I am retired but work on a 30 acre farm in Florida helping my wife to raise beef cattle. No time schedule, no boss, no clock to punch, so I used to come in from doing chores to turn on The Five and watch the first of five straight "news" and current event shows on Fox News Channel. I used to flip the channels occasionally to see what they were saying on CNN or MSNBC but not anymore, once I saw how extremely biased to the Left they have gotten.
But lately, just in the last six months or so, things have gotten so bad with the events in this country changing at such a rapid pace in the wrong direction and disasters occurring overseas at a deteriorating rate, that I have tired of even watching Fox News hardly at all. Bret Baier's program is pretty much straight news so I will catch parts of it but otherwise, I can't stand Juan "Befuddled" Williams, that Jerk Whoreraldo, or the arrogant, toothy b*tch Julie Roginsky. Not hard to see why she leans Left. She was born in Moscow, USSR. Even some of the Fox News personalities like Eric Bolling, Greta The Scientologist and Full-Of-Himself O'Reilly, grate on my nerves sometimes now. By switching to channels that carry non-political programming, my life seems much more settled and calm. For years I have deliberately eliminated all liberals from my personal life for the same reason. They were the main irritant to my well-being. Now I look at the political cable TV programs the same way. They are a disturbing and irritating way to spend my evenings.
Old movies, some of the Travel and History channel programming if they would stay away from inserting the global warming crap into it. But the constant barrage of bad political news and current events, watching this commie in the White House constantly denigrate our country and dividing people between races, and pushing us further to the Left, unilaterally taking away our freedoms and liberties, disgusted with Congress doing his bidding and the Supreme Court acting like lawmakers instead of ruling on the constitutionality of existing laws. All of it has finally broken me of the habit of the TV cable news programming in the evenings. Reading a good book in bed before turning out the light, is now much more entertaining than the constant drivel coming out of cable news TV.
I read on the internet that the ridiculously-squeaky, almost unintelligible Elisabeth Hasselbeck has admitted she has an "annoying voice", a fact with which I not only agree, but she could have added Dana Perino the Shreek onto the list along with the intense, bullying, overbearing, over-talking, loud voice of non-stop talker, Won Williams.
Not to mention that socialist, robotic, serial-talker, Richard Fowler.....and that bizarre, wildly-ranting, totally-bonkers muslim imam or whatever he is...don't get me started, there's more on my list, LOL.
My relief from the Fox cacaphony and its parade of freaks and cartoon characters is flipping over to some good non-news TV alternatives, a good book, and my trusty New York Times Sunday crossword puzzles in my comfy bed before turning off the lights. Peace and quiet at last.
(....and freeping, of course, is more soothing to the nerves...since FR gives me all the news and analysis I need to know without incessantly grating my ear drums).
Leni