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What I’ve Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News
New York Magazine ^ | Apr. 9, 2019 | Luke O'Neil

Posted on 04/13/2019 11:16:47 AM PDT by detective

It was somewhere around the 100th response that my brain turned to mush.

Last week, I devoted an installment of my newsletter Welcome to Hell World to a dozen stories from people who, like me, had close relationships that had been strained or ruined by family members who’d become obsessed with Fox News.

No matter where the stories came from they all featured a few familiar beats: A loved one seemed to have changed over time. Maybe that person was already somewhat conservative to start. Maybe they were apolitical. But at one point or another, they sat down in front of Fox News, found some kind of deep, addictive comfort in the anger and paranoia, and became a different person — someone difficult, if not impossible, to spend time with. The fallout led to failed marriages and estranged parental relationships. For at least one person, it marks the final memory he’ll ever have of his father: “When I found my dad dead in his armchair, fucking Fox News was on the TV,” this reader told me. “It’s likely the last thing he saw. I hate what that channel and conservative talk radio did to my funny, compassionate dad. He spent the last years of his life increasingly angry, bigoted, and paranoid.”News.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; fox; lukeoneil; mediawingofthednc; newyorkmagazine; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine
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This is the new Democrat Party and leftist narrative.

They are always right.

Anyone who disagrees with them has been brainwashed by Fox News.

1 posted on 04/13/2019 11:16:47 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

The author is the same Luke O’Neil who wished he urinated on Bill Kristol’s dinner and says Nielsen must be blackballed.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/boston-globe-calls-kick-nielsen-restaurants-permission-confront-trump-officials-public


2 posted on 04/13/2019 11:19:04 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

What I have learned from Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Trapped by the Main Stream Media.


3 posted on 04/13/2019 11:19:10 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: detective

I caught that too. Poisonous little jerk.


4 posted on 04/13/2019 11:21:21 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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"He spent the last years of his life increasingly angry, bigoted, and paranoid."

The left is angry, bigoted, and paranoid - just watch one of their demonstrations. Meanwhile, the vast majority of people at Trump rallies seem relatively happy and placid.

As for Fox News, they are much more fun and lighthearted than anything you see on CNN or MSNBC.
5 posted on 04/13/2019 11:22:27 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Where is there to go to receive factual information (or, more fact than not) than to Fox News. If I have changed, it is because I feel more confident knowing there are others out there like me!!

I do ask questions and take most everything with a grain of salt.


6 posted on 04/13/2019 11:22:48 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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Good catch. And he is complaining about the so-called anger of Fox viewers?


7 posted on 04/13/2019 11:23:40 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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My guess is he’s projecting. Lefists always project their psychosis onto others.


8 posted on 04/13/2019 11:25:41 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Take a look at a picture of this guy..


9 posted on 04/13/2019 11:32:26 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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As the left drifts left, they accuse the right of being the ones moving.

A less self aware and more self righteous lot has never (sleep)walked the planet.

A delusion of mass hypnosis of dullards, organized by a leadership of semi high IQ sociopaths.

Hence the saying "All leftists or either ignorant or evil."

10 posted on 04/13/2019 11:32:41 AM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: detective
you brain was mush loooong before now
11 posted on 04/13/2019 11:37:34 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
William Buckley, Jr


12 posted on 04/13/2019 11:38:17 AM PDT by glasseye ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
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Yes, conservatives are hard for libs to get along with. [eyeroll] That’s some tolerance for you, right there.


13 posted on 04/13/2019 11:40:05 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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Throw out television. (Cable ). Save the box for movies

TV news is stupid. Radio is it


14 posted on 04/13/2019 11:41:28 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: neverevergiveup

Douche nozzle


15 posted on 04/13/2019 11:41:50 AM PDT by jospehm20
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“Anyone who disagrees with them has been brainwashed by Fox News.”

That argument is ridiculous on its face. Fox News has LOTS of leftist nut-jobs on it. It’s just more obvious which side is right (ha ha) when the nut job is standing beside someone relatively sane.


16 posted on 04/13/2019 11:43:17 AM PDT by Twotone (While one may vote oneself into socialism one has to shoot oneself out of it.)
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Projecting from a sick, twisted SOB.


17 posted on 04/13/2019 11:45:16 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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For All: We have had 40 to 50 years of Left Leaning News Media starting with the Globalist “Uncle Walter” Cronkite and his lies about the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War.

Mr. O’Neil and the “Alphabet Networks” can kiss my American (Royal-Irish-By-Lineage) Ass.

Am I “angry?” Damn straight. Look at the bullshit the Lame Stream Media heaped on President Trump and the American People for the last 2.5, almost 3 years. MAGA... Trump 2020!


18 posted on 04/13/2019 11:45:48 AM PDT by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is a man's gift to himself." ~ Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: detective

The MSM/Pravda/spin machine is working overtime to get their lies/doublespeak out, nonstop.


19 posted on 04/13/2019 11:49:43 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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Wow, this is terrible. A whole bunch of delusional people living in a fantasy world skewed by a daily dose of Fake News, who are forever angry and uptight about something, anything, can’t take it when one of their friends or family members is exposed to the Truth and takes the rose colored glasses off. just terrible.


20 posted on 04/13/2019 11:50:40 AM PDT by eyeamok
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