How Faux Brainwashes People

[HockeyMom]

Just had a major agrument with my Republican Faux New watching husband. This is how they slant the truth and don't tell the whole story. I WATCHED this piece myself. My husband starts ranting about how a school took a Ham and Cheese sandwich away from a child that his Mom packed. I said what are the rest of the facts? Excuse me, Faux sheep you are talking to a Teacher's Assistant who monitors LUNCH. What were the circumstances? What is wrong with Mac and Cheese? Nothing, one in a while, but everyday for a MONTH? Yes, I myself TOOK IT AWAY from a child I worked with because he didn't WANT it anymore and nothing BUT Mac and Cheese is not healthy. I bought him lunch. Is this what happened with the Ham and Cheese Faux News report too? Of course, they are not going to report that. They want to show that GOVERNMENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS are taking away parental rights. Believe me, if a kid brought a packed lunch of nothing but GUMMY BEARS (which I HAVE seen), I would get him a school lunch too. My daughter had a milk/soy allergy, but that was different. It was LISTED on her school record that she could not drink that, so if I just gave her WATER, there was nothing wrong with that.

Oh, this "news" channel is so off base. Believe them, not ME who has done the same thing. WHAT is the REASON for it? Your stupid Fox News will not tell you. They just want to IMFLAME, not report news.

[zbdent]

1. the classic "They won't let me fly MY American flag" played out here not too long ago ...

Before I even looked at the "news" story, I knew what the reality was.

Veteran erects flagpole anywhere from a foot taller, to twice the height taller, than the specifications in the residential area that the veteran signed up for, and knew about.

Residential area points out that the flagpole is beyond what everybody else has to adhere to.

Veteran alerts the friendliest RW media, a.k.a. Faux. Says "They won't let me fly the flag of my country that I fought in a war for!" Media hysteria starts over incorrect headline.

Public pressure is placed on the community that EVERYBODY ELSE has to follow the rules of. Veteran gets his 15 minutes of fame and spot on Faux, and is "granted the exemption to the rules that everybody else has to follow".

Move on to next community for fake outrage.

[monmouth]

2. If you're in Florida, I remember that story...n/t

[zbdent]

6. Last year, in, I believe, the Macedonia Ohio area.

It's not just once ... it's as often as they can get away with it.

I wonder if Faux & their ilk would have been so adamant about it if the veteran had chosen to fly a rainbow (gay rights) flag on a flagpole larger than the community standards. I'd bet the spin would be "Extreme leftist communist can't understand simple directions."

[onethatcares]

13. veteran forgets to add

that the HOA is run by a republican and a bunch of his cohorts that just love to tell everyone what to do and are proud of it.

[sarcasmo]

3. My borther in law is the same way. They just repeat the talking points

and it's hard to get them to listen to the truth. The one my brother in law always mentions is the job creator bullshit. " If Obama wasn't President the job creators would spend money" that must be some limpballs bullshit . I am so glad my wife doesn't listen to that nonsense, you have your work cut out for you.

[BadgerKid]

4. Reasons sound like special cases to the flaming RWers.

RW thinking tends to be black or white, which is the basis of dividing people.

[MadHound]

5. Hate to tell you this, but television in general brainwashes people

It has been shown that television puts people into a light hypnotic trance, making them more susceptible to whatever message is being beamed onto their screen, be it Fox, MSNBC, or advertising in general.

[Citizen Worker]

11. Yes, MadHound and that's why I threw the damn thing out nearly 16 years ago.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

7. Except it wasn't gummi bears or Mac & Cheese

An analogous argument should be -- you know -- analagous.

[HockeyMom]

9. Fox didn't give the whole story

Obviously. The bigger story was that the school employee didn't know her food groups, that the child's packed lunch DID meet the standards, but Fox wanted to prove their point and didn't go into the details of the story. Mommy's turkey and cheese sandwich is not good enough. Oh, yes it WAS.

The issue is that Fox slants the news to promote their agenda. The truth means nothing.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

10. If the truth means something then let's not be like Fox and misrepresent

I think the school will blow over soon enough with an obligatory "policy review." That alone is a tacit admission that the school employee overstepped.

[FarLeftFist]

8. Show him mediamatters.org

[GeorgeGist]

12. It's not just FOX ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002313727