confrontation with crazy aunt part duex... they have new denial phrase

[greenbriar]

If you all will remember, I fueded with my aunt last summer about * she loves him, I hate him ect...abortion and all that.

Saw her again this weekend. She asked

"I don't remember, did you say you watched Fox news" I said

NO (would have said hell no, but my mom was there)

She said

"oh well you aren't one of us then"

I said

"if not being a fox freeper rush loving ditto head can't think for myself person, then no I guess I am not "one of you"

I then asked her what she thought of bushy saying GOD told him personally to invade Iran..

she said where did you hear that? on the internet??? you know its not true if its on the internet...


I said what??? now you don't believe the internet???

I told her no actually I saw the BBC interview but the link was on the internet...what did they make that up too???


She walked away!

[Lex]

1. You must print her out the University study that showed that Fox

News watchers were the LEAST informed of all the people who watch or listen to news. They were misinformed about objective facts.

Those who listened to NPR were the most informed and had the least amount of misinformation.

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Fox and the war in Iraq

A year-long study by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Iraq/Media_10_02_03_Report.pdf reported that Americans who relied on the Fox News Channel for their coverage of the Iraq war were the most likely to believe misinformation about the war, whatever their political affiliation may be. Those mistaken facts, the study found, increased viewers' support for the war.

The study found that, in general, people who watched Fox News were, more than for other sources, convinced of several untrue propositions which were actively promoted by the Bush administration and the cheerleading media led by Fox, in rallying support for the invasion of Iraq:

(percentages are of all poll respondents, not just Fox watchers)

* 57% believed the falsity that Iraq gave substantial support to Al-Qaida, or was directly involved in the September 11 attacks. (48% after invasion)
* 69% believed the falsity that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the September 11 attacks.
* 22% believed the falsity that weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. (21% believed that chem/bio weapons had actually been used against U.S. soldiers in Iraq during 2003)

In the composite analysis of the PIPA study, 80% of Fox news watchers had one of more of these misperceptions; in contrast to 71% for CBS and 27% who tuned to NPR/PBS.

[greenbriar]

2. she wouldn't believe it because it came from the internet

I must have missed fox telling them the internet was phoney unless it came from them, but that is the idea she has in her head now

[Lex]

5. Please tell her it didn't come from the internet.

It came from the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes.

Also, Fox News is on the internet--isn't it?

[greenbriar]

8. I did say that...she didn't say anything

what makes me mad is she thinks she is such a great christian. and thinks I am not.

Hell, I will lay odds I am way more tolerant than she is!

[Atman]

3. "the internet" has been a curse. Oh, the irony!

Where once the internets were nothing but a source for porn and homemade rumor mills, it has become the only source of real, factual news in the Bush era. Unfortunately, it is probably the same group of people still believing Saddam attacked the WTC who decry anything found on the internets as hokum. When, in fact, it is now the TELEVISION which has become the "internet" of yore.

And who says irony is dead?

[greenbriar]

4. so true

sadly so true


I think he could drink a 5th down in front of her and screw her cat and she would still say he was a great christian and godly man who the internets are lying about

[mzteris]

6. oh the imagery

:rofl:

[greenbriar]

7. yea

.

[mitchum]

9. Hell, he could eat a baby as long as he said grace beforehand...

and those idiots would praise his "godliness"
Sorry about your aunt being a stupid old crone.