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Ian David

(69,059 posts)
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 04:33 PM Mar 2012

Fox News Literally Scares Woman To Death (Exclusive Interview With Son)

Hallie Jean Mayes Knauss Culpepper was a vibrant, beautiful woman. She was stylish. She was sharp as a tack. She was good-natured. She was a trailblazer, a businesswoman, a woman who gave to the community and to her country. She was a “dyed-in-the-wool Republican.” She was a mother of three and raised five of her grandchildren. She was an avid watcher of Fox News. Fox News taught the woman of courage a new emotion – fear. She feared the President. She feared the Government. She feared healthcare. She feared Muslims. She feared death panels. On February 16, 2012, Hallie Jean Mayes Knauss Culpepper died at 85 years old because Fox News made her fear her doctor.

She left behind a beautiful family (pictured), including her grieving son, Tracy Knauss, who posted this on his Facebook page:





Fox News Killed My Mother

I know this personally. FOX News killed my precious mother, Hallie. She watched FOX religiously. And when she fell ten days before she died, she refused to go to the doctor because, “I don’t want Obamacare to get all of my information!” she declared, recalling the warnings from FOX News “anchors.” She was emphatic. She was not going to consort with the Muslim enemy. As she made out her will she told her lawyer, “I don’t want any of my money going to the Muslim Brotherhood!” And her last protestation dealt with “Obama’s death panels.” Mother died just days later. I hold FOX News responsible for my mother’s death.




In an exclusive statement to Addicting Info, Tracy Knauss said of his mother,

More:
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/22/fox-news-literally-scares-woman-to-death-exclusive-interview-with-son/
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Fox News Literally Scares Woman To Death (Exclusive Interview With Son) (Original Post) Ian David Mar 2012 OP
Dial M for Murdoch Blue Owl Mar 2012 #1
Words have consequences. . . Journeyman Mar 2012 #2
I read Tracy's original material a couple days ago and SamG Mar 2012 #3
Sounds like my Mother in Law. Tommy_Carcetti Mar 2012 #4
I don't know, but if it were my mother EC Mar 2012 #5
She was hardly "sharp as a tack" if she watched Fux. Zoeisright Mar 2012 #6
 

SamG

(535 posts)
3. I read Tracy's original material a couple days ago and
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 04:41 PM
Mar 2012

put it on my Facebook page.

This is a great follow-along article which goes into more depth about how Fox News gains older viewers who become poorly informed and learn to hate Obama and actually go out and vote.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,198 posts)
4. Sounds like my Mother in Law.
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 04:42 PM
Mar 2012

Lives in a perpetual state of fear thanks to what she hears on Fox News. But you be the one to tell her that it's all swill.....

EC

(12,287 posts)
5. I don't know, but if it were my mother
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 06:19 PM
Mar 2012

(who is 82) I would have called an ambulance and made them take her to the hospital. She's on medicare, there is no reason not to make her go to the hospital anyway. My mom could complain until she lost her voice...but I would have made her go - one way or the other.

Zoeisright

(8,339 posts)
6. She was hardly "sharp as a tack" if she watched Fux.
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 07:00 PM
Mar 2012

Sounds really stupid to me. And brain-washed.

And as we all know, completely misinformed.

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