin:

[Gin]

21. I do that too..... He makes me cringe...and I understand the feelings

of freepers who say that about "big dog"..even though I see no comparison.

I looked forward to hearing him speak...Oh big dog..I miss you!

[Piperay]

20. I refuse to listen to a thing

that IDIOT has to say, it's all lies anyway, he is nothing but a thief who doesn't belong in the Whitehouse. Chimp is so butt ugly I can't stand the sight of him, the minute I see his hideous face I change the channel. :puke: :puke: :puke: Why should I listen to him the reporkers never listened to Clinton or acknowledged him as President, I'm just returning the favor. :shrug:

[elfin]

22. I yell

"F*&k You Pr*ck!" as I change the channel or turn it off (multitasking). My poor dog has finally gotten ysed to it now that he knows I am not chastising him.

[Lexiemae]

25. Well yes but,

I don't know if I can forgive you for this post because now the Michael Jackson tune "You Are Not Alone" keeps running through my mind.

[Tansy_Gold]

23. If I can't reach the remote in time. . .

. . . .I stick my fingers in my ears and hum.

The dog looks at me funny, but better that than I have to listen to that lying sack of lizard poop.

I do not EVER watch Faux, not even for a minute, and CNN only very very rarely. But even CBC has clips of the awol asshole, and then I have to not listen.

[JPace]

24. My responses change...

from day to day. Mostly I change the channel, but if
I feel the need to hear what he is saying I brace
myself like someone who has to swallow caster oil.
Then I stand it for as long as I can which is rarely
longer than 2 or 3 minutes, by then I am either
cursing him through the screen, turning on the mute,
or changing channels.

His presense in my life is unbearable.
His presense in the WH is a national embarrasment.

[RedEarth]

26. I change channels

I can't stand to look or hear the creep....makes me feel like I need to cleanse myself....

[Maccagirl]

27. I'm too busy throwing my shoe at the screen

n/t

[Jacobin]

28. I insist on a SmirkFree audio zone

If I'm in a situation with other people where I can't control the volume, I walk out of the room.

If he comes on the radio, the channel is changed immediately.

He is an unperson. I have a wall around to keep him away from my psyche as best I can, because it's not good for my physical or mental health to listen to his garbled idiocy.

[DemPopulist]

29. Me too

I honestly don't think I've listened to a Bush speech all the way through since his 9/11 address.

[baldguy]

30. Whenever I see or hear that 'puke-in-a-suit, I turn him off.

He makes me physically ill.

[Dimsdale]

31. I avoid him, except on Malloy's show...

when he plays sound bites of the Chimp and then lays on a huge dose of well-deserved ridicule. Malloy and Kathy manage to make him appear ridiculous with little effort. It's not terribly difficult, is it? Then, why can't the fucking media do it? When ChimpCo. goes on trial for war crimes, the whole media whore lot should be there as well.

[JohnyCanuck]

32. Here's what I do

When Chimpy appears on the tube I flip the bird in the direction of the TV while muttering to myself, "What a fucking idiot" and either hit the mute or change the channel

[Spirochete]

33. I just change the channel, myself

I can't stand the sight OR sound of that asshole.

[davekriss]

34. I don't have to turn mute on...

...but during Presidential elections when the Republicrap spews forth in abundance from every major media I have to avoid it or I get physically sick.

[susanna]

35. NOOOOOO! I'm with you!

I can't watch/listen to him at all. I'll admit that I did during the recent blackout (as I was sitting in the dark here in Detroit) because some of the neighbors wanted to hear what he had to say (for the record, they laughed at his ridiculously inept statement).

After it was all over, I wanted to take a shower but the city told us not to because the wastewater pumps weren't working. Now THAT sucked.

[caledesi]

36. Try not to watch him.

Except sometimes during a political talk show, they run clips and I have to endure the moran's inarticulate speech. "Um..er...ah...duh...we have them on the run."

[dfong63]

37. bush, and ward connerly

[carolinayellowdog]

38. This is a very widespread phenomenon

I had never mentioned it to my mother, age 81, until she volunteered that neither she nor he best friend Kathleen could stand the sight or sound of him. I avoided TV for 6 months after the selection for the same reason, and still feel the same horrified incredulity every time I hear or see him. (Which is NOT the hate the wingers felt for Clinton; I wish no harm on Dubya, just cannot bear the thought of him being president.) Dozens of DUers chimed in that they felt the same when I posted this months ago.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE. There is some unbearable emptiness in his face, his voice, that rings alarm bells in anyone whose conscience has not been deadened by 24/7 propaganda.

CYD

[Woodstock]

42. "unbearable emptiness in his face, his voice, that rings alarm bells

in anyone whose conscience has not been deadened by 24/7 propaganda"

I call it "evil"

[MODemocrat]

39. Bush is so repulsive, I absolutely refuse to look or listen to him

He just makes my skin crawl, knowing full well he did get all that power from being legally elected, and the snotty nosed rich kid that he is, makes me feel like vomiting. Seriously.

[aquart]

40. Prefer sitcom reruns.

Prefer anything.

[Catherine Vincent]

41. No, you're not alone.

I usually mute the radio/tv or change the channel. I prefer to listen to someone that has good diction.

[Ripley]

43. You are not alone.

I actually run across the room to hit the mute or in the car I turn it off completely. And I usually scream outloud to myself like a crazy person at the same tme.

Yech.

[Lisa]

44. on a related matter, how about those extreme close-ups in the paper?

The Globe and Mail (a Canadian paper, at that) has the weird habit of unexpectedly printing a larger-than-life close-up of the Shrub's face (or a portion of it).

I mean, one minute I'm eating breakfast and reading about the latest Royal Commission, and then I turn the page and am looking at George W.'s nose hairs and skin pores.

Waste of a perfectly good breakfast, as I rush for the bathroom.

It ain't a pretty sight -- the man doesn't photograph well at the best of times, and when he's enlarged by a factor of 2 or 3 .... you can see every blemish, even the supposedly-healed pretzel bruise.

[Generic Other]

45. When Bush is on, he's not the one who needs the mute

I scream and swear and generally make such a racket my neighbors think I'm abusing small animals.

[greekspeak]

46. His voice makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up

I just hate seeing him come swaggering up to do somemore of his quasi-cowboy posturing. He's like some sci-fi Barney Fife up there, trying to make everyone beleive that he is going to "nip it in the bud." I bet Laura wears earplugs.

[markses]

47. My wife turns the channel immediately

She absolutely despises the scumbag, and she's what I would consider moderate/liberal.

[ILeft]

48. I quickly call my children to me and cover their eyes and ears

I never really thought about why, it's just sort of instinctual. Of course it doesn't happen often since we dropped cable and don't play the radio.