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Dangerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-23-06 07:28 PM
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My mom is brainwashed by Fox News!
My mom watch Fox News and she says that she watch it and decide for herself.

Do you agree this is brainwashing?
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-23-06 07:33 PM
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1. Only if that is all she watches. nt
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neoblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-23-06 07:47 PM
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5. As though the other networks are fair and balanced? nt.
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spillthebeans Donating Member (486 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-23-06 07:38 PM
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2. fair and balanced
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NoodleyAppendage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-23-06 07:39 PM
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3. If all you know is vanilla, then no decision can be made for other flavors. n/t
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MGD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-23-06 07:44 PM
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4. It's Bush/Cheney propaganda but it isn't brainwashing. eom
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tinfoilinfor2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-23-06 07:52 PM
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6. People who exclusively watch faux news always have these smug
little smiles on their face when you try to contradict anything that doesn't come straight out of the White House script book. They don't argue with you but they just get this "tsk tsk, oh you poor thing" look. Just makes me want to rip out the sidewalk with my bare hands! :spank:
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-24-06 09:58 PM
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10. That's why the "liberal media" theme is so important.
It allows the brainwashed to discount any stories that conflict with their manufactured reality as eminating from a biased "liberal media", precluding the cognitive dissonance and learning that might follow from actually thinking for yourself.
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peace13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-23-06 08:03 PM
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7. Are you my brother?
I have a mother just like yours and I feel your pain. I have to keep a distance these days. Peace, Kim
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-23-06 08:07 PM
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8. Do an intervention
get all your family and her friends together and do an intervention. Write her a letter telling her how much you all love her and don't like what she's doing to herself.
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BlueStorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-23-06 11:22 PM
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9. Or you could just use the parental controls
Just block out Fox. She will probably go nuts trying to figure out the password though.

I don't know, I guess I am just being mean.

Blue
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-24-06 11:01 PM
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11. I did that for my mom!
She has ,slowly,returned to some semblance of sanity.
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