Posted on 01/14/2015 11:56:44 AM PST by TopDeadCenter
Ypsilanti Township residents Dave and Sue Weber argue a county-run facility is no place to be showing what they consider offensive, right-wing political propaganda.
They said they started going to the county's recreation center on Washtenaw Avenue last fall and were dismayed to see Fox News show up on four of the 12 television screens in the cardio area during election season.
"In September, when we toured the facility before joining, we didn't notice Fox on at all," Dave Weber said. "But now October comes around, pre-election time, that's when it multiplied onto four screens, four out of the 12 in the cardio room."
Though there's no volume on the TVs, they said, they got tired of seeing offensive closed-caption blocks with remarks such as "Young women aren't capable of voting" and "We have enough illegals here, we don't need more."
They also have been offended by attacks against President Barack Obama and Democrats, and they say there's no programming offering a counter viewpoint.
The couple complained to facility director Jon Keith, but they said asking him change the channel only resulted in a lecture on how the liberals at CNN are trying to take away his gun rights. They said Keith also has denied their requests to switch one of the TV screens to a more left-leaning news channel such as MSNBC.
"It felt to me like the Republican Party had an official of our public recreation facility working for them," Dave Weber said.
Keith declined to comment for this story.
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Didnt know f*** off was Dutch as well as English.
Actually I think our word originated with the Dutch. On their registration certificates, horses bred in the Netherlands list the “breeder” as the “fokker”
The Tom Harkin gambit. Public radio ws on 23 hours a day and Rush Limbaugh for an hour a day.
And Hakin complained that Rush is getting all the ratings and they need a fairness doctrine.
Oh poor Dave..he doesn’t like Fox News..well go home and watch MSLSD then, or just bang your head against the wall, you will get the same effect
Hey, Mr. and Mrs. Weber: get over yourselves. If you don’t like it, you don’t have to watch it. You can pack up and go somewhere else!
I learn new and useful things every day on FR. It should be used in public schools as a teaching tool.
When in the hospital recently for my dad, we were in waiting room (no other people in room) and tried to change tv to Fox - it was blocked. We did end up figuring out how add it to the tv - we just figured some lib was sitting in the waiting room at some point and removed the channel. Just like a lib, “I don’t want to watch it therefore no one else should be able to watch it’.
Are these the standard messages on Newscorp's Fox News? Newscorp execs endorsed John F. Kerry in 2004. What's changed?
Or were these "quotes" the embellishments of the hysteric libs making the report or "quotes" from people on the street being interviewed ON Fox News?
What was on the other 8 televisions?
Clearly not ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, Nickelodeon, HBO, etc. etc.
In defense of the libs, yes,there should be options for them too - half tv’s on liberal shows and half on conservative. That is all they asked for (see prior post about the hospital waiting room and turn it around and you will see the guy was doing to them what someone had done to us in the waiting room). It was a public place right?
I have a right to live my life without being offended by other people’s inappropriate opinions. You know the ones I’m talking about. The ones who disagree with me and my friends.
...and stay in Michigan!
AMEN. Wouldn’t you feel like a complete idiot doing the samw about CNN in Airports?
Poll to freep
Not a peep from them if it was (P)MSNBC, I’ll betcha!
They are discriminated against. I speak from experience.
and kick his a$$.”
...that’s the only thing to do. Agreed.
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