Posted on 07/25/2016 7:18:50 AM PDT by billorites
Cable news is bad. Fox News is the worst. It is, after all, the network that blamed a hoodie for the death of Trayvon Martin and claimed that poor people have it pretty good if they’ve got a refrigerator. We’d all probably be better off if we shut off Sean Hannity and Megyn Kelly and watched sports or nature documentaries or talked to our families. This does not have to be a hypothetical. We have the technology in our very own homes to make this dream a reality.
Abby, a Slate reader, watched her mother—who’d lived in the United States as a permanent resident for nearly 30 years—become a U.S. citizen to vote for Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary. She was quite surprised, then, to find her mother becoming an increasingly attentive Fox News viewer. Abby felt she had no choice: The child unleashed the power of parental lock on her own mother.
After Abby’s mother called her cable operator to ask why the channel wasn’t working, Abby revealed that she had blocked it. The mother and daughter then had the opportunity to “have a conversation about whether it was a good news source or not.”
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Older people with life experience suck.
Let’s have young clueless morons run the country.
Either of my kids ever lock me out of anything that I am paying for, and the only conversation that we’ll be having is about whether they are leaving right away, or the next morning.
I don’t get this. I thought liberals are against censorship?
This girl is censoring her own mother’s ability to watch the TV channel of her choice???? Really????
After all...
My parents have been completely “red pilled” by the internet - Drudge, Breitbart, etc... I love it
They are... unless you're doing something they don't like. Then it's OK to censor you.
But she knows soooo much better than poor old mom. /s
Reminds me of a South Park Episode about the kids locking their parents out of their Investigation Discovery Murder Porn shows. Very funny. My daughter (and ID addict, Joe Kenda and Paula Zahn) couldn’t stop laughing at the episode.
I going to use the Parental Controlls info to block, MSNBC, CNN & all the darn Hispanic stations...easier to channel surf that way.
This girl is censoring her own mother’s ability to watch the TV channel of her choice???? Really????
Of course! For fascists like this, tolerance and freedom are a one-way street. If it were not for double-standards, leftists would have no standards at all.
This sounds awfully 1984-ish
To liberals, freedom of speech means freedom from ever having to hear speech they don’t like.
Get a Chromecast dongle for $35 and display anything on your Chrome browser onto your TV set. It’s wireless. I use it to watch Sky News, etc on my TV.
If I tried this on my parents ..... well, I'd rather not contemplate the outcome. Ditto if my kids did it to me.
Liberals are focused on people getting the approved narratives. Anything that goes against the grain is to be defeated.
And from the Rats side of the story:
No party for old white men: Bernie’s race and gender is a liability in the Democratic primary
Opinion
by Rev. Jarrett B. Maupin, Jr. | February 26, 2016 at 9:06 AM Filed in: Opinion, Politics
“The Democratic Party is the overwhelming party of choice for minorities: blacks, LGBT, women, the disabled, the poor, the working class and organized labor. It is the party most people of color see themselves reflected in political leadership.
“This diversity is precisely why Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in 2016.”
LOL!
So Grandma Hillary is so diverse?
LOL!
My dad, post retirement, went from a moderate democrat, to a raving left wing lunatic, by watching CNN and MSNBC.
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