I read somewhere awhile back that all US military bases (waiting rooms etc...) here in the US had

[Beachnutt]

the tv's tuned to fox news, is this true and if so why ?

[Aristus]

1. I think that was just the bases in Iraq.

Got to pump out the propaganda in order to keep the troops focused on oppressing an innocent people.

Also, I know Dickhead Cheney demanded from his advance teams that all TV's in a hotel suite be tuned to FOX by the time he walked in.

[jimfields33]

2. Not my experience. Home building network Is the favored channel.

You read this? Where your link?

[Kingofalldems]

10. Where is your link?

[kcr]

13. That seems to be the choice for waiting rooms everywhere nowadays

[maxrandb]

3. Not so much anymore. I did 29 years in the Navy

and yes, at one time Faux News was everywhere. It changed a bit not too long ago.

I guess after the election of our first AA President, having Faux News hosts laugh and discuss Rush Limbaugh playing his "Barack the Magic Negro" song was a bit too much.

What was even more insidious were the barracks, breakrooms and common areas. See, if there was TV in the Wardroom, NCO Mess, Galley or Workshop, and your CO, or boss was a wingnut, they would often dictate Faux News.

Sure, you could complain. Lots of military members went on to stellar careers after confronting their CO about TV stations.

That's why putting that POS Limbaugh and his perianal cyst Hannity on Armed Forces Radio was so fucked up.

It was presented as a "choice", but those of us that have served know who controls the TV and Radio.

[llashram]

4. with a military

so full of white supremacists, what can be expected? Any business I go into that has RW propaganda tool faux-news on, I complain. Period. They don't change it, I leave and write their 'corporate'. Just for the hell of it. Thorn in the side soon starts to become infected...

[msongs]

5. army base in hawaii had all fox all the time in concessions/meal areas nt

[marie999]

6. I don't know about the military

but in all the VA clinics I go to the usual shows are about fixing up houses.

[Corgigal]

7. Used to be.

When the Iraq war was always the top story, fox was always on in my VA.

I haven’t seen it in fox for over 2/3 years now.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. I'm glad I was in the Army before Fox News was invented.

In fact, we had no TVs in the barracks, the mess hall, the EM club or NCO club. Maybe I was lucky to serve "Pre-internet".

[Wingus Dingus]

9. Was just at an Air Force base to get a new ID card, and their waiting room

had on ESPN. I'd sooner have Fox on. Holy crap is ESPN stupid.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. You'd Rather Have Faux?

Really?
That makes no sense to me.

[Wingus Dingus]

15. At least I'd be a little entertained.

ESPN is worse than no TV at all.

[USALiberal]

12. Did you research it? Nt

[CRK7376]

14. Many offices and common areas

all over Ft. Bragg,Benning, Jackson, in Korea and Germany have F0X blathering 24/7. In my office I never had Fox or anything right wing playing. Only CNN, MSNBC or ESPN...One of the nice perks of being a Colonel, an office with a TV....Now my Sergeant Major was not to happy with my channel choices, but I was the Colonel and he was the Sergeant Major...We were a good team and we didn't talk politics, respecting each others point of view, but we did get a tad bit squirrely over the others viewing habits....Both of us are retired now living about 5 miles apart nowhere near any military installations, and he corrupted one of my sons...taught him to play golf! Now they gang up on me and they both beat me mercilessly!