Democratic gym patron declares war on Fox News

Baltimore Sunpapers ^ | 25 Sept 2009 | Larry Carson

[Sgt_Schultze]

Ann Geddes doesn't want a "fair and balanced" workout. But the 49-year-old worker for a nonprofit agency is having no luck getting the channel changed in front of her favorite rowing machine at a Columbia gym.

The television happens to be tuned permanently to Fox News. Geddes, a liberal Democrat and former legislative aide to a Howard County delegate, said she can't stomach the conservative lineup that appears nightly as she gets her exercise. Even though the sound is off, the words scrolling across the bottom of the screen infuriate her.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I found this online this morning. Another sterling example of the intolerance of the "party of tolerance."

[livius]

Funny, that’s how I feel when I’m forced to watch CNN in the Atlanta (and just about any other) airport.

[Red Badger]

Perhaps she’s angry because can’t read...........

[cripplecreek]

Even though the sound is off, the words scrolling across the bottom of the screen infuriate her.

I'd up the pressure by turning on the closed captioning now.

[Senator Goldwater]

Give her a real row boat.

With holes in it.

[2banana]

I feel the same way when I see ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, etc.

[relictele]

Columbia, nonprofit...why doesn’t she take a netbook computer with her so she can read the NYT 24/7?

Another humorless, perspectiveless, infantile liberal.

[Corporate Law]

You beat me to it (every airport but Atlanta, at least).

[AU72]

Find another gym. Case closed.

[FreeStateYank]

Bite me, Anne Geddes.

[silverleaf]

This is funny. She is “offended” by the words scrolling across the bottom of the news screen?

Maybe there shoid be a separate exercise room for liberals- showing endless loops of Teletubbies. For me torture is 3 hours stuck in an airport with CNN.

[ErnBatavia]

Wifey and I recently spent almost five weeks just driving around the country......I’d estimate that only just over half of the hotel/motel channel lineup had FOX - but 100% had CNN.

[marvlus]

Poor baby.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Geddes, a liberal Democrat and former legislative aide to a Howard County delegate, said she can’t stomach the conservative lineup that appears nightly as she gets her exercise.”

Now she knows how WE feel with CNN pumped in everywhere..... lol!

[Sgt_Schultze]

She’s really going to be hot if she starts to read the unsympathetic commentary accompanying the story online. The newspaper gets reamed too for featuring this as “news”

[Adder]

Ummmm...
tough sh1t.

[xtinct]

Ann Geddes —> unstable...

[unixfox]

Truth hurts in an industry of lies.

[livius]

It looks like CNN really seized the market in the hotel and travel industry. But I bet the one travelers watch voluntarily is Fox!

[Skip Ripley]

If she can focus that much energy on the television, she isn’t working hard enough on the rower. I do not understand why people feel they need the visual distraction of a TV or magazine when they’re exercising. Focus on your fricking workout for 45 minutes and you might actually start seeing some results...

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Interesting comments at source...mostly conservatives!

[Graybeard58]

Find another gym. Case closed.

Or simply don't read it. I see thread titles here all the time that don't interest me, I skip right past them, it's not hard to not do something.

There's a liberal mind set at work here though, she doesn't want anyone else seeing it either. It would be like me asking the mods to remove all threads that don't interest me.

[sassy steel magnolia]

advice:

1. suck it up
2. Get an IPOD
3. Close your eyes
4. Stop exercising
5. Go to another gym
6. Learn tolerance
7. Open your mind to the truth!

[VR-21]

And these totalitarian psychotics are called ‘liberal.’

[wintertime]

I sympathize. In our gym its CNN. I can’t stand it.

[stratboy]

Guess she can't handle the truth.

[ozark hilljilly]

[reagan_fanatic]

What an immature little baby.

[clintonh8r]

She should go home and work out on her “tension reliever” for a few hours....

[Cboldt]

Is this the same Fraulein that exploited babies for commercial gain, in the baby in costume pictures?

[domenad]

How much exercise before you develop a functioning life?

[Perdogg]

Balls to her.

[Perdogg]

My gym has MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN on during the week. However, I do Zumba for my cardio now.

[The Great RJ]

She could easily solve the problem by putting videos of Dear Leader’s speeches on an I-pod or better still some anti-American speeches from the recent UN session. problem solved.

[Graybeard58]

However, I do Zumba for my cardio now.

Is she hot?

[RoseofTexas]

She outta try Planet Fitness...HELL they have ALL their channels tuned in to all the LIBERAL mediaPUKES and filthy stations. She'd fit right in!!

[webschooner]

Yeah, she can pound sand and go home and eat a crap sandwich.

For years, we conservatives have been forced to watch the Chicken Noodle Network in airports, goobermint offices, doctor waiting rooms, etc etc etc.

Even in the years since Fox News has dominated the ratings, and CNN’s ratings are in the tank, many of these places still to this day, continue to run CNN.

[Right Wing Assault]

Don’t look at it.

Why does she want to watch TV while exercising? Just live in the moment, babe! Close your eyes and let your closed mind pretend you are out running in the woods.

[savedbygrace]

Here’s how to handle that:

Every time the news reader says ‘Obama’, yell out, “You lie!”

Or, take a drink.

[Hacklehead]

“...said she can’t stomach the conservative lineup that appears nightly as she gets her exercise. Even though the sound is off, the words scrolling across the bottom of the screen infuriate her. “
“It makes my blood pressure go up,” she said.”

Isn’t that the point of excercize? Somone give this RAT a blindfold to solve her problem. I’ll throw in a gag.

[sickoflibs]

I live in Howard County near Columbia too, Columbia is what ruined HC and is always votes for higher taxes, taxpayer paid housing (actually builds houses), and endless regulations.

I always turn both FNC and MSNBC and CNN on in the gyms I go to. (except weekends)

[RobRoy]

I know how she feels. It is why I dumped TV in ‘97. But it wasn’t fox news that caused my pain. ;)

[STONEWALLS]

....my wife and I belonged to that gym when we lived in Howard County...it was a real posers paradise....full of divorced 40-something MILFs who’d had facework.

[small farm girl]

Some members of the YMCA in Ipswich, MA asked to have Fox News banned as well. “All of the exercise equipment face the TV’s. With scrolling headlines and angry expressions, no one in the exercise room can ignore the programming on the TV’s. Making a personal choice to not watch the TV is impossible.” from a letter written to the Ipswich Chronicle editor. Apparently, Fox News might brainwash people conflicted about the health care debate.(sarc)

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Go to another gym, tyrant.

[gramho12]

To make it even better, there are 43 monitors, which 3 (yes, 3) are set on Fox. Tolerance, thy name is NOT liberal....

[truthkeeper]

LOVED the reader comments at the end. LOL

[Petrosius]

Of the 40 large-screen televisions in the general exercise rooms in Columbia's three gyms, three are set to receive Fox.

Oh, the inhumanity!

[SF_Redux]

she seems to have singled out this gym, why can’t she single one out that has what she wants

[truthkeeper]

Fox News might brainwash people conflicted about the health care debate.(sarc)

Dunno...can you brainwash the braindead? Because at this point anyone "conflicted" has to be!