I'm shocked that people here watched the memorial service.

[iemanja]

Giving them ratings and clicks only feeds their power. It’s like the Fox News watchers, funding the right wing. People complain about the MSM yet give the worst of it ad revenue.

[ALBliberal]

1. Some watch and report back for those of us that can't

stomach watching. I appreciate them.

[Wifes husband]

2. I did not watch the clown show.

However, I will watch what I want, when I want. I don't have the stomach to watch these clown shows, but I respect those who do. They can give us an honest appraisal of what the bastards are up to.

[C Moon]

10. That's what I was thinking. In fact, I was going to thank one person who posted on DU about the service.

I find it a respectable quality to be able to watch lie-filled crud like that.

[walkingman]

3. It's kind of like rubberneckers. I could not stomach it - very depressing.

[DET]

4. Define 'Watched'

I saw a grand total of less than five minutes of the service, switching back and forth between different channels. That was enough for me to gauge how big of a s**t show it was. I was hoping the stadium wouldn’t be packed, but it was. MAGAts have the attention span of a gnat, so I was surprised that they could sit through a four hour performance. And quite the performance it was - fireworks…really? TSF was the last straw for me.

[Trueblue1968]

11. I could not take all the hate and the lies.

[allegorical oracle]

13. Yeah, I ducked into it for about 15 minutes. Then, again, it was comparable to watching

a rattlesnake that decided to coil up next to the front steps of my house one afternoon. Prefer to keep an eye on what I feel could endanger me.

[Xolodno]

5. It's like Howard Stern.

People who listened wanted to hear what he said next. People who hated him, wanted to hear what he would say next.

We kept the TV off today, didn't want to hear anything about him. But I get it for some, like watching a train wreck, you know you should look away, but can't.

Give it a couple of weeks and he will be completely forgotten.

A friend of mine and I were discussing him, did he actually believe the bull shit he was spouting? Or was he just a shock jock that went too far and it got him killed? We'll never know.

But I agree, the best thing to do is not give any attention. However, easier said than done.

[iemanja]

6. I don't find it difficult

I can’t stand watching those people. They make me physically ill.

[AdamGG]

9. Howard Stern could be amusing sometimes

I still remember listening to him the week that Robert Bork didn't get confirmed to the Supreme Court. Stern said that he didn't get confirmed because of personal grooming and because his beard made him look too much like King Tut from the old Batman tv show.

The present fascist shitstorm is in no way amusing.

[Initech]

7. I went out of my way to *NOT* watch it.

[Abolishinist]

8. Seems like you're scolding DU'ers who decided to watch all or part of the service.

I watched around 15 minutes or so. By doing so, did I fund the right wing? And if so.. then how much?

Is it on a percentage of viewing time thingy? Not sure how this works.

[leftstreet]

18. Mondays are scolding days

[ReRe]

12. I watched about 30 seconds of it.

Someone here on DU said there was fireworks at the end. They shot themselves and all credibility in the foot with those. Who on earth has ever been to a church service (let alone a funeral) that was followed by fireworks?

[Emile]

14. What memorial service? I watched Colts vs Ravens.

[werdna]

15. Perhaps you misconstrue their motive for doing so?

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. - John Philpot Curran

I thank those who had the stomach to watch and report back to those of us who don't for their vigilance.

[Scrivener7]

19. The motivations of those watching are not in question. The effects of the action are.

We complain that the right-wing controls the media. The right-wing controls the media because the right-wing makes money for the media owners. They make money for the media owners because, as with something like this, there are as many of us hate watching as there are of them seriously watching.

How many of them read or watched ANYTHING about Melissa Hortman? I'm going to guess not a lot. And that helped it fall off the front page within days, if not hours.

There is no need to watch these right-wing media manipulations. There will be plenty of ink and video given to them after the fact. We can get as much information as we need about them without giving ratings to the programs themselves.

When we give them ratings, we encourage the media owners to make more of them.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

16. I didn't watch any of it...

...but I did look up and read the transcript of what Erika Kirk said.

Having not seen it, I can't speak to what anyone else said or did, or whether there were fireworks or anything - no idea. But based on the transcript (and again, I didn't see her delivery), her comments were very much about her marriage, about God, about how they worked together as a team, seeing him in the hospital after he died, forgiving the shooter, not returning hate with hate, etc. Pretty much what I would expect at a Christian funeral.

But again, I haven't seen or read anything else that was said/done at the service.

[dwayneb]

17. CNN is toeing the line, they broadcast it all live

Absolutely disgusting, but not surprising.

I am sure you heard Trump's rejection of Erika's comments. "I hate my opponents".

Vile scum trash.

[Drum]

20. I'm shocked that people start such threads and never return to engage with respondants...

[haele]

21. I fully expect the office MAGAs to gloat over the event..

And note who reacts or doesn't know what went on so they can throw co-workers under the bus to be the last to lose their jobs when the eventual purge starts up.

[iemanja]

22. I'm so sorry that you have to work in

such an environment.

[haele]

23. It's only post Inauguration the MAGA started showing their colors.

Before that, they were reasonably professional. The Cult hadn't given them permission to gloat, bully, or prostlytize.