How Right Wing Radio and Fox News brainwashed my dad

[bfealk]

Jen Senko talks with BlogTalkRadio host Tony Trupiano [link:http://blogtalkradio.com/votp| about how Jen Senko's father was brainwashed by right wing talk radio and Fox News.

Jen has done a documentary about the process that literally brainwashed her father while driving to work alone and watching Fox News turned him against all kinds of people and made him angry and isolated.

[Doctor_J]

1. my own story to a T

I was raised by a JFK/LBJ/NAACP liberal. The sweetest, kindest, most honest and patient man I ever met. Also brilliant.

Then when he was about 60, my brother convinced him that everything on t.v., radio, and in the newspaper was communist propaganda, so he started listening to limpballs every day, then staring at Fox news when that came on. He spent his last 18 years as a grouchy, bitter racist who could no longer see the truth through the hate radio propaganda.

Fox might be the worst thing to ever happen to the US.

[RKP5637]

3. Fox News IMO is an invasion force. No physical assault, but it is a war. It's a verbal

war and can be just as devastating as a physical war. Fox News IMO is working hard to destroy the fiber of this nation, but many Americans can't seem to grasp what is going on. Fox News is a propaganda machine of the worst type and is dangerous to the future of this country.

[Enthusiast]

9. They are trying to transform America

into their Fascist ideal and they are well on their way. They, meaning Roger and Rupert and assorted unseen players behind the scene.

[Shrike47]

2. When all you hear on the radio all day is doom and gloom, it's hard to see what's really going on.

The U.S. is going to hell is all some people have heard for years.


As an aside, wouldn't you think the Glenn Beck, who had been saying over and over that we are in crisis, listeners would notice that things keep not falling apart?

[RKP5637]

5. He's got a good game going on playing to the idiots in the US who will never get what's going on.

[Shankapotomus]

4. Mine too

and my brother.

Rec'ed and linked.

[drm604]

6. Has this been released or is it still a work in progress?

It looks good.

I'd also recommend "Outfoxed", which is another good movie on this subject. Also, George Lakoff's "Don't think of an elephant".

Hillary Clinton has been mocked for her "vast right-wing conspiracy" comment, but she was right on the money.

[Doctor_J]

7. I think it was released six months ago or so

[drm604]

10. I found the answer on their facebook page.

They posted this a couple of days ago.
https://www.facebook.com/thebrainwashingofmydadmovie/posts/1022957344404584?comment_id=1023045021062483&reply_comment_id=1028545827179069&total_comments=1&comment_tracking={%22tn%22%3A%22R5%22}

It screened as a work in progress at the Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan. We are finishing it up now and I will post when it will be in film festivals. We have to do that route first or it will never get any traction. Thanks for your patience!

So it's not quite finished yet and when it is it will still be a while before it's available other than at film festivals.

[bfealk]

15. Still a work in progress

The version we got to look at is still a work in progress. It will be finished soon.

[randomelement]

8. This helps to explain how it works

This was posted a while ago but it does help to explain what happens and why - and it is an insidious approach to brainwashing.

In short - it's deliberate

My thanks to 'eko' for finding this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017251103

[mdbl]

11. This has been explained over and over since Mush Limpballs and Fux news was created

If they haven't gotten it by now, they never will. Good luck to those who think we still have a chance, but the Idiocracy is getting behind the biggest idiot we have running. Every year it gets worse.

[cprise]

12. Driving, being stuck in traffic, has a lot to do with the mindset.

They feed off of road rage.

[valerief]

13. Did the same to my brother. nt

[Attorney in Texas]

14. This is the process that has created the Trump campaign. They created this army to vote against

Democrats, and now they are finding that this invented constituency is not so easy to control and that it dislikes establishment Republicans almost as much as it has been trained to dislike Democrats.

I don't mean to imply that Trump can ride this wave much higher than 25%-30% of the Republican primary (an impressive caucus in a 17 candidate race but not as powerful when the race winds down to 3 or 4 candidates), but Trump is not a flavor-of-the-month like Bachmann, Cain, Perry and Gingrich were in 2012 (peaked-too-early Walker might be more like the current equivalent to Bachmann, Cain, Perry and Gingrich).

If Trump runs a third party campaign (unlike but not inconceivable), I think the right-wing-talk constituency will follow Trump rather than vote for Bush or Clinton.